Case file · Haunting
Little Gracie, Bonaventure Cemetery
Gracie Watson, the six-year-old daughter of a Savannah hotel manager, died of pneumonia in 1889; her lifelike marble statue in Bonaventure Cemetery is said to weep and her ghost to play near it.
1889 CE · 32.05, -81.05 · status: legend
The account
Sculptor John Walz carved the statue from a photograph. Visitors leave toys and coins, and the grave is now fenced.
The sceptical view
The legend grew after John Berendt's 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' (1994) brought crowds to Bonaventure.