I've been planning an adventure for next spring or summer!

I want to go on a road trip through some of the southern states, probably Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and maybe-maybe-Louisiana. My thoughts are to research as many creepy, haunted, etc. areas and document them somehow. Since I live in Florida already, the travelling shouldn't be much of an issue. I've always wanted to go on a trip like this, not because I'm particularly superstitious but because I've been fascinated by the occult, mysterious things, etc. since I was a little girl. The house I grew up in was null and void of anything unnatural, which was always somehow disappointing. I don't discount paranormal things completely, but I do approach them with skepticism and, always, curiosity.

Ideas:

Mercer-Williams House in Savannah. After the owner was tried for murder and died, visitors began to see lights and hear festivities from the empty house on the same day he once held an opulent annual party. The story is documented in the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil".

Provost Dungeon in Charleston. The dungeon, one of the most horrifying and least sanitary of the time, was built in 1781- the British incarcerated American spies here. It's since been opened as a museum and many instances of haunting have been recorded.

Lalaurie House in New Orleans. In the mid-1800's, a fire lead to the discovery of a room in the house that was barred shut. About a half dozen slaves were in the room, not just chained up, but restrained on operating room tables and tortured. One slave was locked in a cage, who had all of her bones broken and reset into unnatural positions, like a crab. Another slave had all of her limbs amputated, and was writhing around on the floor. Some had been victims of gruesome sex change operations, while others had their faces and bodies transformed to look like hideous creatures. The Lalaurie family escaped in the commotion, and it's said the mutilated slaves still haunt the house.

I won't try to find the truth behind any of these stories, but the cultural implications of "haunted houses" is quite fascinating.