Sorrel-Weed House
Savannah's most-investigated mansion, tied to a mistress's death and stories of voodoo practice among the enslaved staff — featured on nearly every ghost TV series.
Case File No. 013
FILE 01 The Legend
The 1840 mansion on Madison Square, Savannah, is tied to a Civil War-era legend: merchant Francis Sorrel's supposed mistress, a slave named Molly, hanged herself over the affair in the carriage house, and Mrs. Sorrel, learning of it, followed with her own suicide. The house served as a Civil War hospital layer and appeared on 'Ghost Hunters' in 2005 — the episode that launched its modern fame. It is a private tour property today.
FILE 02 The Sightings Log
The carriage house 'Molly room' produces voices and a hostile female presence; the main house reports Mrs. Sorrel's weeping on the stairs. Visitors describe being touched in the basement hospital area. The house's tour files include photos of a woman in a window — the city's most reproduced ghost photo.
FILE 03 The Skeptic’s File
The Molly story has no documentary basis in the Sorrel family papers — researchers tracing the legend found it surfaced in the 1990s tour era. The suicides are unverified. Savannah's haunted industry is the most competitive in America, and the Sorrel-Weed's fame tracks its TV appearance. The house is genuinely old and genuinely beautiful; its ghosts are a business. The documented Civil War hospital layer needs no invention to be grim.