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FRANKLIN, Ky. (WKRN) – Aloof over the Tennessee accompaniment band is a abode accounted to be one of the best apparitional in the South.

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Once a ambush for the Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, Octagon Hall is now accepted as a altar for the supernatural.

News 2’s Morgan Hightower batten with bodies who affirm they’ve apparent and acquainted spirits.

“It’s what they alarm an enigma. You aloof can’t say one way or the other,” said Billy Byrd, Controlling Administrator of the Octagon Hall Museum.

The architecture served as a hospital for Confederate soldiers and a ambition for the Union Army during the Civil War. Apparition hunters say some of the soldiers who invaded never left.

“He was a spy,” explained Maria Duff, with NightStalkers Abstruse Research, as she looked a account of Jerome Clark.

“He would dress up as woman, and his appellation was Sue Mundy. He doesn’t decidedly like that name actuality in the house, so we try to consistently alarm him Jerome Clark, but that is his gun, and I anticipate that’s the acumen why he is here,” she continued.

Duff, a apparition hunter, says she’s had run-ins with best of the abiding spirits. Some, like Clark, she says she’s talked to. Others, like a man they alarm Eddie, “You’ll apprehend in the house.”

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She mimics the complete she says Eddie makes, saying, “It’s like he’s boring his leg.”

Duff told News 2 Eddie mostly keeps to the attic in the three-story house. It’s area she says he died.

During a affair area she says she fabricated acquaintance with Eddie’s spirit, he explained he attempt by a Union soldier about abreast Octagon Hall and ran into the abode for safety, ambuscade in the attic.

“He was up there for three canicule afore the Union Army left, so [the homeowners] could go acquisition him and he was already deceased,” Duff said.

The ancestors who lived in Octagon Hall during the war had their own allotment of tragedies. Mary Elizabeth Caldwell was aloof 12 years old aback she died. She was in the winter kitchen in the basement of the abode aback she got too abutting to the fireplace. Her dress bent blaze and she died seven canicule later.

Duff says she’s apparent her, heard her, and acquainted her.

“I aloof acquainted this affable grab appropriate actuality on my arm, and she aloof captivated assimilate me for a while and again she was done and left,” she told News 2.

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Billy Byrd says he was a agnostic of the abnormal until he says he saw Mary Elizabeth bottomward in the basement.

“I affected that some of the tourists had chock-full and the little babe had appear in and I said, ‘Hun, can I advice you?’ And the best way I can call it is that she angry abroad from [me] and basically encapsulated herself and again aloof poofed into atramentous dust,” said Byrd. “I’m abiding it took me 10 account to get my jaw off the floor.”

He said he was assertive he absent is apperception or saw something, and he went with the latter.

As controlling administrator of Octagon Hall Museum for 17 years, Byrd says, “I’ve aloof apparent and heard so abounding things.”

Some of those things were bent on camera. Cameras are set up about the abode and are consistently recording.

In one video Byrd shared, the aperture to Mary Elizabeth’s bedchamber aperture is apparent closing. Byrd says it happened afterwards the abode was abandoned for hours.

“I’m appealing abiding aloft a adumbration of a agnosticism that that’s an abnormal occurrence,” he told News 2.

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In addition clip, recorded aftermost Halloween Eve, a ablaze appears aloft the candelabra out of nowhere. Not alone was the abode abandoned aback it happened, Byrd says there wasn’t alike a candle nearby.

“Disbelief, actually. Again, I try to blanket my apperception about it and I try aggregate I can anticipate if that can possibly be a accustomed occurrence, and again you assuredly appear to the position that if it’s not natural. It has to be supernatural,” he said.

Strange affairs can additionally be heard on recordings fabricated by abstruse researchers.

In one clip, Byrd explained the investigator asks, “Did they booty acceptable affliction of you here?” Shortly after, you hear, “Yes.”

Byrd says they alone heard the acknowledgment afterwards arena aback the recording.

A catechism Byrd and Duff get generally is, “How can you prove any of this is real?” Their acknowledgment is consistently the same. Visit Octagon Hall to acquaintance it yourself.

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