Every portion of Central Georgia is thoroughly haunted. Tobe, the ghost of Orna Villa in Oxford, had an appetite for biscuits. Angry spirits near Augusta drove a family from a beautiful old home. Paranormal entities in a home cobbled together from three old houses created a tapestry of supernatural events. People still seek advice from a fortuneteller dead half a century, and a long-deceased girl hitches a ride home on the same night each year. Author Jim Miles presents a ghost story from each of the fifty-one counties in this historic region. "Author Jim Miles scoured the state for tales that fill a trio of books about ghosts in north, central and south Georgia." Haunted Central Georgia "Every county in Georgia has at least one ghost story, and author Jim Miles has gathered them into three books. "Haunted North Georgia," "Haunted Central Georgia" and "Haunted South Georgia" were published by The History Press on Oct. 2. Miles traveled Jim Miles is author of seven books of the Civil War Explorer Series, Civil War Sites in Georgia and two books titled Weird Georgia. Five books were featured by the History Book Club, and he has been historical adviser to several History Channel shows. He has also written seven books about Georgia ghosts: Civil War Ghosts of North Georgia, Civil War Ghosts of Atlanta, Civil War Ghosts of Central Georgia and Savannah, Haunted North Georgia, Haunted Central Georgia, Haunted South Georgia and Mysteries of Georgia's Military Bases: Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot. Over a span of forty years, Jim has logged tens of thousands of miles exploring every nook and cranny in Georgia, as well as at Civil War sites throughout the country. Haunted Central Georgia By Jim Miles The History Press Copyright © 2017 Jim Miles All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-62585-948-8 Contents Introduction, Baldwin County: The Meanest Man in Georgia, Bibb County: The Road Goes on Forever at the Big House, Bleckley County: Please Don't Go, Granddaddy, Bulloch County: A Ghost Light with Extras, Burke County: Shadow Ghost Boy, Butts County: Miss Mary Returns to Rock Castle, Candler County: The Hotel Review Ghost, Chattahoochee County: Generations, Columbia County: The Angry Ghosts, Crawford County: Ghosts of Two County Buildings, Dooly County: Flint River Hooded Shadow, Effingham County: The Spirit in Bob's Room, Emanuel County: Love Trumps Ghosts, Glascock County: The Dead Lady Speaks, Greene County: The Ghosts of Early Hill, Hancock County: The Ghosts of Samandka, Harris County: The Adams Family Live in a Haunted House, Heard County: The Afterlife of Mayhayley Lancaster, Houston County: The White Wispy Presence, Jasper County: The Hillsboro Horror, Jefferson County: Sometimes Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Jenkins County: The Haunted State Park, Johnson County: Shining a Light on the Supernatural, Jones County: A General's Ghost, Lamar County: Strange Things Happen, Laurens County: A Black-Caped Man and the Possessed Feline, Macon County: Georgia's Sleepy Hollow Ghost, Marion County: The Spirits of St. EOM of Pasaquan, McDuffie County: Reporter Encounters Specter, Meriwether County: Fala, the First Dog, Monroe County: The Old Haunted Hotel, Muscogee County: St. Elmo's Spirits, Newton County: The Biscuit-Eating Ghost, Peach County: Personal Spooks, Pike County: Take Two EVPs and Call Us in the Morning, Pulaski County: Mother and Child, Putnam County: The Ghost that Rocked the Cradle, Richmond County: One of Many Arsenal Ghosts, Schley County: Mr. Larkin's Feist Dog, Screven County: The Church at Six Bridges, Spalding County: A Barfly Ghost, Talbot County: Double-Barreled Revenge and Oak Tree Justice, Taliaferro County: Faces on the Ceilings, Taylor County: Furniture Knocking Library Ghost, Treutlen County: Dirty Old Preacher Man Ghost, Troup County: Swinging Grandma, Twiggs County: The Old Ghost-Filled Hotel, Upson County: The Blue Lady of Hagan's Mountain, Warren County: Ghostly Activity through Witchery?, Washington County: A Ghost that Slipped Away, Wilkinson County: The Granny Cabinet, Bibliography, About the Author, CHAPTER 1 Baldwin County THE MEANEST MAN IN GEORGIA The Breedlove-McIntosh-Walker-Fraley-Scott-Tate Mansion, located at 201 North Jefferson Street, was home to the meanest man in Milledgeville, at least according to Katherine Scott, a resident of the house who wrote the story ten years before her 1988 death at age ninety-three. She considered Samuel Walker to be "one of the few entirely wicked men I ever heard of." He married thrice and outlived each wife, inheriting considerable estates from each. "This strange, wicked and ruthless man seemed to have loved only two things: roses and Alice [a niece]," Scott continued. "His son, Joe, he disliked and distrusted. The boy was sent to Mercer in Macon, where he was to study law." When the school closed due to a typhoid fever epidemic, the boy returned home sick. Despite his