Jonesboro Georgia- One of the most Haunted Places in America

I want to start with my own personal experiences. When I was a child my family and I lived in a small house in Jonesboro Georgia. I was 5 years old and the year was 1972. My father worked rotating shifts as a computer programmer at Sears (when big computers were punch card systems). My mother was a stay at home mom. I have a sister who was 4 at the time. My parents had purchased the home, which was built in the fifties, from a co-worker of my father who's name was Cliff.

Not long after moving in weird things started happening:

1) My grandmother had come to stay a week with us. One night we were all watching TV together. About 10PM we all went to bed. My parents turned off the TV which was (back in those days) a TV with an actual on/off knob that you had to pull to turn on and off and you had to turn to the right to make the volume louder. My sister was sharing my room since my grandmother was sleeping in her room. My room connected to the living room and my door was always left open to the living room. About 3 minutes after everyone had gone to bed the TV in the living room came on all by itself and with full volume. My sister and I began screaming and my parents and my grandmother came running. My father thought that I or my sister had gotten up and turned the TV on. I assured them then, and I swear today, that was not the case. Regardless of the fact that the TV had a pull knob and turn volume, the TV had come on all by itself (or with the help of something in the house). My parents turned the TV off (again) and we all went to sleep without further incident.

2) My father found an old set of swinging saloon style wooden doors (half doors) in the crawl space of the house. He pulled them out and refinished them. Afterwards, he hung them between the kitchen and dining room. They made a distinct squeaking noise that my father could not get rid of no matter how much he oiled them. When my father was working night shift my mother would take my sister and I shopping to get out of the house so my father could sleep during the day. He said that everyday he would hear those swinging doors squeaking and foot steps going around our house (we had wooden floors). He thought it was us and he would get up to ask us to be quiet only to find that we were not even in the house.

3) One day my family was getting ready to go out for the day together. My father, my sister and I were in the kitchen waiting on my mother who was in the back bathroom putting on her make up. All of a sudden my fathers voice (from wherever) called my mother's name "Faye!". The 3 of us just looked at each other and my mother answered the call with "ok,ok I am on my way". My father told my mother that it was not him that had called her and that the kids are his witness that the voice came from "somewhere or someone else".

4) My father told me later that when he was sleeping in his bedroom (when he could be at home at night) that he would hear the window beside his bed sliding up. The windows were old wooden windows with about 10 old coats of paint on them and were hard to open as it was. But, he says he would sit there with his pistol in his hand listening to the window opening. He eventually nailed the windows all closed and would still hear the window opening right beside him.

After a few other incidents of weird stuff my father decided to ask his friend Cliff if they had ever experienced anything strange happenings in the house when they lived there. Cliff broke down and told my father that he had not wanted to tell about the house because he was afraid my father would not want to buy it. He told my father that his wife would call him at work when he was working night shift begging him to come home. She was seeing shadow people and things would move around in the house all by themselves. She was usually very hysterical and freaking out.

Thereafter my father sold the house and we moved.

So, I wanted to know if anyone else has ever lived in Jonesboro Georgia and if so did you experience any paranormal activity? I have done alot of research and Jonesboro is supposed to be one of the most haunted places in America due to the civil war Battle of Jonesboro that was fought there. Many soldiers on both sides died violent deaths in and around the entire area that is now mostly residential areas.

I have always enjoyed telling my ghost stories to friends and my own children. They stay in my head very clearly.

I look forward to everyones input.

Very interesting. It's mad how we accept these noises with an air of disbelief, i have mentioned in a past thread how a flat i once lived in had footsteps clattering merrily up and down stairs whenever i slept in a certain room, It's only later that i think how scary that was. Some sort of protective acceptance seems to be given in times of paranormal activity. Not always of course as i have read many tales on ats of people being terrified' and i daresay i would be frightened too if i saw a ghost face to face.

Wow- I really thought there would be more folks (especially here on ATS) that would have some insight, experience or opinion on Jonesboro's hauntings. Like I said there is plenty of stuff on the web about it. I just wanted to bring it to light in the ATS world.

I failed to mention that my parents went by Jonesboro (they live in FL now) to see the old house. It is still there and was occupied by an african american family. My mother spoke to the family and asked if they experienced anything strange in the house. Answer, no. So, was the haunting then limited to only the family before us and then our family? Were other families affected in the last 40 years that may have lived there? Did the "ghost" maybe attach itself to a family and move on with them? Did the "ghost" finally see the light and move through to the next whatever?

I have done more reading and have seen other stories of disembodied spirits usually dressed in civil war uniforms passing through homes in the area. Totally fascinating. If only we would have had video cameras 40 years ago.