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We’ve got another Haunted Live Tune-In Alert from Travel Channel. On November 2, 2018, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers will explore the historic Athenaeum Rectory in Columbia, Tennessee. Is it patrolled by the ghosts of Civil War soldiers?
Built in 1835, the Athenaeum served as the rectory for two all-girls academies that operated nearby.
Rev. Franklin Gillette Smith, his wife Sarah, and their children moved there to lead the schools, but tragically, six of the twelve kids died. The family was further shaken by the onset of the Civil War.
The town of Columbia violently changed hands six times. Both Union and Confederate troops occupied the house and other buildings on the property during the war.
The building next to the Athenaeum was used as a war hospital. The bodies of troops from both sides were buried in the rectory’s garden.
When developers removed the graves, they were paid by the body, but not the whole body. To double their profit, they cut many of the bodies in half, which may suggest why there is a heavy ghostly presence here.
Visitors report experiences with the spirits of the headmaster’s children, who seem to be trapped by a dark, unknown energy.
ABOUT ‘HAUNTED LIVE’
Viewers are invited to join the action in “Haunted Live,” a live interactive paranormal investigation series. It features paranormal experts, the Tennessee Wraith Chasers, and is hosted by Jamie Kaler. The team – Chris Smith, Steven “Doogie” McDougal, Scott Porter, Brannon Smith and Mike Goncalves – relies on a unique combination of scientific method and spiritual faith to navigate investigations.
Each week, they reveal a new haunted location to the public and utilize their skills, technology and unique experiments to capture evidence of paranormal activity in a live and unfiltered paranormal investigation.
Through an on-location live video stream, viewers can monitor the investigation activity on Travel Channel’s Facebook Live platform and comment on any findings in real time, directing the team where to investigate next.
Fans can also follow Travel Channel’s social media pages and visit Facebook to join a special pre-hunt Q&A with the Tennessee Wraith Chasers.
Haunted Live “11-2-18” –Premieres Friday, November 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
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Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
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