The Nightgown Ghost, Escambia, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/escambia/history/legend1.txt ==================================================================== USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file is copyrighted and contributed by: Lygia Cutts ==================================================================== July 1998 ESCAMBIA COUNTY LEGENDS THE NIGHTGOWN GHOST The vicinity of a clear creek toward Jay is the domain of a woman's ghost which the curious circumstances surrounding her death were never solved. One morning many years ago, the woman's body was found on the creek bank. Clothed only in her nightgown, she had been horribly mangled. No one knows what or who did this awful deed. It was never known how she met her fate or why she came to be on the banks of the creek clad in a nightgown. Had she walked in her sleep only to have a horrible awakening as she met her doom? Had she been spirited from her home some distance away by some one or something? NOBODY KNOWS! It is said that from time to time, her screams of pain and agony are heard, filling the air along the banks of the peacefully flowing creek. SOURCE:Vertical File: Escambia County. SOURCE LOCATION:Alabama Room, JDCC Library, Brewton, Esc. Co., AL. Maintained by The Escambia County Historical Society.