Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 

Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

SLAPOUT, AL (WSFA) - An Elmore County man is behind bars after authorities say he mailed sexually explicit material to an inmate at a treatment center for Sexually Dangerous Persons. When authorities searched his home they found child porn and castration equipment.

Elmore County Sheriff's Deputies were made aware of 68-year-old Edward Bodkin, a Slapout resident, after they were contacted by the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons. An inmate at the center received sexually explicit mail containing child porn and photos of other sexual acts from Bodkin.

“Often times, the initial shadow-like appearance of these beings is merely a facade. Their true forms would normally only appear after they are weakened during a confrontation, though the dark flowing body of the being I was now facing did not seem to be an illusion.”
 
Chronicles of a Supernaturalist details my Montgomery based journey into adulthood while struggling with my God-given abilities and discovering my role in standing against darkness while helping others.
 
I draw upon a lifetime of surreal experiences in attempt to give the reader a quick glimpse behind the ethereal curtain, allowing a greater understanding of what is labeled paranormal.

The book is available online on Amazon.com, with a local book signing planned for early next year.