Bartender Rebecca Mason had a
scarier encounter with the resident
spirit: she saw a ghost in the basement
level women’s restroom.
“It was a woman dressed up in an
old Civil War-era nurse uniform,”
Mason said. “When I saw her, she just
looked like a normal person, but her
outfit wasn’t of our time period … I
turned back around to see if she was
still standing there, and she was gone.”
Though this encounter may seem
tame, Leveque said another staff
member had a more terrifying
experience.
“He was in the beer cooler by
himself. He heard someone whisper
in his ear, ‘Hey!’ and then he turned
around and there was nothing. And
then the door slammed, and it’s one of
those doors where you actually have
to force it to close,” Leveque said.
3 BRAWNER HALL, SMYRNA
Many Cobb residents may know Taylor-Brawner House and Brawner Hall
in Smyrna as an event space and a walking trail, but it was once home
to a psychiatric hospital opened by Dr. James Brawner in 1910. It operated as a
psychiatric facility until 1999.
The facility’s long run as a mental health institution has garnered plenty of
ghost stories.
One chilling story involves a young woman from a wealthy New York
family who became a patient at the facility, said historian Mike Terry from
Smyrna.
spooky stories
around Cobb
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