Comments on: Carnton Mansion

By: hannah

hannah — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:52:15 +0000

No monica, there WERE 5 generals who had died there.

By: Eryn

Eryn — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:33:06 +0000

Me again. Since posting the last comment, I have acquired a story of my own. While attending an event at Carnton, a friend and I went to hang out on the back porch (where the generals were laid out). We chatted for a while and the subject of ghosts came up. My friend said, “Speaking of ghosts, look at that chair.” The rocking chair to which he pointed was indeed gently rocking- but only that chair. The rest stood completely still, and there was no wind. But, trying to be scientific for once, I said, “Well, it’s probably just a stray breeze.” No sooner had the words left my mouth than the chair abruptly stopped rocking (it is worth noting that we were alone on the porch).

“Or not.” We left shortly thereafter, I slightly embarrassed at having denied someone’s existance to his or her face.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:42:49 +0000

I herd footsteps behind me while I was walking down the stairs. I looked back and no one was behind me.

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:38:08 +0000

I went there and the son died iin the parlour and me and my cousin oth got h=this weird feeling and snuck out of the tour

By: Emma

Emma — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:37:03 +0000

well ive been there they deny it but i bet there has been

By: felesha

felesha — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:30:24 +0000

My mother in law, her best friend, my best friend and ofcourse myself went to the plantation last night i just moved to fairview tn about 20mins from franklin this month from Indiana and our friends came down this week and we started talkin about how cool it would be to get a little tipsy and go ghost hunting, well we went to the plantation around 12 or so the atmosphere totally changed when we got onto the road leading up to it for somereason all the gates where open too we got to go into the garden area, up on the deck, through the field into the cemetary. We heard geese, drums, chimes, something that sounded like gunshots, heavy breathing, something that sounded like horses walking lol. We got over 400 pictures, there where thousands of orbs!!! We got home and looked at the pictures and there was faces in the orbs idk i thought it was pretty sweet lol. I have the pictures and will share contact me on facebook or myspace under felesha casler and felesha kenworthy

By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:05:08 +0000

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By: Eryn

Eryn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:36:30 +0000

I’ve been to Carnton many times and, while I’ve never seen anything there, I’ve heard all the usual stories. Also, a child ghost braided my friend’s hair while she was on the tour. Has anyone else heard about the young girl who has supposedly been seen sitting in the tree in the garden?
It’s worth noting that ghosts of Civil War soldiers are quite thick on the ground in Franklin; understandably so, given the role it played in the war. Most of the town proper and outskirts were, if not part of the battle site, campgrounds or hospitals.

By: Anita

Anita — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:14:48 +0000

My husband and I visited the Carnton Plantation yesterday, Aug. 18, 2009. While I had read the Widow of the South, I did not look up the house prior to our visit and the only info we had besides the book that I read when it came out was the brochure.
We arrived and paid for our ticket only 5 minutes before the tour began at 3:30. We walked from the office to the house and sat down in rockers with the other tourgoers. A group came out of the house from a prior tour and our guide arrived and began his speech. He stepped to the end of the porch and spoke of the kitchen and said that you could see where it was. What I took from that was that you could see an intact room and there would be a difference in it’s appearance in comparison to the rest of the house. We then went into the house with a total of 15 visitors.
The guide walked into the office portion and directed us into the dining room. The group walked to the chained area and listened to his speech. My husband and I were standing in front of the buffet. I heard female voices talking, but couldn’t make out what they were saying. I walked around the table and looked out on the porch and saw no one and figured they were out of sight of those 2 windows. The guide then directed our group to the hallway and continued his talk. Myself and an older gentleman were in the rear of the group and couldn’t fit into the hallway so we leaned into the dining room door facing and listened. Behind us, we heard a door shut. I turned to look and he asked, “Did you just hear a door shut?” I said that I had, but didn’t know if it had been the door in the dining room or it’s mate on the same wall in the office. I assumed that it was an employee who looked out and saw the group and shut the door until we moved on and he/she could leave. I turned to see light under the doors and thought it was coming from windows in the rooms and was looking to see if a shadow would appear under the door telling me which door had shut due to someone being there.
We were directed into the formal parlor in the front of the home and the tour carried on. Again, the room was small and crowded and I got as far as the edge of the piano. I heard the floor above us creak and thought that another group were upstairs further along in their tour than us and that the guide was going long in his speech waiting for them to come downstairs and exit so that we could head upstairs. We then walked to the family parlor and no one came downstairs as we could see the foot of the stairs through the door to the hall.
We went upstairs finally and I realized that no one had been up there. I figured the noise had been the house settling. We completed the tour and were directed back out the back door and told to walk around and view the grounds and the front of the house. I walked around the garden side of the home taking pictures. I got my shots of the front of the house and was walking to the slave quarters.
Then I was shocked. When I walked to the side of the house, I saw the two door on the side of the house that led to outside now because the kitchen had been destroyed and all that was left were a pile of crumbling bricks. There was no way someone had shut one of the 2 doors behind us waiting for us to move on as they are several feet off the ground and there was no room for anyone to be standing and waiting in. I walked to the back porch to tell the guide while the other gentleman who had heard it as well was still standing there for verification.
I have no explanation.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:13:03 +0000

I live in Franklin and have been to the Carnton Plantation several times. I love going there because of the history and beauty of the house. My first experience happened on a 5th grade field trip. I had always heard that the place was haunted but never really thought anything about it. Our group was the only one in the house at the time so nobody could have gone upstairs without us knowing. Our guide was talking to us in the main hall and then a distinct sound of chairs moving and footsteps so she went a little of the way up the steps and said “Let’s go visit the slave quarters now…” I’ve always wondered what that was but who knows?
One of the other experiences I’ve had is really spooky. Me and a few of my buddies decided to take a trip out to the plantation to see if we could “find” anything. I was the only one who brought a camera so of course I had to take a lot of pics. The first picture I took, or was about to, we all noticed what seemed like a glow in the bottom left window in the front part of the house. FREAKED ME OUT!!!! But we kept on looking. I took more pics and “orbs” showed up. I don’t put much thought into orbs though because they could be any number of things. But what I couldn’t write off what appeared to be a few confederate soldiers relaxing under a tree. I didn’t know I could run so fast. I’ve had a few other experiences there and at the Carter House *basement*. If anyone else has experienced what I have, I’d really like to hear about it.