Forsyth Park Fountain in Savannah, Georgia, USA

Under all that southern hospitality, the gorgeous mansions, and lush green parks is a rather unsettling past. In Madison Square, dead (and some, as the rumor goes, not quite dead) soldiers were hastily buried after the 1779 Siege of Savannah. Just a few blocks away, in Wright Square, a revered Native American chief, who fostered peace in the new territory, was honored and buried in what was then a cemetery, and then unceremoniously unburied 100 years later—his sacred ground re-designated to a railroad magnate, who made the city rich. In Forsyth Park, autopsies were performed in an underground morgue, connected by an underground tunnel, to the former Candler Hospital. All these rumblings below the surface, say Maria Pinheiro, a historian and spokesperson with Ghost City Tours, make these squares particularly ripe for sightings of shadowy, now-you-see-them-now-you-don’t figures.