Mile 734.7 - The Ghost Bunker

734.7 The Ghost Bunker

On the eastern end of Harahan Bridge is a bunker made of granite whose walls have seen some horrible scenes. This area is said to be haunted. The bunker is now known as The Ghost Bunker or The Strange Room. It sits on the exact spot that Fort Pickering, a Civil War strategic post once stood. It was advertised in the 1800's as a clean jail capable of containing 300 likely young slaves by Nathan B. Forrest, slave trader and Confederate general. The victims of the Yellow Fever epidemics of the 1800s were brought to this area by the hundreds, after their death. Over 70 people have used the bridge at this point as a means of suicide.

The infamous room was sealed in the 1970's when a huge supply of dynamite and blasting caps were found by railway workers. However it's still believed that ghost enthusiasts use the old bunker as a ghostly ground-zero to conduct their séances and ghost hunts. They have walked away with audio evidence of screams and unexplained photographic oddities.