There are many claims around the country of places being haunted and Huntsville Alabama also makes that claim. One of the stories told from Huntsville seems to be an imaginary friend turned real. This story really captured my attention. Apparently, there was a couple who had a year old son who was a normal infant. When this boy was one his mother noticed that when she put him down for naps or bed she would often hear him laughing and giggling as if someone was playing with him. At one point, she put the baby down to sleep and then listened through the door until he began to laugh and giggle. Then she would open the door and catch the boy laughing, reaching and interacting with the wall. It didn’t make sense. She told her husband and he just passed it off. Over the years, the giggling turned into talking with some imaginary friend. The mother was trying to get the boy to let her in on his friend. Who was this friend. The boy was very protective and secretive. The mother got professional help but the doctor said the boy was fine.
When the boy was about four he was able to speak better about things so she asked him again. Turns out it is a man who visits him each day and this has lead to him being distant with his father. The mother would peek in on him and catch him having full on conversations as if there were someone in the room. She got more frightened and began to press the issue even more. She threatened to move away from this home and the boy got upset and blurted out that he didn’t want to leave daddy. Now the boy thinks this “friend” is his daddy. So they separated him from the room but the boy would sneak back in. At one point the mother was looking through some old photos and the boy came in. She got tears in her eyes as she looked at one of the photos and the boy asked her why. She showed the picture to the boy and he said that that was the man from his room. That was his real father. She was shocked to learn that the boy knew how he died. The new husband had killed his father to get the mother and the dead daddy was now visiting the boy. Wow.
There are other ghost stories to learn about while getting out of your room from one of the fine hotels located in Huntsville. See if you can sneak around the park where the ghost children giggle, sing, swing and play. You could get yourself ready for the spook by reading some great ghost books written by authors like Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh. They wrote 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey together. Or watch a spooky movie like Amityville Horror before you visit.