Gallatin Ghost Walk

06/08/2026

Gallatin Ghost Walk has been a "spirited" destination for 23 years!

06/05/2026

Fascinating people

When the first European settlers pushed into the mountains of what is now Tennessee and Virginia they found people already there.
Not Cherokee. Not any tribe anyone recognized. A community of dark complexioned, light eyed people living in the isolated ridges of Newman's Ridge and Snake Hollow who spoke English, practiced Christianity, and could not or would not explain where they had come from.
They were called Melungeons. Nobody knows for certain where that word came from either.
The theories have never stopped coming. Portuguese sailors shipwrecked on the Carolina coast in the 1500s who walked inland and disappeared into the mountains. survivors of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony of Roanoke. Free African Americans and Native Americans who had retreated into the hills to escape persecution. Remnants of a pre-Columbian Mediterranean settlement that history never recorded. Turkish or Moorish sailors. A mixing of peoples so complex and so old that no single origin story could ever fully account for it.
DNA studies in the early 2000s gave partial answers and raised entirely new questions. Melungeon descendants carried genetic markers from sub-Saharan Africa, the British Isles, and the Middle East in combinations that did not fit neatly into any single narrative.
The state of Virginia classified them as free persons of color in the 1800s which stripped them of their right to vote, to own property, and to testify in court against a white person. Families who had been in those mountains for generations longer than the state of Virginia itself were suddenly legally invisible.
They knew who they were. The mountains knew who they were.
The rest of the world is still working on it.

06/04/2026

A great vintage photo from 1910, TN.
Notice a ghostly figure on porch bench...and perhaps in doorway

06/04/2026

Join us tomorrow, Friday June 5...on The Most Haunted Public Square in America!
RESERVATIONS 615-512-5299

06/03/2026

...it is FULL MOON FRIDAY
GALLATIN GHOST WALK!

Stay tuned

The Strawberry Moon is coming. 🌕🍓✨

On June 29, 2026, the night sky will glow with a breathtaking pink-red full moon rising above the horizon in one of the most beautiful celestial events of the year.

Bathed in warm summer colors and surrounded by sparkling stars, the Strawberry Moon brings a magical atmosphere that skywatchers never forget. 🌌

📅 June 29, 2026
🌙 Strawberry Moon
✨ Best viewed after sunset

06/01/2026

🌙 The grounds of Carnton beneath the soft glow of luminaries.
A past commemoration event…

📷 Photograph courtesy of Rob Clutsam Photography.

05/31/2026

Tonight!

A rare Blue Moon rises soon - the second full moon of the month and a soft micromoon in the night sky 🔵

05/31/2026

Cherokee legend tells of a giant mystical bird that flies over lakes and rivers and nests in caves... drivers on LongHollow Pike in the 1970s saw a flying creature with the face of a man but the body of a bird chase their cars...real or imagined?

Hear more June 5 Gallatin Ghost Walk.
615-512~5299 for reservations

01/25/2026