The Kehoe House

This 1892 Queen Anne mansion was built by Irish immigrant William Kehoe for his wife Annie and their ten children. Before becoming a luxury B&B, the building served as a funeral home with a morgue in the basement.

The Kehoe House is one of Savannah's most elegant haunted bed and breakfasts, built on Columbia Square in 1892 for Irish immigrant William Kehoe. Kehoe arrived from Wexford, Ireland at age 10 and built a fortune in the iron foundry business, eventually owning the very foundry where he once apprenticed. He and his wife Anne Flood raised ten children in this magnificent Renaissance Revival mansion.

The most famous ghost story involves twin boys who died tragically while playing hide-and-seek in the chimneys. According to legend, the six-year-olds became stuck and perished before anyone could rescue them. William Kehoe supposedly sealed the chimneys and decorated them with angels in their memory. While historians dispute this story - noting the Kehoes had no record of losing twins - guests have reported the sounds of children running through the halls and giggling for decades.

Boisterous apparitions of children race up and down the second-floor hallways. In Rooms 201 and 203, guests wake to find someone has sat on their bed, leaving warmth and indentations in the mattress. Young voices call out when no children are staying at the inn. The scent of antique perfume wafts through bedrooms and corridors.

William and Anne Kehoe themselves still walk their beloved home. William turns on lights, rings the front doorbell, and unlocks and opens the front door. Anne patrols the second and third floors, watching over guests with motherly concern - some have reported gentle kisses on the cheek in the middle of the night.

After the Kehoes, the house served as a boarding house and funeral parlor before NFL legend Joe Namath briefly owned it. It was converted to a luxury inn in the 1990s and now operates as a four-star bed and breakfast where guests sleep alongside generations of spirits.