Haunting at the Mercer Williams Mansion Episode 7 - Ghosts and spirits of a little boy and 2 adults

True story behind the book and film Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil
Episode 7 - 31 Days and Nights of Halloween 2022
Designed by John S. Norris for General Hugh Mercer (great-grandfather of the songwriter Johnny Mercer), construction of the house began in 1860. Construction was interrupted by the American Civil War, and finally completed around 1868 by the new owner, John R. Wilder.[1] Nobody of the Mercer name ever lived in the house.
In 1969, 11-year-old Tommy Downs fell from the roof of the house and was killed after being impaled on the iron fence on the West Gordon Street (southern) side of the house. It is believed he was hunting pigeons. The tip of one of the two spiked prongs he landed on is still broken.[5]
For a period in the twentieth century, the building was used as the Savannah Shriners Alee Temple.[6] It then lay vacant for a decade until 1969, when Jim Williams, one of Savannah's earliest and most dedicated private restorationists, bought the house for $55,000[7] and fully restored it over two years.[1] Williams died in 1990, and Dorothy Kingery put the house up for sale later that decade with a price tag of just under $9,000,000. This was later reduced to about $7,000,000.[8]
In 1979, during the filming on Monterey Square of The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd, starring Dennis Weaver, Williams hung a flag of Nazi Germany outside of a window at Mercer House in an attempt to disrupt the shoot, after the film company declined to make a donation to the local humane society, as Williams had requested. The Congregation Mickve Israel, located across the square, complained to the city.[9][10]
Jackie Onassis, the widow of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, visited Mercer House with her friend, Maurice Tempelsman, in the early 1980s.[11] They had been traveling down the east coast on Tempelsman's yacht.
New Standard Enterprises undertook a complete exterior renovation of the house in December 2019.

[@davidbaca7853]

Jim died in the hallway after walking in the front door from getting the newspaper

[@dodgingbullets3503]

🌷One of my favorite movies...Thank you for this🌷🌷

[@RavenWoodsApothecary]

I'm glad you enjoyed it ❤

[@ccasey1904]

There are at least 4 ghosts at the Mercer Williams house.

[@ccasey1904]

I would have loved to have gone to one of those parties at the Mercer Williams House.

[@jlaw7842]

Thank you for posting!
I wish there was more info about Tommy Downs
Loved the book and movie, such an interesting story for sure

[@WilliamCowan-kk5hu]

Dorothy died last year

[@RavenWoodsApothecary]

@@WilliamCowan-kk5hu awww sorry to hear that