Apparently the Byrd theatre is haunted by two ghosts (at the least) that have made themselves known. One is a little girl who hangs out in the women’s restroom and one is a former manager, Mr. Coulter, who ran the Byrd from 1928-1971.

The Byrd Pump House is allegedly haunted by Daniel Tetweiler (hung himself there), a Shade named Elizabeth, and “Spectra” a known woman in white.

Julep, the restaurant used to be a weapons shop and the former owner, a Mr. James McNaught, killed his assistant gunsmith at point blank range with a torpedo to his chest in 1826.

Tuckahoe Plantation… self explanatory there.

Cold Harbor battlefield, again… self explanatory. General Robert E Lee Celine rated one of his victories against Grant there and loads of people died.

There’s allegedly a werewolf in Highland Springs, out in Henrico roughly almost always seen around the Confederate Hills Rec Center. He’s reported to be around 6 feet tall, with the body of a man and the face of a wolf. Theorists believe he’s a lot like a Japanese Obake, a shapeshifting ghost meant to be the inspiration for Pennywise (as in he takes on the form of people’s fears) but he exists for one moment, you blink or look away and he’s gone.

And finally, the Richmond Vampire (which u/cinnamonotter22 mentioned)

VCU tried to pave a parking lot over the Devil’s Half Acre in the last 20 years.

Major cigarette corporations were headquartered here and used to give free cigarettes away to anyone including children on the street for free.

95 running through downtown was originally the Richmond/Petersburg Turnpike and was voted on multiple times by Richmond residents and voted down each time and ultimately still approved as a result of the State Legislature overruling those votes.

Opponents of school integration not only protested Brown vs. Board of education by organizing caravan protests from Richmond to D.C. to drive around and cause a ruckus but they also founded many of the private schools around town to prevent integration.

The Commonwealth Club used to not only be segregated but was also a restricted club (no Jewish members period or Women allowed beyond the foyer)

Edit: There’s also a book about ghost sightings by Capitol police officers. For example an entire balcony collapsed at the Capitol and killed lots of people.

Me too. Huge bummer watching everyone in their fun and sexy Halloween costumes bar hopping around carytown 🥲. Anyways I heard something about a huge train wreck and a vampire…somehow related.

Edit: https://commonwealthtimes.org/2020/10/28/richmond-vampire-cemetery-houses-urban-legend-born-from-historic-tragedy/

Somewhere on VCU’s medical campus is a location where there was a well full of human body parts.

Spooky! 🕸️

Lots of spooky stories abound here in Richmond

I'm one of the brewers at Legend Brewing Company, and for the better part of a decade, we had a series of seasonal beers that we called the "Urban Legend" series, and they were all inspired by local folklore.

They all eventually turned into ghost stories.

The lost city of Richmond!

Okay.. this one has to do with Elko Tract in highland Springs.. the highland springs warewolf might figure into this.. if not? I'm sure we can shoehorn it in.

During WWII.. there was a fear that if the axis powers would invade the US. They would bomb the Norfolk navel station first.. head in land to hit targets of interst before bombing DC.. The airforce base at what is now Richmond International was thought to be one of those targets of interests. So the army made a 1/4scale replica of the airstrip a mile or more away and populated the area with dummy buildings that concealled anti-aircraft batteries. The idea was.. that if the invasion DID occur.. Richmond would go into blackout.. the dummy airstrip would be lit up. That the dummy strip was quarter scale, the bombadiers would mess up the timing of the charges, and the anti-aircraft placements would knock-out the bombers.

Flash forward...

This is now surplus property.. so the gubmint gives the land back to Virginia.. specifically Henrico county.. Central state hospital is looking for a new location, and this area of land is a prime candidate.. so the the country develops the property. Making roads and active sewer and water system complete with a water tower..

The local residents aren't keen to what was going to be a desegregated prison for the insane in their backyards, so an active campaign was made against it.

So henrico abandond the project, and let the property return to nature.

However. The airforce base was still right there.. and they patrolled the area.

Many a east end teenager would venture out to "the lost city" to make out, or other such activities to find a MP knocking on the window of the car telling them to skidaddle"

Since the airstrip.and asylum stuff had exited common knowledge..all types of theorys popped up about the area.. raging from secret atomic bunker for congress, to a atomic missle base.. to an alien research base/bunker (The cold war was an interesting time.)

This area is now technology blvd, and the facebook now sits on top of the dummy airstrip.

Monumental Church / Richmond Theatre - I would be surprised if this place wasn't chock full of spirits!

"All but one of those individuals who perished in the fire were interred together in a common crypt that is located underneath the church. Monumental was designed and constructed to house the crypt and with the monument to these individuals as a focal point under the front portico. Every fire victim’s name is etched on the monument."

Article 1 - Monumental Church

Article 2 - Richmond Theatre Fire