The Hampton Lillibridge House- Scene of an Official Exorcism
This house, one of the few to survive the great fire of 1820, was moved to its
present address by antique dealer Jim Williams who later was tried three times for the
murder of an associate and has gained a sort of immorality from the long-running
bestseller, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. --see map of some Savannah hauntings
With its gambrel roof and clean New England lines this house
built by Rhode Islander Hampton Lillibridge looks at home near the sea but a bit out of
place in the south. The house has been the center of many stories including the tradition
that a sailor hung himself in one of the rooms during a period when the place was a
boarding house. When Williams restored the house in the 1960's, he moved it to St. Julian
Street from its original location and a worker was killed when a neighboring house
collapsed. Workmen and Williams friends and neighbors reported strange happenings and an
exorcism was performed by a bishop of the Episcopal dicocese of Savannah on Dec. 7, 1963. --back to Stories