Old Hanging Ground
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- Old Hanging Ground, Fayette County, GA
- City
- Fayette County
- State / Province
- Georgia
- Country
- United States
- Coordinates
- 33.45022, -84.48026
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The Haunting
Old Hanging Ground is a reportedly haunted bridge in Fayette County, Georgia. Reports tied to the site usually focus on disembodied voices, screams, or footsteps and roadside encounters and vanishing figures.
Reported account from HauntTracker: (off of Padgett Road, near Starr's Mill) Old hanging ground that belonged to Old Man Padgett. During a hanging, a Negro broke loose and hung Padgett from the nearby railroad bridge.
Padgett still walks the tracks looking for his killer. The track has been abandoned for 15-16 years and you can still hear train horns and see figures on the dirt road, tracks, and in the woods and hear voices in the woods.
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What People Are Saying
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HauntTracker's public listing describes: (off of Padgett Road, near Starr's Mill) Old hanging ground that belonged to Old Man Padgett. During a hanging, a Negro broke loose and hung Padgett from the nearby railroad bridge.
Padgett still walks the tracks looking for his killer. The track has been abandoned for 15-16 years and you can still hear train horns and see figures on the dirt road, tracks, and in the woods and hear voices in the woods.