Doors that open and close mysteriously. Lights that glow where there is no electric power. The sound of footsteps on a staircase when no one is there. All of these things can be experienced in Selma, Alabama. Is this city haunted? The city is filled with antebellum houses but some people have experienced things that cannot be explained by the settling of old structures.SHOW ME NOW
In the summer of 1819, 44 men gathered inside the cabinet maker’s shop in Huntsville to write Alabama’s first constitution–the document that would create the laws necessary to enable this new territory to become a state. The Northwest Ordinance declared that a territory could become a state when its population grew to 60,000. The 1818 census revealed Alabama had reached that mark.SHOW ME NOW
Eric Miller and his son, Steve, are continuing a tradition begun in 1865 by Abraham Miller, a Pennsylvania man who moved to Alabama at the close of the Civil War. The Millers dig clay from a pit in Perry County, mill it, turn it, and fire it into pitchers, churns, piggy banks and other items in Brent, Alabama, carrying on the tradition for five generations.SHOW ME NOW
Tour mansions where the slave owners are glorified and follow with reverence the route of the Selma to Montgomery march which led to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The strip of black prairie land that crosses central Alabama is known as the Black Belt and Highway 80 runs through it. This land was the birthplace of the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. SHOW ME NOW
