By day it is a bright and breezy city with a sparkling river, neat cobbled paths and beautiful parks. At night it has a creepy side, one which tour companies do their best to capitalise on.

You can't get a better setting for a jolly good ghost story than Savannah at night. Everywhere you turn the trees are covered by dripping Spanish moss which is as creepy as it is pretty. And there are hundreds of stories about 'haunted' Savannah.

On our travels lots of cities have offered ghost tours but in Savannah there were over 30 companies operating. We tried our best to choose the best and decided on the midnight tour so the experience would be super scary.

I was a little uncomfortable when I realised Tim and I were the only people booked in but we soon got to know our Tennessee-born guide and he quickly had me supremely spooked.

It was a walking tour and we strolled to dark cemeteries and learned about Savannah's war history and the soldiers still lurking behind in ghost form. The guide had so many fantastic stories about the haunted parts of Savannah; about children forever walking corridors and rattling their toys at night; about scorned women hanging around to haunt their lovers' homes, ringing church bells and keeping neighbours awake.

At this point I must point out that I absolutely don't believe in ghosts and even still, the whole experience was seriously frightening. Standing in strange parks with only dim streetlights and seeing the moss moving strangely about overhead - it was just terrifying!

The worst part was when our guide took us inside one of the haunted houses. We walked up a narrow candlelit staircase to the stable house, where years earlier one of Savannah's finest families was ripped apart by adultery. When the lady of the house found out her husband was shagging the maid, she jumped from her third-level bedroom, killing herself instantly.

[IMG 3L] Her adult offspring were so distraught they hung the maid from the rafters in the stable house. Both women are said to still be mooching around upsetting people and our guide told us some fairly convincing stories about their post-life antics.

Standing there in the pitch black room was all too much. Our guide urged us to have a look around after the storytelling but I hightailed it for the car and locked the doors.

That said, if you visit Savannah you have to do a ghost tour. Even the sceptics end up shaking in their boots in one of America's most 'haunted' cities.

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