Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

Old Green Eyes predates the national park's modern profile as a ghost destination — the legend has circulated in northwest Georgia for generations. A Confederate soldier, the story goes, had his head blown off by cannon fire during the battle and was buried without it. His spirit wanders the battlefield searching, identifiable by the green eyes that appear before the full apparition resolves.

The Brotherton Cabin, at the location where Confederate forces finally broke through the Union line on the afternoon of September 20, 1863, is described in paranormal research as the single most active structure on the battlefield. Cold spots, an intense overwhelming sense of sorrow, and sudden dread have been reported by visitors who enter the cabin with no prior knowledge of these accounts.

The Kelly House has generated accounts from park rangers, paranormal investigators, and casual visitors: figures looking through windows, standing in the doorway, moaning and praying voices audible from inside the structure when no one is there.

Neighbors have reported gunshots, moaning, and crying sounds from the battlefield on quiet nights. The moving lights seen across the fields after dark — which observers at a distance have described as flickering, lantern-like — are interpreted in local tradition as the lights of women searching for their husbands and brothers in the dark.