Andrew Jackson's Hermitage

Per Ghost City Tours' Hermitage feature and WKRN's Haunted Tennessee coverage, the property's ghost lore concentrates on the formal garden surrounding Rachel Jackson's tomb. Reports include 'footsteps roaming between the foliage,' the garden gate swinging open on its own with no visible cause, and 'the undeniable smell of cigar smoke near the Jacksons' tomb' — framed in local lore as the residual signature of Andrew's daily mourning visits, when he reportedly sat by Rachel's grave smoking a cigar and talking with her.

The Hermitage itself programs seasonal evening 'Ghost Tours' as a public-facing complement to its standard interpretive offering. Per Nashville Ghosts' feature and WKRN's 2022 ghost-tour coverage, guides also report 'ghostly apparitions of soldiers wandering through the grove' on the broader property, and visitors describe cold spots and full-body chills around the displaced original trees and grove paths.

A second strand of the lore concerns the slave-quarter cabins on the property, where figures have been reported by staff and visitors. Local accounts associate one of these figures with Alfred Jackson, who was born enslaved at the Hermitage around 1812 and lived on the property for nearly his entire life. Interpretation at the Hermitage now explicitly addresses Alfred's life and the lives of others enslaved there as part of the documented site history, and ghost-lore narrators are expected to follow that framing rather than romanticize.

Additional widely circulated lore — a face resembling Rachel reportedly visible in the paint of one of Jackson's carriages — appears in tour-operator coverage but with thinner provenance than the garden-tomb material.