Many consider Savannah to be the most haunted city in America. Tours of cemeteries and mansions believed to be occupied by residents of the spirit realm are among its most popular attractions. In Wright Square, the moss, which dangles from most of Savannah’s oak trees, mysteriously stopped growing after a woman was hanged there, in 1735. Decorated hearses ferry visitors past the Mercer Williams House Museum, where an antiques dealer shot his lover and inspired the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
But the eeriest spot in the region sits 10 miles offshore near Tybee Island. There, in the shallow waters of Wassaw Sound, lurks the biggest ghost story of them all: a 7,600-pound, Mark 15 thermonuclear weapon that may still be able to detonate.
