The Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville.NASHVILLE – In a very old building that has witnessed unceasing turmoil and countless back stabbings – not to mention having four people entombed within its walls or buried on its grounds – you might expect talk about things going bump in the night.
And if the place is Tennessee’s state Capitol, you’d be right.
While by no means a Stephen King-like Halloween house of horrors, the Capitol, dedicated in 1859 and one of the nation’s oldest working state capitols, does have its ghost stories and a reputation for unexplained goings-on.
That’s not even getting into the living politicians who have been known to frighten citizens.
Officials and workers say that by night the Capitol’s atmosphere can be unsettling, eerie even, especially when you’re alone in the three-story, Greek-revival limestone behemoth.