We're on our way back from Savannah, where we've been for the last 3 days. It's a beautiful city (well, we've walked around the entire historic district). Temperatures have hovered around 60F under cloudy skies with occasional rain these last 2 days, and the first day was 73F and sunny, so we took advantage of that.
The historic district, where we stayed, has a large "dead history." There were many deaths from the civil war here, and from a yellow fever outbreak in the 1700s. So many people died in fact, that they were buried in trenches throughout the city - and buildings were built over them.
There's a lot of ghostly unrest here, as some of the yellow fever victims were even buried alive. At one point, people started burying their dead with ropes attached to bells. If the person buried that was assumed dead, awakes and rings the bell, they would be dug up, if lucky enough to last that long. That's where "dead ringer" comes from we've been told.
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