Mont Helena, Rolling Fork
Mont Helena in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, is widely regarded as a haunted location, with many of its ghostly stories stemming from a history of tragic love and its eerie location atop a Native American ceremonial mound. It has been featured on television programs like Ghost Hunters, and visitors report numerous paranormal experiences. The most famous spirit said to haunt Mont Helena is Helen Johnstone Harris, also known as the "Bride of Annandale". Helen was engaged to Henry Vick, but he was killed in a duel just days before their wedding. When she later married Reverend George Harris, she was reportedly still heartbroken over her first love. Following her death, stories began of a ghostly woman, supposedly Helen, wandering around the graveyard at Chapel of the Cross, where Vick is buried. Although Helen was buried beside her husband at Mound Cemetery in Rolling Fork, her spirit is believed by some to be searching for her lost love. Visitors and paranormal investigators at Mont Helena, the home she built with Harris, have reported seeing the apparition of a woman in a white gown gazing out of the windows or standing in the front yard. The ghost of Helen Johnstone Harris is also said to occasionally play the piano inside the house. The sound of footsteps walking through the halls has been reported by visitors and former inhabitants. A bell rings on the property every New Year's, according to legend, even though the church it belonged to has not had a bell for decades. The Mississippi Paranormal Society and others have recorded disembodied voices inside the house. In addition to the "Bride of Annandale," investigators have captured images of orbs and shadowy figures in photographs. Reports also include unexplained knocking sounds and moving lights seen through windows.