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Journey to Savannah

A full moon night in Savannah is a perfect time for a walking ghost tour of what's been called the most haunted city in the United States. Lower right, the American Prohibition Museum in Savannah's City Market District offers an interactive tour of the time of moonshiners and bootleggers ending with a stop at a working speakeasy.
City offers spirited adventure

The Georgia city of Savannah is teeming with spirits both those crossing over from the Other Side and those spilling out from local distilleries and watering holes. And in some cases, such as at the Moon River Brewing Company and the Shrimp Factory, they can be found in the same place.

That seems appropriate for a city designated the most haunted in America by the American Institute of Parapsychology, and one with a colorful history of bootleggers, moonshiners and rum runners evading Prohibition agents in the marshes around the city.

Savannah is 732 miles from Butler which translates into an 11 1/2-hour car trip mostly down Interstate 79. For those without iron constitutions, a good stopping point is Beckley, W.Va.

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