Episode 49: Halloween 2022- The Haunted Eliza Battle

The Eliza Battle was a Tombigbee River steamboat that ran a route between Columbus, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama in the United States during the 1850s. She was destroyed in a fire on the river near modern Pennington, Alabama on March 1, 1858. It was the greatest maritime disaster in Tombigbee River history, with an estimated thirty-three people killed, out of roughly sixty passengers and a crew of forty-five. Her tragic end now haunts the Tombigbee River on cold spring nights.
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Resources:
https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/blog/episode-56-eliza-battle
https://cdispatch.com/opinions/2012-03-10/ask-rufus-the-tragic-story-of-the-eliza-battle/
https://www.al.com/life/2021/10/the-ghost-ship-of-the-eliza-battle.html
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffery by Kathryn Tucker Windham
https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2011/08/steamboat-harbinger-eliza-battle.html