ELKMONT GHOST STORIES - THE SILVER OF HYDE HILL

These have been sent in from Elkmont residents or from published sources. Do you have one from the Elkmont area to share? HIll Spirit has not experienced any of these but one never knows....

As you walk north from downtown Elkmont along the trail, you will walk out of the tree lined path and see a white house sitting on a hill slightly to the right.  Located on Compton Road, this is not the first house to be built here.  There was once another and stories of the supernatural swirl around it.  Many of the stories of buried treasure and ghosts in the area all center around this hill.

OLD HYDE PLACE

What became the Hyde place was built about 1860.  It was used as a hospital during the Civil War.  Soldiers' blood covered hands stained the woodwork in the second story and the those hand
prints remained until the house was torn down in 1980. 

After the General Forrest and those he
commanded took the nearby fort at Sulphur Creek, the items found were taken by the soldiers as they left the Elkmont area and moved north.  One of those things was rumored to be a chest of silver (the fort's payroll).  Two soldiers found the money but they couldn't

take it with them since they had orders to move out the next day. 

A tale is told that the money was buried at the bottom of the hilltop for safe keeping until they could return.  In a battle some weeks later, both men were killed and the silver was never recovered.  Many have searched with modern tools as well as divining rods.  These all point to the same location but when you start to dig, the signal moves.  Is it the spirits of those two soldiers still guarding the silver?