Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 

Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

The Dothan Police Department has closed an investigation of an alleged crime which recently caused alarm to many members of our community. On February 10, 2012, the Dothan Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious person after dispatch received a call from a concerned citizen that an unfamiliar man was in her yard located in the Grove Park subdivision. Police responded and learned from the resident that she was frightened when she looked out of her window and saw a man at her front door. She described the man as an older white male with a bicycle wearing a ski jacket. Patrolmen responded to the area and later detained a man who bore a resemblance to the description police were given. Officers followed standard procedure by attaching the identifying information to the incident for future consideration then released him after determining he may have understandably raised suspicions and may have also caused alarm, but had not committed a crime.

DOTHAN, AL (WSFA) - A cemetery, subdivision and church sustained heavy damage from dusting of a different type after a Dothan man got high off of an aerosol electrical cleaner and lost control of his car.

"Dusting" or huffing the aerosol electronic cleaner "Dust Off" is a new method people are using to get high. Dothan Police say 20-year old Garrett Allan Maddox lost consciousness behind the wheel of his vehicle after "dusting."

Maddox's vehicle left Honeysuckle Road in Dothan careening through the Selma Cemetery damaging several headstones before it crossed South Park Avenue where it ran through the fence enclosing the Stonecreek Landing Subdivision. The vehicle continued on a destructive path running over another fence, crossing Moore Road and slamming into the west side of Selma Baptist Church.

Police say the damage caused was "substantial."