July 27, 2026

Episode 84: The Ghost of Surrency

In 1872, a Georgia sawmill operator came home to find his house had come alive, and for the next five years, no prayer, no investigation, and no explanation ever made it stop. Mary Ann Poll tells the true story of Allen Surrency, the five hundred visitors who came to witness it, and the haunting that only ended when he was buried.EPISODE NOTES● Allen Surrency's own 1872 letter to the Savannah Morning News is the primary source: he challenged 75 to 100 witnesses to contradict his account.● The Macon and Brunswick Railroad ran extra trains to accommodate sightseers at the height of the case.● Herschel Tillman's eyewitness account that the haunting stopped upon Surrency's burial in 1877 is part of the documented historical record.● The house burned to the ground in 1925 under unexplained circumstances; the local Surrency spook light is still reported today.● Scripture: John 1:5 (KJV).SOURCES● Allen P. Surrency's letter to the Savannah Morning News (1872)● Herschel Tillman's documented account of the haunting and its cessation● Appling County, Georgia historical records● Regional newspaper accounts of the Surrency phenomena, 1872-1877

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