In Savannah, this house is known simply by its address. Night after night, tour groups gather in Taylor Square to look up at its windows, and visitors as famous as Alice Cooper have made the trip. Its legend is one of the city's best known, and one of its least true.

As the tours tell it, the house stands on old burial ground, and the square's real history as a burial ground for Black Savannahians gives that belief some footing. The legend says Benjamin Wilson's wife died of yellow fever soon after the family moved in, and he grew grim and harsh. When his daughter kept playing with the poor children at the Massie School, he supposedly punished her by tying her to a chair at a window overlooking the schoolyard during a summer heat wave. In the legend she died there, and her grief-stricken father later took his own life in the same room. Later tellings add more tragedies over the decades, including a story about children left alone in the house during a holiday visit in the 1950s or '60s, with each version darker than the last.

Ghost City Tours describes Taylor Square as one of the city's supernatural hot spots, where some visitors say they feel a sorrowful energy in the air. The house's fame grew mainly from walking and trolley tours, which made it a staple stop, and from being told and retold as fact. That is why Ghost City Tours makes a point of separating the record from the rumor.