Alabama officials expect 'ghost stories and trails’ boost tourism dollars

Found in county of Wilcox in Alabama, it is called ‘The Billie Hole’, wherein in antebellum period, a female slave was punished to jump to a wooded pool for refusing to be sold.

There were stories made that during full moon, Billie appears to come out of the hole dressed with a long white gown.

Authorities in the historic Black Belt area of Alabama expected that story and other narrations like it would increase tourism as well. In order to cash in on the stories of things that could or could not appear during nights, officials of the city here and all over the US are turning to ghost stories and trails just to support tourism.

To create a ghost track stretching across the 18 different counties, the Southwest Alabama Regional Tourism and Film Office is now working to make swath throughout the centre of the state beginning this summer. Known for its cultivated black prairie land, the Black Belt was the place where cotton was considered king prior to and at the end the Civil War.

"The Black Belt is rich in the history and culture of the Scots-Irish settlers and the African Americans who toiled as slaves", Linda Vice from the tourism office said. "Both cultures valued story telling as a way to preserve their history, and both cultures understood the concept of second sight and a spirit world. So we have plenty of stories of ghosts and 'haints' to chose from for our trail."

For those who feel themselves threaten by this ghost craze, ghostbusters should be hired to take care of this problem for you.