Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery is a historic rural municipal cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River southeast of downtown Savannah, Georgia. The site contains nearly 160 acres and is described in public sources as the largest of the city's municipal cemeteries. Its cultural prominence grew after it was featured in John Berendt's 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and in the subsequent film directed by Clint Eastwood. The supplied research notes and source materials do not provide documented eyewitness accounts, named spirits, investigative findings, or specific paranormal phenomena tied to Bonaventure Cemetery. References that link the site to supernatural or spooky themes in the provided materials are cultural and creative in nature: an artwork/image title that invokes fictional figures in connection with Bonaventure and social-media tagging (TikTok hashtags) that frame the cemetery as 'haunted.' These mentions do not include dates, witnesses, or investigative data and thus cannot be treated as verified paranormal reports based on the provided sources. Because the available sources emphasize literary and popular-cultural associations rather than documented supernatural incidents, the cemetery's folkloric and tourist reputation as a haunted place is acknowledged in social media and creative works but remains unsupported by primary paranormal evidence in the supplied materials.