Mount Hope Cemetery

This pre-Civil War cemetery near Dahlonega Square is known for its "slot and tab" box tombs, a grave style found only in a small pocket of north Georgia, southeast Tennessee, and southwest North Carolina. In 1953, town librarian and historian Madeleine Anthony photographed the cemetery and captured what many believe shows several ghostly figures and a strange mist, including a woman in a long dress and a young boy peeking from behind a tree, nicknamed the "Peek-a-Boo Boy" and reportedly seen elsewhere in Dahlonega since. A print of the photo hung for years in the Gold Museum on the town square — pulled after it started drawing more attention than the museum's actual exhibits. Visitors report figures walking among the graves at night.