The Body In the Well On Tuesday, February 22, 1949, a grey 1947 Chevrolet with a blue top with a sign that read Veteran’s Cab arrived at the Asta Café on Main Street in Jasper. The driver, Earl Holbert, thought it was going to be a short evening. He was right, but not in the way he planned. G. "Earl" Holbert Around 6 p.m. Earl had picked up a passenger at the cafe (inside what is now the Old Mule House building). At 7 p.m. he traveled to Low’s Service Station in Talking Rock and...

In mid-December of 1942, A little over a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Joe Loggins, 31, of Nelson, Georgia, was incarcerated in the Old Jail on Jasper's Main Street. The previous Wednesday, December 16, Joe had gone to his in-law's house in a drunken stupor to confront his wife. He grabbed his youngest daughter Nancy and fled the scene to his brother-in-law's house and an arrest warrant was issued. Later that night Joe was apprehended by the Pickens County Sheriff, Fred Stancil....

The metal jail cells of the Old Jail as seen in the early 80s. Many a ghost hunter have claimed they've encountered spirits of the dead in the Old Pickens County Jail on Main Street in Jasper. Reports and rumors abound of the death of two prisoners hung by the gallows. Official reports emphatically state that no prisoner was ever executed from the gallows during the seventy plus years the jail was operational. And yet, newspapers from the 80s made the claim that two prisoners died of...