Eliza Battle – Demopolis, AL

On the banks of the Tombigee River, mostly on late winter nights, you can still see the ghostly outline of the Eliza Battle.  This luxury steamboat caught fire and sank in February of 1858.  As the steamboat drifted out of control down the river, dozens of passengers juped into the ice cold water to escape the fire. There were a hundred plus injuries and at least fifty people were killed.  These days, fishermen consider a sighting of this ghostly ship a bad omen of impending death on the river.  The ship has been seen at the location it sank near Naheola, and at Nanafalia, Tuscahoma, and Yellow Bluff.