The Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is a courthouse in west-central Alabama. It is famous for a ghostly image that can be seen in one of its windows, claimed to be the face of Henry Wells, who allegedly was falsely accused of burning down the town's previous courthouse and was lynched in 1878.
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