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Ghostly Tales From Corpsewood Manor to Chattanooga with Amy Petulla

Ghost Bunny

Bridget Marquardt

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Bridget interviews Amy Petulla, a ghost tour guide and author, who shares the chilling story of the Corpsewood Manor murders, a bizarre true crime case from 1982. The conversation delves into the life of Dr. Scudder, the construction of Corpsewood Manor, and the tragic events that unfolded there. Amy also discusses her transition from law to ghost tours, her personal paranormal experiences, and various haunted locations in Chattanooga, including the Reed House and Chickamauga Battlefield. The episode concludes with a discussion on the supernatural elements of the city and the intriguing presence of vampires in Chattanooga.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Ghost Bunny podcast. I'm your host,get Marquart, with a brand new episode for you guys.

0:23.4

My guest today is Amy Petula. Amy Petula began practicing law in 1986 when David Red Lomeneck hired her as an assistant district attorney.

0:32.8

Amy was a trial attorney for 20 years until she retired and started Chattanooga Ghost Tours, Inc. in 2007.

0:39.1

Amy is familiar with Corpsewood murder case from both illegal and paranormal standpoints.

0:43.4

While she'd written articles before, she began writing books in 2010. And besides the

0:47.9

Corpsewood Manor murders in North Georgia, she has also written Haunted Chattanooga and

0:52.2

ghostly tales of Chattanooga, all published by History Press

0:55.5

Arcadia, and she is currently working on her fourth book, Beyond Corpsewood. She's also written

1:00.4

a play, Life in Hindsight, The Corpsewood episode, which was performed in the 10-minute play festival

1:05.5

at Chattanooga Theater Center in 2004. Amy has a BA in Psychology from Emory University and a JD from the University

1:13.0

of Georgia. And I'm so excited to talk to her today about Chattanooga Ghost Stories and

1:18.0

what the heck is the Corpsewood Murders. Amy, thank you so much for doing the show today.

1:23.5

Thank you so much for having me. I'm looking forward to it. Yes. So I was telling you a little bit about this before the show, but just so the listeners know, when I first contacted you, it was a shout out to one of our listeners, too, because they recommended you. They have done the tour and they're like, you have to have Amy from Chattanooga Amy from Chattanooga Ghost Tour. She has great stories.

1:44.8

So I was like looking you up. I reached out to you. Didn't know anything more than you had a ghost tour company. That was like all that was on my mind. But then I'm like researching and you're sending me your bio and I'm like, wait. Okay, all the Chattanooga ghost story stuff is great because I always love to hear those stories from like a new region that I'm not familiar with.

2:03.6

A lot of times we kind of get... Okay, all the Chattanooga ghost story stuff is great because I always love to hear ghost stories from like a new region that I'm not familiar with.

2:03.6

A lot of times we kind of get stuck in like what's around us or like just really famous location.

2:09.0

So it's really exciting when I find a new area and I'm like, I know nothing about Chattanooga.

2:14.0

I know nothing about their ghost stories.

2:16.3

So that's always really exciting for me. And then

2:19.2

and then I saw all this corpsewood stuff. And I was like, wait, what is this? I've never heard of

2:24.5

the corpsewood Manor Murders before. And then I really went down a rabbit hole researching all

2:31.9

these different articles. And I didn't read your book yet, but I was like reading every article I found online and everything. I didn't read your book yet but I was like

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