One day in 1985, chaperoning an after-school program took Imhotep inside the Wren’s Nest, once home to Joel Chandler Harris, known for collecting fables featuring perennial trickster Br’er Rabbit.

The Wren’s Nest is located at 1050 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard Southwest in Atlanta. Good Day Atlanta’s Paul Milliken is never one to turn down a chance to go ghost-hunting, ...