Haunted Places & Local Legends

[GOE]

Everyone has grown up hearing those stories about the most haunted place in town. Every state and every town, no matter how small, has it's own ghostly legends and haunted places. What about you? Tell about your own local legends and haunted places here.

[Chaotic Beauty]

These are just a few of our supposed local haunts, I reside in North Carolina. I really don't know how many of these are "real", but then again it's kinda hard to prove any haunting is truly "real"


Blowing Rock - The Green Park Inn Hotel - A room on the 3rd floor of the Hotel is reported to be haunted by a woman who died there years ago. She has also been reported seen walking on the 3rd floor. I have walked on the 3rd floor and just get shivers up my back. You can feel something in the air.

Boone - Appalachian State University - East Hall - East Hall is one of the dormitories for the college and is said to be haunted.  Student assistants have reported being followed by unknown footsteps when on their rounds after midnight.  People have also claimed that the lights will suddenly turn off in halls and you can feel someone brush against you.  You can also hear whispering voices in the hallway. The third floor new bathroom is haunted by a male ghost, though it is a girls' bathroom. Also assorted residents have reported seeing a girl dressed in white in their rooms and others have had small items in their rooms rearranged daily.

Boone - Perkinsville Dr. - When turning at the Hardies intersection in Boone near Lowes Foods, Go to the second road on the right, just past the gas station.  The road is Perkinsville drive, follow the road to the last house on the left, you have to look hard.  The house is hidden by trees and over growth.  This house is so haunted, you're guaranteed to experience something every time you go, day or night.  Supposedly a man died due to un-natural causes and haunts that house.  Mostly footsteps are heard, a strong feeling of non-welcome, and an angry banging on the up stairs floor.   - December 2003 Update: Has burnt down

Boone - Tiwanna Fatz Restaurant - Tiwanna Fatz restaurant was  active with people for some time before it partially burnt down, there was a little girl who died in the fire. The part of the restaurant was rebuilt. Rumor has it that if you stay in the area that burnt down you will sometimes occasionally hear the little girls' voice.  

Brown Mountain (near Grandfather Mountain)- The Brown Mountain lights appear along the ridge of the mountain, moving erratically. They are best seen from a distance; they disappear as you climb the mountain. No one knows what they are, but the sightings have gone on for so long that the Cherokees who inhabited the area have stories about them.  

Brown Mountain - Blue Ridge Parkway - At two different places on the blue ridge parkway you can see the brown mountain lights. There are two stories to this one. 1) Its said that there was a war between two different Native American tribes. At night when it was safe the women would go out and look for there husbands with big bright torches but they were killed to so now they keep looking forever. 2) It was winter and a little girl had gone missing her father looked and looked for her she died and he died and to this day he continues the search.  Brown mountain has no homes or roads built on it you cant even go on the mountain so that makes it a truly haunted place scientist have tried figure out what¬ís going on for hundreds of years and many people have seen these lights year after year.

[I have personally been here and have yet to see the lights, but have seen images of them.]

Gastonia - Brookside elementary - Strange noises from the woods on the Auten Rd. side have been reported several times as well as sightings of movement from inside the school late at night.

Gastonia - Lincoln Academy - Lincoln Academy used to be a all girls school one night a gang of boys took a girl who went to school there tied her up to a oak tree, then raped and disemboweled her. some say if you go there do not stop on the bridge because your car will turn off and not start. Plus reports of   a presence felt late at night  and smoke going in a left and right direction instead of a up motion.

Gastonia - Spencer Mountain - There is a mansion located at the end of the road. It was built in the late 1700's. No one has ever lived in the house. This lady that owned Pharr yarns built it for her grandson. He died shortly after she built it. Since he died she said no one could live in it. The town has since tried to make it a haunted house and the proceeds go to the local fire department. Rumor is 2 men and a woman haunt it. People that work upstairs have seen and heard stuff to where they have ran out the house white as a ghost and breathing as though someone was trying to kill them. They have reported seeing a woman upstairs holding a baby's head in one hand and another head in the other. People have been going downstairs and heard someone following them and turned around to see no one. Also reports of pictures in one of the upstairs room just fall off the wall as if someone was knocking them off. - Fair Warning, you most likely will be charged to go though it.

Hickory - Alice M. Raeford Memorial Center - Doorways seem to disappear after you pass through them and you can hear fleeting whispers and see shadows and mists out of the corner of your eye. And reports of being pushed by unseen hands.

Hickory - Crown Cinema VI - The movie theater is now closed, but when working many strange things have happened. Film would be going just find in the projectors and would suddenly be lose inside the machine. Shadows and apparitions have been seen.

Lenoir - Chapel Of Rest - In early 1900's the present preacher had caught his wife cheating on him and he couldn't deal with the grief. So that coming Saturday he decided to commit suicide, by slitting his wrists and hanging himself from the rafters, off the front pew.  On Sunday morning, the congregation of the church came in to find their preacher dead.  To this day you can go up there and see the blood stain on the floor and the indentions on the rafters along with the scratches on the pews, from the hard soled shoes he was wearing.  At night people say you can see him swinging and there is a Bible at the podium that will tell you when, where, and how you will die!

Lenoir - Lenoir Aquatic and Fitness Center - A ghost of a little boy that has been heard in the main hall crying, "Mommy" in the early morning and in the late afternoon. . People have heard weights dropping, people talking, and music playing in the middle of the night .

Lenoir - Mulberry Home Care - After dark a ghost of a little girl comes out and she moves things around and messes with the computers. She'll unlock doors and leave them open. The custodian has taken the light bulb out of the socket several times but somehow the next morning it will be in and on.

Lenoir - South Caldwell High School - has two ghosts.  One is from a guy who was building the elevator and he fell.  The elevator goes up and down late at night when the accident happened.  The elevator opens and closes and goes up and down for or five times at night.  Also the theater has a ghost that was a student but she died when she was rehearsing for a play.  Now before opening night of any play she causes allot of mischief with the set, lights, and props.  She has caused allot of black outs and such right before opening night.

Marion - East McDowell Jr. High School- in the early 1900's a orphange sat on the lot where East McDowell Jr.High sits now it burned to the ground and some of the children who lived at the orphanage died in the fire. At night now you are supposed to be able to hear the children crying in the back parking lot, and the library is haunted by the supervisor of the orphanage who also died in the fire you can see her on the upstairs balcony of the library .- April 2007 Correction: A teacher at East McDowell Junior High school reports: True, there was an orphanage there, named Elhanan. It was an orphanage and Bible training institute. It did indeed burn to the ground in 1928. The problem with your story is that it was closed in 1927.  It had been closed and abandoned for a year before it burned.  There were no children inside. In fact, there was no one at all. It was just an old abandoned building that burned to the ground.

Marion - Pleasant Gardens Baptist church - A women is supposed to haunt Pleasant Gardens Baptist church. Students who attended Pleasant Gardens Elementary school have reported a women dressed in pink walking down the road with a knife the following day after someone put pink flowers on her grave.

Morganton - Broughton Hospital - At night when the house supervisors make their rounds through the parts of the hospital that no longer house patients each one has reported seeing various ghost. Tunnels and dark corridors have been sealed due to these reports. Often these ghost can be heard screaming in supposedly unoccupied wards. Hear doors slamming on T and U Wards during the night but after checking all patients were sleeping.

Morganton - The Deaf School - Main Building - There is a woman who killed in about 1850-1900. She always walk thought longest hall and stopped and looked at mirror and brushed her long hair if students saw her she will disappear quickly...she wear very white dress and her hair is light red/
brown...

Morganton - The Deaf School - Main Building - Clock Tower - A hazy figure in the shape of a girl was seen moving slowly across the doorway.

Morganton - Drexel Heritage PLT 3 and 5 - Night watchmen claim over the years you can see an older man sweeping and cleaning up upstairs in PLT 3 in the hallways.

Morganton - Western Carolina Center -  every morning on third shift a meal cart can be heard coming down the hall into Evergreen Cottage and the Medical Care Unit.  You can hear the cart getting closer and closer, but it never appears.

Newton - Old St. Pauls Church - In the 1800's an escaped slave was shot on the balcony by his slave master. To this day the blood of the slave is on a pew on the balcony where he was shot. Several people have reported hearing the organ of the church playing late at night.
Oak Ridge - Oak Ridge Military Academy - Apparitions of a solider in a civil war solider's uniform has been reported. The school was opened in 1856. At one time the school had to be closed because many of its boys did go off to war. Many of which did not return.