The Ghost of Alice Riley and the Legend of Spanish Moss
Traveling to Myrtle Beach from our home in Greensboro was always a magical journey for me when I was a little boy. And one of the first things I looked for once we started getting close to the coast...
View ArticleThe Ghost of Virginia Dare
In 1587 an expedition directed by Sir Walter Raleigh and led by John White attempted to establish the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Originally bound for the Chesapeake Bay, the...
View ArticleCities of the Dead
There is no shortage of spooky graveyards in America, especially in the South, and when it comes to burying the dead no city does it better, and with more extravagance, than New Orleans. High and dry,...
View ArticleThe Haunting of Isabelle Pearl
Deep in the swamps of eastern North Carolina lies the small town of Solomon. Once a thriving factory town with a finishing mill that employed most of the townsfolk, Solomon is now nothing more than a...
View ArticleThe Huguenot Cemetery and the Ghost of Judge Stickney
Founded in 1565, St. Augustine, Florida is the oldest continuously- occupied city in America. Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, St Augustine Florida The city is full of ancient, historic sites...
View ArticleThe Strange Grave of Florence Irene Ford
On the banks of the Mississippi River lies the town of Natchez. Of all the cemeteries in the Deep South, the Natchez City Cemetery holds one of the strangest graves anyone has ever seen – the grave of...
View ArticleLouise The Unfortunate
In a lonely grave in the Natchez, Mississippi city cemetery lies a woman known as Louise the Unfortunate. Her headstone bears no information other than her name, but legend has it she died during the...
View ArticleThe Bell Witch
The haunting of John Bell and his family between the years of 1817 to 1821 stands as one of the most infamous tales of the supernatural ever recorded in the annals of Southern ghost folklore. The Bell...
View ArticleThe broken-hearted ghost of badin lake
Just outside the town of Albemarle, NC, lies 5300-acre Badin Lake. Created in 1917 by the damming of the Yadkin river, Badin Lake reaches depths of over 200 feet and holds in its belly the remains of...
View ArticleThe Lowcountry Boo Hag
Every culture has its superstitions, especially about the dead, and the Gullah people that live along the South Carolina coast are no different. Of all the “Haints” that wander the Southern countryside...
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