Post by Eikon on Jan 10, 2008 0:33:00 GMT -4
Hi,
I recently noticed that the haunted locations database in our articles section could use a little work. I've also seen that many of our members are posting good topics about hauntings and it would be a shame not to compile all of this information in one place. I am going to start the list, if you have something to contribute, please post the name of the location below with a short description if possible. Together we can assemble an up to date resource that will be helpful to all NC hunters.
Note: Submissions don't have to be confirmed as haunted, just places of interest will do.
Emerywood House - High Point
Homes for sale in the Emerywood section of High Point rarely stay on the market long. Stately houses with decades-old character that just happen to be in the choicest of neighborhoods are a prized commodity.
For more than three decades one Emerywood house, however, has repeatedly been on the market. Rarely has anyone called it home for more than a few nights.
At least no one who is living.
I wrote about this house five years ago when an electrician told me about his unnerving experience of working in the basement of the two-story stucco-and-stone house.
The electrician, like so many others in the neighborhood, had heard stories of the otherworldly activity in the house. Homeowners awakening to the sound of pots banging in the empty kitchen at night. After overcoming the stone-cold terror of investigating the noise, the homeowners would find knives standing on pointed end in the floor.
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Gravity Hill, High Rock Road
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Gravity Hill, Richfield Road
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Gravity Hill, Near Welcome, Davidson County
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The Satan Church - Matthews
For those who don't know about it, it is right beside the children's hospital that can be found roughly behind the Best Buy and Car-Max. There is a black iron gate that is sometimes open during the day. If you go back there, the road forks, and there is a barn to the right, and at the very back, a house with a lake that has stairs leading down into the water. The rumor is that on Halloween, they pour gasoline on the water to set it on fire, then they perform a ritual where someone walks down the stairs and into the water, supposedly opening up a portal to somewhere.
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Davis Hospital - Statesville
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Goat Farm Road
In North Carolina off of Baton school road is a grim place known as goat farms road. Named not after goat farms. For on goat farms road, there are no goat farms. The name came from the hanging of goats and chickens on the road. The road holds many mysteries. Like the dissapearing house. Visible at night, but can't be found at day. The old bridge where a young drove off. Now ever car that passes the bridge breaks down and never makes it across. But yet the greatest of all. The baseball feild. At night you can witness a black figure take run across the feild and into the woods. The baseball feild holds many mysteries. For it is the meeting ground of the satanic cult that inhabits goat farms road. People still leave there today. Though most off the roads have been blocked off.
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Rock House, Stokes County
During the Revolutionary War period (1775-1783) the situation in the area that was to be Stokes County presented three distinct problems: first the British, second the Indians who had been encouraged by the British to step up their actions against the settlers, and lastly were the Tories (British Loyalists).
Squads of local militia under the command of Joseph Winston, Jack Martin, and Matthew Moore were responsible for keeping the Tories, Indians and British from this region. Visitors can visit the ruins of Revolutionary War hero Colonel Jack Martin’s 3-story home, The Rock House. The site once served as mustering ground for local militias in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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Cone Manor, Blowing Rock
Moses Cone made a fortune as an industrialist in the North Carolina Piedmont, married Bertha, and later visited the mountain area and fell in love with it. He began buying up land around what is now the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Blowing Rock. Cone built the manor as a summer retreat, often employing the very people whose land he had bought.
Cone didn’t get to enjoy the manor for very long, as he died at a relatively young age. Bertha lived on for several decades, and willed the land to Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC, which then deeded it to the National Parks Service. The manor is now operated as a crafts center, but some say that the previous owners haven’t entirely given up their claim.
According to one story, Moses Cone’s body was disinterred by a would-be thief. Rumor had it that Cone was buried with some jewelry, and that may have been what the thief was after. One version of the story is that Bertha herself found the body at the gravesite on the hill beyond the manor. The body was said to be propped up against the large tombstone by thieves angered by not finding any jewelry.
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I recently noticed that the haunted locations database in our articles section could use a little work. I've also seen that many of our members are posting good topics about hauntings and it would be a shame not to compile all of this information in one place. I am going to start the list, if you have something to contribute, please post the name of the location below with a short description if possible. Together we can assemble an up to date resource that will be helpful to all NC hunters.
Note: Submissions don't have to be confirmed as haunted, just places of interest will do.
Emerywood House - High Point
Homes for sale in the Emerywood section of High Point rarely stay on the market long. Stately houses with decades-old character that just happen to be in the choicest of neighborhoods are a prized commodity.
For more than three decades one Emerywood house, however, has repeatedly been on the market. Rarely has anyone called it home for more than a few nights.
At least no one who is living.
I wrote about this house five years ago when an electrician told me about his unnerving experience of working in the basement of the two-story stucco-and-stone house.
The electrician, like so many others in the neighborhood, had heard stories of the otherworldly activity in the house. Homeowners awakening to the sound of pots banging in the empty kitchen at night. After overcoming the stone-cold terror of investigating the noise, the homeowners would find knives standing on pointed end in the floor.
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Gravity Hill, High Rock Road
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Gravity Hill, Richfield Road
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Gravity Hill, Near Welcome, Davidson County
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The Satan Church - Matthews
For those who don't know about it, it is right beside the children's hospital that can be found roughly behind the Best Buy and Car-Max. There is a black iron gate that is sometimes open during the day. If you go back there, the road forks, and there is a barn to the right, and at the very back, a house with a lake that has stairs leading down into the water. The rumor is that on Halloween, they pour gasoline on the water to set it on fire, then they perform a ritual where someone walks down the stairs and into the water, supposedly opening up a portal to somewhere.
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Davis Hospital - Statesville
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Goat Farm Road
In North Carolina off of Baton school road is a grim place known as goat farms road. Named not after goat farms. For on goat farms road, there are no goat farms. The name came from the hanging of goats and chickens on the road. The road holds many mysteries. Like the dissapearing house. Visible at night, but can't be found at day. The old bridge where a young drove off. Now ever car that passes the bridge breaks down and never makes it across. But yet the greatest of all. The baseball feild. At night you can witness a black figure take run across the feild and into the woods. The baseball feild holds many mysteries. For it is the meeting ground of the satanic cult that inhabits goat farms road. People still leave there today. Though most off the roads have been blocked off.
-
Rock House, Stokes County
During the Revolutionary War period (1775-1783) the situation in the area that was to be Stokes County presented three distinct problems: first the British, second the Indians who had been encouraged by the British to step up their actions against the settlers, and lastly were the Tories (British Loyalists).
Squads of local militia under the command of Joseph Winston, Jack Martin, and Matthew Moore were responsible for keeping the Tories, Indians and British from this region. Visitors can visit the ruins of Revolutionary War hero Colonel Jack Martin’s 3-story home, The Rock House. The site once served as mustering ground for local militias in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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Cone Manor, Blowing Rock
Moses Cone made a fortune as an industrialist in the North Carolina Piedmont, married Bertha, and later visited the mountain area and fell in love with it. He began buying up land around what is now the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Blowing Rock. Cone built the manor as a summer retreat, often employing the very people whose land he had bought.
Cone didn’t get to enjoy the manor for very long, as he died at a relatively young age. Bertha lived on for several decades, and willed the land to Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC, which then deeded it to the National Parks Service. The manor is now operated as a crafts center, but some say that the previous owners haven’t entirely given up their claim.
According to one story, Moses Cone’s body was disinterred by a would-be thief. Rumor had it that Cone was buried with some jewelry, and that may have been what the thief was after. One version of the story is that Bertha herself found the body at the gravesite on the hill beyond the manor. The body was said to be propped up against the large tombstone by thieves angered by not finding any jewelry.
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