For years, visitors at Lewis Memorial Park on Beaverdam Road in Asheville have allegedly seen a ghostly figure on horseback around dusk, accompanied by a large, quiet phantom dog in the older parts of the graveyard. No one knows who the silent figure is, but legend has it that it could be the park’s founder, Robert J. Lewis. Lewis founded the cemetery in the 1920s. To make the sightings even more surreal, people who have witnessed it claimed they hear no sound, footsteps, or hoofbeats as he rides through the grounds.
Written By John G. Clark Jr.
