We are staying in Western North Carolina for this next ghostly tale in the small community of Dillsboro, near Cherokee. The intersection heading to Dick’s Creek, approximately a mile or so from town, is the site of a deadly carriage accident in the early 1800s. Legend says that on a warm August evening, a school…
Old St. Paul’s Church and Graveyard
Old St. Paul’s Church and Graveyard in Newton, North Carolina, dates to the early 1800s and is considered one of the oldest churches west of the Catawba River. The cemetery predates the church, with grave markers dating to the 1700s. Local legend says that the grounds are believed to be haunted by the spirit of…
The Bostian’s Bridge Ghost Train
On August 27, 1891, a deadly train wreck in Statesville, North Carolina, resulted in twenty-two deaths from falls or drowning. The passenger train was heading to Asheville from Salisbury between 2:30 and 3:00 a.m. when it approached Bostian Bridge, a sixty-foot-high arch bridge off Buffalo Shoals Road, jumping the rails and plummeting into the creek…
The Ghostly Legend of the Pactolus Light
This North Carolina legend is the only train track haunt that does not involve a train smashing over a head or even an actual train. In the early 1900s, a young man rode his horse from Greenville to Pactolus to surprise his fiancée as she got off the train. Sadly, the man never made it…