Haunted Places in Haywood County, North Carolina



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    Balsam Mountain Inn

    Sylva, North Carolina

    10.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    This early-1900s inn has two haunted rooms: 205 and 207. There are logs in the room where guests can write about anything strange that occurs during their stay. Folks have reported footsteps, jiggling doorknobs, unexplained noises, and other sounds of someone making a racket in the hallway.

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    Thomas Divide Overlook

    Cherokee, North Carolina

    15.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Night-time visitors to this overlook area off the Blue Ridge Parkway (near mile marker 464) often claim to see strange, glowing lights in the sky. No one has yet been able to definitively explain the source or reason for these lights.

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    Western Carolina University - The Moore Building

    Cullowhee, North Carolina

    20.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    As rumor has it, in the mid-1960s a student was murdered after she refused a man's amorous advances. She now is said to haunt the third floor, crying, screaming and pacing. The man was caught and served a few years in a mental hospital, but then was released. He passed ...

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    Pond Road

    Asheville, North Carolina

    21.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The locals may tell you that Pond Road has a ghost dog, seen near the quarry. First, you hear the phantom black hound howl, and then he appears, trotting. Next he starts to run, leaps, and disappears.

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    Isis Restaurant and Music Hall

    Asheville, North Carolina

    21.9 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, formerly Pastabilities Restaurant, is housed in the historic 1930s Isis Theater. One of the ghosts here is Susie, a former owner's little girl who passed away. One time, a restaurant patron's young daughter was having a lively chat with someone unseen, and when asked whom ...

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    Church of the Redeemer

    Woodfin, North Carolina

    22.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Church of the Redeemer, built in 1888 with two Tiffany windows, was originally the family chapel for a nearby mansion. The mansion has since burned down. According to witnesses, a female apparition has been spotted coming down the stairs of the sloped cemetery in back. She then crosses Riverside Drive ...

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    Craven Street Bridge

    Asheville, North Carolina

    23.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The ghost on the Craven Street Bridge is said to be a naked boy's apparition. Legend has it he drowned when he jumped off the bridge to take a swim in the river below.

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    Riverside Cemetery

    Asheville, North Carolina

    23.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Riverside Cemetery has more than 13,000 graves, including authors Thomas Wolfe and William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) and influential politician Zebulon Baird Vance. Witnesses have heard gunfire and seen a phantom Confederate army marching here, perhaps toward the site of the 1865 Battle of Asheville, fought a mile away on ...

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    Asheville Seasons Bed and Breakfast

    Asheville, North Carolina

    23.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Grace is the ghost who haunts this early-20th-century establishment. She is the relative of a former resident here, and she is most active in her own room. Grace's dog has been seen here as well. Some guests have reported that Grace climbed into bed with them and hugged them.

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    Fletcher School of Dance

    Woodfin, North Carolina

    23.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Fletcher School of Dance is rumored to be haunted by shadowy figures who moved construction workers' tools during a renovation and made odd sounds throughout the building.

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    Highland Hospital Site

    Asheville, North Carolina

    23.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    A mental asylum used to stand on these grounds, but in 1948, a fire destroyed the property; nine died including the former wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda. It is believed that the casualties could have been zero, but the patients were drugged and locked in their rooms awaiting further ...

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    Waneta Street

    Asheville, North Carolina

    23.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    A 1920s unsolved murder along Waneta Street centered on two women who were beaten to death. The killer's apparition has been seen carrying the murder weapon, a sort of pipe or club.

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    Scandals Nightclub

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Scandals Nightclub, which began in 1982, is a dance club for the LGBT community. It is haunted by an apparition of a Native American woman who is also blamed for unexplained lighting issues.

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    Smith-McDowell House

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Smith-McDowell House, built in 1840, is said to be haunted by two little girls who died in the building, named Carrie and Sarah, as well as a specter called the Dark One, who is believed to be the spirit of a slave owner. Witnesses have captured photos of a ...

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    Battery Park Hotel

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Although it was a hotel from the early- to mid-1900s, this building now has been renovated into apartments. Apparitions have been reported here; it is said that a man was murdered on the hotel premises and liked to materialize for the hotel employees.

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    Basilica of St. Lawrence

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Basilica of St. Lawrence is said to be haunted by architect Rafael Guastavino, who was buried there in 1908, and his wife and daughter. A priest who died in the building is also thought to reside here in spirit. Witnesses report cold spots, apparitions, orbs and lights and ...

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    Miles Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The 1901 Miles Building was a gentlemen's club originally, and is now used as an office building. In an office for the Mountain X-Press, according to reports, a ghostly arm in a white long-sleeve shirt appears reaching toward a desk, then vanishes. The sound of a squeaky desk chair is ...

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    Pritchard Park

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Pritchard Park is inside the triangle formed by Patton Avenue, College Street and lower Haywood Street. Ghostly Confederate soldiers are said to linger here, as this was a staging area during the Civil War. It also used to house the city's post office.

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    Beaver Lake

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Beaver Lake is home to the spirit of a young man who drowned here in the 1970s, according to local lore. His ghost is seen on the lakeshore. A female apparition also has been spotted standing on the dam and looking down into the water. She is thought to be ...

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    The Historic S & W Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Historic S & W Building used to house Shotzy's Bar, where employees said a couple of ghosts hung out. A spectral girl appeared on the balcony, and a phantom waiter walked down the hall toward the kitchen. Coolers were known to open and close on their own as well. ...

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    Merrimon and Broadway

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    James Sneed and James Henry were convicted of stealing a horse and hanged at this crossing in 1835, although they claimed to be innocent. Now, the phantom sounds of horse hooves, a wagon, and a gallows trap-door are heard here.

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    Church Street

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Church Street is said to have been built overtop old churchyard graves, causing a restless spirit or two to appear. One is a nun, and the other is a woman in old-fashioned garb who seems to be looking for something.

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    First Presbyterian Church

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    First Presbyterian Church was built in 1841 but was burned in 1865, during the Civil War. The churce was rebuilt in its present Gothic style in 1884. Although author Thomas Wolfe's funeral was held here, it is not his spirit who walks the halls. She is called Black Abbey, an ...

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    Barley's Taproom and Pizzeria

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    In the area where Barley's now stands, a massacre took place in 1906 when Will Harris shot and killed five people, including two policemen, and then killed himself. To add to the eerieness, the town gallows once stood nearby as well. Folks say the taproom is home to several spirits ...

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    Jackson Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The 15-story Jackson Building is a tourist attraction and the first skyscraper in western North Carolina. It's ghostly inhabitant is said to be a man who committed suicide during the Depression. The man's face appears in one of the upper windows, and reports say there is a bulls-eye on the ...

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    Thomas Wolfe Memorial

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Old Kentucky Home, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, was the home of the renowned writer and featured in his autobiographical novel "Look Homeward, Angel." The place has a couple of spirits in residence: those of a woman and a man. The woman's apparition has been spotted in the dining room; the ...

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    Chicken Alley

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Chicken Alley is a narrow lane named for the fact that chickens used to hang out there in the city's much younger days. It even has a chicken mural, painted by local artist Molly Must. Legend has it the alley is haunted by the ghost of Dr. Jamie Smith, in ...

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    1889 WhiteGate Inn and Cottage

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    1889 WhiteGate Inn and Cottage is said to be haunted by Marion Bridgette, or Miss B., the nurse who bought the house in 1928. Her room was what is now the Robert Frost Room. Floating orbs have been photographed, footsteps have been heard on the stairs, lights click off and ...

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    Asheville City Hall

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    One of the many men who committed suicide after the stock market crashed is said to still remain in the Asheville City Hall. The man's apparition wears old-fashioned clothes and has been spotted waiting in line at the snack bar. He isn't really noticed until he vanishes, frightening the employees ...

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    Midnite Rodeo Club

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The building that used to house nightclubs Coolworld and the Midnite Rodeo Club (now closed) is a century-old warehouse complex that is said to have a ghost in residence. A blurry gray form has been spotted in a hallway on security cameras or walking across the dance floor toward a ...

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    The Biltmore Estate

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The famous Biltmore Estate was owned by George W. Vanderbilt, died from complications of appendicitis in 1914. Afterward, his wife would sit in front of the marble fireplace in the library and talk to George's spirit. Now, witnesses say you can still hear her voice talking, and both spirits are ...

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    Northside Grill and Bar

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Northside Grill and Bar, which reports say now operates as Appalachian Tavern, used to have apartments on the second floor where a tenant committed suicide. Now, folks say, patrons have reported uneasy vibes and at times have spotted a shadowy figure that walks across the room.

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    Biltmore-Oteen Bank Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Biltmore-Oteen Bank Building, most recently used for The Melting Pot restaurant, stood abandoned since the flood of 2004. But a ghost from the early part of the 20th century is said to still linger here. The apparition of a man, witnesses say, seems to be looking for something that has ...

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    Reed House - Biltmore Village Inn

    Asheville, North Carolina

    24.9 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The inn was originally built as the Reed House in 1892. There have been many spooky occurrences here, such as one night in thw 1970s when heavy footsteps were heard climbing the back stairs late at night, but no one was there. Another time, after folks were laughing and scoffing ...

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    South Asheville Colored Cemetery

    Asheville, North Carolina

    25.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    South Asheville Colored Cemetery is where African Americans were buried for about a century, beginning in the 1840s. As few records were kept, it is uncertain how many people were buried here, but estimates guess from 1,500 to as many as 5,000. Witnesses here have reported dark, shadowy figures along ...

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    Helen's Bridge - Zealandia Bridge

    Asheville, North Carolina

    25.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Zealandia Bridge, aka Helen’s Bridge, was built in 1909 as a carriageway for the Zealandia Estate. It was mentioned in a passage of Thomas Wolf's "Look Homeward, Angel," as the novelist used to frequently walk under the bridge. Its ghost, Helen, is believed to have been a woman who lived ...

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    Grove Park Inn

    Asheville, North Carolina

    25.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    At this 1913 inn, you may come across a ghostly lady in pink. She is the wife of renowned writer Fitzgerals, and is known to tickle guests' toes at night. She has been spotted by both guests and employees. Room 545 is said to be particularly haunted with slamming doors, ...

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    Inn on Main Street

    Weaverville, North Carolina

    25.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Inn on Main Street is rumored to be haunted. Doors have been heard opening and closing on their own, pictures have been heard falling off walls, although the fallen pictures were never found.

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    Cairn Brae - Crooked Oak Mountain Inn

    Asheville, North Carolina

    25.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    "Cairn Brae" was listed in Sheila Turnage's "Haunted Inns of the Southeast", but it appears that a new B&B is on the premises now called "Crooked Oak Mountain Inn". We don't currently have any details on the nature of the haunt here, but if you know anything please share ...

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    Lewis Memorial Park

    Asheville, North Carolina

    25.9 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Lewis Memorial Park is a cemetery where eerie apparitions are said to roam. A ghost horse and rider and a phantom dog are seen here; the rider is thought to be a funeral director, Robert J. Lewis, who donated the land for the cemetery in 1927.

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    Mountain Brew Cafe

    Arden, North Carolina

    26.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Mountain Brew Cafe is no longer in operation, reports say. But its building may still be haunted by many ghosts. One, according to local legend, is the spirit of a woman who was murdered on the second floor. Witnesses inside the restaurant often heard footsteps on the stairs when nobody ...

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    Calvary Episcopal Church

    Fletcher, North Carolina

    28 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The grounds near Calvary Episcopal Church are known for being a favorite "haunt" of the Phantom Rider of the Confederacy. This ghost is a woman with long blonde hair on a palomino seen near the road, then she gallops away quickly. She wears a Confederate cape and a filmy dress, ...

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    Vance Birthplace

    Weaverville, North Carolina

    29.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance (1830–1894), a Confederate Civil War officer, governor, senator, and writer, is a five-room log house. Vance was a passionate speaker and leader, and a prominent figure in his time. Perhaps spirits of the deceased are still drawn to the charismatic Vance: Ghostly men and ...

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    Warren Wilson College

    Swannanoa, North Carolina

    30.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Warren Wilson College, a private liberal arts college, is part of the Work Colleges Consortium. Students must work for the college as part of their schooling, in order to graduate. Buildings rumored to be haunted here include Jensen Lecture Hall, where vacuum cleaners turn off, lights flicker, unexplained clanking is ...

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    Newport Memorial Building

    Newport, Tennessee

    30.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    In 1971 there was a plane crash on a mountain in Parotsville Tennessee. Limbs were scattered everywhere and no survivors were ever found. While waiting for the bodies to be identified they were housed in the Cocke County Memorial Building. Among the bodies were many small children. Many ...

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    Cabin On Roaring Fork

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee

    30.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    This cabin is over 200 years old. The cabin seems to be occupied by the ghost of a woman. The website address is: CabinOnRoaringFork.com The number of paranormal events are too numerous to mention, but here are a couple: One family decided to go by a fast food restaurant to get ...

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    Rocky River Motel

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee

    31.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    We have lived at this motel for three weeks. In that time, we have had two incidents where there was a clear and loud knock at the door, but when we opened it there is no one anywhere in sight. Our wall clock sometimes runs backwards. My girlfriend clearly saw ...

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    Garden Plaza Hotel - Holiday Inn Sunspree

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee

    31.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    This hotel building has more than its share of haunts. A man is said to have committed suicide in Room 471, and a reflection of his ghost is said to be seen in the nearby windows, walking around the pool at night. A Boy Scout troop leader is said to ...

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    Rocky Top Village Inn

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee

    31.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    A multiple murder that occurred a couple decades ago is the source for this building's haunting, locals say. So the harrowing story goes, the back office was the site where two workers were brutally killed for a reason still unknown. Witnesses have heard the screams of the victims and seen ...

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    Mysterious Mansion

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee

    32 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The mystery of the Mansion involves a sobbing spirit. Locals tell the tale of a 7-year-old girl who died when she fell off the balcony into a creek below. Her ghost is said to appear around the anniversary of her death, crying and pointing up to the spot from which ...

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    Family Inn

    Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

    35.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Folks say a shadowy form watches over you at this inn. The ghost is said to belong to an elderly woman who was killed here while she was working late.

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    Little Greenbrier Lodge Bed and Breakfast

    Sevierville, Tennessee

    38.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    According to the locals, the friendly ghost of Margretta Craig haunts this 1939 bed-and-breakfast. The room where she is most often seen is dedicated to her, and the owners display photographs of her in her room. The ghost is said to do nice things like close the door behind you.

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    LeConte Lodge

    Sevierville, Tennessee

    38.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    In the early hours of morning, guests staying the lodge have reported awakening to see a young girl standing at the foot of their beds, who disappears when she is seen. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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    Tennessee Mountain Inn - Econo Lodge

    Jefferson City, Tennessee

    42.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Once the Tennessee Mountain Inn but now reported to be an EconoLodge, this place is the home of a ghostly little girl. She has been seen on the balcony or in the hallways by guests and employees alike, and they say she is very sweet and friendly. Who she is ...

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    General Morgan Inn

    Greeneville, Tennessee

    42.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    This historic hotel is said to be haunted by a ghost named Green Room Grace. Grace was a waitress at the hotel long ago, and she is said to be playful and fun. She loves spoons, and has been known to snatch them from The Green Room, the hotel's restaurant, ...

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    The 1927 Lake Lure Inn and Spa

    Lake Lure, North Carolina

    43.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The historic inn has been visited by such celebrities as novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and presidents Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1940s it was used as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers. It is now rumored to be the home of many haunts. Staff members report hearing a ...

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    Poinsett Bridge

    Travelers Rest, South Carolina

    44.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The 1820 Poinsett Bridge, named for Joel Roberts Poinsett, was is one of the oldest in the state. It has a 14-foot Gothic arch and is no longer in use, and is rumored to be haunted. Folks say the ghost of a slave who was once hanged here may let ...

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    The Lodge on Lake Lure

    Lake Lure, North Carolina

    45.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The 1937 lodge began as a retreat for highway patrolmen and their families and a memorial to highway patrolman George Penn, who was shot and killed on the job. It was opened to the public in 1990. Rumor has it that the ghost who resides here is none other than ...

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    Wheatland Plantation

    Sevierville, Tennessee

    45.9 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Wheatland Plantation, located off of Boyd's Creek Highway in Sevierville, is an 1820 Federal Style home that was constructed around a large geode by a Freemason. The property has seen more than 70 murders and deaths within its walls, while the grounds bore witness to battles of both the ...

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    York House Inn

    Rabun Gap, Georgia

    48.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    York House Inn is Georgia's oldest continuously operating Inn, since 1896. All manner of living, births and deaths have taken place in the ensuing 120 years. It has been rumored by various employees that a Civil War soldier smokes cigars in one room and several children play in the Inn. ...

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    Glenmore Mansion

    Jefferson City, Tennessee

    48.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Before the death of local historian Thomas Roach, he remarked that if a ghost was sighted at the mansion, it might just be of him. Ever since, visitors have noted a friendly presence and a misty apparition on the lower floor of the mansion. People have also reported sighting a ...

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    New Salem Church Cemetery

    Taylors, South Carolina

    48.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    At the New Salem Baptist Church Graveyard, visitors have reported unexplained moving lights, voices, temperature anomalies, eerie feelings, touches from something unseen, and other strange phenomena.

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    Pickens County Museum

    Pickens, South Carolina

    49.2 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Pickens County Museum of Art and History, formerly the county jail, is said to be home to the ghost of a boy named Willie Earle who calls out in anguish, "I didn't do it!" So the story goes, in 1944 Willie was blamed for killing a cab driver when, ...

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    Bethesda Church and Cemetery

    Morristown, Tennessee

    49.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The apparitions of restless Confederate soldiers are seen inside and outside the church building. They are aggressive towards visitors to the cemetery. The apparition of a weeping woman has been seen on the far side of the cemetery. Her cries are often heard late at night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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    Old Hester Store

    Easley, South Carolina

    52 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Old Hester Store was built in 1893 by William Hester and is now taken care of by the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation and Pickens County Historical Society. It is said to be haunted by the ghost of an African-American man who was hanged in the back of the ...

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    Children's Graveyard - Duncan Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery

    Greenville, South Carolina

    54.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Duncan Chapel Methodist Church, built in the 1850s, has a cemetery known as the Children's Graveyard. The road to get there is across from a McDonalds. Apparently the cemetery is older than the church, as the dates on the gravestones are said to range from the late 1700s to the ...

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    Millenium Manor House

    Alcoa, Tennessee

    57.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The manor was built during the early 20th century, and the owner and his wife believed that as long as they worked on the property, they would never die. They eventually passed away, but many believe that their spirits still linger on the property. People have reported hearing disembodied footsteps ...

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    Historic Eureka Inn

    Jonesborough, Tennessee

    58.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    At this historic inn originally built in 1797 an used as a boardinghouse and sequester house for jurors, witnesses have reported seeing shadowy ghost figures and hearing unexplained footsteps and voices.

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    Hawley House Bed and Breakfast

    Jonesborough, Tennessee

    58.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The inn has seen a lot of changes and additions over the years, but the original building is from 1793. It is said to be haunted by the spirits of "ladies of the night" who may have worked here in the past. Witnesses have heard their voices on the second ...

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    Three Bridges Road

    Powdersville, South Carolina

    59.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Three Bridges Road is known to ghost enthusiasts as the place where Eloise, a Civil War-era slave, roams. So her story goes, Union soldiers killed Eloise's master nearby, and the distraught slave woman was reluctant to leave her master's body. When soldiers found her there mourning his death, they killed ...

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    Devenger Road Bridge

    Greer, South Carolina

    62.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Local legend tells us that one Halloween night, a woman and her kids were killed on the Devenger Road Bridge when their car was hit by a truck. The woman had stopped the car to retrieve something from her trunk. Now folks say the woman's ghost will push you backward ...

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    Embassy Suites

    Greenville, South Carolina

    62.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Many strange things can be said about this location of Embassy Suites. According to witnesses, lights turn on and off at will, doors come flying open by themselves, and during a period of construction when the electricity was disconnected, lights came on during the night. In addition, the golf course ...

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    Baker Peters Mansion

    Knoxville, Tennessee

    66.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The mansion, now Baker Peters Jazz Club, is said to be haunted by Abner Baker, a former resident of the 1840 building. The mansion was inhabited by Dr. Baker's family and several wounded Confederate soldiers whom he was helping during the Civil War. When the Union learned Dr. Baker was ...

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    Spartanburg Methodist College

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    70.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Spartanburg Methodist College is home to a ghost of a student who committed suicide by jumping out a window. Witnesses have seen his apparition in the halls or standing by the window from which he jumped.

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    Rotherwood Mansion

    Kingsport, Tennessee

    71.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    This mansion built in 1818 by the Reverend Frederick A. Ross is said to be the home of a ghostly Lady in White. So the legend says, she is Ross's daughter Rowena, and she is looking for her love who was drowned in nearby Holston River. It is said that ...

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    Gwendolyn's House

    Elizabethton, Tennessee

    71.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The early 1900's building is haunted by the ghost of a woman in white, who has been standing at windows, looking out across the valley. The apparition of a black dog has also been seen running through the hallways and in the basement of the house. An aggressive entity has ...

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    Evans Building

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    72.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Evans Building was Frank Evans High School in the 1920s but is now the Evans Academic Center of Spartanburg Community College. Not only can footsteps be heard in the hallways, but witnesses say late at night on the old basketball court, you can sometimes hear the dribbling and sneaker ...

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    Converse College

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    72.9 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The late-1800s Converse College has a few haunted buildings, including the Williams Dorm, said to have a ghostly boy near its laundry room who will play catch with a ball, and Hazel B. Abbott Theatre, haunted by Miss Hazel herself. The Wilson Hall has a ghost with red eyes, and ...

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    Chiquola Club Hotel

    Anderson, South Carolina

    75.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The apparition of a nun in a habit has been by staff and guests on several occasions throughout the hotel building. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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    Piedmont College

    Demorest, Georgia

    75.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    At Piedmont College, an orange-outlined ghost is said to roam the Getman-Babcock Dormitory, usually in the lobby. Also seen here is a ghostly little girl in a blue dress. Witnesses have reported the door handle turning on its own in the laundry room as well.

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    Anderson Muncipal Business Center

    Anderson, South Carolina

    75.4 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The origin of the haunting within this building is unknown, but staff working late hours claimed to have seen a shadowy figure materialising and disappear throughout the entire edifice. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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    Foster's Tavern

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    75.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Foster's Tavern is housed in a historic brick gabled building from the early 1800s. Strange sounds have led folks to believe that the tavern may be haunted. Witnesses have heard horses' hooves on the roof, footsteps on the stairs, and voices.

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    Grant Lee Hall

    Harrogate, Tennessee

    80.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The historic Grant Lee Hall dormitory building at Lincoln Memorial University was once part of a hotel, which caught fire in 1904, killing a woman and her child on the fourth floor. Her ghost has been seen in a red dress, including one day in the 1950s when the building ...

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    Stonepile Gap

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    84.5 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Stonepile Gap may look like a pile of stones, but there is much more to these rocks than meets the eye. As legend tells it, these rocks mark a grave of a Cherokee woman named Trahlyta who was told to drink from a nearby spring (Porter Springs), and (depending on ...

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    Virginia Intermont College

    Bristol, Virginia

    85.3 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Reports say Virginia Intermont College may have ceased operations in May 2014, but if it truly is haunted, a ghost probably wouldn't mind. The historic college is rumored to be haunted by a former student named Vera who, as legend tells, became pregnant through an affair with a professor in ...

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    Piazza Italian Restaurant

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    At the Piazza Italian Restaurant, witnesses have seen plates and other items move or fall by themselves and heard a door with a bell on it open and close when no one was around. Disembodied footsteps have been heard here as well.

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    Fred Jones Building

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Former mayor Fred Jones passed away under suspicious circumstances at his Chevrolet dealership, now four stores and a café. He is said to haunt his old building, sitting at the café table right where his old office used to sit. The shopkeepers here have found their locked doors standing open ...

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    Bourbon Street Grille

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Ghost stories abounded when this building housed Gabee’s Cajun Kitchen and the Art Cart. Witnesses heard phantom dishes shatter and disembodied footsteps, and chess pieces moved on their own. At the Art Cart stood a chessboard handmade from gourds, with the pieces made to look like Muslims and Christians. One ...

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    Lumpkin County Courthouse - Dahlonega Gold Museum

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.6 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Dahlonega Gold Museum, inside the 1836 Lumpkin County Courthouse, is haunted by a ghost the staff calls Tommy. He has shown up as a tall figure in a hooded robe, seen on the balcony or through the windows. The stamp mill has inexplicably come on by itself and strange knocking ...

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    Picnic Cafe

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The café, built in 1897 by Colonel W.P. Price, is rumored to be haunted by the Colonel himself. An apparition of a lone figure has been seen, although a psychic has determined that the ghost is a female who stands and waits for something unknown.

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    Back Porch Oyster Bar

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The Back Porch Oyster Bar, in a building constructed in 1993, is said to be haunted. Witnesses have noticed odd occurrences such as a black umbrella that swung deliberately on a hook, all by itself; a psychic reported that the ghost is a woman who likes to play pranks, especially ...

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    Holly Theater

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.7 miles from Haywood County, NC

    Holly Theatre is rumored to be haunted by ghosts who have shown up to watch rehearsals and sometimes play tricks, such as turning lights on and off. One of the ghosts here is believed to be Edwin Booth, a renowned 1800s actor and brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.

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    Historic Worley Bed and Breakfast Inn

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    90.8 miles from Haywood County, NC

    The image of a boy was caught on camera lying in a bed. The ghost was said to be that of Claude Worley who was struck by a train and was brought to this inn, but never recovered. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)

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    Mount Hope Cemetery

    Dahlonega, Georgia

    91.1 miles from Haywood County, NC

    According to a psychic, Mount Hope Cemetery and the areas nearby are a hangout for a group of Civil War veteran ghosts. In fact, in 1953 town librarian and historian Madeleine Anthony took a photograph of the cemetery which is believed to show several ghosts as well as a mysterious ...