Haunted Places in Polk County, North Carolina



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    The Lodge on Lake Lure

    Lake Lure, North Carolina

    10.2 miles from Polk 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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    The 1927 Lake Lure Inn and Spa

    Lake Lure, North Carolina

    11 miles from Polk 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

    15.9 miles from Polk 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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    New Salem Church Cemetery

    Taylors, South Carolina

    16.7 miles from Polk 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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    Caroleen Broad River Bridge

    Ellenboro, North Carolina

    20.8 miles from Polk County, NC

    Some locals say if you drive past the bridge on rainy nights, you may see the apparitions of two elderly ladies walking. They are believed to be the spirits of two sisters who were killed when they drove off the side of the bridge. Some say if you give them ...

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    Calvary Episcopal Church

    Fletcher, North Carolina

    22 miles from Polk 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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    Mountain Brew Cafe

    Arden, North Carolina

    24 miles from Polk 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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    Spartanburg Methodist College

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    25 miles from Polk 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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    Converse College

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    26.5 miles from Polk 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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    Evans Building

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    26.6 miles from Polk 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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    Warren Wilson College

    Swannanoa, North Carolina

    27.6 miles from Polk 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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    Devenger Road Bridge

    Greer, South Carolina

    28.5 miles from Polk 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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    Reed House - Biltmore Village Inn

    Asheville, North Carolina

    28.6 miles from Polk 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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    Clifton Mill No. 2

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    28.8 miles from Polk County, NC

    Clifton Mill No. 2 was a textile mill built in 1888 and demolished in 2013. When the abandoned buildings still stood here, folks claimed they were haunted. Reports came in of the sound of ghostly footsteps and doors that were suddenly flung open by something unseen.

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    Biltmore-Oteen Bank Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    29 miles from Polk 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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    The Biltmore Estate

    Asheville, North Carolina

    29 miles from Polk 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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    Midnite Rodeo Club

    Asheville, North Carolina

    29.2 miles from Polk 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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    Children's Graveyard - Duncan Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery

    Greenville, South Carolina

    29.3 miles from Polk 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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    South Asheville Colored Cemetery

    Asheville, North Carolina

    29.4 miles from Polk 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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    Foster's Tavern

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    29.4 miles from Polk 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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    Chain Gang Hill Road

    Spartanburg, South Carolina

    29.6 miles from Polk County, NC

    Victims of the infamous local murderer the Gaffney Strangler are said to haunt Chain Gang Hill Road. The girls' voices can be heard moaning and screaming along this stretch.

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    Smith-McDowell House

    Asheville, North Carolina

    29.7 miles from Polk 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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    Helen's Bridge - Zealandia Bridge

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.1 miles from Polk 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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    Church Street

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.5 miles from Polk 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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    Barley's Taproom and Pizzeria

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.5 miles from Polk 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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    Asheville City Hall

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.5 miles from Polk 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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    Jackson Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.6 miles from Polk 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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    Pond Road

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.6 miles from Polk 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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    First Presbyterian Church

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.6 miles from Polk 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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    The Historic S & W Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.7 miles from Polk 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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    Pritchard Park

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.7 miles from Polk 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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    Thomas Wolfe Memorial

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.7 miles from Polk 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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    Miles Building

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.8 miles from Polk 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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    Chicken Alley

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.8 miles from Polk 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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    Scandals Nightclub

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.8 miles from Polk 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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    Battery Park Hotel

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.9 miles from Polk 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

    30.9 miles from Polk 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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    1889 WhiteGate Inn and Cottage

    Asheville, North Carolina

    30.9 miles from Polk 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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    Merrimon and Broadway

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31 miles from Polk 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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    Craven Street Bridge

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31.2 miles from Polk 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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    Cairn Brae - Crooked Oak Mountain Inn

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31.5 miles from Polk 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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    Isis Restaurant and Music Hall

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31.5 miles from Polk 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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    Grove Park Inn

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31.6 miles from Polk 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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    Waneta Street

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31.7 miles from Polk 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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    Riverside Cemetery

    Asheville, North Carolina

    31.7 miles from Polk 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

    31.9 miles from Polk 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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    Highland Hospital Site

    Asheville, North Carolina

    32 miles from Polk 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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    Northside Grill and Bar

    Asheville, North Carolina

    32.3 miles from Polk 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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    Lewis Memorial Park

    Asheville, North Carolina

    32.4 miles from Polk 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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    Embassy Suites

    Greenville, South Carolina

    32.5 miles from Polk 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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    Beaver Lake

    Asheville, North Carolina

    33 miles from Polk 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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    Old Hester Store

    Easley, South Carolina

    33.6 miles from Polk 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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    Church of the Redeemer

    Woodfin, North Carolina

    33.7 miles from Polk 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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    Fletcher School of Dance

    Woodfin, North Carolina

    33.7 miles from Polk 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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    Vance Birthplace

    Weaverville, North Carolina

    34.4 miles from Polk 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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    Inn on Main Street

    Weaverville, North Carolina

    36 miles from Polk 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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    Three Bridges Road

    Powdersville, South Carolina

    39.7 miles from Polk 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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    Pickens County Museum

    Pickens, South Carolina

    40.9 miles from Polk 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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    Inn At Merridun

    Union, South Carolina

    49.3 miles from Polk County, NC

    The Inn at Merridun is haunted by friendly ghosts, former residents T.C. and Fannie Duncan, who leave pennies as housewarming gifts. Their rose-scented perfume and cigar smoke can be detected when the ghosts are around. Another haunt in residence is Mary Anne Wallace, sister of a former owner, whose apparition ...

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    Brown Mountain Lights

    Lenoir, North Carolina

    50.7 miles from Polk County, NC

    It is said that the ghostly orbs that come out of the mountains are the spirits of Cherokee Indian maidens searching for their lost loves. The ghost lights are reported to date back to the 1200, when a big battle claimed the lives of many Indian warriors. The area also ...

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    John D. Long Lake

    Union, South Carolina

    51.1 miles from Polk County, NC

    John D. Long Lake is the spot where Susan Smith killed her children by strapping them into her vehicle and rolling it into the lake, claiming her kids were kidnapped by a carjacker. Folks who have visited the monument erected to them here claim to have heard children's laughter and ...

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    Balsam Mountain Inn

    Sylva, North Carolina

    52.7 miles from Polk 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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    Juxa Plantation - Gregory Plantation

    Union, South Carolina

    55.1 miles from Polk County, NC

    Juxa Plantation, formerly the Gregory Plantation, is no longer an inn but a private residence. Original owner Jehu Gregory was once said to haunt the place. His ghost was seen most often in the on-site family cemetery. But so the tale goes, after the repair of some tombstones, Jehu never made ...

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    1859 Cafe

    Hickory, North Carolina

    55.8 miles from Polk County, NC

    The 1859 Cafe was believed to be haunted by the friendly ghost of a blonde woman in a long white dress. Actually built in 1859 as a home and a general store, the house was the setting for apparitions that appeared in the bathroom mirror or in photographs, and flickering ...

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    Western Carolina University - The Moore Building

    Cullowhee, North Carolina

    56.9 miles from Polk 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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    Lydia Mill Ruins

    Clinton, South Carolina

    58.9 miles from Polk County, NC

    Dating as far back as the early 1900s, Lydia Mill, now in ruins, had housing on-site for its employees. Now a headless female ghost roams the premises, seen around the railroad tracks or in the mill building.

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    Pharr Mansion

    Lowell, North Carolina

    59.7 miles from Polk County, NC

    One afternoon I took my nephew by the mansion as he loved haunted things. I pulled in to the driveway at the end of the street and he got out and walked around the house (I remained in the car). When he got back he stated that he wanted ...

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    Chiquola Club Hotel

    Anderson, South Carolina

    60.1 miles from Polk 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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    Anderson Muncipal Business Center

    Anderson, South Carolina

    60.3 miles from Polk 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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    Cry Baby Bridge

    Anderson, South Carolina

    62.5 miles from Polk County, NC

    One of the most famous cry baby bridges in the state, the iron construction still sits alongside a modern concrete bridge connecting two sides of the county. Passer-by's claim to have seen a lady in a white dress on the old bridge, looking for someone. She vanishes when approached. (Submitted ...

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    Thomas Divide Overlook

    Cherokee, North Carolina

    62.9 miles from Polk 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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    Lees-McRae College - Tate Dorm

    Banner Elk, North Carolina

    63.2 miles from Polk County, NC

    Lees-McRae College, specifically Tate Dorm, has a ghost called Emily. According to reports, 12-year-old Emily Draughn died of tuberculosis in the 1930s inside Tate Dorm, which was then Grace Memorial Hospital. Witnesses say Emily plays pranks like turning electrical things on and off or causing phones to ring. She has ...

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    Green Park Inn

    Lenoir, North Carolina

    64.6 miles from Polk County, NC

    This 1880s inn is said to have a haunt on its third floor. Witnesses say the ghost of a woman who died here in recent years has been seen walking through the third-floor hallways.

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    Glidewells - Tijuana Flat's

    Blowing Rock, North Carolina

    65 miles from Polk County, NC

    Glidewells was once a Tijuana Flat's. The Mexican eatery partially burned down, and a little girl perished in the blaze. Since the restaurant was rebuilt, the little girl's ghostly voice was occasionally heard in the building.

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    Chester Little Theatre

    Chester, South Carolina

    67.1 miles from Polk County, NC

    Perhaps as early as 1913, Chester Little Theatre was known as the Dreamland Theatre. Sometime in its long history, something must have happened to render it a hot spot for supernatural activity: Witnesses here claim to have seen apparitions and heard strange noises.

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    Appalachian State University - East Hall

    Boone, North Carolina

    70.2 miles from Polk County, NC

    At Appalachian State University's East Hall dorm, students will tell of strange footsteps, whispers, lights that suddenly turn off, and a feeling of something unseen brushing against you. The third-floor girls' bathroom is haunted by a male ghost, and the apparition of a girl in white has been seen in ...

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    Bethabara Baptist Church Cemetery

    Cross Hill, South Carolina

    70.3 miles from Polk County, NC

    Bethabara Baptist Church Cemetery is home to the ghost of a Civil War soldier whose marker cross glows about three times per year. The cross also is said to inexplicably change color several times a year.

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    Molly's Rock Picnic Area

    Newberry, South Carolina

    71.1 miles from Polk County, NC

    At Flag Lake (which is no longer a lake, by the way), Molly’s Rock is rumored to be a hot spot for the strange and unexpected. Reports say on a nearby hill stands a cemetery that has an entire row of grave markers for deceased who committed suicide. Witnesses visiting ...

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    General Morgan Inn

    Greeneville, Tennessee

    71.5 miles from Polk 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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    Hawley House Bed and Breakfast

    Jonesborough, Tennessee

    72.1 miles from Polk 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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    Historic Eureka Inn

    Jonesborough, Tennessee

    72.1 miles from Polk 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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    Rock Presbyterian Church Cemetery

    Greenwood, South Carolina

    72.6 miles from Polk County, NC

    Rock Presbyterian Church Cemetery is an old graveyard where folks say disembodied singing is heard, white mists or figures materialize, and blue spots are said to appear in the house adjacent.

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    Newport Memorial Building

    Newport, Tennessee

    74.6 miles from Polk 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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    Newberry College

    Newberry, South Carolina

    75.4 miles from Polk County, NC

    At Newberry College's Keller Hall, a woman committed suicide by jumping from the bell tower during the Civil War era. She was distraught over the death of her boyfriend in the war. Witnesses have heard phantom screams coming from the tower and seen the woman's apparition up there as well. ...

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    West End Cemetery

    Newberry, South Carolina

    76.1 miles from Polk County, NC

    The Bride Of West End is said to haunt West End Cemetery. She's an apparition of a melancholy bride who has been seen sitting in trees, standing near her grave, or walking in the nearby fields. Rumor has it she has been waiting long years for her lover to take ...

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    Abbewood Bed and Breakfast Inn

    Abbeville, South Carolina

    76.8 miles from Polk County, NC

    This elegant bed and breakfast inn is rumoured to date back to the civil war era, and is supposedly haunted by a soldier who hanged himself in the attic. Guests who have stayed in the inn report feeling cold spots in the attic, and have felt an eerie presence. ...

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    Southern Oaks Inn

    Lavonia, Georgia

    78.8 miles from Polk County, NC

    The Southern Oaks Inn was originally a home built by Charles P. Ray in 1918, who died here in an upstairs room, and that's who the current owners believe haunt the place. Apparitions of a man and woman have been seen, and strange footsteps have been heard. Reports from workers ...

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    Georgia Guidestones

    Dewy Rose, Georgia

    83.2 miles from Polk County, NC

    The Georgia Guidestones, known as "American Stonehenge," is a granite monument consisting of six astronomically aligned slabs inscribed in four ancient languages: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs. The origin of the structure is a bit of a mystery, perhaps leading to the opinion that the place may be ...

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    Fairfield County Courthouse

    Winnsboro, South Carolina

    87.4 miles from Polk County, NC

    The Fairfield County Courthouse has a ghost, that of Mary Ingleman, aka the Witch of Winnsboro Courthouse. It all started in 1792, when folks were accusing each other of being witches. Mary, along with others, was accused, beaten and tortured by the townsfolk. When she reported the incident to authorities, ...

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    Fairfield County Museum

    Winnsboro, South Carolina

    87.5 miles from Polk County, NC

    Fairfield County Museum is housed in a former 1832 home. It is said to be haunted by two soldiers' ghosts, and an apparition of an elderly lady has been seen as well. Witnesses also have reported unexplained noises, footsteps, and extension cords that moved along the ground by themselves.

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    Bethesda Church and Cemetery

    Morristown, Tennessee

    89.3 miles from Polk 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)