Haunted Places in Rowan County, North Carolina

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In the meantime, here's a list of all haunted places within 100 miles of Rowan County, North Carolina.

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Old Courthouse Theatre

Concord, North Carolina

16.2 miles from Rowan County, NC

Old Courthouse Theatre, built in 1922, was originally a Baptist church and is rumored to be haunted. One of the ghosts has been nicknamed The Deacon, an apparition of a man in a dark suit who doesn't care for musicals. Footsteps, moving objects, lights going on and off and moving ...

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Piney Grove Church

Concord, North Carolina

20 miles from Rowan County, NC

Piney Grove Church was established around the turn of the twentieth century and has four ghosts, according to reports. Witnesses have described strange lights, mists, shadows, and photographic anomalies.

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Reed Gold Mine

Midland, North Carolina

24.7 miles from Rowan County, NC

It all started in 1799 when Mr. Reed's son struck gold in Meadow Creek on the family homestead, and Reed Gold Mine was born. It is said to be haunted by Eleanor Mills, a neighbor od the Reeds in the 1800s. Eleanor and her husband Eugene were quarreling when she ...

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Albemarle Opera House

Albemarle, North Carolina

27.1 miles from Rowan County, NC

The early-1900s opera house is rumored to be haunted by ghosts whose footsteps are heard around the theater. Shadow figures also have been seen, and a band has been playing ragtime and other music every fall for more than 80 years.

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Latta Plantation

Huntersville, North Carolina

30.1 miles from Rowan County, NC

The Latta family, the former owners of the plantation, are said to still live here in their afterlife. The historic site is the setting for strange occurrences, like the sound of ghostly children playing in the empty attic or slamming doors. A shadowy figure is seen from time to time. ...

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Alexander Michael’s

Charlotte, North Carolina

33.2 miles from Rowan County, NC

Alexander Michael’s restaurant, open since 1983, is said to be haunted, although reports are unclear as to the exact nature of the hauntings.

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McGlohon Theatre

Charlotte, North Carolina

33.4 miles from Rowan County, NC

McGlohon Theatre was a church in its original incarnation, but was made into a theater later. The ghosts folks say reside here are from its church days, and can be heard walking or singing.

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Dixie's Tavern

Charlotte, North Carolina

33.5 miles from Rowan County, NC

Long said to be one of the most haunted spots in Charlotte but no one seems to know who haunts it or why. In 2013 it was announced that Dixie's would be closing and the land would be made into a park, so it seems it is slated for ...

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Cajun Queen

Charlotte, North Carolina

33.8 miles from Rowan County, NC

Cajun Queen is a Cajun restaurant situated in one of the oldest houses in the area. Its ghost is said to have been a former owner who is annoyed that in her old bedroom now stands a bar. However, others say she shows up because she just wants a drink.

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Kennedy's Premium Bar and Grill

Charlotte, North Carolina

33.9 miles from Rowan County, NC

Kennedy's Premium Bar and Grill is housed in a former farmhouse that's reported to be haunted by ghosts who open and close doors, tinker with the radio, or even show up in the restrooms after the bar is closed.

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Salem College

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

34.8 miles from Rowan County, NC

Salem College began in 1772 as a primary school, then a high school and now a college. It is the oldest women's college in the Southern U.S., and it has the abundance of haunts fitting to such an old institution. For example, the Clewell Dorm is haunted by a little ...

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Brookstown Inn

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

34.9 miles from Rowan County, NC

It is said that for the past two or three decades, guests in many of the rooms here have been awakened by the sound of a female voice calling their name repeatedly or saying "Mercy!" over and over again.

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Queens University of Charlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina

35.7 miles from Rowan County, NC

At Albright, student lore says the ghost of a girl who committed suicide here makes knocking sounds and opens and closes doors. She was said to be distraught over the fact that her parents found out about her relationship with another woman. In the Courtyard area, some say you can ...

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High Point City Hall

High Point, North Carolina

36.5 miles from Rowan County, NC

During "active hours" in city hall, there is not much activity that is reported. But at night, shift workers inside the building, which is secured, have experienced multiple occasions of paranormal activity. The various types of accounts have been listed below and further investigation is on going by ...

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Pharr Mansion

Lowell, North Carolina

40.2 miles from Rowan 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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Lydia's Bridge

Jamestown, North Carolina

41.7 miles from Rowan County, NC

This bridge outside of Greensboro is said to be haunted by a phantom hitchhiker. Lydia was headed home from a dance in the early 1920s, and as her story goes, her date lost control of the car. He was kileld instantly, but she, badly injured, died on the roadside while ...

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Blakeney House

Monroe, North Carolina

45.6 miles from Rowan County, NC

The 1903 Blakeney House has been a private home, several restaurants and now is used for bible and mission training for the company Youth With a Mission. Although the company maintains that the house is not haunted, it is in fact said to be haunted by three ghosts: William Blakeney ...

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1859 Cafe

Hickory, North Carolina

46.5 miles from Rowan 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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Guilford College

Greensboro, North Carolina

47.5 miles from Rowan County, NC

Guilford College is said to have haunts in its 1961 Dana Auditorium. The building is said to stand on the site of a makeshift Civil War hospital where many soldiers died. The oldest ghost in residence is Lucas, a soldier who tends to appear at 2 a.m. in the Moon ...

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Carolina Theatre

Greensboro, North Carolina

50.7 miles from Rowan County, NC

In 1981 a fire broke out in the Carolina Theatre while it was closed and killed a woman. As the woman was not supposed to have been there at the time, it is believed she deliberately set the fire that killed her. People now claim that her ghost ...

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Winthrop University

Rock Hill, South Carolina

56.2 miles from Rowan County, NC

Tillman Hall at Winthrop University has a bell tower, intricate woodwork, and, some say, a haunted fourth floor. Some suppose the spirits may be linked to the old stocks, still housed in the building, that held the prisoners who built the hall centuries ago.

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Devil's Tramping Ground

Bennett, North Carolina

58.4 miles from Rowan County, NC

According to local lore, this area near Bennett is a 40-foot circle in the middle of a forest in which nothing will grow. Legend has maintained, for over a century, that it is the site where the devil himself rises to the surface to wreak havoc on mankind. Reports say ...

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Capt. John Blakeney Cemetery

Pageland, South Carolina

60.7 miles from Rowan County, NC

At Capt. John Blakeney Cemetery, rumor has it that the ghosts of the Blakeney family will sometimes appear to visitors. The family emigrated here from Ireland, and some of its members fought in the Civil War.

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Elon University

Elon, North Carolina

65.4 miles from Rowan County, NC

Elon University is said to be haunted by Mary, who resides in the West Dormitory and is known for talking to students while they're sleeping. Mary also is blamed for swinging light fixtures, footsteps, electrical anomalies, apparitions, and shattering mirrors. According to campus legend, Mary died in the Jan. 18, ...

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Alleghany County Courthouse

Sparta, North Carolina

68.5 miles from Rowan County, NC

Built in 1933, the historic courthouse was constructed to replace the original edifice which was destroyed by the 'Big Fire of 1932'. Visitors to the building nowadays have reported hearing disembodied footsteps on the staircase and the unexplained sound of whistling near the decommissioned prison cells. (Submitted by Callum Swift)

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Chester Little Theatre

Chester, South Carolina

75.3 miles from Rowan 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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Museum of Ashe County History

Jefferson, North Carolina

75.6 miles from Rowan County, NC

It is reported that in 2010 a summer intern here witnessed a ghost. Working alone on the first floor, the intern heard a phone ring on the floor above, and then heard footsteps walking across the floor toward the sound, presumably to answer it.

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Old Ashe County Hospital

Jefferson, North Carolina

75.8 miles from Rowan County, NC

The 1939 building was a hospital until 1969 when it turned into a county office building. Reports say it is currently up for sale. Paranormal investigators have heard unexplained shouts and the elevator dinging, even though there was no electricity in the building.

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John D. Long Lake

Union, South Carolina

81.6 miles from Rowan 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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Juxa Plantation - Gregory Plantation

Union, South Carolina

88.3 miles from Rowan 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 ...