Search Results for "Rutherfordton, North Carolina"
Searching near: Rutherfordton, North Carolina, United States of America within 50 miles
Found 72 haunted location(s)
Old Jail
Long ago, there was a man hung at the old jail. He maintained his innocence and proclaimed that if he was executed, he would come back to haunt the town. After he was hung, his shadow could be...
Train Station
Apparently, a in the old days, 2 trains somehow caught the same track and collided head first into one another and killed all the passengers. It is said now that the trains can still be heard late...
Gilboa Church
Supposedly, a group leaving church had been run down by a train. The tracks run directly in front of the church. At night one can see lights in the graveyard. Also, Daniel Keith, the man whose...
Caroleen Bridge
When you drive by the bridge on rainy nights you can see two elderly sisters trying to walk home. These two sisters where killed in an auto accident when they where nearing the bridge and ran over...
Whit-Mar Inn
On the Pottsville Pike north of Reading. The ghosts of an old woman and an Indian have been spotted peering from the windows. The old lady's ghost would slam doors shut, turn the lights off and...
Pleasant Gardens Baptist church
A women is supposed to haunt Pleasant Gardens Baptist church. Students who attended Pleasant Gardens Elementary school have reported a women dressed in pink walking down the road with a knife the...
Blast Cemetery
During clear nights, about at midnight, you can hear gunshots and cannons going off. You can't see it but you can hear it, look back out in a few minutes and there will be people fighting and...
Fire Department
The Cowpens Fire Department was being built in late 1989 and early 1990. A Lieutenant for the department whose actual name was Robert Lee would come by the new fire house everyday and take...
Helens Mt
On Helens Mt supposedly there was a fire and this lady was burned and they buried her there and if you go out at night and call Helen 3 times supposedly a fire ball will come flying out and do...
Kadesh Church
For years people have been hearing organ music coming from inside the church when no one is inside.
Leroy's Bridge
In the 60's a serial killer named Leroy Martin murdered several women in Gaffney, SC. Dubbed "The Gaffney Strangler", Leroy dumped the bodies of his victims in various locations around the county....
T-Bridge
it is said that if you run across the t-bridge with out stoping a car will come behind you with no one in it. it is also been said that if you stand there for 10 minutes you will see an old lady...
Broome high school
Many teachers at Broome high school have told the story of a construction worker that helped build the school and had to bring his daughter to work with him one day. They were on the newly...
the Tanning Yards
Reports that a mischievous ghost is supposed to be out there.
TB Hospital
Recently Torn Down - Originally a sanitarium for people stricken with the disease. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people died within its walls. Strange occurrences have been reported.
Western Carolina Center
every morning on third shift a meal cart can be heard coming down the hall into Evergreen Cottage and the Medical Care Unit. You can hear the cart getting closer and closer, but it never appears.
Chain Gang Road
When you go down on the Old Chain Road you can here voices of girls moaning and screaming. These girls were the victims of the Gaffney Strangler.
Spartanburg Methodist College
Willard Dormitory - Supposedly a student jumped out a window in Willard Dormitory and died on. Many people say that they see him walking the halls very late at night and he has also been seen...
Converse College
Hazel B. Abbott theatre - resides the ghost of Miss Hazel. She is not too friendly. You definitely feel a cold presence, and if you sit in her seat, you will be haunted for a while. People have...
The Deaf School
Main Building - There is a woman who killed in about 1850-1900. She always walk thought longest hall and stopped and looked at mirror and brushed her long hair if students saw her she will...
Evans Building
The Evans Building was originally a black high school, and later was turned into an office building. There is still a basketball court there, where from the upper balcony you can hear the squeaks...
Lyman Lake
They say back in the old days around Lyman lake that there was a party there and a girl got raped and killed down there. If you go out there around like 12:00 at night you can hear a girl...
Old Hwy 25 North
Northern Greenville County near the state line. Old rock bridge that used to be the only roadway between Greenville and Asheville. The bridge is closed to auto traffic but is road side and...
New Salem Baptist Church Graveyard
General sense of foreboding there. Lights seen moving about in the graveyard, voices from the field of tall grass next to it. Temperature drops near the graveyard. Unusual sounds in the nearby...
Broughton Hospital
At night when the house supervisors make their rounds through the parts of the hospital that no longer house patients each one has reported seeing various ghost. Tunnels and dark corridors have...
Draytonville
every once in awhile people see this white dog on Carson Drive, but that doesn’t seem to scary until it stands on two legs and comes at you. This thing whatever it is was first spotted 6 years...
Blacksburg Middle School Gym
In 1980 a girl basketball player for the school hung her self after a game they had won. Some of the teachers and students have witnessed her ghost staying late at school. Also during football...
Cherokee Falls Bridge
Booger Jim lives under the bridge. He died on the bridge in 1979 when he was hung over the side of the bridge with jumper cables by his crazy wife Becca at around 9:00 P.M. If you call his name 3...
Cherokee Falls
Down in Cherokee Falls near Blacksburg there is a thing no one knows what he is but everyone who has seen him calls him "Booger Jim". he will haunt you if you go down in Cherokee Falls on the side...
Foster's Tavern
Sounds of horse hooves on the roof, voices and footsteps on the stairs have been heard.
Oak Grove
during the time of the revolutionary war a tavern was located at a crossroads' now the intersection of Oak Grove and Stoney Point roads, the legend is that a British soldier carrying stolen plans...
Warren Wilson College
Several locations on campus are haunted , Bannerman computer lab, the chapel, the old well on suicide ridge (although the name has nothing to do with an actual death), and one of the teacher...
Jackson Building
You can see a face in one of the top windows, thought to be the face of a man who committed suicide after loosing everything during the great depression.
South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind
Haunted by the ghost of Martha Walker. Walker was the tough, stoic woman who took over running the school for a few years during the Civil War. Her ghost is said to still roam the halls of the...
Rock House Rd.
There is an old tale of the history of Rock House Rd. The road runs alongside the King's Mountain Battle Ground. Rock House Rd. got its name from a rock house that was constructed in the early...
Shiloh
Abandoned Forestry Compound - There is a building in the compound which has all the windows boarded up. The downstairs consists of a long dark hallway with doors alternating on either side. In one...
home to Channel 13 WLOS
It is said to be haunted by a servant when the building was home to Dr. Samuel Westray Battle. The ghost's name is Alice and is said to walk around the building and play with the TV equipment. She...
Reed House
the sounds of pool being played can be heard.
The Biltmore Estate
Back in 1914, George W. Vanderbilt died from complications from a surgery he had for appendicitis. His wife was extremely upset. So late at nights, in the Library, she would sit in front of the...
Billmore House
People claimed to have seen a small child haunting the attic of the house and the owners also claimed to have heard crying and laughing through the walls at night. They also say that they hear...
Tryon Elementary School
Sights of boys reflection in 4th and 5th Grade bathroom mirror beside one of the girls. Blond hair Blue eyes Red & Blue raggedy shirt and tan capris.
Helens' Bridge
recently torn down and rebuilt - When the Zalandia Castle caught fire; a woman named Helen lost her only child. A daughter. Helen was so crushed by the loss she hung herself from the bridge right...
Kings Mountain State Park
Numerous reports of "ghostly" men upon horseback riding through the historic battleground section of the park. Personal investigation has found knocking on the doors of the public restroom; two...
Chicken Alley
The legendary ghost of Dr. Jamie Smith, who lived at this infamous Asheville locale known as "Chicken Alley" over a century ago. For decades, countless sightings of his ghost have been reported....
Old Battery Park Hotel
It's said that in a private apartment building in downtown Asheville which used to be known as the Battery Park Hotel in the early to mid 1900's, apparitions can be seen very early in the morning....
The Grove Park Inn
There is a lady dressed in pink that haunts this Inn. You can see her and hear her late at night. Several guests and employees have had several encounters with her. She is known to tickle toes at...
Old Toomsbaro Hotel
Weird lights and noises can be heard and seen late at night. When the hotel was undergoing restoration, it was said that things would be moved around or just... disappeared.
Lincoln Academy
Lincoln Academy used to be a all girls school one night a gang of boys took a girl who went to school there tied her up to a oak tree, then raped and disemboweled her. some say if you go there do...
Lincoln Academy
Lincoln Academy was an all black school at the base of Crowder’s Mountain. The school is no longer standing but the story behind the area is a girl driving home to Atlanta was carjacked by two...
White Wolf Road
Near Kings Mt. St. Park - "White Wolf Hollow"- Two things have happened there. The first is a Klan killing of a black man and his white wife. People have seen the girl in her white dress there....
Blue Ridge Parkway
At two different places on the blue ridge parkway you can see the brown mountain lights. There are two stories to this one. 1) Its said that there was a war between two different Native American...
Linville Gorge
lights have mysteriously appeared for years... There are two legends associated with these lights, one is they are the spirit of an Indian maiden who is in search of her brave that never returned...
Lincoln County
Boger City - Strange noises coming from the woods behind an old church.
Old Tuberculosis Hospital
Update: also known as Devil's Castle - Has since burned down - Reports of footsteps that break into a run, then screams, on the first floor. On the third floor feelings of being pushed accompanied...
Erwin High school
Potter’s Field - In the nineteen-seventies when the new Clyde Erwin High school was built just outside Asheville, the remnants of what was called the Old County Home Graveyard was dug up to make...
South Caldwell High School
has two ghosts. One is from a guy who was building the elevator and he fell. The elevator goes up and down late at night when the accident happened. The elevator opens and closes and goes up and...
Embassy Suites
Lights turn on and off at random. Doors fly open. During construction (Which was halted for almost 2 years when investors pulled, after staying on the grounds and then leaving abruptly.) many...
Crown Cinema VI
The movie theater is now closed, but when working many strange things have happened. Film would be going just find in the projectors and would suddenly be lose inside the machine. Shadows and...
Children's Graveyard
A graveyard behind Hickory Point gas station near Furman U., mainly for children. Tombstones range from the late 1700's to late 1800's. Lights, laughter, running sounds. - May 2008 Additional Info...
NHC
NHC is a care facility for the elderly. So apparently many of elderly folks have passed away at this facility. One night while workers were on night shift one of the staff saw a ghostly white...
Mulberry Home Care
After dark a ghost of a little girl comes out and she moves things around and messes with the computers. She'll unlock doors and leave them open. The custodian has taken the light bulb out of the...
Old Hwy 321
Numerous reports of an apparition known as "the gray man". Those who have seen him say he has no face. People that lived in the Brookwood neighborhood years ago say that the man has appeared...
Old St. Pauls Church
In the 1800's an escaped slave was shot on the balcony by his slave master. To this day the blood of the slave is on a pew on the balcony where he was shot. Several people have reported hearing...
Brookside elementary
Strange noises from the woods on the Auten Rd. side have been reported several times as well as sightings of movement from inside the school late at night.
Route 107
this is a ghost of a young man named Larry Stevens (commonly known as The Hitchhiker) who's plane crashed on Route 107 during the 1950's. People have seen a man on dark and rainy nights walking...
Hester Store
An African American was hung in the back of the old store in an oak and it is said you can still see him hanging at night. Also, in the top window, you can see an old lady rocking in her chair.
Lenoir Aquatic and Fitness Center
A ghost of a little boy that has been heard in the main hall crying, "Mommy" in the early morning and in the late afternoon. . People have heard weights dropping, people talking, and music playing...
Tanglewood Middle School
In the 1950s, after the schools construction, a girl was killed in the Girls Locker Room. From legends told you can see a dark shadow slamming the girls locker room door, many people have saw this...
Spencer Mountain
Pharr Mansion - There is a mansion located at the end of the road. It was built in the late 1700's. No one has ever lived in the house. This lady that owned Pharr yarns built it for her grandson....
John D Long Lake
this is the location where Susan Smith rolled her car in the lake with her children strapped in. after the car was recovered with the children's bodies, people went down to look & a memorial was...
Lockhart Water Tower
This is the legendary story of the lady in white who jumped off the tower in the early 1900's. It has been said and seen that a woman wearing a white dress with a rose in her mouth stands and...
Sleepy Hollow Rd.
It has been known that, ever night around midnight, a civil war soldier, with his arm cut off, stands on the side of the road, crying out for help.