North Carolina's Paranormal Places, Scary Stories, & Local Haunts
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With its wooded mountains, industrial history, and wide, sweeping bluffs, North Carolina is a surprisingly haunted state, an ideal site for lingering ghosts and bumps in the night. While many visitors flock to the esse Quam Videri State for pulled pork barbecue, pristine beaches, and towering mountains, it’s also rich in hauntings, and perfect for a ghost tour. In the Appalachian mountains, you’ll find a Vanderbilt mansion with spooky hidden passageways; in Cape Lookout, you can take a ferry to a long-forgotten island village, home only to ruins and specters. And beneath the waters of the state’s largest man-made lake, you may just find a monster to rival that of Loch Ness. Below, we’ve collected the state’s best, spookiest, most haunted sites home to hidden histories.
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