North Carolina Ghost Stories and Legends

North Carolina is filled with stories. Ghost stories, folktales, legends, and just good yarns are part of life in the Tarheel state. We’ve been swapping stories of haunted houses, phantom beasts, devils walking the earth, and other strange happenings since before the state was even a state. It’s a tradition that’s made up of many voices. The Scoth-Irish settlers in the Appalachians, the Palatine immigrants on the coast, the Moravians, the English, the first voices of the Cherokee, the Tuscarora, the Lumbee, and the voices of the African-Americans. All their stories and songs are part of this tradition. This site is dedicated to keeping that storytelling tradition alive.

North Carolina Ghost Stories and Legends is a resource for students, researchers, or anyone interested in a good ghost story. We have stories from the North Carolina Mountains, the Central Piedmont, and from along the North Carolina Coast. Every story presented here has been thoroughly researched. Some of them are true. Some of them are a little less true. But every one of them is a good story that has something to tell us. So jump right to a region or scroll down and pick from our list of stories. Enjoy what you find here, and please continue to pass these stories along.
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