North Carolina
The Lost Children’s Cries on Crybaby Lane — Rural Hall, NC
By day, Crybaby Lane looked like any other narrow road in the old folds of North Carolina: two ragged shoulders, a seam…
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Southern Ghost Stories
The Southern States are south of the Midwestern States and the Middle Atlantic States. There are fourteen Southern States. They are West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Stories from Southern Ghost Stories
North Carolina
The Phantom Lanterns of Brown Mountain — Morganton, NC
By dusk, the Blue Ridge had folded itself into layers of bruised velvet, one ridge laid over another like the wings of…
North Carolina
The Ballad Still Echoes in the Old Wilkes Jail — Wilkesboro, NC
In Wilkesboro, where the hills rise blue and old as bruises against the evening sky, there stands a brick jail that has…
Arkansas
The Phantom Patron in the Opera House Balcony — Concordia, KS
In Concordia, Kansas, where the wind comes walking over the plains with its hands in its pockets and its mouth full of…
Mississippi
The Lantern on Stuckey’s Bridge — Enterprise, MS
There are places in Mississippi where the land has a memory older than courthouses, older than churchyards, older than the names men…
Florida
The Restless Applause of Ybor City’s Cuban Club — Tampa, FL
By day, the Cuban Club in Ybor City looked less like a haunted place than a memory that had learned how to…
Kentucky
The Eight-Sided House Where Civil War Footsteps Still Circle — Franklin, KY
There are houses that sit on the land, and there are houses that seem to have been planted there like iron nails,…
Florida
Moonlit Footsteps at Ashley’s of Rockledge — Rockledge, FL
There are some places that don’t look haunted at first glance. That’s part of their power. They don’t rise up out of…
Georgia
The Lady in Blue of the Marshall House — Savannah, GA
Savannah knows how to keep a secret. It keeps them in the moss that hangs like old lace from live oaks, in…
Tennessee
The Bell Witch of Adams — Adams, TN
If you’ve never been to Adams, Tennessee, you might imagine the place wrong. You might picture a bright little country town with…
Alabama
The Haunting of the Fish Market — Mobile, AL
The town of Havenport - a provincial seafaring sanctuary where taciturn folks eked out living by fishing and trading wares from the…
Alabama
Vengeful Spirits Stalk the Deane House — Calgary, AL
In the heart of Calgary's bustling cityscape stands a monument of another era: The Deane House. A rich but specter-filled history, dappled…