North Carolina Ghosts & Legends

Contents

Contents Preface vii The Ghost Comes for Blackbeard 1 Ocracoke The General's Ghost 15 Fort Fisher The Whaler's Return 22 Shackleford Banks The Unearthly Music of Roan Mountain 39 Western North Carolina Lifesaver of the Outer Banks 46 Outer Banks The Lovely Apparition 55 Near High Point Run ofthe Ghost Train 60 Warsaw The Mysterious Hoofprints at Bath 65 Bath The Fairy Cross 68 Western North Carolina Mountains Music by the Ghost Organ 74 Kadesh Bummer's End 78 Smithfield The Little Red Man 84 Old Salem The Thing at the Bridge 88 Smithfield Devil's Tramping Ground 93 Siler City The Light at Maco Station 97 Wilmington Dromgoole 101 Chapel Hill Ghost of the Old Mine 106 Gold Hill The Battle ofthe Dead 114 Bentonville The Ghost on the Stairs 119 Fayetteville ...