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Explore 56 haunted places in North Carolina. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
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Pollocksville, North Carolina · Historic house
Local lore at Foscue Plantation House concerns moans from the attic and a staircase stain said to reappear after repainting. Haunted Places connects these motifs to people enslaved at the property. The alleged confinement and recurring-blood explanation are unverified elements of the haunting story, not established historical findings.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina · Castle
The castle grounds are entwined with the Peter Dromgoole legend: a young man supposedly loses a duel over Fanny, and a rock retains his blood. Later tellings place his ghost nearby or have Fanny return in search of him. The actual disappearance inspired the tale; the duel and haunting remain folklore.
Blowing Rock, North Carolina · Hotel
Accounts attached to the former Green Park Inn describe a woman wandering its third-floor corridors. Haunted Places identifies her only as someone said to have died at the inn. This is a story about the historic hotel; surviving accounts do not establish that the same experience continues at the redeveloped property.
Asheville, North Carolina · Hotel
The hotel's own account describes a gentle Pink Lady, associated with a woman in pink said to have fallen into the Palm Court atrium around 1920. Guests and employees have reported sensing or seeing her. In 1996 the inn commissioned Joshua P. Warren to collect accounts and interview witnesses.
New Bern, North Carolina · Hotel
Accounts collected by Haunted Places describe a woman in old-fashioned clothing passing through the former restaurant's dining room and apparently continuing through its walls. Another report concerns a child's laughter with no child visible. The haunting tradition belongs to the Harvey Mansion building, which has changed uses repeatedly.
Asheville, North Carolina · Road or bridge
The stone carriage bridge is the setting for Asheville's Helen legend. Haunted Places retells the story of a mother whose daughter died in a fire and who subsequently died at the bridge. Her lingering apparition is the basis of the bridge's haunted reputation; the personal tragedy remains unverified local lore.
High Point, North Carolina · Other
A night-worker account submitted to Haunted Places describes a tall shadow in a top hat moving through High Point City Hall, sometimes entering a room where nobody can then be found. Other claims concern unexplained elevator trips and an indistinct shape recorded outside the Commerce Street entrance.
Asheville, North Carolina · Hospital
A contributor to Haunted Places associates the former hospital grounds with Zelda Fitzgerald, who died in the hospital fire, and an unnamed young man's spirit. The account also mentions indistinct figures appearing in photographs. These are reported impressions and image interpretations rather than verified identifications.
Asheville, North Carolina · Other
Former employees of Shotzy's Bar in the S&W Building reportedly encountered a girl on the balcony and a waiter-like figure heading toward the kitchen. Haunted Places also records refrigerators opening and closing unexpectedly. These reports belong to an earlier tenant's occupancy and should not be presented as current staff testimony.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina · Historic house
Horace Williams is said to remain in his former Chapel Hill house. Haunted Places attributes to the philosopher a rocking chair moving without a sitter, objects shifting and toilets flushing unexpectedly. The domestic scale of those disturbances defines this story rather than a dramatic apparition or violent historical episode.
Asheville, North Carolina · Other
Asheville lore places an unexplained face in an upper window of the Jackson Building. Haunted Places connects the apparition with a man said to have jumped during the Depression and a pavement marking identified in the story as his landing place. The alleged death is not independently established here.
Huntersville, North Carolina · Historic house
Latta family folklore includes children's voices from an empty attic, a passing shadow and doors that slam unexpectedly. The story collected by Haunted Places also describes a family cane moving as though an invisible person were walking with it. These accounts belong to the historic house now called Latta Place.
Southport, North Carolina · Hotel
A contribution to Haunted Places places a spirit called Lois Jane on the inn's upper floor, laughing or singing when nobody visible is there. One retelling describes a couple waking when their bed shook. The ghost is identified in that tradition as a former sea captain's daughter.
Jamestown, North Carolina · Road or bridge
Jamestown's vanishing-hitchhiker story concerns a young woman returning from a dance who dies after a car crash. Drivers are said to see Lydia in white beside the old bridge, offer a ride and then find she has disappeared. Haunted Places preserves one version; Visit NC documents continuing research into the legend's possible historical basis.
Charlotte, North Carolina · Theater
Blumenthal Arts records staff accounts of an unexplained rolling sound on balcony steps, children's laughter and objects shifting around McGlohon's stage. One technician recalled finding the stage's safety light moved roughly fifteen feet while he worked alone downstairs, despite hearing no footsteps overhead. The venue's own report treats the episodes as unexplained personal experiences.
Raleigh, North Carolina · Historic house
Mordecai House lore identifies a gray-dressed figure as former resident Mary Willis Mordecai Turk. Haunted Places says she is seen at the drawing-room piano, sometimes as a mist over the instrument. The combination of a named family figure and apparently unattended piano gives the house its best-known haunting story.
Jefferson, North Carolina · Other
An account collected by Haunted Places describes a summer intern working alone at the museum in 2010. A telephone rang on the floor above; footsteps then crossed the supposedly empty upper floor as if someone were going to answer it. The report rests on that specific auditory experience.
Concord, North Carolina · Theater
Concord's Old Courthouse Theatre has a suited apparition nicknamed the Deacon, a figure said to dislike musicals. Haunted Places collects stories of footsteps, jingling keys, unexplained singing and lights or spotlights changing on their own. The ghost's nickname recalls the building's former church use.
Fayetteville, North Carolina · Hotel
Fayetteville hotel lore names Charlotte as a restless bride linked with the seventh floor. In the account collected by Haunted Places, she discovers a betrayal during her wedding stay and dies at the hotel; afterward doors misbehave and the elevator reportedly travels to the eighth floor around midnight.
Midland, North Carolina · Other
Reed Gold Mine's folklore includes Eleanor Mills, a woman whose voice supposedly continued after a fatal argument. In the tale collected by Haunted Places, her husband hides her body in a shaft but cannot silence her. The haunting centers on a voice emerging from the mine, with the death story treated as legend.
Asheville, North Carolina · Hotel
At the former Reed House, reports collected by Haunted Places include heavy steps on the back stair and pool balls clicking in an empty room. Balls are said to scatter or turn up elsewhere, while doors in the rooms once called Circus and Lavender open or close without a visible hand.
Asheville, North Carolina · Cemetery
Among the Riverside Cemetery stories collected by Haunted Places are bursts of gunfire and a column of spectral Confederate soldiers crossing the grounds. Some tellers connect the marching figures with the Battle of Asheville. The cemetery is the specific setting; nearby battle sites are not counted as additional locations here.
Fayetteville, North Carolina · Historic house
The central staircase of Fayetteville's Sandford House is the focus of its haunting story. Haunted Places records sightings of a young woman moving up or down the steps, then disappearing. The account presents a repeated apparition rather than a securely identified former resident.
Asheville, North Carolina · Historic house
The house's reported spirits include two girls called Carrie and Sarah and a darker figure nicknamed the Dark One. Haunted Places also collects accounts of a misty form, an unseen touch in the basement, sudden cold and voices addressing visitors by name.