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NC A Special Church, Trust, NC More nfo

NC Baltimore, NC.

NC Belhaven Memorial Museum, YIKES!!!!, Belhaven, NC

NC Climax, NC.

NC Devil's Tramping Grounds, Silver City , NC  More Info

NC Giant Coffee Pot in Old Salem, NC

NC Home of the world's largest Duncan Phyfe Chair ( 13' 6"), Thomasville, NC.

NC Home of the worlds largest Chest of Drawers, High Point , NC

NC Honolulu, NC

NC Minneapolis, NC

NC Photo at Graham County Sheriff's Department

NC Richard Petty Museum, Randleman, NC

NC Shell Service Station, Winston-Salem, North Carolina   A sneak picture

NC The Great Dismal Swamp. A huge concentration of black bears  More Info

NC The World's Largest 10 Commandments, Murphy, NC

NC The Self Kicking Machine, in the parking lot of the Angus Barn, 9401 Glenwood Avenue (U.S. Hwy. 70.  This is some sort of machine that kicks, perhaps itself.  Beats me. You find out.

NC Towns of Climax,Erect, Horneytown, Boogertown, Manly, Wheelless,NC

NC World's Largest Frying Pan, Rose Hill, NC

NC World's Largest Tee Ball , Fort Mill, NC.

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Weird Museums

NC The Marvin Johnson Gourd Museum, Fuguay-Varina, NC

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Mystery Spots

These places have strange powers.   Approach with great caution!

Mystery Hill, Blowing Rock, NC

Mystery House, Cherokee, NC

 

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Haunted Places

Asheville - Reed House - the sounds of pool being played can be heard.

Beaufort - Hammock House - balls of light and blood stains that can't be washed away are observed here.

Charlotte - Founders College - Founders Hall is haunted by a girl whose corpse was sold to the medical school here.

Fayettville - Slocumb House - A young woman in black appears on the steps here.

Chapel Hill - Dromgoole's Castle - There's a legend regarding this strange house not too far from the campus of The University of North Carolina. A man who was in love with a young woman discovered she was in love with a friend of his, so hey had a pistol duel at his house and he was mortally wounded. In his dying moments, he fell on a flat rock that is now stained with his blood to this very day. Student have reported his sad ghost agonizing cries from his fatal wound as well as his girlfriend who died not long after his untimely death.

Jamestown - Jamestown Bridge - On stormy, foggy nights the spirit of a a young girl in a prom dress is seen standing under the bridge as you pass it.  The girl was killed in a car crash on the way from her prom and is still trying to get a ride home but when picked up she always vanishes before reaching her destination.

Asheville - Grove Park Inn - There is a lady dressed in pink that haunts this Inn.  You can see her and here her late at night. Several guests and employees have had several encounters with her. She is said to be the wife of the famous writer Fitzgerald.  You can usually here doors slamming, laughter, and talking from rooms that are not used.  She was said to have fallen from one of the windows and died.

Lenoir - South Caldwell High School - has two ghosts.  One is from a guy who was building the elevator and he fell.   The elevator goes up and down late at night when the accident happened.  The elevator opens and closes and goes up and down for or five times at night.  Also the theater has a ghost that was a student  but she died when she was rehearsing for a play.  Now before opening night of any play she causes allot of mischief  with the set, lights, and props.  She has caused allot of black outs and such right before opening night.

Linville -  Linville Gorge -   lights have mysteriously appeared for years... There are two legends   associated with these lights, one is they are the spirit of an indian maiden who is in search of her brave that never returned from battle... the other is it is the spirit of a faithful slave who is in search of his master who was accidentally wounded while hunting ....whatever they are, they appear nightly in the gorge,with no set pattern ,they weave in and out of the trees until they reach the edge of the river, then they disappear only to reappear in another spot. They are known as the Brown Mountain lights.

Wilmington - Old Maco Station - the ghost of a conductor named Joe Baldwin is said to haunt the Old Maco Station after getting run over by a train on the night of 1867.  People say very time at night a train pulls in Maco Station you can see a figure of a man with a lantern in his hand swing it to make the train stop.

Fayetteville - Railroad tracks - There is this ghost that has been there since 1700's, .its called the Vander Light.   Its a ghost that got killed when was on a train and he went out on the train to smoke a cigarette and the train slammed on brakes and he fell off and it cut his head off and ever since that every time you go down to the railroad tracks there is a lantern and its a ghost looking for his head and if you walk up the tracks and try to get close to it it will disappear and when you turn around its behind you again.

Sparta - Court House -  In the evening and at night voices, laughter, whistling, and footsteps can be heard upstairs in the old jail area.

Ashville -The Biltmore Estate -   is said to be haunted by a lady in black employees report hearing footsteps on the second floor.

Whitevile - Heartbeat Bridge - This bridge waws named Heartbeat Bridge because years ago a murdered woman's heart was thrown into the swamp at the bridge and sounds of a beating heart can be heard there. loud screeching noise then a pop can be heard too.

Whiteville - Old Tram Road - while traveling this road have seen what appeared to be taillights in the distance.They would disappear  and headlight s would show up.  The car was translucent  and no driver was present. . The ghost car will chase you to the end of the road, where a church stands  and the light just  disappear.

Kings Mountain - Oak Grove -   during the time of the revolutionary war a tavern was located at a crossroads'   now the intersection of Oak Grove and Stoney Point roads, the legend is that a British soldier carrying stolen plans was in route to warn the British  as he stopped at the tavern for a rest he was identified as a Brit and killed by the inn keeper, and on moonlit nights you can see him at the crossroads, he always looks confused, as you try to approach he dissappears.

Ocracoke Island - Ocracoke Inlet - near the Pamlico Sound .There is one ghost by the name of Edward Teach,also known as Blackbeard the pirate.  The type of activity are usually phantom and ghost light, His demeanor is very violent so proceed with caution when going to the Ocracoke Islands.

Asheville - Helens' Bridge - When the Zalandia Castle caught fire, a woman named Helen lost her  only child. A daughter. Helen was so crushed by the loss she hung herself from the bridge right   down the road from the  castle. On Halloween night  go to the bridge and try to conjure Helen. If she is sucessfully called, you car will mess up in some way that you can't  get down the  mountain.

Concord - The Old Court House Theater - The theater used to be in the old court house but it was moved to an old church.   The ghost there is called the "Deacon" he basically moves things around.

Dunn -Old Bluff Chruch
In about the 1820's on a Halloween day this church was having sermon and the preacher flipped out and killed every one in there and now if you go to the church and you read the big stone memorial and walk up to the doors and read the sign and do what it tells you to than you will see a man holding a lantern and he will wave you on.

Asheville-Jackson Building
You can see a face in one of the top windows, thought to be the face of a man who committed suicide after loosing everything during the great depression.

Asheville-home to Channel 13 WLOS-
It is said to be haunted by a servant when the building was home to Dr. Samuel Westray Battle. The ghost's name is Alice and is said to walk around the building and play with the TV equipment.  She is said to be also the Pink Lady, because The Battle mansion is next to the Grove Park Inn, and she has been seen walking over to the Inn.

Columbia-
There is a area called dolly field and no one lives up there and if you go up there at night this man name Larry that use to live up there in a old house but died some years back will come after you with his tractor some people have been chase by this man.

Marion-
A women is supposed to haunt Pleasant Gardens Baptist church. Students who attended Pleasant Gardens Elementary school have reported a women dressed in pink walking down the road with a knife the following day after someone put pink flowers on her grave.

Fremont-
It is told, that on dark summer nights, a light will travel, down the railroad tracks, and it appears, to be like a lantern, the story goes that a local man, lost his head, after being in a drunk state, was killed by the train, it is said that, he searches for his lost head. Many locales claim to have see the light, and claims it chases them, it is said that if, the light catches you, you could die!

Atlantic Beach-Fort Macon-
There is said to believe that civil war ghosts haunt the top of the fort and watch for the union soldiers to attack. And there has been accounts on which during World War 2 the main gate was closed on it own while the guards were keeping watch on the place

Morganton-School for the Deaf-Main Building-
There is a woman who killed in about 1850-1900. She always walk thought longest hall and stopped and looked at mirror and brushed her long hair if students saw her she will disappear quickly...she wear very white dress and her hair is light red/brown...

Raleigh-
There is an old baby orphanage that was burned down by the woman that owned the place.   They say you can hear the children crying and laughing on the swings that still stand charred and broken, and at the gate stands a man with a hood, something like the gatekeeper.

Siler City-The Devil's Tramping Ground-
It is a patch of land in a perfect circle- 40 feet across, the perimeter of which is a path about a foot wide.  It's said that the devil himself walks that path every night pacing as he spins his evil deeds, no one has ever been able to spend the night there, and nothing will grow on the path, it is said that anything placed in the circle will disappear by the next morning.

Rural Hall-
There is local legend about a man who killed his family, it is said that he haunts the area and once you leave he haunts your dreams.  Also an early 1930's type car has been seen by a few people but once off of Payne Rd. the car disappears.

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Trust, North Carolina. - At the junction of 63 & 209, just 30 miles NW of
Asheville, sits a 12 x 14 foot chapel dedicated to Saint Jude. Built in
1990 to honor the Patron Saint of Healing it fulfills a promise made
by Beverly Barutio 8 years earlier when her cancer went into voluntary
remission. The Spring Creek Cafe at the same location has excellent pie
and coffee as well as gasoline. In addition 209 between Hot Springs and
Lake Junaluska is an excellent riding road, as is most of 63 into Asheville.

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The Shell Gas Station

Shell Service Station

Shell Service Station
The Shell Service Station was built in 1930 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Shell Company had not begun marketing its products in North Carolina until the late 1920s. Therefore, the owners of the Quality Oil Company of Winston-Salem decided to attract customers with a series of shell-shaped service stations. Although at least eight of these stations were built in the area, the one-story-high structure at Peachtree and Sprague Streets is the only one known to remain.

The Shell station is yet another excellent example of literalism in advertising in the 1920s and 1930s. The building's form visually repeats the Shell gasoline brand and is a three-dimensional representation of the Shell trademark. The building is literally a sign, an advertisement that is read and immediately comprehended. The structure is an unusual survival of early 20th-century advertising techniques and merits recognition and preservation.

Recognizing its historical value, Preservation North Carolina spent a year and $50,000 bringing the landmark back to its original lustre. Workers chipped away layers of faded yellow paint to find the Shell's original yellow-orange color. They repaired the original front door and fixed a crack that had been patched with black tar. The carwash —a wooden, trellised shelter that allowed cars to be washed and serviced in the shade—has been reconstructed. Restored pumps and replica lamp posts donated by Quality Oil Company add the finishing touches to the restoration of this quirky and beloved landmark. Preservation North Carolina currently uses the former gas station as a satellite office.

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Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina and consists of 107,100 acres of mainly forested wetlands that have been ditched and logged since 1763. It is home to what may be the most concentrated black bear population on the east coast, and certainly in Virginia. The largest Atlantic white-cedar stand remaining in the country is mostly in the refuge. The 3100 acre Lake Drummond, one of two natural lakes in Virginia is located near the center. The Dismal is rich in history. In 1665, William Drummond, governor of North Carolina from 1663-1667, stumbled across the lake which now bears his name. William Byrd III led a surveying party into the swamp to define the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina in 1728. He called it a "horrible desart...unfit for respiration." George Washington first visited the swamp in 1763 and called it a glorious paradise. The five mile Washington Ditch was first excavated to Lake Drummond by slave labor under the direction of the land company of which Washington was a part. Since then, the Great Dismal has been ditched, roads built and timber harvested. In 1973, Union Camp Corporation donated 49,100 acres to The Nature Conservancy, who then conveyed it to the Department of the Interior. The refuge was officially established through the Dismal Swamp Act of 1974. In addition to the usually shy black bear, the refuge is also home to deer, otter, beaver, rare bats, birds, and bobcats. Over 200 species of birds have been identified since 1974. The rare dwarf trillium and silky camelia bloom in the spring. Eight major plant communities comprise the swamp vegetation. Tupelo-baldcypress and Atlantic white-cedar, formerly predominant forest types in the swamp, today account for less than 20% of the total.

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The Devil's Tramping Ground consists of a barren circle located in the middle of a rich, mature, North Carolina forest. Legend has it that the circle has been there for centuries. Nothing will grow in the circle -- no one dare spend the night there -- for local folks believe it's the Devil's nightly tramping ground.

Directions: Highway 421 South from Siler City, NC. Go six miles West to Harper's Crossroads then turn north on Devil's Tramping Ground Road (NC SR 1100). The spot will be on the left side of the road. There is a small "pull out" where you can park your vehicle

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