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Josiah Lafayette "Fate" Wiseman (1842–1932) was the great uncle of Scotty Wiseman, whose song, The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights (1961), greatly popularized the Brown Mountain lights, making them the most popular ghost story in North Carolina. His is also the oldest report of a strange light near Brown Mountain, though it wasn't well ...
The Devil's Tramping Ground is mentioned in two horror novels by Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls and Drawing Blood.Both these novels take place, at least in part, in the fictional North Carolina city of Missing Mile; the inspiration for which is taken from Duncan and Chapel Hill, NC and Athens, GA.
The order was founded in 1889 by Robert Worth Bingham, Shepard Bryan, William W. Davies, Edward Wray Martin, and Andrew Henry Patterson, who were University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) students at the time. [3] The society centers itself around the legend of Peter Dromgoole, a student who mysteriously disappeared from campus in 1833.
Brunswick Town [1] (former state capital); Buffalo City; Cape Lookout Village; Cataloochee; Ceramic; Diamond City; Fort Dobbs (frontier fort during the French and Indian war); Glenville (town submerged by Lake Glenville, some residents relocated to the eastern edge of the lake)
The story of the preacher and the lantern is said to have taken place in Colleton County and is known as Jacksonboro Light. Jacksonboro, population just over 200, is a blip on Highway 17 from ...
Lost Cove is a ghost town in Yancey County, North Carolina. The town was first settled by Morgan Bailey shortly before the Civil War. The town is located in the Poplar Gorge above the Nolichucky River on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. [3] Originally, the settlement was supported by logging, railroading, moonshine-making, and farming ...
Nov. 8—From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, water at and around Camp Lejeune, a Marine base on the coast of North Carolina, was contaminated with numerous carcinogenic and harmful chemicals. In ...
Charles Harry Whedbee (born May 13, 1911 in Greenville, North Carolina, and died there on September 21, 1990), was a noted lawyer, judge and author of local history and the lore, legends and ghost stories of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.