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Nancy Roberts (née MacRae Correll, 1924 – July 1, 2008) was an American writer and storyteller who was often described as the "First Lady of American Folklore." A best selling author, she presented storytelling programs and lectures on creative writing at clubs, public libraries, schools, and universities.
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 ...
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.
Celebrity Ghost Stories: Stars Who’ve Claimed They’ve Had Supernatural Encounters. Us Weekly Staff. July 21, 2024 at 10:12 AM. 1 / 39.
The Devil's Tramping Ground is a camping spot located in a forest near the Harper's Crossroads area in Bear Creek, North Carolina. It has been the subject of persistent local legends and lore, which frequently allege that the Devil "tramps" and haunts a barren circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow.
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 ...
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)
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 ...