North Carolina Ghosts is a collection of ghost stories, legends, and folklore from the Tarheel state. We have stories from the North Carolina Mountains, the Central Piedmont, and from along the North Carolina Coast. These stories are Every story presented here has been thoroughly researched. Some of them are true. Some of them are a little less true. But every one of them is a good story that has something to tell us. So jump right to a region or scroll down and pick from our list of stories. Enjoy what you find here, and please continue to pass these stories along.
Stories from the Mountains
- The Siren of the French Broad
- The Wampus Cat
- The Legend of Tom Dooley
- The Giant Leech
- The Pink Lady of the Grove Park Inn
- The Story of Boojum and Hootin’ Annie
- The Ghost of Chicken Alley
- The Giant Yellow Jacket
- The Whang Doodle
- The Cat
- Ghosts of The Biltmore House
- Sop, Doll, Sop
- The Legend of Blowing Rock
- The Moon-Eyed People
- The Chimney Rock Apparitions
- The Demon Dog of Valle Crucis
- Judaculla Rock
- The Haunted Hot Springs
- The Phantom Choir of Roan Mountain
- The Naked Ghost of Craven Street Bridge
- The Phantom Hiker of Grandfather Mountain
- The Brown Mountain Lights
Stories from the Piedmont
- The Stubborn Piano
- The Hunter of Purgatory Mountain
- The Ghost in the Skinflint’s Mine
- Devil’s Rock
- The Yogi Bear Graveyard
- The Ghost of Poole Woods
- The Mysterious Peter Ney
- The Miller Married a Witch
- The Headless Haint
- The Catsburg Ghost Train
- The Legend of Peter Dromgoole
- The Phantom Car
- The Ghost in the Governor’s Mansion
- The Thirsty Skull
- The Devil’s Tramping Ground
- Crybaby Lane
- The Beast of Bladenboro
- The Ghosts of Seven Hearths
- The Little Red Man
- The Ghost of Mordecai House
- Mermaid Point
- Lydia, The Phantom Hitchhiker
Stories from the Coast
- The Bath Curse
- The Grey Man of Hatteras
- The Ghost Lights of Dymond City
- The Boo Hag
- The Mysteries of the Great Dismal Swamp
- Blackbeard’s Ghost
- The Ghost of Nell Cropsey
- Where Are You My Son?
- The Weeping Arch
- The Portrait of Theodosia Burr
- The Brown Lady of Chowan University
- The Bath Hoofprints
- The Galinipper
- Porpoise Sal
- The Rum Keg Girl
- The Maco Light
- Virginia Dare, The White Doe
- The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke
- The Legend of the Oregon Inlet
- The Duel at Hammock House