Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina

A bloodstained rock is all that remains of a tragic love story played out in 1833. Undergraduate Peter Dromgoole was hopelessly in love with a
beautiful girl from Chapel Hill. They often met at a wooded hill on the western edge of town. A friend of Dromgoole also became infatuated with
the girl, and the two students decided to settle the matter with a pistol duel. They faced each other on that same wooded hill. Dromgoole was hit
in the chest and bled to death, collapsing on a large, flat rock. His friend and their seconds buried the boy's body next to the rock a deed they
would confess sixty years later. After her lover's disappearance, the forlorn girl spent hours weeping on the rock at their old meeting place,
unaware that his body lay directly beneath. Today, the rock sits in front of an old stone building that students consider haunted. They have
named it Dromgoole's Castle.

Fletcher

Calvary Episcopal Church

The ghost of a frightened young woman on a palomino horse appears momentarily on the roads near this church and them vanishes at a fast
gallop, as if pursued by someone. Where the highway is paved, she rides on the gravel shoulder of he road. The girl has long blond hair and
wears a flimsy gossamer gown, over which she wears a heavy Confederate cape. The ghost is thought to be a woman who died soon after
learning her lover had been killed in the Civil War. In the spring of 1865, the Phantom Rider was blamed for he deaths of twenty-three troops
under the command of General Stoneman. The troops followed the ghostly rider right in the midst of a rebel ambush. The Union general
organized a search party to capture or kill the girl, but they got within firing range, their bullets passed right through her. Over the years, the
ghost of the Phantom Rider has been seen many times. Sometimes, witnesses can see dozens of bullet holes in her heavy, flapping cape.

Roanoke Island

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site

In the dark forests near old Fort Raleigh, a mysterious silver white doe has been sighted for hundreds of years. The strange animal is said to be
the ghost of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World. She was part of the ill-fated Sir Walter Raleigh colony that arrived in
Virginia in 1587. Their ship, under command of John White, returned to England for badly needed provisions, but immediately on its arrival the
vessel was ordered into service in the Spanish War. It was three years before it was able to return to the colony. When White finally landed on
Roanoke Island, there was no trace of the 110 settlers he left behind. The only hint was the seven letters "C-R-O-A-T-O-A" carved on a post.
Some researchers believe that the cryptic message signified that the starving colonist joined with, or were massacred by, the Croatan Indians.
An old Indian legend holds that a blue eyed white child named Virginia was adopted by the tribe. As the girl grew into a beautiful maiden, she
aroused jealousy among the young braves of the tribe. A medicine man named Chico used a magic necklace to turn Virginia into a young doe,
to prevent her from marrying any of the tribe members. One heartsick brave, Okisko, stalked the white doe for many years, hoping she would
return into human shape. The ghost of Virginia Dare supports the assimilation theory. Other evidence, such as the rare birth of blue eyed blond
haired Indians, suggests the same. The colony's desperation produced yet another ghost. From the 1600's to modern times. Many people have
reported seeing the phantom of a three mast sailing ship off the shores of Roanoke Island.

Hauck, Dennis. (1994). Haunted Places: Ghost Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO landings, and other supernatural locations. New York: Penguin
Book.

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