Southern Ghost Stories

Episode 156: North Carolina Gothic: Murder, Mutiny, and the Maco Light


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 Beyond the salty air and the shifting sands of the Carolina coast lies a history written in blood, silence, and unexplained phenomena. This episode deconstructs three of the region’s most enduring enigmas through the lens of objective fact and forensic evidence. We begin in 1901 at the Cropsey home, where a young lady vanished from her porch, only to reappear five weeks later in the Pasquotank River—not as a drowning victim, but as a murder case that ended in a suicide and a secret taken to the grave. We then track the 110-year history of the Maco Light, a phenomenon so consistent it drew the attention of President Grover Cleveland and the U.S. Coast Guard, only to vanish forever when the rails were torn from the earth in 1977. Finally, we board the Carroll A. Deering, a five-masted schooner found abandoned on Diamond Shoals with a meal on the stove and a missing crew. From the "blackjack" club of a Sheriff’s son to the verified logs of military investigators, we separate the folklore from the cold, hard reality of the "Graveyard of the Atlantic." 

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