During the winter of 1953, a quaint farm town in North Carolina was held hostage by a terrifying beast that many believed to be some sort of vampire. It was known simply as the Beast of Bladenboro. 

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“If you have a message you want to send to hell, give it to me; I’ll carry it.” The first alleged female serial killer in the US, Lavinia Fisher spoke these chilling words just moments before she was hanged for her crimes along with her husband, John, In early 1820 near Charleston, South Carolina. 

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For more than a century, Chapel Hill has been known as the site of a very active ghost light. Many claim that if you stand between the rails facing North, a glowing orb of light appears out of nowhere. Once it appears, the ghost light will suddenly hurdle toward you in the dark night, trying to knock you off of the tracks.

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Just days before her wedding day in 1859, Helen's beloved fiance Henry Vick was struck down in a duel. The Johnstone family promised to one day bury the grief-stricken young woman in the plot next to her lost love, but unfortunately, she was not, thus resulting in the many claims that her spirit will not leave.

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In 1814, America experienced a great land rush, known as ‘Alabama Fever.’ During this time many people flocked to the area to start a new life. Dr. John Drish was one of those moving to the area. He was a widowed Virginian, who after migrating to the new state of Alabama, had a lavish home built he named Monroe Place.

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According to legend, in 1937, radio personality and inventor Norman G. Baker bought the hotel and repurposed it as a hospital. There, he treated cancer patients with homemade remedies and elixirs.

Unfortunately, Norman G. Baker lacked any training of any kind in the medical field and allegedly he is responsible for hundreds of deaths. The innocent lives lost by Norman Baker’s wicked scheme are now said to haunt the rooms of the 1886 Cresecent Hotel.

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There have even been rumors that ghosts linger at nighttime on the lake, whether it be the Lady of the Lake moaning without any hands or the ghostly raft that has been seen appearing and disappearing at night for decades.

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Generations of Abbeville children have listened wide-eyed to their parents telling the story of Huggin’ Molly, a 7 ft tall woman that threatens to crush you to death with her embrace.

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In the early 1900's James "Slag" Wormwood terrorized the men who worked the graveyard shift at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham Alabama.  After his gruesome demise, it seems his reign of terror never ended.

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The story of Bellamy Bridge is probably one of Florida's most famous ghost stories. It is centered around an old steel frame bridge that spans the Chipola River in the swamps north of Marianna, located in the panhandle. Legend has it that the ghost of Elizabeth Jane Bellamy has been haunting it for over 150 years.

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