Historic haunted places in Raleigh, NC. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open to the public (scheduled house museum tours).
Four generations of the Haywood family lived and died in this 1799 home, and docents report footsteps, shadow figures, objects moving and sudden chills, mostly when the house is cl…
Raleigh ghost tours stop at this 1869 cemetery for the 'Guardian of Oakwood,' a stone angel whose head is said to turn twelve times at midnight on Halloween. Visitors also claim it…
Open to the public (guided tours via Mordecai Historic Park).
Docents and visitors have long described a woman in a long dark skirt and white blouse on the upstairs balcony, the stairs and the halls. Tradition names her Mary Willis Mordecai T…
Newall Jackson, the night watchman for about fifteen years from the 1920s, reported screams, slamming doors, books falling in the third-floor library, jingling keys and footsteps o…