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27593
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The Rhine Research Center in Durham is one of the last institutes in the country devoted to studying parapsychology. Founded by Duke professor Joseph B. Rhine, the center study telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, the survival of human personalities existing outside a physical form (ghosts or spirts). The center attempts to quantify their research and also includes the Alex Tanous Library. The library has one of the five largest collections in the country of parapsychological and occult literature. In addition to research, the center offers online educational courses and two monthly public workshops, and organizes various groups.
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27704
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Steve Barrell is a lead investigator for Haunted North Carolina, a Durham-based nonprofit that conducts investigations of paranormal activity. Barrell and his team focus on data from audio recordings to detect electronic voice phenomena. Barrell works as a legitimate researcher, researching parapsychology in the Triangle Area.
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38275
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As the author discovered, the explanation for the light was based on belief, not fact. There was no Joe Baldwin decapitated during a train accident in 1867, but a Charles Baldwin who died from injuries sustained during a train accident in 1857. However, there is still truth within the legend. It is represented in a visit inspiring President Grover Cleveland to share with a national audience his experience with the light. It is also represented in a street named Joe Baldwin Drive.
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10341
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Andreas Kremser, a Moravian who lived in the Single Brothers House in Salem, was killed when an excavation at the house collapsed on him. Duncan recounts sightings of him up till 1950, when a visiting minister determined that he should “lay the ghost.â€
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Ghost walks have become a popular form of tourism for those who like the eerie and supernatural. At one time they were a part of the Halloween season only, but they have become so popular that many communities hold them year-round. Three coastal communities that offer walks are the Beaufort Ghost Walk, Ocracoke Ghost Walk and Historic Tour, and the Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington.
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30997
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According to paranormal investigators, just about every community across North Carolina has a stretch of railroad tracks haunted by a train accident victim carrying a lantern, looking for his head. Ghost hunters from the National Society of Paranormal Investigation and Research in Raleigh describe some of the most notable ghost sitings and haunted areas in the state.
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31073
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Samuel R. Jocelyn, Jr., son of a distinguished lawyer in Wilmington, North Carolina, was thrown off his horse and pronounced dead in March 1810. According to a tale passed down through the years, the ghost of Samuel appeared several times to his best friend Alexander Hostler, claiming that he had been buried alive. Several bizarre events occur both before and after Jocelyn’s burial.
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25248
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Ralph Steele reflects on his opinions on swamp ghosts and reminisces about the first time he saw one with his two sons.
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36320
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A local adaptation of the vanishing hitchhiker ghost story from Guilford County, N.C. The ghost is named Lydia, and she haunts the road underneath Jamestown Bridge, trying to hitch a ride with passing motorists. Lydia’s origin story has several variations, all having to do with a car accident near the bridge: either she was on the way to a high school dance and her car wrecked, or she committed suicide at the bridge where her decreased boyfriend had been in an accident and died. The bridge underpass is now covered in various graffiti, some of which pertain to Lydia.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 47 Issue 2, Mid-Winter 2000,
p135-151
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36033
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Raised on hearing ghost stories and superstitions from her grandmother, the author believes the people of the South are haunted, if not from a particular ghost, then by the manifestation of guilt from the atrocities that took place in the past.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 43 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 1996,
p69-72
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35908
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Mentioned was Smoke to Gold, a book produced by a local junior historic club, the Skewarkians. Getting the spotlight, though, was their second literary endeavor, Weird Tales. Many of the tales told were the byproduct of club members interviewing residents of Martin County, living in towns like Bear Grass. Helping the book to live up to its name and claim were ghost stories, local superstitions, and folk medicine.
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35686
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Hain’ts, not horror films, was thrilling entertainment in Coastal counties such as Sampson and during the author’s youth. As she proved in her illuminations of things that go bump in the dark, though, ghosts chasing and the stories they inspire are really timeless and universal pastimes.
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35694
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For Southerners like James and Patty Massey, the War between the States left its presence in stories of what the South had been like before the Yankee invasion. It left ghosts and ghost stories, which proved hauntings happened in ways beyond the War’s decades’ strong aftermath.
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35737
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A collection of stories about ghosts, stilling, fishing, death omens, and animals. Written by various authors.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Aug 1976,
p64-68
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35706
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A ghost who hung around Kings Mountain liked to catch rides with unsuspecting people passing by. First he would hop on the back of a horse, then on the backs of trucks when a more modern age arose.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 23 Issue 2, May 1975,
p44-45
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