A little girl named Carrie has been haunting the roads leading east out of Washington North Carolina for well over a hundred years now. She loved watching the horse and buggies and the few cars around at that time come and go at her grandfathers store.She was only three years old at the time and the story goes that she fell off the high part of the porch at her grandfathers store and was badly injured.

She died a few days later and was buried near by. You can see her grave stone above. Over the years Carrie has been seen often always wearing the same pale yellow dress she was buried in. She runs out in front of cars in the area or people see her on the road side. Many people over the years have called the local police only to be told don't worry its only Carrie.

And in 1966 and again in 1989 Carrie caused tragic accidents when she ran out into traffic and caused bad accidents when people tried to avoid her and ran into other cars. So if your ever in the Washington North Carolina area be very careful if you see a small girl in or near the road. She has been seen on several roads in the area. And many differnt people over the years have seen her and almost all report her the same way in the pale yellow dress.

Over the years at at a underpass near Greensboro North Carolina young men have been picking up a young girl dressed like she is going to a party. She flags down cars with one young man in them and asks them to take her home.

She tells anyone who picks her up that she and her date got in a fuss and she made him let her out back at the under pass. They all drive her home to a house in High Point where she vanishes before she can get out of the car.

Some of the young men over the years have gone back to the house in daylight only to learn that the girl was killed in that underpass when the car she and her boyfriend were in ran head on into another car in the underpass. She was killed on a foggy night in April 1959 and has been appearing to people ever since. She looks perfectly normal people say until they stop at the house in High Point to let her out and she vanishes.  

On a misty night in 1967 a frieght train was slowly making its way down the track near Maco 15 miles from Wilmington North Carolina. All at once the flagman Joe who was riding in the Caboose saw a fast moving passanger train coming down the track towards the back of the frieght train. Joe swung the lantern and tried to get the passanger train to stop but it struck the frieght train and knocked it off the track. Joe was killed and in fact his head was actually cut off in the accident. The passanger train hit the frieght train so hard it knocked Joe out of the Caboose and into the swamp. And even though there was a extensive search done for Joes head it was never found and he was buried with out it.

And over the years ever since the night of the horrible train wreck in 1867 Joes headless ghost has been seen with his lantern flashing it back and forth like he is trying to signal someone. Over the years people have wondered if Joe is looking for his head or is he trying to signal to a passing train.

In 1889 President Grover Cleveland on a political trip through the area saw the light as have hundreds of other people over the years. It really makes you wonder how so many people down thru the years can tell almost the same exact story if they are not really seeing anything. 

This road used to be the path new slaves took as they were walked the ninety miles to the Slave Market in Fayetteville North Carolina. If a slave was slow or sick from the long sea voyage they had just finished across the ocean they were killed and thrown in the woods along the way. It is the ghosts of those slaves that are seen by people as they drive along Mt. Misery Road. Many people tell of seeing black people in strange clothes either in the road or standing beside it.People have also claimed to hear people singing in strange languages. Lights are also seen in the woods along the road. But no one can ever find the source of those lights.  

Over the years there have been many many people who have seen the ghosts and people also claim to feel like something is watching them along the road there. Some people including ghost hunters claim it was all the tragedy that occured in the area that makes people feel the way they do about the area. Most ghost hunters who have visited the area claim it is a hot bed of paranormal activity.  

On this hub page you will find several true ghost stories from North Carolina. Please read them and tell us what you think. Have you ever seen a ghost. Why not tell us your true ghost story in the comment section below. We really would like to hear your true ghost story. So feel free to post it in the comment section below.