The story of the mysterious hoof prints in Bath, N.C. goes beyond a ghost story or a haunted place. At first glance this is a morality tale about the evils of betting on the sabbath, drinking to much and disrespecting your wife. What makes this story different than most morality tales is that there is physical evidence that the following took place.
Ghosts by nature are strange things.I don't pretend to know everything about ghosts and creepy things that go bump, but there are a few constants that I've learned about haunted places and the things that haunted them. Some exist for revenge, some for love long gone or gone wrong. And some are attached to a particular spot they remember fondly even if what they remember is no longer there.
Not all ghosts are evil and not all haunted places are eerie. But the ghost that inhabits the woods near the North Carolina Zoo is there to do harm to those that come near his area. It's the ghost of a hunter that doesn't hunt animals, it hunts people.
Purgatory Mountain in Randolph county is now home to the North Carolina Zoo, but during the civil war it was home to a group of peaceful Quakers. It was their custom to no engage in war so when the confederate government sent a recruiter to the area the Quakers were understandably upset.
If you ask most people in North Carolina, it's not a ghost or a haunted house that scares them. It's the Devil. Especially for church going folk. They tend to shiver at the mere mention of the word Devil. And it seems to me that while most people are not fans of Ol' Scratch, there are parents out there who tend to use him as a way to scare their kids back on the right track.. Mine included. if I had a nickel for every time I heard "The Devil's going to get you for lying." I'd be a well off man. But what if the Devil showed up to do just that?
The ghost of the Little Red Man has it's beginnings in the town of Salem, NC on March 26, 1786. Andreas Kremser was helping to dig out a basement at the 'Brothers House', a home for the unwed men in the community, when there was a cave in. Kremser, who was working on his knees at the time, was crushed by the falling soil.
