Places Haunted in Beaufort County
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.
The town of Chocowinity is the very definition of a small town with less that 1000 people. Make that 1000 live people and at least 2 ghosts. The town, who's name means "Fish From Many Waters", can trace it's history back well before the civil war, but it's just after the war where our stories take place.
North Carolina's history goes back farther than our history as a country. As such, the majority of ghost sightings and creepy happenings is attributed to events from long ago. There are, however, ghost stories from a more modern age.