With Halloween steadily approaching, haunts and horrors are creeping into the minds of our student body here at Page. To quell some of this thirst for horror we at Pages By Page have decided to share some sightings and stories of ghosts and ghouls that may hit a little to close to home.

In 1718, Edward Teach, more widely known as Blackbeard, was beheaded in Ocracoke, North Carolina. His head was then delivered to the Governor of Virginia for a bounty. Now visitors of the Ocracoke Island cove report sightings of the ghostly figure of Edward Teach, searching for his head.

According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Association, 96 Bigfoot sightings have been reported in North Carolina. The creature even has a state-exclusive nickname, Ben Knobby Knob, or Knobby for short. The costume from the famous 1967 Patterson-Gimlin filmstrip (one of the first Bigfoot hoax videos) was made by a special FX artist in Charlotte.

In Grandfather Mountain State Park there may be a secluded spirit hiking the still trails alongside the living. He is said to be an apparition of an old man with a long beard and a walking stick who can be found wandering the park at dusk. Reportedly other hikers have tried to interact with the ghostly figure over the years to no avail.

Less than an hour away from Page High School sits the Devil’s Tramping Ground. In the woods of Chatham County, sits a 40-foot-wide patch of dirt forming a perfect circle with no organic plant life inside but wiry grass contrasting the woods around it. Legend says the devil himself frequents this area at night and paces inside this circle.
Whether you choose to believe these ghostly stories and sightings or not these stories are sure to get you in a spooky mood this Halloween.