Howell Hill Community Cemetery, Ashe County, NC
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N 36° 29.833 W 081° 26.552
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Located on Silas Creek Road in Ashe County, NC I found the story below re the cemetery being haunted. Looks to be 3-400 graves.
Waymark Code: WMBDK2
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2011
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"The Woman in the Cemetery
The Jefferson Post in West Jefferson, N.C., ran a special section in commemoration of the county's bicentennial. (The northwest tip of North Carolina officially was designated Ashe County in 1799.) The commemorative insert included a few ghost stories, including one about a haunted cemetery that I thought was exceptionally interesting and which I'd never heard during my years growing up there.
The alleged haunted cemetery is the Howell Hill Cemetery, located in Ashe County. Apparently the cemetery was a popular spot for couples "to park" during the 1940s and 1950s. One couple went out to the cemetery early one summer evening and had an encounter they wouldn't forget.
A woman in Jefferson, N.C., who is the niece of the man who encountered the apparition, told the newspaper what her uncle said happened relatively early (around 8) that evening. Her account is so vivid, I'm taking the liberty of quoting verbatim:
They were up there when they saw a woman rise up out of the ground in the cemetery.
My uncle said that the woman had long black hair and was wearing a transparent or sheer white dress. They never saw her face because her hair was in it and, even though the wind wasn't blowing, her dress was flowing everywhere.
He said that he started the car and, as they pulled away, they felt a strong draft in the car, and they both turned and the woman was sitting in the back of the car. By the time he stopped the car to let her out, she was gone.
This is the first account of this type I've read in which the driver of a car thought he needed to stop the vehicle so the spirit could get out. The Post's report also notes that the caretaker of the cemetery has seen the woman, and she has been seen by unnamed other people in the area.
Taken from a usenet news article from Dennis Lewis."
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