McDivitt shares his theories of the supernatural and his work as a guide for Haunted Asheville.
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McDivitt shares his theories of the supernatural and his work as a guide for Haunted Asheville.
This week’s Archives examines a pair of paranormal encounters described by local residents in the 1910s.
In 1898, residents were spooked by an unusual glow inside a vacant house. A few years later, another resident offered the local paper insight on how to deter ghosts from haunting homes.
Like any good Southern city, Asheville’s history is steeped in the gothic and the paranormal. While the facts and claims behind these legends vary from story to story (and storyteller), Asheville’s “ghosts” play an often unheralded role in capturing and preserving the city’s past.