How about some local ghost lore to usher in the month of Halloween?
The Ghost of Poole Forest is a perfect one to start with. It reads like a perfect spooky period piece set in post civil-war Wake county.
William Poole, a wealthy batchelor who loved his land and white horse in life, rides the 75 acre pine forest (near Rock Quarry Road) on said horse in death after 1889. Read the story here.
I imagine Mr. Poole's ghost is haunting extra hard these days with all his "precious pine trees" disappearing county wide!
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| William Poole's House, photographed long after his death. The house was demolished in the early 20th Century. Photo from the NC State Archives. |
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| source Stay Spooky! |
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