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 Grove Park Inn Resort
Green Park
Inn Hotel
The Carolina Inn
North Carolina has a rich history of
supernatural haunting and things that go bump in the night. Rich
legends and eerie tales range from the murky swamps of the coast
to the high peaks of the Appalachian Mountains.
Grove Park Inn Resort
290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, North
Carolina (828) 252-2711
 What can give a
resort/ghost lover the best of both worlds? Asheville’s beautiful
Grove Park Inn Resort. Firstly, the place is just visually stunning.
Finished with a stone façade, it offers majestic views of both the Blue
Ridge and the Smoky Mountain ranges. This four-star resort has several
fine restaurants, shops, and a spa. The historic Grove Park Inn
has even been listed in Fodor's Top Ten Luxury Resort Spa in 2006. But
enough of the resort-talk, right? You want to hear about the ghosts.
Yes, it even has one of those!
The Grove Park Inn
also hosts a mysterious ghost dressed in a pink dress. She has been
spooking the resort’s guests and staff for more than three quarters of a
century. Legend has it that around 1920, a young woman dressed in pink
fell to her death in the hotel's Palm Court Atrium. Separate accounts of
unexplained severe cold chills experienced in Room 545 and an apparition
of "a real dense smoke - a pinkish pastel that just flows... - a real
gentle spirit, whatever it is."
The following is an excerpt from the Historic Hotels of America:
“The Inn's guests have
also had encounters wit the Pink Lady. In September of 2001, guest Mike
Mooney read about the Pink Lady before traveling to the Grove Park Inn.
At about 11:00 on the night of his arrival, Mooney went through the
atrium to get a soda from the vending machine. No one else was in the
atrium. Mooney describes the experience. "The room felt heavy when I
walked in but I didn't think anything of it.
 However, when I
returned with the soda and passed the old bench chair, the hair on the
left side of my body just stood on end and bristled. I also felt
something tugging at my left ear as I passed the chair. I paused for a
second but as soon as I went passed it, the hair went down and I ran
like hell back to the room!"
For a complete version
of the article, please use the following link to Historic Hotels of
America site:
Historic Hotels of America: The Grove Park Inn Resort's Ghosts
Please use
the following link for the Grove Park Inn Resort to learn more
about this four-star haunt:
http://www.groveparkinn.com
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Green Park Inn Hotel
9239 Valley Boulevard, Blowing Rock,
North Carolina, (828) 295-3141
 Located
in northwest North Carolina, Blowing Rock is a stone’s throw from the
Blue Ridge Mountains. It is a resort town full of quaint shops,
restaurants, outdoor recreation….and a hotel named Green Park Inn
- reportedly home to ghosts. They certainly do not hide this information
because for fun the Green Park Inn stages Murder Mystery Weekends
as well as an annual Charity Haunted Hotel function.
So what goes on there? A room on the 3rd
floor of the Hotel is reported to be haunted by a woman who died there
years ago. She has also been reported seen walking on the 3rd floor. I
have walked on the 3rd floor and just get shivers up my back. You can
feel something in the air.
 There
have been reports of ghostly activity on the 3rd floor. The
ghost is believed to be a woman who had died there years ago. She has
been seen in a room and on the floor in general. Someone reports a
ghostly energy and shivers while walking on the 3rd floor.
The following is a comment made by a
tripadvisor member of their Green Park Inn experience:
“Room 318 has spirit of daughter (who may
have hung herself after being left at alter) of original owner and
supposedly two children run the hallways of third floor! Got key to room
in the afternoon and "she" turned off the digital camera three times and
we still got pix of shadows of "head" moving across the wall. Of the
kids, got cold creepy feeling as they "ran through us" standing in the
hallway and have the pix of "energy orbs" there.”
Please use the following
link to learn more about The Green Park Inn Hotel and
their ghosts:
http://www.greenparkinn.com/
  Curious what and where the heck
Blowing Rock is? The picture on the right is the legendary Blowing
Rock! The links below will give you more information than you ever
thought you'd want:
http://www.theblowingrock.com/
http://www.blowingrock.org/
http://www.townofblowingrock.com/
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The Carolina Inn
211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, (919) 933-2001/ (800) 962-8519
 The ultra-fancy and elegant
Carolina Inn
in Chapel Hill combines the youth of being a university-owned hotel with
old-time southern charm. Architecturally, it combines antebellum
Southern plantation with Georgian and neoclassical features. It is so
breath-taking to look and so pleasant to stay at, you would never want
to leave. Apparently, Dr. William Jacocks felt the same way.
Dr. William Jacocks had lived at the Carolina
Inn for almost 20 years. He lived in Suite 252 from 1948 until his death
in 1965. In life, Dr. Jacocks was known to be a friendly and kind man
with a sense of humor. His joyful spirit seems to have stayed in his
beloved room. Over the years, Jacock’s playful ghost enjoyed messing
around with guests who stayed in his room by locking them out
occasionally. One time, after several attempts to unlock the door, the room's
door had to be removed from its hinges because it wouldn't budge.
 Though
renovated with new electronic locks in 1990, there have still been
reports of the door refusing to open. Everyone feels that Dr. Jacock’s shenanigans are not malevolent in nature,
just good ‘ole practical jokes that his ghost gets a kick out of.
There have also been other practical
jokes reported. One ghost investigator reported that while he was
using the sink one morning, as he tried turning the water off, both
handles fell off the fixture into the sink leaving water spraying
everywhere. Good one Dr. Jacocks.
While in Room 252, another guest awoke to
find his bathmat rumpled, his curtains pulled back in a strange fashion,
and an overwhelming smell of flowers in the morning.
 Another couple that spent one night in
252 recently heard a loud whoosh of air during the night that emanated
from nowhere near a ventilation duct. And one of the two felt his feet
get very cold at one point during the evening.
 The Carolina Inn was recently voted one
America’s Top 10 Haunted Hotels by about.com. Thus the Carolina Inn
invited paranormal researchers to take a look. They collected video and
audio of ghostly happenings in the hotel, including an orb-like object
floating in the air, faint sound of a piano, and a few softly spoken
words.
Please use the following
link to learn more about The Carolina Inn and their wacky,
practical-joking ghost:
http://www.carolinainn.com
Photo credits: Cape
Hatteras, North Carolina by Steve Winter
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