We Salted Nannie: A Real-Life Southern Ghost Story
October 28, 2025 at 04:30PMIn 2014, Tom Maxwell and his family moved into a “big and strangely cheap” historic house in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on a lush pasture next to a river. They named it Nannie, after the wife of the house’s most famous owner. But as Maxwell recounts in this spooky true tale, it was “thoroughly haunted,” and less than a year later, they broke their lease, left, and never looked back. Afterward, Maxwell learned about the house and surrounding land’s violent history—and all the tortured spirits that roamed there. Originally published in 2016, this Bitter Southerner story also includes moody illustrations by Phil Blank.
If she was upstairs, it would come from below. Brooke once heard Evelyn’s voice calling her from downstairs, and walked downstairs to answer. She called Evelyn’s name, and Evelyn answered from her upstairs bedroom. The side-door locks rattled frantically one night as the three of us sat alarmed in the living room. Occasionally, men’s voices could be heard downstairs, speaking in hushed and excited tones. They stopped as soon as someone reached the bottom of the stairs. We shared a growing feeling that we were to be split up, one from another. Something was trying to isolate us. A hard winter was bearing down. The first cord of wood got burned up in less than a month.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2025/10/28/nannie-north-carolina-ghosts-history/
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