Foggy, rainy and more haunted places to visit and live.

Good morning Augusta

This morning its drizeling and the fog is disbursing.  We have considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers with some thunder possible. The High will be 64F. Winds will be light and variable. Chance of rain 70%. 

Tonight we’ll have cloudy skies early in the evening giving way to partly cloudy skies after midnight. There is a slight chance of a rain shower. The low will be 48F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. 

The readings from my own instruments are:

The humidity is 100% with a dew point of 52ºF and a temperature of 55.6ºF and the wind chill is 55.6ºF.

The wind direction is Southeast between 0.0 MPH and 1.1 MPH.

The Barometric pressure is 29.72 HPA 1005 and falling with a weather graphic indicating rain.

The UV rating is 0.0 out of 16,  Sunrise is at 6:49 a.m. sunset is 6:00 PM and Moon Rise is 6:20 a.m. and the moon phase is waning crescent.

The Raw METAR readings from Augusta’s airport are:

METAR KAUG 131053Z AUTO 15005KT 1/2SM FG VV002 11/11 A2967 RMK AO2 SLP047 T01110111

Visibility is 10.0 miles/ 16.1 kilometers with clear conditions.

We’ve had no measurable rain, but it is raining out there, so that will eventualy be measurable.

Since I try to think of everything, after you visit all of the haunted places I’ve posted about, you’ll need a place to stay for a rest.  That means a hotel or Motel.

Try this Travel Advisor web site with a list of the 10 most haunted Hotels in the U.S.

Sorry, none are in North Carolina.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/TripNews-a_ctr.hauntedhotelsEN

It occurs to me that a list of only 10 haunted places to stay just isn’t enough.  So here is a list of 21 haunted places to stay.  My goal is to let you know that ghosts are never far from you, no matter where you choose to visit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/haunted-hotels-tk-america_n_994677.html

But, what if you are traveling abroad?  A list of haunted hotels in the U.S. won’t help you much. So here is a list of 13 haunted hotels both here and abroad.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/13-most-haunted-hotels-in-the-world

Now that I think of it, all of this travel and hotel/Motel living should be giving you a good case of homesickness.  Sometimes you just want to  be in your own bed, in your own home.

So why not move to one of the most haunted towns in the U.S.? Yep, that would be Alton, Illinois.p://www.visitalton.com/feature-stories/detail/36/haunted-

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If you want a central location to use as a base to visit haunted places, drive down to Raleigh, North Carolina.

That area is simply bursting with haunted places to visit.

For example, there is the Ghost of Mordecai House, and you can read more about it by going to:

http://www.northcarolinaghosts.com/piedmont/ghost-mordecai-house.php

If you want a really great listing of haunted locations in and around Raleigh, go to:

http://www.hauntedplaces.org/raleigh-nc/

For example, there are the two ghosts inhabiting North Carolina State University.  One being a college student who leaped from the roof of the D.H. Hill Library in the 1980’s      And the ghost of a construction worker who haunts the campus bell tower.

Or, you could go up to Chapel Hill to Gimghoul Castle - Dromgoole's Castle near the campus of North Carolina University.  Back in 1833 18 year old Peter Dromgoole was buried there after losing a duel for the hand of his love, who reportedly didn’t know much about him.  The more things change, the more they remain… never mind.

Also in Chapel Hill, there is the Horace Williams House.  Horace was the University of North Carolina’s philosophy department who supposedly keeps an eye on his house tgo this very day.

IF you want to go to one place where you can hit a 20 ghost jackpot  stay in Chapel Hill where the Carolina Inn is located.

Still within easy driving distance of Raleigh, drive over to Louisburg and drop in to the Patterson-Noble-Baker House.

Built around the 1820s it is said to be haunted, and is now a private residence.

One should not neglect Louis burg College while there. Its main building was sued as a hospital during the civil war and is said to have several ghosts.

Bentonville battlefield over in 4 oaks is also haunted.  Phantom gunfire and shouts can be heard there as well as the ghost of a girl said to have died of tuberculosis in the plantation house there.  

Then there is the Devil’s Tramping ground over in Bennett North Carolina.  There is supposed to be a 40 foot wide circle of earth where nothing will grow, and where it is said the devil comes to the surface to do mischief in the area. 

I wonder if that explains some of the things going on over in the State legislature.