Sharon Smith grew up in North Carolina and has been a working writer for the last two decades, Her work has appeared in The Patriot-News, The Times-News, The York Daily Record, and the Associated Press.
Visit one of these places in North Carolina, from the governor's mansion in Raleigh to a lighthouse in Buxton, to decide for yourself if ghosts are real.
Before Sir Walter Raleigh first stepped foot in North Carolina, our state was home to indigenous people who farmed, fished, and lived on the land as many as 12,000 to 14,000 years ago.