Haunted Picnic Facility

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Comment by Bor Rabnud Films on November 3, 2008 at 9:01am

Description: Not the best place to party

More sinister is what Harrison simply calls the “haunted picnic area” on the Pisgah Highway (N.C. 151)—a tight, scenic coil of mountain road that bleeds into the Blue Ridge Parkway. You’ll find the Buncombe County picnic shelter on the left, about six miles south of the Smoky Park Highway.

“Many years ago, during the moonshine and Depression eras, it had a reputation as a place [where] people dumped bodies,” says Harrison. And in 1996, the body of visiting Philadelphia resident Judy Smith was discovered near the picnic shelter. The murder case remains unsolved. Nighttime revelers have reported being chased into the woods by apparitions, including that of a man and a small boy, and members of Harrison’s paranormal-investigation team heard ghostly footsteps, she says. “It’s very uncomfortable there. Walking from the parking lot, you get a tight, claustrophobic feeling.”