Phantasmal Crime

Asheville is a smaller city in North Carolina where I had the pleasure of experiencing one of my favorite ghost tours. While on that tour, I heard about a mass shooting involving a man named Will Harris. This happened many years ago and the violence and the residue of that event seems to have left an energy that still traverses the same area where the crimes took place to this day. Join me as we explore the crimes of Will Harris and the ghostly aftermath. Asheville is known as an artsy and bohemian city, nestled in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountain Range. Thoughts of murderous rampages are incongruous with the community that dwells here, but 112 years ago, a man named Will Harris broke the calm during a night of mass murder. Will Harris was a bad guy. He had a long rap sheet having been busted for stealing and assault many times in Charlotte, North Carolina. He had spent time in jail in Charlotte and was assigned to a chain gang of black felons from which he escaped. Char...

(Suggested by: Joanne Maio) The Amityville Horror caused people to question whether a home could be possessed and cause a person to kill nearly their entire family, as Ronnie Defeo did in 1974. He killed his father and mother and four siblings. A family who moved in after the massacre, claimed to experience some intense haunting activity in the home that paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren judged to be demonic. Regardless of what one may personally believe about the case, the question of whether someone could be possessed or influenced into committing murder is real. This theory becomes more complicated when associated with an entire island. Is there a curse on the Palmyra Atoll and did it have anything to do with the murder of Muff and Mac Graham?  Palmyra Atoll is a territory owned by the United States and is located around 1000 miles south of Hawaii. The tranquil island is beautiful with blue lagoons and white sand beaches. The island received its name in 1807 from C...

This subject was suggested by listener: Stefanie Pettiford A man was on a simple afternoon stroll on December 9, 1909 in his Savannah, Georgia neighborhood when he heard moaning coming from 401 W. Perry Street. What he found inside the small wooden house would horrify the city. One woman lay dying and two more were already dead. An axe had been used and the murders were brutal. As to who committed the crime, that remains a mystery, although the husband of one of the women was convicted and served some time in prison before being pardoned. Perhaps that is why the location where the murders happened has stories of hauntings.  Old Town Trolleys has locations in several historic cities and Savannah is one of those cities. The barn where the fleet was stored in the city was at 234 Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a warehouse that was erected in 1944 and came under ownership of Old Town Trolleys in 1995. Prior to that, there were several homes here, a saloon, stores and former slave quart...