Asheville, North Carolina, is a great spot to visit or even stay for a few days. There are countless things to do in the surrounding hills, places to visit, and in Asheville, history lies deep around these parts. Nowhere more than the center of Ashville is history right there to see if you know what you are looking at. To some, it seems like a collection of quaint buildings, but if you take the time to scratch the surface of this charming town, a stream of fascinating stories come tumbling down the hills at you. This town has seen all of the great events of this country, one of the original 13 colonies, there was nothing that happened here in the early days of this great nation that did not have the mark of North Carolina upon it somewhere.
In just over an hour, at 8 or 12 locations, our expert guides will let you into some of the secret haunted histories of Asheville’s more murky tales. Each one set in a different time in the history of this town; the stories will bring the Great Depression, Prohibition, and the Gilded Age to life as you stand before the very places where some of these events took place.
Our stories are curated to give you memorable and entertaining ways to see what life was like here in the Blue Ridge Mountains through modern history and the ghostly effects on the residents of today.
While researching the route of our tour, we came across fantastic and grizzly stories from across the region, as well as the 8 or 12 stories that made it onto our standard or extended tour. The stories we were not able to include were added to our Asheville Terror haunted blog. We hope you enjoy these horrifying stories.
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Now home to the world-famous French Broad Chocolate Lounge, the Legal Building has a tragic history reaching back to the Great Depression and beyond. Learn about Asheville’s downward spiral from one of the nation’s wealthiest socialite getaways to a town drowning in tragedy and debt, and discover the consequences of one mayor’s fateful act.
The Battery Park Hotel is one of Asheville’s most paranormally active locations and has been the site of countless deaths, murders, and suicides across the decades. Among the spirits you might encounter here are Helen Clevenger, a 19-year-old college student who was brutally murdered on the second floor in the 1930s, and Edwin Grove, a famous entrepreneur and urban developer who designed many of Asheville’s most beloved buildings, including the Battery Park Hotel—the site of his untimely death.
The Basilica of St. Lawrence in one of Asheville’s most beautiful and beloved places of worship, but it is also home to a host of angry spirits… Learn about the tragic story of the architect who made it his life’s work to complete the Basilica and who continues his endeavors from beyond the grave.
