Encounter with a Shapeshifting Witch

• 🌲 Charles recounts a terrifying experience while hiking alone in Dismal Creek, North Carolina, in the summer of 2015.
• 👤 He first noticed a cloaked figure at the top of a waterfall, which then mysteriously reappeared below him, giving him a sense of dread.
• 🧙‍♀️ Upon attempting to flee, Charles encountered the figure again, described as an old woman with striking, youthful, pale blue eyes, wearing a cloak.
• 🏃‍♂️ He fled, only to nearly run into her again at a blind corner; she then watched him as he escaped.
• 🐾 Later, Charles encountered a bobcat with the same distinctive eyes, leading him to believe the woman was a shapeshifting witch.

Paranormal Experiences at a Plantation Home

• 👻 Charles shares childhood encounters at his great-grandparents' plantation home near the Bensonville battleground.
• 👵 He vividly remembers a benevolent apparition of a Black woman, resembling 'Aunt Jemima,' who would hum spirituals and say 'Hello child.'
• 👨‍🦳 He also encountered a menacing figure in a suit with a bow tie at the end of a hallway, whom he suspects was a slave owner.
• 🐶 A ghost dog, named Jack, which had bitten off its own tail, was also seen chasing its nub.
• 👵 Charles's grandmother confirmed seeing the same apparitions during her childhood in the same house.

Haunted Apartment and Woods

• 🌲 While in college in Boone, North Carolina, Charles lived in a studio apartment near woods that felt highly active.
• 🌳 He frequently heard a strange, giggling sound in the woods, unlike any animal noise he knew.
• 🏃‍♂️ On dark nights, he experienced sounds of something fast running around him in the woods, seeming to surround him.
• 👤 One snowy night, Charles saw a naked, hairless, seven-foot-tall figure leaning against a poplar tree, which then ran off.
• 👣 Tracks found were large, barefoot prints that inexplicably vanished about 10-12 feet from the treeline, suggesting a supernatural disappearance.
• 🏠 The main house occupants reported significant poltergeist-like activity at night, including footsteps and objects being moved.