All American Horror: Gateways to Hell Page #2

failure, one with the mic that

I was using while I was asking

questions during

recording but hopefully

recording EVPs,

that's something that is

certainly that is happened in

the past.

Also Noel was able to get the

impression of an

African-American male.

She was not aware of the

history of the sight and she

got the impression of an

African-American male who was

working here and unfortunately

was killed.

Through historical evidence it

was noted that the person who

was killed during the

dynamiting was an

African-American male so that

provides corroboration and

that's

exactly what we look for.

Male Speaker:
A blasting

accident kills a worker.

Did the man-made destruction

released an evil so profound

that it roused the devil?

Are the tales of ghostly

passengers and demons seen in

the rearview mirror merely

superstition?

If you ask the locals they'd

all say evil lurks at the

Devil's Stairs.

Wilmington, North Carolina is

a port town whose history

dates back to the 1700's.

And like most ports it has a

rowdy history that has left

its mark on the city

to this day.

Of all the haunted locations

the most troubling is the

place where the city's

first gallows stood.

Lew Musser:
Sitting here in

the Price-Gause House

otherwise known as the

Hanging House.

This house was built over a

hanging ground.

They did all the public

hangings in Wilmington from

1800 to 1855 on the lot

where this house stands now.

So when Dr. William Price

built this

house a lot of these

unfortunate individuals that

have hit the end of

a road were buried and now

they're in here haunting this

place.

Neil Harrison:
Approximately a

year ago my wife and I had

heard about the

Wilmington Ghost Tours and I'm

very skeptical of these types

of things,

I'm not really a believer but

she insisted that we go.

And we walked up to the middle

of town and he was describing

this old house that

was supposedly have been the

place where they hung

criminals in the 1800's.

Male Speaker:
This was a

hanging ground. Dr. William

Price, a very practical

and moneyed man, built a house

on the hanging ground.

He thought "Just because a

couple of hundred people got

hanged there that won't

affect my home, that won't

affect my family life."

Neil Harrison:
He was talking

about the house being these

spirits from these

criminals that had been hung

had entered the house and I

wasn't sure but the more

he talked the more he sounded

believable but I'm not still

not - I'm very skeptical

about those types of things -

but when he walked away I

looked up at the second

story window and something or

someone had written HELP.

At that particular time I

called the guy back and I say

"There's something up

there, someone has written

HELP on the window."

Male Speaker:
Yes, someone or

something.

Lew Musser:
And then I looked

up and then I saw it and I

said "They're going to have

to get help from somebody

else"

and I went on my merry way.

And they were sort of

insistent that we

help whoever or whatever it

was and I told them, I said

"You go up there and help

them and you're going to be

writing help on the window."

I said "You better come on"

and they came with me.

Neil Harrison:
At that

particular time I became a

believer, there is such a

thing,

because I was not

hallucinating or anything, I

saw it and I don't really know

how to explain it, but it was

there.

Male Speaker:
The gallows of

Wilmington, North Carolina

took the lives of hundreds.

The house now standing on the

property is an architectural

firm by day and at night

no one has been able to stay

there.

In fact people regularly

experience ghostly phenomena

simply stepping off the

sidewalk and onto the grounds.

John Hirchak:
There's actually

a secret that goes long with

this property.

You see many of the men,

women, and children who were

hung here at these

gallows came from other ports

of call and with no one to

claim their bodies or pay

for burial expense they simply

dug trenches all around here

and buried them

for free.

And then in 1860, just a few

years after they moved the

gallows a few blocks east

of here, away from the

ever-encroaching downtown, Dr.

William Price, against the

advice of his friends, built

his family home here.

And one summer the Prices had

a niece sent to visit them.

She raced upstairs to her

bedroom and in the room was an

old vanity with

a beautiful mirror which she

was enthralled with. And she

sat in front of that mirror

and she went about brushing

her hair.

While she was brushing her

hair she started to feel

fingers running through

the back of her hair. She

turned to find no one in the

room.

When she turned back to the

mirror there was a gauzy image

of a man, a young man,

standing in that mirror.

Other times the family would

be upstairs sleeping late in

the evening and they

would hear sounds coming from

the downstairs.

Sometimes they'd hear voices,

other times they'd hear

furnishings as they were being

dragged about the lower

floors.

They had many different

experiences with these sounds

and they also included

scratching noises that were

periodically heard coming from

inside of the walls.

In 1996 Hurricane Fran ripped

through this area.

The hurricane did extensive

damage. It closed off most of

our beaches here.

And an architect that worked

here, BMS Architects, lived at

Carolina beach.

The people here at the

architectural firm said that

he would sleep on the second

floor.

They already had electricity

here.

So he set up his bed on the

second floor in one of the

offices.

One night he was startled

awake by sounds coming from

below the floor.

What he heard was furnishings

as they were being dragged

back and forth.

And this alarmed him but the

sounds grew and grew and grew

to a point where he

could take it no longer.

Finally he forced himself out

of the house, racing down the

stairs, out the

back door, got in his car, and

he drove up to Walmart.

He slept in the Walmart

parking lot, returning the

next morning at 8 am.

Of course he returned wearing

his pajamas because that's the

way he ran out of the house.

Lew Musser:
The Hanging House

was getting a national

reputation as a haunted house

and scientific groups have

been in touch about it and

paranormal societies they all

want to know about this one

house.

Well I had a medium on my tour

one night

but he just wanted to go back

and see it on his own.

So I took him back to the

house, it was just the two of

us, we were walking back

around the side of the house.

It was absolutely freezing

back there. He was going "Cold

pockets."

He goes "Is that always

there?" and he's pointing up

at one of the windows.

I looked and I saw this old

lantern burning in the room,

same window where

they wrote HELP on a prior

occasion, flickering away.

We stood and watched that

thing for 10 minutes, but that

was like jaws of slab

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