Spooky find at Madison, NC...

[topdog]

I went to visit relative this week who live at Stoneville, NC for the first time. Then I went to Madison which is only across town and stop at this coffee house/Drygoods store. Turns out this become the highlight of my trip.

The owner saw me walked in with my camera and he told me I can take as many pictures as I like. After I took a few shots around the store, he told me I can go upstair to walk around and take pictures as well. He did told me the rooms upstair have not been touch for over 100 years and it really intrigue me. So I proceed to go upstair all by myself and left my family down at the store. As soon as I got upstair, there is a room at the end of the stair. I took a quick peek through the door window. The room is empty but somehow I don't feel right going in there.

So I turn right and it's a big lobby. I then took another right turn at the lobby and it's a big hallway that lead to a series of rooms. I was told later those were hotel rooms from late 1800s to 1930. I took some quick shots of the rooms and the hallway but I start feeling very unease even it's in the middle of the afternoon. I don't feel fear but I do feel my heart begins to speed up and somehow I know I should not stick around too long.

I left as soon as I finish my shots and went back downstair. Then the shop owner owner proceed to tell me the history of the building. He own the building for 18+ years. The Drygoods store side of the building was a hardware store which now he turns it into a clothing store. The coffee house side of the building was a hotel lobby. However, what's really bizarre was above the hardware store side of the building were the hotel rooms. But above the hotel lobby side of the building was a funeral parlor.

What make this funeral parlor famous was the room I opt not to go in at the end of the staircase was an embalming room. What really shock me was that room once embalmed all the family members from the gruesome Charlie Lawson murder at Christmas day in 1929. At first, I wasn't sure how valid was this murder. Then as I look more about this on the internet, it seems to be true.

Here are a couple of interesting read I found on the internet.
http://maria333.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=posts&action=display&thread=452

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Lawson

Here are the shots I took at this place.

In front of the store. Left side of the building is the coffee shop and right side of the building is the drygoods store which has became a clothing store. The doorway between the two store is an elevator.

These two doors are make shift fitting rooms for the clothing store.

He's the owner, Richard Miller, of these two buildings.

Some antique display through out both stores.

Shots of the hotel rooms that have not been touch over a hundred years.

Not sure what are those ropes for hanging from the ceiling.

The hallway.

Doorway for the elevator at upstair.

The elevator. That's how they transport the casket and body to upstair.

The embalming room. After the owner told us the story of the building, he took us all to go back upstair again and he told me I can go into the room if I want. I was brave enough to took a quick shot of the room.

Hope you find the story interesting. It was my first somewhat paranormal photo shoot. Quite interesting.

 

[Daisy14'sDH]

That looks like it was lot of fun! That "Rope" appears to be old wiring, maybe an early form of Knob and Tube...

 

[TARDIS]

I love pictures like these! Thank you for sharing.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Neat shots, thanks for sharing!

I'll jump in.

This was from the Winter Scavenger Hunt thread.

In the spirit of the Hunt...

we thought we'd take a little trek up to a neat, old burial ground where many of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower and other settlers of Plymouth, MA, are buried. Burial Hill

Graveyard Shift

So far, so good. Nice, sunny day.

Managed to get a Coast is clear from inside

DS, the Apple of my eye, climbed up a wall to capture a shot from a headstone with his new PEN.

Oh my. Boys will be boys

He managed to do pretty well On the side of angels

But being up there by himself apparently Gave him the willies and he couldn't jump down fast enough!

He waited for me to come get his camera, but I couldn't resist getting a shot from this unusual angle first before he began Dropping like flies.

I honestly didn't plan to include these shots but I noticed tonight when I was looking at them, a weird grey mist in the bottom right hand corner that wasn't in other shots in the series except this next shot, that also had it in a slightly different spot.

I know many people think of these things as Old wives tales but DS saw them and was like

I don't know what anyone else sees but looking closely we see a little "lady" in the second one that looks something like the "Hurry Baaack" lady from Haunted Mansion!

We looked back on some of the other shots he took of the headstone and noticed in this shot that it belonged to a woman named Rebecah Sears, whose birthdate, I believe was July 29, 1783!

No offense, Rebecah - but Good Riddance!