Riverside Cemetery

Here where famous NC authors Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry are buried, over 13,000 other lives are laid to rest . . . or unrest, considering the reports of ghostly gunfire from Confederate soldiers, murmuring voices, wandering figures, and unmarked graves.

Learn more about this spooky site by reading Asheville Ghosts and Legends by Delas House and Ken M. Traynor.


This cemetery is known as one of the most haunted places in the state.