Haunted Places in Asheville, NC

Explore 8 haunted places in Asheville, NC — landmarks, churches, museums and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Asheville Masonic TempleLandmark · Asheville, NCCompleted in 1915, the Asheville Masonic Temple is a downtown landmark that today doubles as a performance and event venue, and it is a recurring stop on the city's downtown ghost tours.
• Basilica of St. LawrenceChurch · Asheville, NCCompleted in 1909, this Catholic basilica is famous for its self-supporting tile dome, designed by Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino, who supplied the materials and oversaw construction using his patented tile-and-mortar system.
• Battery Park Hotel (Battery Park Apartments)Landmark · Asheville, NCBuilt in 1924 by Edwin Wiley Grove, this Beaux-Arts high-rise was the scene of one of Asheville's most notorious crimes.
• Biltmore EstateMuseum · Asheville, NCGeorge Vanderbilt's 250-room chateau, completed in 1895 and now a house museum, has accumulated a body of ghost lore reported on regional tours and in local guides.
• Helen's BridgeLandmark · Asheville, NCThis quarried-stone arch on Beaucatcher Mountain was built in 1909 to carry a carriage road to the Zealandia mansion.
• Riverside CemeteryCemetery · Asheville, NCFounded in 1885 as a garden-style cemetery in the Montford neighborhood, Riverside is the resting place of roughly 13,000 people, including authors Thomas Wolfe and O.
• The Omni Grove Park InnInn · Asheville, NCThe Pink Lady is Asheville's most famous ghost, reported at this 1913 stone resort for nearly a century.
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial (Old Kentucky Home)Museum · Asheville, NCThis rambling Victorian boarding house, now a North Carolina State Historic Site, was run by Julia Wolfe, mother of novelist Thomas Wolfe, who immortalized it as 'Dixieland' in his 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.' During the 1918 influenza epidemic, Thomas's older brother Ben died of the flu in an upstairs bedroom at age 26, a loss central to the novel; visitors often pause outside that room and report a chill or faint footsteps in the upper hallway.