Haunted Cemeteries in Asheville, NC

One of the best places in Asheville to stroll through history is the Riverside Cemetery. Its 87 acres of rolling hills are filled with stories and beauty. One area overlooks the French Broad River. The cemetery dates back to 1885 and is the oldest cemetery in Asheville. The Asheville Cemetery Company established the area as a municipal cemetery to help the growing need for burial grounds. The company was also able to get an ordinance passed in 1910 to prohibit the burial of people on private or public property within the city limits. The city of Asheville took over the care of the area in 1952 and controls it to this day. The cemetery is home to over 13,000 graves, 9000 monuments, and 12 family mausoleums. A lot of the graves were relocated to Riverside from previous sites.

During the daytime, people are free to visit the cemetery, whether it’s to visit someone interred or to simply enjoy the park and take a stroll through the trees. While it is now closed after dusk, you can still peek through the gate and fence. From here, you can take pictures or record sound to hear what is going on inside of the cemetery.

Riverside is the final resting place for many famous people. Among those are Thomas Wolfs and William S. Porter who is better known by his pseudonym, O. Henry. Several of the city's more prominent citizens are interred there, including Thomas Patton…