I couldn’t find any article on Eno River State Park that mentioned twig spirals. 

There are other ruins in the park. The two-story Anthony Cole house looks almost as creepy as the photo I found of him and his wife, but the only supernatural story I uncovered was a website that mentioned seeing a ghost in the upstairs window.  

His poor “spinster” sister was given a shack known as Sister’s House, a lovely reminder of how shitty it is to be female. The sketchy remains don’t have any mysterious stories behind it. One of the old Cole mills might be haunted, but again it’s more like traditional ghost stories. No twig spirals, no weirdness of nature.

One article I found had researched slaves purchased by Anthony Cole and family. I’m sure there are many unmarked graves of enslaved people in there, but I didn’t find any stories of hauntings or strange phenomena connected to them. Then I started pondering the indigenous people who used to live there. Maybe they knew? 

Eno River State Park is named after the Eno tribe. According to the Eno River Association, “…the land we are on today is the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Eno, Shakori, Sissipahaw, Occaneechi, other people of Siouan descent, and their descendants, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation.”

This quote is logged in the search, but again, that webpage no longer exists on the Eno River Association website. That’s the same site that no longer has the haunted stories either. Could they have been forced to pull this information to hide what’s really in there? 

Maybe I need to see if the spirals mean something to any of those tribes?