The Cabelands are the haunted part of Eno River State Park according to a quick Google search.

Although it’s documented online, no official trail leads to this historic area. You need to take an overgrown dirt path to reach it. One haunted part is the cemetery. There are 12 marked graves, but they say there are 51 people buried there.

The markers are old since John Cabe became the owner of 320 acres in 1780. Even the unmarked ones are noticeable thanks to sunken, coffin-shaped areas where bodies are decomposing beneath your feet.

Hikers who find the cemetery talk about shadow figures appearing. Some hear whispers. Or feel a person next to them blowing on their ear. When they turn, no one’s there.

Some people are invited into the graveyard by a female voice. Others hear screams from the woods.

According to ABC11, a paranormal investigator went to the cemetery named Keith Campbell. He spotted a shadow human before he even took out his equipment. When he finally tuned into the deathly frequency, he heard a female voice periodically saying, “Hello.”

The most haunted part according to a man named Herb Englishman is the homestead area. He heard the voices of a man, a woman and a young girl. The Cabe family lived up on a bluff overlooking the Eno River.

According to Englishman, the young girl was chatty. She felt like she was right next to him. He could make out other words from the man including “noise”, “miller,” “flags” and “years”.

When I tried to click onto the links to the Herb Englishman story, the web pages were no longer there, like the Eno River Association wanted to erase any evidence of the hauntings.

These stories sound like traditional ghost stories. I’m not saying they’re not real, but they’re nothing like what I experienced. I saw no headstones or shadowy people. I didn’t see the remains of the homestead or a view of the river. And none of the stories featured the twig vortexes at all.