All American Horror: Gateways to Hell Page #3

to this day.

Of all the haunted locations

the most troubling is the

place where the city's

first gallows stood.

Lew Musser:
Sitting here in

the Price-Gause House

otherwise known as the

Hanging House.

This house was built over a

hanging ground.

They did all the public

hangings in Wilmington from

1800 to 1855 on the lot

where this house stands now.

So when Dr. William Price

built this

house a lot of these

unfortunate individuals that

have hit the end of

a road were buried and now

they're in here haunting this

place.

Neil Harrison:
Approximately a

year ago my wife and I had

heard about the

Wilmington Ghost Tours and I'm

very skeptical of these types

of things,

I'm not really a believer but

she insisted that we go.

And we walked up to the middle

of town and he was describing

this old house that

was supposedly have been the

place where they hung

criminals in the 1800's.

Male Speaker:
This was a

hanging ground. Dr. William

Price, a very practical

and moneyed man, built a house

on the hanging ground.

He thought "Just because a

couple of hundred people got

hanged there that won't

affect my home, that won't

affect my family life."

Neil Harrison:
He was talking

about the house being these

spirits from these

criminals that had been hung

had entered the house and I

wasn't sure but the more

he talked the more he sounded

believable but I'm not still

not - I'm very skeptical

about those types of things -

but when he walked away I

looked up at the second

story window and something or

someone had written HELP.

At that particular time I

called the guy back and I say

"There's something up

there, someone has written

HELP on the window."

Male Speaker:
Yes, someone or

something.

Lew Musser:
And then I looked

up and then I saw it and I

said "They're going to have

to get help from somebody

else"

and I went on my merry way.

And they were sort of

insistent that we

help whoever or whatever it

was and I told them, I said

"You go up there and help

them and you're going to be

writing help on the window."

I said "You better come on"

and they came with me.

Neil Harrison:
At that

particular time I became a

believer, there is such a

thing,

because I was not

hallucinating or anything, I

saw it and I don't really know

how to explain it, but it was

there.

Male Speaker:
The gallows of

Wilmington, North Carolina

took the lives of hundreds.

The house now standing on the

property is an architectural

firm by day and at night

no one has been able to stay

there.

In fact people regularly

experience ghostly phenomena

simply stepping off the

sidewalk and onto the grounds.

John Hirchak:
There's actually

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