STOKES COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Tragedy has a way of lingering, like the car crash that spurred the haunting of Lydia’s Bridge in Jamestown or the construction accident that gave rise to the Little Red Man in Old Salem . But some tragedies leave a more powerful legacy, one that spans multiple towns or, in this case, counties.
It’s one of the most well-known ghost stories of the Piedmont Triad, so much so that Netflix filmed a whole six-episode series—”28 Days Haunted” —centering on it alongside two other hauntings.
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It’s the story of a Stokes County family and how its patriarch, Charlie Lawson, killed six of his children and his wife on Christmas Day 1929 .
“28 Days Haunted” focuses on Madison Dry Goods, a store in the town of Madison in Rockingham County. Before becoming a general store, the building was a funeral parlor where the victims of Charlie Lawson’s massacre were embalmed. For 28 days, ghost hunters lived and slept in the building with no access to the outside world with cameras rolling to capture every stomach-turning moment.