GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Not every ghost story searches for an audience.
While ghost stories become widespread local legends, like the story of Lydia’s Bridge or the Lawson family murders, others live only in the whispers of families or coworkers. It’s the dark recesses behind the basement stairs, or that first anxious glance you steal across the attic floor as you climb the ladder. In this case, it’s an old storage building that refuses to let go of its past.
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Tucked away between the intersections of Burlington Road, Huffine Mill Road and East Bessemer Avenue, this little building in East Greensboro is marked with a crooked number. The peeling paint of the front door serves as the unsettling frame to a small square window that looks inside.
“It looks abandoned,” said Stephen Carlson, community engagement manager with Guilford County Animal Services. “All of the windows are boarded up, and so that’s your first impression when you pull up. ‘Yeah, this is a little sketchy looking.’”
Despite appearances, the building is not abandoned—but perhaps it should be.
Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital
Long before Guilford County Animal Services began using it to store food, kennels and other pet-related odds and ends, it was part of the Central Carolina Convalescent Hospital…