There's A Haunted Tunnel In North Carolina That Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Resting in the horseshoe of the Tuckasegee River, which snakes around the mountain forming a big loop to the northwest, the Cowee Tunnel has reportedly been haunted for more than a century.

They were all in one boat on a frigid December morning and the Tuckasegee was particularly unforgiving that day. To cross the river, the convicts had to pull the boat by using a guide cable stretched across the waters.

The boat began to take on water and the convicts started to panic. Nineteen of them forced themselves to the front of the boat and accidentally toppled out into the icy waters, connected at the feet by their heavy chains. As one can imagine, they died in those frigid waters after sinking to the bottom, each pulling the next down into a watery grave.

This was on December 30, 1882. On New Years Day, the bodies were pulled from the water and it's believed they were buried in a mass gave in the hillside next to the tunnel entrance (although there has forever been talk that the bodies are buried en mass somewhere in Dillsboro).