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Great! I appreciate the info. I live about 30 minutes from The Devils Tramping Ground. To see it in person is rather....underwhelming to say the least! Yet such a plain circle of salt-filled sterile soil has been the source of centuries of rich folklore. How these things get started and get a life o...

Great information. Thanks everyone. So was it finally abandoned and just deteriorate away over time to disrepair?

It's funny how local folklore can grow into a big creepy story over time.

thanks again.

Ha Ha. That sounds similar to my experience. Thanks!

Does anyone know the ACTUAL history of the hospital, and not just the folklore that fueled our young minds? Other than the scanned postcard at UNC, there is not much information about it on the web.

Thanks again.

Hi. I am on a fact finding mission about the old Hamlet Moncure Hospital. I remember an adventure as a kid, where we sneaked out the window during a sleepover at a friends house and rode bikes to the Old Moncure Hospital at midnight. It was one of those adolescent "rites of passage" type o...