The Hammock House
This house is said to have been owned by Black Beard the Pirate. Once, Black Beard saw one of his crew members dancing with his girlfriend and consequently beheaded the man on the stairs. It is said that now, more than two hundred years later, blood stains eventually become visible again though the stairs have been sanded, painted, and carpeted.
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Hope says: |
March 28, 2009, 1:04 am |
I am going to have to disagree with the fact that blackbeard is a “myth”. One of my ancestor’s sailed with his crew. His name was Thomas Midgette. The spelling on his last name may not e right. I am not saying that Blackbeard still haunts places or anything and I grew up around Beaufort and Okracoke Island. It is said that if you drive by the house on main street in Bath at night you will see a shadow of a man hanging from a noose on the outside wall.. I’ve looked, even on Halloween night, lol.. but alas, I saw nothing. And of course there were the stories of how you can see Blackbeard’s head “swimming” off the coast of Okracoke Island, but that’s just nuts. Idk…
my house says: |
May 7, 2009, 9:32 pm |
Ok if you have any info on this house please tell me. I live in this house on Sycamore St in beaufort Sc 29902 and it is haunted as hell. I have fallen asleep with everything off and i wake up with the sink on and my tv on but its muted. The thing is i live alone, and all doors are locked…. the tv is always switched to the same channel, 9. On one night i left it on chanel 62, woke up, it was on nine….. Please tell me if you have any info on it, i have tried to sell it and no one will buy it. oh and you can also here cracks in the ground, in the middle of the night and my door will sometimes creek…..
Nicole says: |
July 6, 2009, 12:59 am |
Seriously. Have any of you taken North Carolina History? Or even ENGLISH! Everyones’ spelling sucks as worse as your History. Blackbeard WAS an actual person. I don’t know about the Hammock House. I’ll have to get back to you all on that one. Any comments, feel free to acknowledge me at nicolesimms90@yahoo.com.
Taylor says: |
November 24, 2009, 12:58 am |
Black Beard himself was not a myth, he was a REAL person. However, some of the stories are a bit stretched. The story they are talking about here has incorrect details. First off the wife they are talking about was his last and youngest wife whom Black Beard captured off a spanish ship and forced her to marry him or be killed. So obviously, the young girl of 12 chose to marry him. After marrying her he left her in his house (aka the Hammock House) and would not let her out. He had a young boy (not a crew member) bring her food everyday. Obviously as teenagers have racing hormones the girl fell in love with the boy and soon word got around this small town and eventually back to Black Beard. So he came home just as the two were trying to escape. Black Beard severed the boy’s body in half and then took the girl out and hung her from a tree in the yard. This much is true. There have also been reports from all owners of the house of blood stains at the foot of the stairs that will not go away and mysteriously come back even after replacing the flooring, sanded etc. There have also been many reports throughout time of hearing his wife screaming. There are also many recent reports of this as well throughout the streets.
Beaufort is a wonderful town for history and has so many stories. The graveyard is a really great place to go and has a lot of stories behind the graves. I’ve been going to Beaufort my entire life and would like to live there once I’m done with college. But I really suggest it and the Ghost walk is quite fun as well.
J.J. Vad says: |
January 6, 2010, 4:39 pm |
Boy, do all of you people need to go to grammar school. If you are referring to someone using you’re, it is short for “you are”; as in, you’re stupid…try reading some books you people.
Taylor says: |
January 6, 2010, 8:12 pm |
J.J., maybe you should try that as well seeing as your punctuation use is so horrible. Either way, this is to talk about the Hammock House, not someone’s grammar. Which as I said earlier, with no grammar mistakes I might add, is a wonderful place to go if you enjoy a good story and history mixed with some local legends. I for one love the stories, but if you are not the type of person to enjoy story telling then this might not be for you. (:
dukeomaniac says: |
October 19, 2010, 8:51 pm |
My grandfather’s brother owned the Hammock House years ago and during my childhood I went inside on numerous occasions with my grandfather in the late 1960′s. Yes, there were stains on the narrow staircase. It was very creepy inside and I remember being glad to leave. My grandfather owned the little cottage on the large lot beside the Hammock House. I stayed there many, many summers and never heard the first scream next door and believe me, I kept my eyes and ears on the place at night! I also remember when Sears did a commercial on the Hammock House for their “Weatherbeater”
paint. It was really cool to have been a part of the hammock Houseand and NC history. I recently visited Beaufort and rode by the old place. It has been nicely restored but still gave me that “creepy” feeling I had as a child, as though the house remembered me as well.
Amy Boyd says: |
April 5, 2011, 12:54 pm |
ive been to that house ive heard the noises and ive seen the blood i believe in ghost unlike disbelievers
Mark says: |
May 25, 2011, 1:51 pm |
I am planning on taking a trip to the emerald isle and was wondering if there are anyone in the area that would allow me to conduct an investigation at some of the haunted sites in Beaufort NC Please contact beore june 4th thanks
Brandi says: |
June 12, 2011, 1:23 am |
I live in NC and go to Beaufort every October for a month of vacation with my family. Black Beard is real (Edward Teach) He had a house here and in Bath NC. My family and I did one of the Ghost walks for fun at night and we actually got some really great pictures that actually show a man and a womans face in the windows of the house. They have also found his ship wrecked off of our coast. It is a very interesting place to visit. You may or may not see anything but nobody has to be rude to anybody over this. Respect everyone’s thoughts.
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Sean Dye says:
March 9, 2009, 3:15 pm
About a year ago, we opened an online store calld, “The Hammock House.” This store sells hammocks and all hammock accessories. We are currently doing everything we can, within our power, to get our website on all the search engines. We’re a friendly store with an enthusiastic and friendly team of website operators and store owners. We hope there will be no confusion with our store and your establishment in Beaufort, North Carolina since the names are the same.
Please let us know if you have any confusion or problems because of this.
Thank You,
The Hammock House