Wake Forest College
Wake Forest College is a college in Henderson, Washington County, Virginia. It is named in American Folklore Society's The journal of American folk-lore (1913) as the setting of a local legend.
What awaits
Legend. A legend recorded by American Folklore Society in 1913 holds that Wake Forest College in Henderson, Virginia is haunted. In the version that reached print, it began as a witchcraft accusation. The Haunted Guide carries it as early twentieth-century folklore from The journal of American folk-lore, not as established fact.
Sources: The journal of American folk-lore (American Folklore Society, 1913).
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