pHaints of the Hillsem is a collection of 27 haunted tales from North Carolina's mountainous west.ppbrppemHaints of the Hillsem collects ghost stories from North Carolina's mountainous west as part of the Haunted North Carolina series. This book includes stories told around campfires, in grandma's attic, and on nighttime drives on the curvy roads of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There is a story for each county in western North Carolina, twenty-seven in all, among them tales of ghosts, witches, demons, spook lights, unidentified flying objects, unexplained phenomena, and more.ppReaders will be chilled to learn of the red-and-white-striped monstrosity that may still inhabit the Valley River at the site the Indians called the Leech Place, as told in the Cherokee County story, The Giant Bloodsucker. They'll be warmed by the Christ-like stranger who came to Bat Cave to repair a rift between neighbors, then vanished as mysteriously as he arrived, as revealed in the Henderson County story, The C