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\u201cShouldn\u2019t we get out of this place?\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A game of 8-ball was underway on the middle table of the Royal James in Beaufort, and Joe and Mary Grady Norkus sat at the end of the bar, drinking a beer and watching.  After a spell, Mary called me over \u2013 we had not seen each other in many a year \u2013 and soon Joe said he had a tale for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe and Mary had been married for a couple of years, and they drove down east to spend a gray, chilly Halloween weekend at the Rose of Tillery Inn<\/em>, a bed and breakfast in Edenton with an Irishwoman as its innkeeper.  She checked them in \u2013 they were the only guests at the Inn that night and the next — and led them upstairs to \u201cthe Captain\u2019s Room,\u201d all B&B rooms seeming by some invisible statute to be required to have names in keeping with the family history of the home or something in the local culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second night — Halloween — after walking around the small port town, gazing at the wrought-iron railings of its antique downtown homes and at all the amusing, if ghoulishly-carved, jack-o-lanterns on those old homes\u2019 porches, the couple retired about ten o\u2019clock.  Sometime well after midnight, Joe awoke abruptly when he heard their room\u2019s door open, that sound followed by heavy footsteps upon the wooden floor.  <\/p>\n\n\n

\n Sometime well after midnight, Joe awoke abruptly when he heard their room\u2019s door open, that sound followed by heavy footsteps upon the wooden floor…\n <\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Enough ambient light fell into the room from a security lamp outside for him to have seen whoever it was that had entered, yet Joe saw nothing.  The footsteps strode over to the bathroom door, which opened, and moments later came the sound of the commode flushing, after which the footsteps reversed order, came out of the bathroom and crossed the bedroom.  The door to the hall opened, then closed, and there was an end to it.  Mary had awakened in the midst of the incident, heard as much and seen as little as Joe, and she then asked him,  \u201cShould we check out of here?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d he said.  \u201cDid whatever that<\/em> was hurt us?  We should just go back to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Till along about three-thirty, when Joe woke up and this time saw the white, spectral image of a woman with an old-fashioned double-bun in her hair — she was sitting on the mattress at the end of the bed, just looking at them.  He awakened Mary, who immediately saw the woman\u2019s image, too, and they stared at the specter — and she at them — till after a quarter hour or so she slowly dissolved before their eyes and disappeared.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Prohibition Era rumrunner burns his boat to destroy the evidence. According to Bland Simpson’s tale, Edenton’s specter, a former rumrunner himself, went down off the North Carolina coast in a Subchaser. Credit: U.S. Coast Guard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Again Mary asked Joe, \u201cShouldn\u2019t we get out of this place?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to drive back to Raleigh at 3:30 in the morning, Mary,\u201d he said.  \u201cLet\u2019s just get some sleep and maybe nothing else\u2019ll happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And nothing did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They went down for breakfast early, finding the Irishwoman up ahead of them, busily trying to get a breakfast together for them, but having quite a hard time of it.  \u201cShe was clearly nervous, agitated, and she kept dropping things, a spatula, a big knife, and clattering pots and pans together, so we said, \u2018Hey, can we help?\u2019 to which the woman replied:  \u2018No, no — did you all notice anything strange last night?\u2019\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe slowly answered \u201cYes,\u201d and then described the incident of the doors and the footsteps and the flushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was the Captain,\u201d the Irishwoman said.  \u201cHe was very proud of the plumbing in this place — he was a rumrunner, bought the best there was, and he was showing it off for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\n \u201cThat was the Captain,\u201d the Irishwoman said.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHe was very proud of the plumbing in this place \u2013 he was a rumrunner, bought the best there was, and he was showing it off for you.\u201d\n <\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joe next told her of the woman who had sat at the foot of the bed regarding them.  \u201cWho was she<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was the Captain\u2019s wife!  His boat, an old sub-chaser, went down in a hurricane off Ocracoke back in the \u201920s, and she\u2019s still here, still looking for him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amalgam of the two spectral incidents, however explained, and the over-anxious innkeeper were enough to propel the Norkuses quickly away from the Rose of Tillery <\/em>(before having any breakfast, though not before the innkeeper\u2019s big black cat slowly crossed their path as they came out onto the front porch to leave), and they returned from Edenton up to Raleigh that All Hallow\u2019s Day with what they thought was plenty of a tale to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet early the next day, Joe Norkus got a call at work from the Sheriff of Chowan County, who said he had picked up Joe\u2019s name and number from the Rose of Tillery\u2019s<\/em> guest ledger.  \u201cSay, did you happen to notice anything out of the ordinary while you were staying there?\u201d the Sheriff asked.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n \u201cThere was no sign of foul play,\u201d said the Chowan sheriff, \u201cbut we found her yesterday, lying amongst pots and pans, a knife sharpener and a broken casserole dish, there on the kitchen floor, dead.\u201d\n <\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joe, holding back about the specters, began by telling him of the innkeeper\u2019s startling anxiety on Sunday morning, her dropping utensils and seeming acutely disoriented as she went about breakfast preparations.  \u201cWhy?\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was no sign of foul play,\u201d said the Chowan sheriff, \u201cbut we found her yesterday, lying amongst pots and pans, a knife sharpener and a broken casserole dish, there on the kitchen floor, dead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDead?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStone cold dead.  So how about lettin\u2019 me know if you think of anything else?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a several-seconds pause, Joe said, \u201cWell, there was<\/em> another couple, who showed up very late <\/em>Halloween night.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t signed in,\u201d the Sheriff replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t be,\u201d Joe said, an unheard whisper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd there was no car on the street or \u2019round back, just the innkeeper\u2019s.  What did you make of them at breakfast?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe left early,\u201d said Joe, \u201cso we never saw them.  We got a feeling the innkeeper knew exactly who they were, though.  Maybe they came to the Inn in .  . . an odd way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf only she could tell us more about them,\u201d said the Sheriff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Joe said.  \u201cIf only she could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


More from Bland Simpson in Coastwatch<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Snake Hunting One Summer”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTurtle Road\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPublic Trust: A Fisherman Challenged at Rich Inlet\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRemembering Hurricane Hazel\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Straits by Skipjack\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrossing the Mighty Neuse\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOut at Hatteras\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Wet and Water Loving Land\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

on the inspiration for Two Captains from Carolina: Moses Grandy, John Newland Maffitt, and the Coming of the Civil War<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books from Bland Simpson <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

lead photo credit: Adobe Stock.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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