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What they forgot to tell you.

Haint Stories follows North Carolina history beyond the familiar telling—through the surviving record, the people in it, and stories imagined from its edges.

Begin with Hayes Pond
Battle of Hayes Pond historical marker beside a road near Maxton
Historical marker commemorating the confrontation near Hayes Pond · Photo: Dudetheking / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

From the record / Hayes Pond

The marker does not tell you everything.

Near Maxton, a state highway marker commemorates the confrontation at Hayes Pond on January 18, 1958. It preserves the outcome in a few lines. The fuller account asks how the Klan arrived in Robeson County and how local people met it.

This short entry demonstrates the reading layout. It is not a finished historical essay.

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Historical essays, fiction, films, and audio, with notes on the records behind them.

These are prototype entries. The archive will grow as finished work is selected and prepared for publication.

About Haint Stories

North Carolina,
Filed Away.

Haint Stories is a home for research-led essays, fiction, films, and audio rooted in North Carolina and the wider South. We follow sources carefully and leave room for the questions they cannot settle.

Founded by Hector Henry III. Film work is produced through Blue Oxford Productions.

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