“I’m exceedingly fine, sir, thank you, kind sir for having me. That I’m doing so well is saying something given that I’ve been dead for 246 years… But now I have a chance to rise from my unmarked grave and lead tours of downtown Hillsborough, telling my story, showing people three haunted houses.”

– Barney Caton as Enoch Pugh, Haunted Hillsborough

 

 

 

 

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