The area known as "The Devils Stairs" is on NC 194 about six miles north of West Jefferson in Ashe County. Near the junction of SR 1507 (or Stanley road) is a bridge that spans Buffalo Creek. To the left of the bridge is a rock formation of four near perfect stairs, each nearly twelve feet high. The formation was man made in the early 1900's for a railway. But the number of hauntings in the area goes back farther than we know.

As with many ghost stories, South Carolina's tragic tale of the Baynard Crypt is about love lost. An incurable disease, a broken heart lasting a lifetime and a warning those who would desicrate the dead. But all in all, this tale has a ghostly happy ending.