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Grave of Robert E. Harrill — The Fort Fisher Hermit

Carolina Beach, NC

Robert E. Harrill became a coastal celebrity after living for years in an abandoned World War II bunker near Fort Fisher and welcoming thousands of curious visitors. His grave preserves the story of the self-styled Fort Fisher Hermit after his mysterious death in 1972.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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