There are actually a few reasons why Peace Haven is haunted...
The first reason is, as we all know, it's bad luck to build on the sight of a former race track. Building on sacred ground will surely invite paranormal activity. It is said by the homeowners that on dark and stormy full moon Sunday evenings that fall on Halloween, a ghostly sound of 20 flathead '30s coupes can be heard roaring towards them from a distance, only to vanish as they open the front door. Why on Halloween? That brings us to our second reason...
The first NASCAR race at the track was held on that day in 1948...
The third reason... The story of little Wilbur Figg.
The story goes that little Wilbur wanted badly to go see the races on that day in '48, but his extremely superstitious parents thought it was bad luck to go see car race on Sunday, let alone Halloween, so they said no. He begged and begged but they forbid him from going which devastated little Wilbur. So that afternoon after getting home from church little Wilbur sneaked out his bedroom window, jumped on his bike and road to the track. He tried to get in but they wouldn't let him without a ticket. So he did what all the other boys were doing and found a nice strong tree to climb behind the fence on the backstretch.
It just so happened that the previous night saw heavy rain and the large creek behind the track was still very swollen with runoff water. Wilbur, high atop the tree, was cheering on the race and having the time of his life when a car smashes through the fence and slams into the very tree he clung to. Poor Wilbur hung on for dear life but to no avail. That tree whipped and slung him clear into that raging creek. Poor Wilbur was never to be found.
The story goes, that on those stormy Halloween Sundays that you hear those roaring coupes coming for you, you can also see the ghostly white image of Wilbur Figg in the tree tops cheering them on.
True story.
