History & local legend
Greene Academy of Art occupies an old school building in Carmichaels, beside Laurel Point Cemetery. Local accounts link the two places through a recurring nighttime scene: shadowy figures supposedly leave the academy and walk toward the graves.
The account collected by the Shadowlands attributes sightings to neighbors and people keeping watch inside the building. Those on the night watch also reported footsteps on the second floor when they could find no one there.
A local burial-ground tradition supplies an explanation for the figures’ route. Markers from an earlier cemetery behind the academy were said to have been moved to Laurel Point. In the ghost story, the shadows repeat that journey, crossing from the former school toward the newer resting place. Visit Greene also includes the academy and adjacent cemetery among the county’s reported haunted locations.
