Elizabeth City in the Spotlight Again

Just when one cable television show makes waves in The Harbor of Hospitality, another one comes right on its heels. The show “Today in America” just announced that Elizabeth City will be one of its “Hidden Gems.” Now the Travel Channel comes in and spends a week in Elizabeth City taping an episode of one of its popular shows, “The Dead Files.” Seems producers at the show caught wind of our famous 110 year-old murder mystery, The Mysterious Death of Nell Cropsey. Armed with a rather large production team, the Travel Channel folks pointed their cameras at the famed Cropsey House, it’s current owners and a whole lot of local folks familiar with this compelling unsolved mystery. And while they were at it, the film crew wandered around town shooting what they said was undoubtedly a very beautiful town (they called it “B roll” shooting) for background purposes. The show will air sometime in May. We’ll let you know when the date is announced. It will attempt to unravel the mystery of who killed Nell Cropsey. It might also reveal the nature of the reported haunting in the house. That’s right, a good old-fashioned haunted house, a Victorian-era house to boot. We have a lot of those beautiful old “painted ladies” in Elizabeth City. So now the question on everyone’s mind in these parts is:  Who will visit next? Come on down and find out why folks come from far and wide to experience Southern hospitality-Elizabeth City style. And find out why we attract all of these Hollywood types.