HunterDotNet

That’s not the kind of story you just shrug off, and you were right to trust your gut.

I’ve worked western NC on and off for years. There are a few compounds out that way — old money, old hate, and older secrets. Some are just armed bigots with too much cash and too little supervision. But every now and then you find a place where the symbols on the walls aren’t just for show.

Places built the way you described — heavy fortifications, stonework, carved iconography — they’re usually patterned after ritual architecture, not just aesthetics. Doesn’t mean the owners know what they’re doing, but somebody in that lineage did.

The “no helicopters” thing bothers me. That kind of confidence usually comes from more than bullets.

You did the right thing keeping your head down. Those folks weren’t just protecting a house — they were protecting whatever they’ve been feeding their fear into.

If you remember anything else about the layout — towers, symbols, number of floors — post it. Not here to sensationalize anything. Just making sure nobody else walks past that place without knowing what they’re stepping into.

First and foremost, this is not a joke or satire, I came across this back in 2023 and never spoke about it to anyone or posted it to any forum prior to this post. Only a handful of people know about this, but I know that there are more people who know and haven't said anything, I can't find anything on it on the web at all. I've been a wildland firefighter for a couple years now but one year in 2023, I was sent to the southeast to help out here in Ashville. On a random day in November, my crew was sent to build a line along a trail that was part of the trail of tears (native American trail of tears) so the fire wouldn't cross it. Nothing different from any old day, throw sticks and cut stuff. When we walked into these woods, we just passed through this trailer park, regular deal, confederate flags flying and whatnot. I was one of few poc on that crew so I cracked a joke to lighten the mood and we kept on. Our route off the hill was longer, however. Before we crossed this one section, the entire crew was stopped by the crew boss and briefed about a property we were gonna pass. He said "Don't look at this property, don't take any pictures of this property, the people living there are dangerous and will retaliate if we do." I've met some crazies on these mountains so I didn't pay it any mind and followed directions. From afar, I saw its black roof and looked down from then onward. We cut in from the woods in the back of this property and walked along the black fence that surrounded it till we passed it. I remember side eyeing the property as I looked down and seeing a huge backyard and grey brick walls, nothing crazy, just probably one of them mansions. That's all I saw from the corner of my eyes though. We walked out through the trailer park and along a paved road to this ranger station where we readied our things for the next day and headed back to base. It was only when we got back that I was told this mansion had nazi symbols and insignia carved into its walls, machine guns mounted on its second-floor windows, was a medium sized castle, and had nazi statues. This was years ago so my memory of it is kinda vague, but I was also told the reason we were called to that fire was because the people who lived in that castle threatened to shoot the Mexican crew that was there before us. The reason there were no helicopters there was because these people threatened to shoot down the helicopters. The only people who didn't see the castle were me and the other nonwhite folks on the crew. Everyone else knew they could look at it because it wouldn't cost them their lives. We weren't told till after we left that we had guns pointed at us and if any of us looked up and it was discovered that we weren't white, we would've been shot. Just want people to know that tucked behind a trailer park in west NC and a walk away from a ranger station, there is a nazi castle where god knows what goes on in.