Out of the many homes for sale Wilmington NC and other parts of North Carolina, there are certain trends that we find when we observe the sanitary standards of a home. Below, we are going to break down 5 places in your home that you might not be cleaning properly!

1. Knobs, Handles, Switches

These things are famously overlooked when people are cleaning their homes. If you think about it, these are also some of dirtiest items in your home. You should ideally clean these things every week. Otherwise, you can easily have germs racking up and adding up for years!

2. Window Blinds

Window blinds are something that can easily collect dust over time. If you are concerned with having fresh air, and overall sanitary living conditions, this is something you need to clean! Ideally, clean your window blinds once a week or every other week.

3. Ceiling Fans

Many of the people seeking a home for sale Ogden, NC and other locations in the state of North Carolina want to have a ceiling fan. The main issue with a ceiling fan is that you cannot easily see what piles up on top of the blades. Unless you want to breathe in a dose of dust when you turn on the fan, wipe the fan down.

4. Washing Machine & Dryer

These appliances are trusted by you for keeping your clothes clean. If they aren’t clean, how can you ever expect your clothes to be a high standard of cleanliness? You couldn’t. Therefore, do your part to keep your cleaning appliances clean!

5. Flooring

Sadly, the flooring of a home is one of the most commonly missed parts while people clean their homes. Just like knobs, handles, and switches, they also can rack up lots of dirty germs and gross stuff. Every week you should use a broom and then wet mop your floors. If you have carpet, get them steam cleaned routinely.

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One of the first ghost stories I ever heard/read was about the Maco Station Apparition. The following is a mixture of my own memory of the story and a bit copied from this book I found at work.

Joe Baldwin was a railroad conductor who worked the Wilmington-Florence-Augusta line (Wilmington is my hometown!). One night in 1867, he was standing in the caboose, his train heading home to Wilmington. As the train approached the little Maco Station (about an hour from Wilmington by car), Joe felt it slowing down. He knew something had to be wrong because there was no stop scheduled there. It was then that he realized the rear coach and caboose had come uncoupled from the rest of the train and were slowing to a halt. Moments later, a second train came roaring down the track. The engineer of the second train had no idea the cars were stopped- it would have been impossible to tell until it was too late. 
According to some versions of the story, Joe raced along the coach urging passengers to jump out as he headed to the rear platform to warn the oncoming train of his loose cars. He grabbed a signal lantern and waved it repeatedly from the platform, but the second train couldn't stop. Joe kept waving the light, doing his best to save the passengers and his train until the moment the train slammed into the stopped cars. In an instant the cars were destroyed and Joe was decapitated. His lantern flew into the swamp by the tracks but his head was never found; it's a matter of public record- Joe Baldwin was buried headless. 

Not long after the crash, people began saying they'd seen mysterious lights along the tracks. Usually they reported a white light that looked like a swinging signal lantern moving up and down the tracks at Maco Station. It appeared so often that train engineers on the route starting using red and green signal lights so their signals wouldn't be confused with the phantom white light.

The story goes that it's Joe Baldwin, searching the tracks and the surrounding swamps for his lost head.