“The Sykes, the Bryants and the Buys were all families the air station purchased land from, so the tale of Kissie Sykes has been around for quite some time,” said Lehew. I had never even heard of Kissie Sykes until then and it knocked me back.”īut did Styron really experience a visit from Cherry Point’s infamous Kissie Sykes? Or was the laughter he heard that of her children, who are rumored to haunt Cherry Point while their mother, Sykes, endlessly searches for them?īrie Lehew, the air station’s historian, says that the Sykes’ were among three families the air station purchased land from prior to its completion. “It said that she haunts the flight line and when she is around you can hear children playing or laughing. “I was reading about a woman named Kissie Sykes,” he said. Styron said he dismissed the laughter and forgot about the whole incident for almost 30 years, never thinking twice about it, until he read a blog online that made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. “We brushed it off at first because we thought, ‘Why would there be kids playing this early on a flight line?’” “It sounded like kids were playing at a playground which was the oddest thing,” said Styron. when he and his coworkers were replacing the center mat of the flight line, the intersection where the four runways meet, when they heard something eerie and out of place, something that couldn’t be real. The legend states that she was separated from her children in the process and she is now said to be forever searching for them.Įarly one morning in 1986, Jeff Styron woke up to start his day and headed to work like he had been doing every day since he started his job in the Resident Officer in Charge of Construction Office in 1984. Some believe they now haunt the air station.Īccording to the most popular story, early in the construction of Cherry Point’s flight line Kissie’s gravesite was moved in order to make room for the project. A popular legend among personnel at Cherry Point is the ghost of Kissie Sykes, a woman who was buried here with her two children long before the air station existed. MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C.
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