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Haunted Grave | Ghosts & Legends II

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* Please note: This ghost story is not recommended for all audiences due to mature subject matter. The Old Stone Church was established in the 1780s by Andrew Pickens. In the cemetery, there is a...
Inn at Merridun | Ghosts & Legends II

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The house was built in 1855 by the mayor of Union. In about 1900, the house was named the Merridun. The house was bought in 1990, and the owners started working on it in 1992. They started seeing a...
Hunter's Store | Ghosts & Legends II

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The building that now houses the Pendleton District Commission was built in 1850. In 1870, the Hunter family bought it and opened the Hunter's Store, owned by the Hunter brothers. In the 1890s, there...
Ghost of Zoe: Poogan's Porch | Ghosts & Legends II

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Ghost of Zoe at Poogan's Porch, Charleston, S.C. Poogan's Porch has been located on Queen Street in Charleston, S.C. since 1976. Zoe St. Amand and her sister, Elizabeth, were spinsters who lived...
Drunken Jack, The Pirate | Ghosts and Legends III

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From Pawleys Island, S.C. During the golden age of piracy, there came an afternoon on which a pirate ship sailed into Murrell's Inlet to bury a treasure they would imbibe in that very night. By late...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III

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From Pawleys Island, S.C. Plowden C.J. Weston went to England to be educated but returned to his beloved Pawleys Island, where he and his lovely English wife, Emily Esdaille Weston, built the Pelican...
The Bouquet: Stede Bonnet | Ghosts & Legends III

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Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, was executed on December 10, 1718. In the Legend of The Bouquet, we learn that on the day of his execution, after a foiled escape attempt, he was escorted to the...
Longstreet Theatre | Ghosts & Legends III

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Ann C. Dreher, professor of Theater at USC, discusses Longstreet Theatre, and tells of the building's past uses as a hospital and a morgue, as well as a seminary. When people are there at night, the...