One place that should get more attention for its eerie and haunted locations is Graniteville, South Carolina. In the past, we have covered the Graniteville Cemetery, but we love to research to uncover more ghost stories that are not readily available. If you are a long-time reader of The Lantern, you probably have guessed that any haunts associated with roads are my favorite. I am not encouraging people to venture out tonight during a category four hurricane, but nights like these are always a great time to read a scary tale.
If you find yourself traveling from the Vaucluse community towards Graniteville on SC-191 or vice versa, along Horse Creek, and see lights or even what appears to be a young woman walking, you may want to keep driving. According to an online site, “I travel this road a lot night and day. I saw a young woman walking alone one afternoon, holding her hand to her head. I passed her and then turned around to see if she was OK. As I got back to where I saw her, a grey mist was on the road, and I went to the lake on the other side. The woman was gone. There are no houses or other side roads. No cars were in front or behind me. No cars met me on the road.”
Many wrecks have occurred along this stretch of road. Even Tally Johnson mentions in Ghosts of the South Carolina Midlands that on stormy nights, a ghostly woman is said to walk the area, waving a bloody murder weapon. Grab a copy of his book to read the story.
Another person commented, “This same road, I was coming home late 12 or 1 in the morning. I saw lights coming towards me on the road, so I dimmed my headlights, thinking it was another car. But no car came. I came around a curve and saw what looked like two people sitting in a ditch, but they never looked at my truck as I got closer. They just vanished. I found out later that the curve was a scene of a two-car fatal accident in the early 90s, and four people died.”
We want to thank the doctor of paranormal research and master storyteller, Lewis O. Powell IV, with the Southern Spirit Guide, for his assistance with this article.
Written By: John G. Clark Jr.
