The Thomas Rose House in Charleston, South Carolina, is unique, as it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is also publicly listed as haunted. Who haunts this place that sits on 59 Church Street? His name is Dr. Joseph Brown Ladd – known today as The Whistling Doctor. Witnesses say that…
The Ghosts of River’s Bridge
It is said that since the Battle of Rivers Bridge of 1865, every February from the 2nd to the 4th, you will experience continuous rain at the battleground site. Between these three days, there is a single night where the battle will start again, as if in a ghostly time loop. Nineteen different witnesses heard…
The Strand Theatre of Georgetown
Georgetown is a beautiful city along the South Carolina coast, and it is also known as the “Ghost Capital of the South.” Many long-term residents still walk among the living here. One location that is said to be haunted is the Strand Theatre, located at 710 Front Street. Several online sources, like the Southern Spirit…
Hear the Haunted Guitar Riffs from a Famous Musician in this Town
The Sarah Riley Hooks House is a reported haunted dwelling with a dark past in Bluffton, South Carolina. Sarah was a retired nurse and the daughter of a prominent Bluffton family. Her son, Anthony Earl John “Toney” Hooks, became a famous guitarist for Sly and the Family Stone and the Ohio Players, until his death…
The Haunting of Stamey Livestock Road in Sumter
Sumter appears to be a paranormal hotspot, with several stories of apparitions still roaming the grounds of the county today. One story is from Stamey Livestock Road, where five Air Force airmen who went out for a little boozing action in the 1980s, drank too much, and ran into Booth’s Pond. Two of the men…
Molly’s Rock Picnic Area in South Carolina is More Than a Picnic
They say life is a picnic, but in this place of gloom and doom, it is more like a five-course meal. Molly’s Rock Picnic Area may sound like a happy little place where families gather to enjoy nature, but this place has a dark side. The old Flag Lake is no longer a lake, and…
Yogi Bear Honey Fried Chicken: South Carolina History
We all loved Yogi Bear so much that we decided to cash in on his popularity during the 1950s. Celebrity restaurants were popular at the time, and Gene Broome set out to find the next big thing to bring to South Carolina. Broome reached an arrangement with Hanna-Barbera for the naming rights to the franchise….
The Creepiest Ghost Town in South Carolina
Down an eerie old road outside of Lockhart sits one of the earliest settlements of South Carolina. Pinckneyville is the real ghost town of this state that will stop your heart and raise the hair on your arms. The Pinckney District was created in 1791 and comprised Union, Spartanburg, York, and Chester Counties. Three commissioners…
Bury me with a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and a pickax
The South Carolina Lowcountry is filled with legend & lore. One such story comes from Beaufort about a doctor who feared being buried alive after treating patients during the yellow fever epidemic. Dr. Perry was from a wealthy planter family who lived on St Helena Island. Victims of the fever would often slip into comas…
The Haunted History of Stumphouse Tunnel
Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel in Oconee County, South Carolina, is an incomplete tunnel for the Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina in Sumter National Forest. The tunnel was first proposed in 1835 by residents of Charleston, South Carolina, as a new and shorter route for the Blue Ridge Railroad between Charleston and the Ohio River valley…