In the 1800s, a railroad track once ran near Summerville, near Charleston, South Carolina. According to local lore, the wife of a train conductor would travel a nearby dirt road every night, carrying a lantern in hand at midnight to greet her husband with a meal as he passed through the area. One night, the…
The Boo Hag
On humid nights along the South Carolina and Georgia coast, when the moon hangs low and the marshes whisper, elders gather to share one of the Gullah community’s most chilling tales: the legend of the Boo Hag. They speak in hushed voices of a creature unlike any ordinary ghost, a skinless and sinewy being, red…