South Carolina

A haunted location: Murrell in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina.

Details: All Saint’s Episcopal Cemetery – Alice of the Hermitage is buried here.  A flat gravestone with just the name ALICE is located beneath a huge oak.  Legend has it if you walk around her grave 13 times backwards and call her name twice she will come out over the old brick wall at the back of the cemetery.

She is looking for her engagement ring that was lost in a creek.

A haunted location: Evans Building in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Details: The Evans Building was originally a black high school, and later was turned into an office building.

There is still a basketball court there, where from the upper balcony you can hear the squeaks of tennis shoes and the sound of dribbling late at night.

Footsteps have also been heard in the hallways.

A haunted location: Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Details: Hazel B.

Abbott theatre – resides the ghost of Miss Hazel.  She is not too friendly.  You definitely feel a cold presence, and if you sit in her seat, you will be haunted for a while.

People have heard strange noises in the prop room, etc.

A haunted location: Hester Store in Dacusville, South Carolina.

Details: An African American was hung in the back of the old store in an oak and it is said you can still see him hanging at night.

Also, in the top window, you can see an old lady rocking in her chair.

A haunted location: The Tunnel in Gray Court, South Carolina.

Details: an old lady lived at the end of the road from the tunnel, and had neighbors above the tunnel, there was a young boy there at the neighbors, he went to borrow eggs one day and thought that the old lady had a lot of money, he was just going to knock her out and take her money, instead when he hit her he killed her.

Now on rainy days as you pass through the tunnel you can see the old lady and hear her cries of pain.

A haunted location: Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Details: Memorial Hall – Coker College has a ghost that roams the halls of one of the dorms.

It is said that the spirit is of a girl who hanged herself in an elevator shaft.

College students have heard strange and disturbing noises during the night.

Alarm clocks will come on in the middle of the night, and radios will cut off without anyone touching them.

The elevator Shaft has since been made into a stairwell.

A haunted location: Parker’s Ferry Road in Edisto Island, South Carolina.

Details: Edisto Island Hwy 1 There is a straight road called Parker’s Ferry Road that has a church at the end.

If you pull up into the church’s driveway, turn your headlights out, honk 3 times, then pull back out into the road facing the way you came.

A circle of lights will come at you.

Supposedly, it has something to do with a battle fought near there.

– March 2004 additional info: On Edisto Island there is a church w/ a ghost in its graveyard.

A haunted location: Old Exchange Building in Charleston, South Carolina.

Details: The Old Exchange contains much history.

It’s basement is said to have held some of the world’s greatest criminals such as Black Beard.  In the basement, people have experienced chains swinging and orbs.

Upstairs, doors have closed by themselves and there are a few cold spots.

Many people have experienced such activity.

A haunted location: Taxahaw in Lancaster, South Carolina.

Details: Forty Acre Rock – The legend is told you can start walking in the cave at dusk, it looks like its only fifteen or twenty feet deep but you can walk in about ten or twelve feet and see red eyes but no one has  never been deeper than that, but it is told that you can walk about 2 miles before getting to the end, and it will come out at big creek (Lynches River).

A haunted location: Old State Road in West Columbia, South Carolina.

Details: A railroad crossing where a school bus was hit by a train in the 70’s.  If you put your car in neutral on the tracks, it is rumored that it will be “pushed” across the tracks by the spirits of the dead children.

Reports of visitors puting baby powder on their bumper and seeing hand prints after their episode.