South Carolina

A haunted location: US 378 Between Sumter And Columbia in Wateree River Swamp Bridge, South Carolina.

Details: Where US 76 crosses the Wateree River between Sumter and Richland counties, South Carolina, the westbound bridge has been haunted by a phantom hitchhiker, a young woman who is trying to get to Columbia to see her ill mother.

She appears solid and holds a brief conversation before she disappears when the Good Samaritan who picks her up drives over the bridge.

She has been reportedly seen since the 1930’s when the bridge was new.

A haunted location: Pickens County Museum in Pickens, South Carolina.

Details: It was once a jail in the early 1800s.

Many people died there and they say you can see some ghostly figures and hear some moaning during the night.

A haunted location: Strawberry Chapel in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

Details: It is said to be haunted by a young girl who was chained to a tombstone there by her father.

– May 2008 Update: The police regularly patrol this area and you will be arrested for trespassing if you are caught inside of the churchyard, especially at night.

A haunted location: Farm in Lancaster, South Carolina.

Details: Mattresses moving, orbs & ecto type mist in pictures and home movies.

One woman was attacked by unseen hands as it tried to choke her leaving marks on her neck.

A haunted location: Rock Church Graveyard in Greenwood, South Carolina.

Details: in the graveyard at rock church many strange happenings have occurred.  The graveyard is very old, some headstones are just rocks. The grass doesn’t grow around some headstones at all.

At night sometimes singing can be heard.

White mists have been seen circling around the church on clear sunny days with no fog or dark clouds in the sky.

A white figure of a man has been seen in the in the house beside the church in the master bedroom.

A haunted location: Children’s Graveyard in Greenville, South Carolina.

Details: A graveyard behind Hickory Point gas station near Furman U., mainly for children.

Tombstones range from the late 1700’s to late 1800’s.

Lights, laughter, running sounds.

– May 2008 Additional Info – If you drive just past it there is a short unmarked road.

The trail leading into the graveyard is at the end of this road to the right.

A haunted location: Bethabara Church Cemetery in Cross Hill, South Carolina.

Details: A soldier that served in the Civil War is buried here, it is said that his cross glows about 3 times a year.

And the color changes 4 times or so before returning to the normal rust color.

A haunted location: Poogans Porch Restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina.

Details: Guests of the hotel across the street at the hotel have called the police numerous times claiming to see an old woman in the 2nd floor window at night when the place is closed waving at them.

Restaurant staff is familiar with her too.

There is another ghost that haunts this restaurant, one that is much friendlier than the other ghost, Zoe.

There is a little West Highland White Terrier, named Poogin, who haunts the front of the porch.

A haunted location: Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.

Details: Reports of an apparition of a man that seems to be trying to remove a bullet from someone.

A haunted location: Riverside Estates in Cayce, South Carolina.

Details: In the early 19th century, the land currently occupied by the Riverside Estates Apartment Complex was a plantation adjacent to the Congaree River.

Documentation states that the plantation owner would discard unwanted slave babies into the outhouses and as a result, they would die from in suffocation in human excrement.

Today, many of the residents claim to hear babies crying in their toilets.