Carolina Stories: Ghost and Legends of South Carolina III, hosted by Aunt Pearlie Sue, explores two famous ghosts with roots on Pawleys Island, “The Gray Man” and “Alice of the Hermitage.” The program also investigates Bubba the Ghost at the South Carolina State Museum, and the ghosts of the University of South Carolina’s Longstreet Theatre. The Carolina Stories crew goes back to Charleston to unearth tales of buried treasure and other legendary pirate stories.
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Drunken Jack, the Pirate: Pawleys Island, S.C. During the golden age of piracy, there came an afternoon on which a pirate ship sailed into Murrell's Inlet to bury a treasure they would imbibe in that...
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The Gray Man, Pawleys Island, S.C. Plowden C.J. Weston went to England to be educated but returned to his beloved Pawleys Island, where he and his lovely English wife, Emily Esdaille Weston, built the...
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Restless Spirits, Charleston, S.C. Do you know why pirates wore gold hoop earrings? Was it a fashion statement? Or was there more to it?
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Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate, was executed on December 10, 1718. In the Legend of The Bouquet, we learn that on the day of his execution, after a foiled escape attempt, he was escorted to the...
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This is the story of a pirate captain who buried treasure at 37 Meeting Street in Charleston. He later found one of his supposedly trusted crewmen attempting to dig up the captain's treasure. There...
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Ann C. Dreher, professor of Theater at USC, discusses Longstreet Theatre, and tells of the building's past uses as a hospital and a morgue, as well as a seminary. When people are there at night, the...
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The story of Alice Flagg of Georgetown, who became very ill and died of malaria while in boarding school at the age of 15. Alice's fiance' had given her a diamond ring, but her brother disapproved and...
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This is the story of Bubba the Ghost from the S.C. State Museum.