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Stumphouse Tunnel | Ghosts & Legends II

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Stumphouse Tunnel | Ghosts & Legends II
​Stumphouse Tunnel was built in the 1850s in Walhalla, S.C. The tunnel was built to connect the railway between Charleston and Knoxville. The men who built the tunnel worked twelve hours a day, seven...
Haunted Grave | Ghosts & Legends II

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Haunted Grave | Ghosts & Legends II
* Please note: This ghost story is not recommended for all audiences due to mature subject matter. The Old Stone Church was established in the 1780s by Andrew Pickens. In the cemetery, there is a...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III Drunken Jack, The Pirate | Ghosts and Legends III

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Drunken Jack, The Pirate | Ghosts and Legends III
From 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 very night. By late...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III

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Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III
From 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 Pelican...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III Restless Spirits | Ghosts and Legends III

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Restless Spirits | Ghosts and Legends III
From Charleston, S.C. Do you know why pirates wore gold hoop earrings? Was it a fashion statement? Or was there more to it?
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III Alice of The Hermitage | Ghosts & Legends III

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Alice of The Hermitage | Ghosts & Legends III
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...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III The Bouquet: Stede Bonnet | Ghosts & Legends III

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The Bouquet: Stede Bonnet | Ghosts & Legends III
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...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III Longstreet Theatre | Ghosts & Legends III

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Longstreet Theatre | Ghosts & Legends III
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...
Gray Man | Ghosts & Legends III Pirate Captain's Buried Treasure | Ghosts & Legends III

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Pirate Captain's Buried Treasure | Ghosts & Legends III
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...