South — open filings

Open to visit in South Carolina

56 dossiers in South Carolina carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

56 open dossiers6 counties coveredOld Charleston Jail — deepest file

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Old Charleston Jail

Charleston, South Carolina

SCETV recounts visitors reporting supernatural encounters.

3 claims · 2 legends→

High confidence

Scape Ore Swamp

Bishopville, South Carolina

Wetland area associated with Lizard Man reports.

3 claims · 1 legend→

USS Harvest Moon wreck

Georgetown, South Carolina

Wreck with stowaway folklore.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Poogan’s Porch

Charleston, South Carolina

Queen Street restaurant haunted by the spinster sisters who owned it.

2 claims · 2 legends→

South Carolina State Museum

Columbia, South Carolina

Museum associated with published local folklore.

2 claims · 2 legends→

USS Yorktown at Patriots Point

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Ship associated with published local folklore.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Buncombe Road, Ghost Hound of Goshen area

Union, South Carolina

SCETV places ghost-hound folklore along this forest road.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Summerville Light

Summerville, South Carolina

The Lowcountry ghost light on the railroad grade.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Magnolia Plantation

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1679 plantation where the gardens opened to the public first.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Drayton Hall

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1747 Palladian masterpiece—unrestored and unforgettable.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Aiken-Rhett House

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1820 house preserved as the family left it—slaves’ quarters intact.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Circular Congregational Churchyard

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1695 graveyard—Charleston’s oldest English burying ground.

2 claims · 2 legends→

St. Michael’s Church

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1761 steeple—Charleston’s landmark and its churchyard dead.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Atalaya

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

The Huntingtons’ Moorish castle on the beach—built in the Depression.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Hopsewee

Georgetown, South Carolina

The 1740 plantation—Signer Lynch’s house, preserved almost untouched.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Georgetown Historic District

Georgetown, South Carolina

The 1729 port—the third-oldest city in South Carolina.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Battery Carriage House Inn

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston’s most storied haunted inn—three named ghosts across two houses.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Francis Marion Hotel

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston’s 1924 hotel—the "Bride of the Francis Marion."

2 claims · 1 legend→

Boone Hall

Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

The Avenue of Oaks—and the brick slave cabins that tell the truth.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Nathaniel Russell House

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1808 Federal masterpiece—the flying staircase and the garden.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Old Slave Mart

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1859 auction hall where the sales ended—the only one left.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Exchange and Provost Dungeon

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1771 exchange where the prisoners were kept below.

2 claims · 1 legend→

White Point Garden

Charleston, South Carolina

The Battery’s garden—where the executions and the shelling are remembered.

2 claims · 1 legend→

St. Philip’s Churchyard

Charleston, South Carolina

The churchyard where the gate is locked against the dead—DuBose Heyward’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hampton Park

Charleston, South Carolina

The park built on the Washington Race Course—where the first Memorial Day was held.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Angel Oak

Johns Island, South Carolina

The 400-year-old oak—65 feet tall, 17,000 square feet of shade.

2 claims · 1 legend→

The Castle

Beaufort, South Carolina

The 1850s "castle" on the Point—Beaufort’s river landmark.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hunting Island

Hunting Island, South Carolina

The retreating lighthouse—moved twice by the sea.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Daufuskie Island

Daufuskie Island, South Carolina

The island with no bridge—Gullah culture by boat only.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Pawleys Island

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

The Gray Man—the storm ghost who warns the island.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Murrells Inlet

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

The "seafood capital" where the pirates hid—and the MarshWalk lights.

2 claims · 1 legend→

The Pink House

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1712 Bermuda stone house—Charleston’s oldest stone building.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island

Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Sumter and Charleston Harbor

Charleston, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Ferguson

Eutawville, South Carolina

Former lumber company town now largely beneath Lake Marion.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic Plantation

Hopsewee Plantation

Georgetown, South Carolina

Estate with colonial-apparition folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Dock Street Theatre

Charleston, South Carolina

America’s first purpose-built theater site—haunted by its own performers.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Unitarian Churchyard

Charleston, South Carolina

Overgrown "secret garden" churchyard linked to Poe’s Annabel Lee.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Crybaby Bridge (Anderson)

Anderson, South Carolina

The Anderson County bridge where a baby is said to have died in a wreck.

1 claim · 1 legend→

82 Queen

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1840s Queen Street restaurant in a three-building compound.

1 claim · 1 legend→

H.L. Hunley

North Charleston, South Carolina

The submarine that sank a ship, then itself—killing three crews.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic House Museum

Frampton House

Yemassee, South Carolina

Restored farmhouse and visitor center with apparition reports.

Middleton Place

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1741 gardens—America’s oldest landscaped garden.

Botany Bay

Edisto Island, South Carolina

The "bone beach"—bleached trees on the eroding shore.

Penn Center

St. Helena Island, South Carolina

The 1862 school for the freedpeople—where the Gullah learned to read.

Old Powder Magazine

Charleston, South Carolina

The 1713 magazine—the oldest public building in the Carolinas.

Fort Howell

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Mitchelville

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026