{"id":1659,"slug":"beth-elohim-cemetery-georgetown-south-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Beth Elohim is the second — the '1772' that's the founding's year, the 'oldest in state' that's the rank's claim. The '10%' is the counted — the 'white population' that's the share's size, the '5 mayors' that's the service's proof. The 'Cohen greeted' is the welcomed — the 'Washington' that's the president's name, the '1791' that's the visit's year.","The 'homes worshipped' is the waited — the '1904' that's the temple's date, the '132 years' that's the gap's length. The 'Confederate graves' is the mixed — the 'soldiers' that's the war's dead, the 'same soil' that's the community's ground. Beth Elohim is the kept — the '200 stones' that's the count's size, the 'still used' that's the cemetery's life.","The file keeps Beth Elohim: the second oldest, the counted share, the welcomed president, and the kept graves.","Beth Elohim is the archive's South Carolina file — the Jewish South that outlasted the Confederacy."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Beth Elohim is the archive's South Carolina file — the cemetery that proves the community's depth.","A cemetery keeps its mayors — the file's suggestion being that Beth Elohim's hold is the civic: the '5 mayors' that's the leadership's count, the '1772' that's the roots' date, and the 'still used' that's the continuity's proof."]}],"name":"Beth Elohim Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["cemeteries","hauntings"],"desc":"Cemetery with bridal folklore.","full_desc":"A cemetery in Georgetown, South Carolina, Beth Elohim Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Cemetery with bridal folklore. Its signature presence is Pauline Moses; Eliza Munnerlyn — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"Broad Street at Duke Street","city":"Georgetown","county":"Georgetown County","state":"South Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.372432,"lon":-79.280793,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":870,"type":"LAUGHTER","description":"Tour storytellers recount bridal laughter shared with nearby Prince George churchyard. Witnesses name it Pauline Moses; Eliza Munnerlyn; the name travels further than the proof. The burial ground at Georgetown is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Pauline Moses; Eliza Munnerlyn","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":"Narrative identities or deaths require independent historical corroboration.","source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tour storytellers recount bridal laughter shared with nearby Prince George churchyard. A cemetery in Georgetown, South Carolina accumulating ghost reports is almost tautological — but this is the one the record kept. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Pauline Moses; Eliza Munnerlyn","claimed_identity":"Pauline Moses; Eliza Munnerlyn","verified":null,"summary":"Tour storytellers recount bridal laughter shared with nearby Prince George churchyard. Pauline Moses; Eliza Munnerlyn is what the reports name it. The burial ground at Georgetown is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"Tour storytellers recount bridal laughter shared with nearby Prince George churchyard.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast","url":"https://hammockcoastsc.com/what-are-the-10-most-haunted-places-on-the-hammock-coast/","publisher":"Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce / South Carolina Hammock Coast","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}