{"id":1656,"slug":"drunken-jack-s-island-murrells-inlet-south-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The island is the left — the '32 casks' that's the rum's count, the 'passed out' that's the sailor's state. The 'two years' is the waited — the 'empty bottles' that's the beach's litter, the 'bones' that's the crew's find. The 'Blackbeard' is the named — the 'no record' that's the visit's proof, the '1600s' that's the story's wrong date.","The 'goats' is the kept — the 'Bubba Love' that's the keeper's name, the 'peacocks' that's the flock's addition. The 'inlet' is the hid — the 'winding channels' that's the pirate's cover, the 'Carolina Gold' that's the cargo's name. The island is the kept — the 'MarshWalk' that's the view's site, the 'restaurant' that's the name's source.","The file keeps the island: the left sailor, the waited years, the named pirate, and the kept goats.","Drunken Jack's is the archive's South Carolina file — the pirate who drank the evidence."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Drunken Jack's is the archive's South Carolina file — the legend that needs no Blackbeard.","An island keeps its name — the file's suggestion being that the site's hold is the comic: the '32 casks' that's the treasure's form, the 'bones' that's the ending's image, and the 'goats' that's the present's truth."]}],"name":"Drunken Jack's Island","aliases":[],"type":"ISLAND","type_label":"Island","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","maritime"],"desc":"Island with pirate folklore.","full_desc":"Drunken Jack's Island is an island in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Island with pirate folklore. Its signature presence is Drunken Jack — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Murrells Inlet","county":"Georgetown County","state":"South Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.55725,"lon":-79.057165,"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":867,"type":"FOLKLORE_ENTITY","description":"Tour storytellers recount a pirate abandoned with rum and treasure. The lore gives it a name — Drunken Jack — which is what turns a report into a resident. The landscape at Drunken Jack's Island is the claim's whole setting: South Carolina wilderness with a name for the unexplained. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast' keep the claim in circulation. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Drunken Jack","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 a pirate abandoned with rum and treasure. The landscape at Drunken Jack's Island is the claim's whole setting: South Carolina wilderness with a name for the unexplained. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","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":"Drunken Jack","claimed_identity":"Drunken Jack","verified":null,"summary":"Tour storytellers recount a pirate abandoned with rum and treasure. Drunken Jack is what the reports name it. Drunken Jack's Island's reports travel the way outdoor lore does — by campfire, trailhead, and local warning. The report is preserved in sources like 'Find the 10 most-haunted places on the Hammock Coast'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Tour storytellers recount a pirate abandoned with rum and treasure.","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}}