MERRIDUN INN
Inn — Union, South Carolina
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/merridun-inn-union-south-carolina/

SCETV recounts a gray-dressed apparition.

Merridun Inn is an inn in Union, South Carolina. SCETV recounts a gray-dressed apparition. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

The mansion at 100 Merridun Place rose around 1855 for William J. Keenan and was bought in 1876 by Benjamin Rice, whose grandson Thomas C. Duncan inherited it. Duncan was Union's industrial era in one man — he built the Union Cotton Mill in 1893, started the Buffalo Mill in 1896, sat in the state legislature, and served as mayor from 1910 to 1914. In 1911 he recast the Georgian house in Classical Revival dress, raising the monumental Corinthian portico that fronts it today.
Bought in 1990 and restored from 1992, the house reopened as the Inn at Merridun. South Carolina ETV's "Ghosts and Legends" made it a television haunt: the new owners reported a lady in a gray dress, shiny pennies found on floors, footsteps overhead, and a clairvoyant's tally of ten energies in residence — children, Native Americans, a mammy figure, a white dog, and a woman called Margaret.

THE PENNIES AND THE PERFUME
The fuller catalog attributes rose-scented perfume and cigar smoke to T.C. and Fannie Duncan themselves, and harpsichord music at night though the inn owns no such instrument. A figure is reported standing in the bathroom doorway of the upstairs Sister's Room, and the house cat J.D. was said to hold long vocal exchanges with an unseen interlocutor. Most tellings insist the spirits are friendly; one longtime visitor's account counters that the earlier innkeepers denied any haunting at all and the stories grew with the marketing.
The file holds both registers — a documented cotton-baron mansion and an inn-era inventory of kindly ghosts, filed as reported.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: SCETV recounts a gray-dressed apparition. The Union hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. '15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: 15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina (https://www.scetv.org/stories/2024/15-ghost-stories-south-carolina)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· 15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina — South Carolina ETV
  https://www.scetv.org/stories/2024/15-ghost-stories-south-carolina

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