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75 dossiers97 claims72 legends47 alleged entities2 ghost townsheaviest files, ranked →

The record for South Carolina opens with Old Charleston Jail, Scape Ore Swamp and USS Harvest Moon wreck — the deepest files in the jurisdiction. The most-filed claim types here are Apparition (38 dossiers), Named Ghost Legend (28) and Haunting (6). Of its 75 sites, 56 are listed as open to the public — confirm access before visiting. The oldest dated entry is Old Sheldon Church Ruins, established 1755.

Localities:Charleston24 Georgetown8 Murrells Inlet5 Pawleys Island4 Bishopville2 Mount Pleasant2 Union2 Beaufort2 Hardeeville2 Yemassee2 Hilton Head Island2

Counties:Georgetown Co. 10 Jasper Co. 4 Beaufort Co. 3 Lee Co. 2

By filing type:Houses10 Historic sites10 Sites9 Cemeteries4 Churches3 Naturals3 Historic plantations3

By phenomenon:apparitions38 named ghost legends28 hauntings6 reported anomalies4 legends4 unspecified hauntings4

High confidence

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→

Prince Frederick's Chapel ruins

Plantersville, South Carolina

Ruins with builder folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic Plantation

Hopsewee Plantation

Georgetown, South Carolina

Estate with colonial-apparition folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Purrysburg

Hardeeville, South Carolina

Abandoned Savannah River settlement and Revolutionary battlefield.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Hardeeville Methodist Church

Hardeeville, South Carolina

Historic church associated with a wartime hospital tradition.

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→

Heritage USA

Fort Mill, South Carolina

Jim Bakker’s 1978 Christian theme park—abandoned after the scandal.

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→

The Hermitage

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

All Saints Cemetery

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

Cemetery associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

University Building

Keller Hall, Newberry College

Newberry, South Carolina

University building associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Poinsett Bridge

Landrum, South Carolina

SCETV recounts moans and cars allegedly failing to start.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Merridun Inn

Union, South Carolina

SCETV recounts a gray-dressed apparition.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Pawleys Island Gray Man tradition

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

SCETV recounts a gray-clad figure appearing before hurricanes.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic Plantation

Litchfield Plantation

Pawleys Island, South Carolina

Estate with physician folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic Plantation

Sunnyside Plantation

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Estate with marsh-side folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Drunken Jack's Island

Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Island with pirate folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Man-Doyle House

Georgetown, South Carolina

House with Theodosia folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic Waterfront

Cannon Street dock Theodosia tradition

Georgetown, South Carolina

Dock with Theodosia folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Beth Elohim Cemetery

Georgetown, South Carolina

Cemetery with bridal folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Prince George Winyah Churchyard

Georgetown, South Carolina

Churchyard with bridal folklore.

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.

Hampton Plantation

McClellanville, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Robert Smalls Burial Site at Tabernacle Baptist Church

Beaufort, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Four Holes Swamp

Harleyville, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Brattonsville

McConnells, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Stono Slave Rebellion at the Elliot and Rose Plantations

Charleston, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Seizure of the Planter Marker

Charleston, South Carolina

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

South Carolina Cotton Museum

Bishopville, South Carolina

Museum presenting local Lizard Man cultural history.

Holy Trinity Church at Grahamville

Ridgeland, South Carolina

Church associated with Civil War headquarters history.

Submerged Settlement Area

Lake Moultrie former settlement area

Moncks Corner, South Carolina

Reservoir landscape associated with displacement and cemetery relocation.

Old Sheldon Church Ruins

Yemassee, South Carolina

Burned-twice Greek Revival church frame in a Lowcountry oak grove.