Post by Graveyardbride on Jan 21, 2015 11:51:15 GMT -5
Three books on the haunted, strange and unusual in South Carolina
Master Storyteller Sherman Carmichael is back with 44 more mysterious tales from South Carolina. From Plantersville to Loris, and Beaufort to Clinton, many of the tales in Eerie South Carolina have been told and retold through generations, like the red-eyed specter that roams the stairwells of Wilson Hall at Converse College and the haunted grave site of Agnes of Glasgow in Camden. In 1987, a construction company unearthed the bodies of 14 Union Soldiers and 12 of the bodies were headless. The Abbeville Opera House has a chair that remains open to this day for a patron who visited long ago. This book sells from $7.99 new on Amazon; used copies from $4.69.
The next book, Legends and Lore of South Carolina, is a collection of eighty strange and unusual South Carolina legends is rooted in the state’s deep history. Some originated centuries ago, such as the Agnes of Glasgow story in Camden and the ghostly dwarf jester Gauche, said to haunt a Beaufort mansion. Certain places hold secrets from different eras, including White Wolf Road in Blacksburg and the state’s numerous historic cemeteries like the one at Salem Black River Church in Mayesville. These pages also contain simple explanations for local lore such as the Gullah tradition behind blue bottle trees that still decorate Carolina gardens today. These and many other crowd-pleasing stories can be found in this volume, which sells for $12.46 and up on Amazon.
In Forgotten Tales of South Carolina, Carmichael has amassed a collection of 97 strange tales, the origins of which are as elusive as the swamp monster that slinks along the bottom of Lake Murray and as hidden as the moonshine bootleggers buried inside the Stumphouse Tunnel between Charleston and the Blue Ridge mountains. Forgotten Tales includes stories of ghosts, haunted houses and bridges, boo hags, UFOs, strange weather, monsters, ghost lights and more. Many of these tales have been handed down for generations and include stories from Georgetown, Kingstree, Johnsonville, Myrtle Beach and Pawleys Island. Available from Amazon: from $9.44 (new) and $5.41 (used).
Source: The Moultrie News, January 21, 2015.