20 South Battery (Battery Carriage House Inn)

The inn's two most documented presences have acquired enough consistent detail over the years to function almost as case studies in the differences between apparition types.

The Gentleman Ghost occupies Room 10. Accounts describe him as a gracious presence — a shadow of average height that moves fluidly through the space without aggression. The backstory reconstructed from accounts: a young man from a prosperous Charleston family left for Yale at his parents' insistence, leaving behind a girlfriend who promptly married someone else. Upon his return, he dressed in his best clothes and fell from the top of the house. Guests who have seen the apparition note that he appears to be sharing the room rather than haunting it, conducting himself with the propriety one might expect from someone in his finest suit.

Room 8 presents differently. The Confederate soldier in this room has been felt rather than simply seen — guests have reported the physical sensation of a gray jacket, and the apparition presents as a torso only, without head or arms. Paranormal investigators working with the property note that this type of partial apparition is sometimes associated with trauma sites or incomplete imprints, where a full manifestation was never established.

The Battery's location adds historical weight to both accounts. White Point Garden across the street was historically a site of public executions; pirates captured by the Royal Navy were hanged there in the early 18th century. The Civil War produced enormous casualties within the city limits. The inn sits at the convergence of several centuries of Charleston's more difficult history.