Beth Elohim Cemetery, Georgetown's second-oldest Jewish burial ground · Georgetown Historic District · Winyah Bay and Georgetown's Civil War-era maritime history
US Ghost Adventures, a multi-city ghost-tour chain, operates its Georgetown program under the local consumer brand 'Georgetown Ghosts,' with the specific tour marketed as 'Spirits of Lowcountry Gruesome Georgetown Ghost Tour.' Tours meet nightly at Beth Elohim Cemetery, South Carolina's second-oldest Jewish cemetery, and cover about a mile of Georgetown's historic downtown on foot over roughly an hour. Georgetown's operator, US Ghost Adventures, is one of two independent ghost-tour companies documented in this corpus for the city, distinct from Ghosts of Georgetown and Williams Ghost Walks of Georgetown.
The route covers the DuPre House, an 1740 structure later operated as a bed and breakfast; the Cleland House, a historic residence; and the Rice Museum, housed in the Kaminski Building, a former hardware store now displaying Georgetown County's rice-culture history. The narration situates these stops within Georgetown's history as South Carolina's third-oldest city and a Colonial and Civil War-era port, referencing the 1865 sinking of the Confederate gunboat CSS Pee Dee (attacked by the Union ironclad Harvest Moon) offshore in Winyah Bay.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/georgetown-ghost-tour/
- https://www.getyourguide.com/georgetown-l207197/tur-hantu-georgetown-roh-roh-lowcountry-yang-mengerikan-t1102227/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g54245-d33864010-Reviews-Spirits_of_Lowcountry_Gruesome_Georgetown_Ghost_Tour-Georgetown_South_Carolina.html
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsPhantom Laughter
According to US Ghost Adventures' own tour material, Beth Elohim Cemetery's reported haunting centers on the phantom laughter of a young woman said to have shared an enduring friendship with another Georgetown spirit. The DuPre House's reported activity is tied to two spirits the operator describes as victims of a fire. The Cleland House's reported haunting centers on a young woman the operator describes as an 'unsuspecting victim of an Egyptian curse' who died on her wedding day. The Kaminski Building's reported activity includes a peg-legged apparition the operator ties to a former sailor. The tour also references the 1865 loss of the Confederate gunboat CSS Pee Dee in Winyah Bay, describing reported unexplained sounds near the wreck site.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
