The Most Haunted Places in South Carolina

Ranked

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   1. Abbeville Opera House Abbeville · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified five distinct published accounts at this working theater, across four kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and phantom footsteps.

   5 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1915-2023 · retold in 4 later publications

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   2. USS Yorktown (CV-10) Mount Pleasant · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified seven distinct published accounts at this museum site, across four kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   7 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1987-2012 · retold in 2 later publications

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   3. Poogan's Porch Charleston · Haunted Dining / Bar · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified five distinct published accounts at this operating restaurant and bar, across four kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include objects moving and phantom footsteps.

   5 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1979-1996 · retold in 4 later publications

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   4. Alice Flagg's Grave at All Saints Cemetery Pawleys Island · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   All Saints Waccamaw Parish was established in 1737 to serve the Waccamaw Neck rice plantations. Its cemetery holds the marker of Alice Flagg, who died in 1849 at fifteen after her brother discovered and removed a ring from a secret engagement he opposed. Visitors report a young woman in white near the marker looking at her hand as if searching for the ring, and many walk thirteen circles around the stone leaving flowers behind.

   3 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1893-1960 · retold in 5 later publications

   Disputed by a historical authority A county newspaper opinion piece, citing a historical researcher's article in a regional history journal, states the young woman behind the well-known ring legend was buried elsewhere, and that this cemetery's famous marker instead commemorates a different Flagg family member who drowned in an 1893 storm.

5. 5. Oakwood Cemetery (Hell's Gate) Spartanburg · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified seven distinct published accounts at this burial ground, across four kinds of published source. One later publication retells those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and disembodied voices.

   7 original accounts · documented across 1 decade, 2013-2019 · retold in 1 later publication

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   6. Hotel Chiquola Anderson · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions.

   4 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1982-2007 · retold in 2 later publications

7. 7. Inn at Merridun Union · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Five later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and phantom footsteps.

   4 original accounts · documented across 1 decade, 2015-2018 · retold in 5 later publications

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   8. 20 South Battery (Battery Carriage House Inn) Charleston · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across three kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and shadow figures.

   4 original accounts · documented across 1 decade, 1992-1993 · retold in 2 later publications

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   9. St. Philip's Church Graveyard Charleston · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this burial ground, across three kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   4 original accounts · documented in 1987 · retold in 2 later publications

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    10. Magnolia Cemetery Charleston · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: Moderate

    Magnolia Cemetery was dedicated in 1850 on former plantation grounds along the Cooper River, and its Soldiers Ground became Charleston's principal Confederate burial site during the Civil War; the recovered crews of the submarine H.L. Hunley were reinterred there in 2004. Visitors describe marching footsteps and faint bugle notes along the Soldiers Ground after dusk, a young woman reported at the gate of the Hutty mausoleum, and the smell of seawater near the Hunley plot.

    Documented since 1850 · 8 independent sources

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