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Explore 52 haunted places in South Carolina. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
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Charleston, South Carolina · Hotel
Southern Spirit Guide distinguishes two contrasting guest-room legends: a disembodied male torso in room 8 and a much gentler male presence in room 10. Another account concerns a powered-off phone making noise. These are historical room-number reports, not a guarantee about present room assignments.
Abbeville, South Carolina · Theater
The theater’s second balcony has a solitary chair traditionally left for its ghost. Southern Spirit Guide recounts actors seeing a woman in old-fashioned clothing watching or applauding, and hearing isolated applause from the balcony. Competing explanations for her identity remain theater lore.
Charleston, South Carolina · Historic house
Southern Spirit Guide recounts a disappearing woman in the former enslaved quarters and a distressed female reflection seen by architects in a ballroom mirror.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Cemetery
A young woman named Alice Flagg is the heart of a coastal South Carolina legend of forbidden love, a lost ring and a restless figure in white.
Anderson, South Carolina · Other
Southern Spirit Guide recounts a 2009 security-camera anomaly alongside after-hours knocking and furniture noises. One visitor reportedly felt a hand on their shoulder.
Johns Island, South Carolina · Natural landmark
Southern Spirit Guide retells Denise Roffe’s collected oral tradition that presences around the oak protect it. Stories associate figures in the branches with people once enslaved nearby. Alleged burials and executions beneath the tree are recorded as local lore, not established historical facts.
Abbeville, South Carolina · Historic house
A 2007 investigation, retold by Southern Spirit Guide, reported a period-dressed woman descending the stairs and a sensed male presence in the bedroom used by Jefferson Davis.
McClellanville / Lighthouse Island, South Carolina · Other
According to lighthouse lore collected by Southern Spirit Guide, unexplained ascending footsteps belonged to a keeper’s murdered wife. The source also records a later keeper’s family hearing steps, while treating the wife’s violent origin story as legend.
Easley, South Carolina · Theater
A driver reportedly saw a faintly luminous woman in an upstairs window in 1989. Southern Spirit Guide also records an owner’s alternative explanation: moving projection-room curtains.
Anderson, South Carolina · Road or bridge
Anderson’s bridge legend, retold by Haunted Rooms, features an unseen crying infant and a woman searching the crossing for her lost child.
Moncks Corner, South Carolina · Other
Haunted Rooms describes a still figure in the swamp and unexplained sounds near these artificial ruins, identifying them as scenery left from The Patriot rather than an ancient church.
Charleston, South Carolina · Theater
Theatre accounts retold by Southern Spirit Guide describe a tall-hatted man in the balcony, often identified with actor Junius Brutus Booth. A second figure, Nettie, reportedly moves through a backstage passage unusually low to the floor; lore explains this as her following an earlier floor level.
Gaffney, South Carolina · Road or bridge
Local accounts collected by Southern Spirit Guide describe female cries below the bridge, associated with a murder victim found nearby. A filmed investigation heard only frogs.
Columbia, South Carolina · Hospital
Haunted Rooms records voices, unexplained sounds and localized chills in former hospital buildings. These accounts concern the institution’s old campus rather than a currently operating haunted attraction. Treat Mills, Babcock and other hospital aliases as one campus record here. Earlier haunting articles conflate buildings and use historical names. No psychiatric diagnosis is treated as an explanation of haunting.
Charleston, South Carolina · Hotel
Hotel lore names Ned Cohen as a restless guest, associated with opening windows and a falling apparition. Southern Spirit Guide notes that documentary support for his story was not found.
Georgetown / North Island, South Carolina · Other
Southern Spirit Guide records footsteps in the tower and a warning-boat legend. After a keeper’s daughter drowned, he reportedly survived; following his later death, the pair supposedly appeared rowing in Winyah Bay before approaching storms.
Columbia, South Carolina · Historic house
Southern Spirit Guide recounts a 1982 incident in which extinguished candles seemingly burned again after docents locked and alarmed the house. Staff also reported a strong feeling of being observed.
Greenville, South Carolina · Hospital
Investigator Jason Profit reported recorded crowd-like voices at the old hospital steps; neighboring residents described shadow figures. Southern Spirit Guide places these accounts after the hospital disappeared.
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina · Other
The Blue Lady tradition names Caroline, a keeper’s daughter said to have tended the light through a fatal hurricane. Southern Spirit Guide recounts sobbing around the tower and a soaking-wet woman in blue who vanished from a couple’s car.
Aiken, South Carolina · Hotel
Accounts collected by Southern Spirit Guide describe a television switching on in room 225, noises in the attic, and a basement shadow witnessed during a 2011 investigation.
St. Helena Island, South Carolina · Road or bridge
Explore Beaufort collects reports of a light traveling along Land’s End Road, sometimes overtaking vehicles or apparently producing static. Competing legends invoke a soldier’s lantern, separated families and a fatal bus journey. None is established as the cause of the sightings.
Columbia, South Carolina · Theater
Accounts collected by Southern Spirit Guide describe a staff member’s spectacles being knocked away while she was alone and students feeling an abrupt moving chill in the green room. The building’s former hospital use became the setting for Civil War ghost stories.
Charleston, South Carolina · Hotel
Southern Spirit Guide records guests waking to a woman in room 107 and a deadbolt inexplicably locking guests out of room 303.
Ninety Six, South Carolina · Other
Southern Spirit Guide reports that neighbors and reenactors have heard unexplained voices across this Revolutionary War battlefield, linking its haunting tradition to the unsuccessful 1781 siege.