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Haunted places in South Carolina

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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• Unitarian Churchyard of Charleston

  Charleston, South Carolina · Cemetery

  Charleston’s vine-covered Unitarian churchyard is linked to a grieving figure in white and an especially poetic ghost-story tradition.

• USS Yorktown (CV-10), Patriots Point

  Mount Pleasant, South Carolina · Other

  Southern Spirit Guide cites staff and visitor reports of unexplained voices and footsteps through the carrier, alongside shadows and fully formed figures. Its writer also describes feeling accompanied when momentarily alone aboard. These accounts belong to CV-10, the preserved museum ship, not the earlier Yorktown sunk at Midway.

• Westin Poinsett Hotel

  Greenville, South Carolina · Hotel

  Southern Spirit Guide recounts a guest finding his bathroom light repeatedly on, then glimpsing an elderly man on an otherwise empty floor. Another guest described being pushed into a closet whose door seemed held shut. The reports do not establish who either presence was.

• White Point Garden / The Battery

  Charleston, South Carolina · Natural landmark

  Southern Spirit Guide retells pirate legends around the waterfront oaks: a suspended apparition, figures shouting at passersby and faces supposedly visible beneath the harbor surface. The hanging-pirate imagery draws on Charleston’s colonial execution history, but the supernatural episodes remain folklore.