Research Catalog

Title

Haunted Charleston : [stories from the College of Charleston, the Citadel, and the Holy City] / Ed Macy & Geordie Buxton.

Author

Macy, Ed

Publication

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

Buxton, Geordie.

Description

115 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

On the historic streets of Charleston, where true life is stranger than fiction, narrators Ed Macy and Geordie Buxton leave embellishment by the wayside to let these stories--in ghastly and sometimes dreadful detail--tell themselves. Combing through the oft-forgotten enclaves of the Holy City, Macy and Buxton bring readers face to face with a group of orphans who haunt a College of Charleston dorm, a Citadel cadet who haunts a local hotel and the specter of William Drayton at Drayton Hall Plantation, to name just a few. Based on historic events and specific details that are often lost in most ghost stories, this collection of haunting tales sparks curiosity about what figure might still be lurking in the alleyways of Charleston's storied streets.

Subject

Ghosts > Charleston

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [113]-115).

Contents

The College of Charleston -- The orphan poltergeists -- The silent movie -- The old bicycle shop stacking -- Miss Mary versus Mother Nature -- 1837 bed & breakfast -- The Citadel -- Gullah and the origins of the Citadel -- The lost cadet -- The green light phantom -- Presence in the Francis Marion Hotel -- The holy city -- The medical haunt -- The gray man -- The stone house -- Second Presbyterian Church -- Drayton Hall's prodigal specter -- Ephemera -- The resurrection tree -- Excavations-- grave sights and quick cover-ups -- Funerary art.

ISBN

1596290110 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004025575

OCLC

56905194

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library