This is the most haunted house in SC, Forbes says. Here’s why it’s so spooky
Just in time for Halloween, Forbes magazine is out with its list of most haunted houses in each state.
South Carolina’s is 20 South Battery, formerly the Battery Carriage House in Charleston. Now an 11-room inn, the house dates to 1843 and has seen any number of uses, from private homes for native Charlestonians and after the Civil War a Union Army officer.
It was a place to rent a room for Navy sailors and holds the distinction of being the location where The Society for the Preservation of Old Dwellings (now the Preservation Society of Charleston, and the oldest preservation society in the country) was formed in 1920.
The house was renovated for an inn after serving as apartments for college students and then renovated anew in 2018 in a painstaking historic fashion that brought it Charleston’s highest honor, the Preservation Society’s Carolopolis Award.
But the ghost stories have endured, spread along by various ghost tour companies that show all of the many Charleston places believed to be haunted.
Forbes highlights the “a headless apparition, a spectral gathering and the courteous ‘Gentleman Ghost.”
Ghost tour operator Julian Buxton points out the menacing and ugly inhabitant in Room 8, a legless spirit of a Confederate soldier.
Ghost City Tours says the Room 8 apparition has also been a lady in white or a small child.
In Room 3, a couple saw a flying orb and called in a psychic to get rid of it, according to Ghost City Tours.
Room 10 has the best chance of seeing a ghost, Ghost City tours states.
That’s where the Gentleman Ghost shares the room with guests.
“People who have seen the apparition of the Gentleman Ghost have described him as a grayish shadow. He usually appears to be of average height and built, and tends to glide about the room rather stylishly,” the tour company states on its website. “The ghost is quite fond of the bed, and has been known to startle guests by lying peacefully on the bed.”
To view Forbes’ entire list of most haunted houses in every state, click here.
This story was originally published October 24, 2024 at 6:00 AM with the headline "This is the most haunted house in SC, Forbes says. Here’s why it’s so spooky."