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Tales Along the Grand Strand of South Carolina
Blanche W. Floyd

Bandit Books
978-1-878177-08-7
$12.95 paperback
6 x 9 
148 pages; black-and-white photographs
Published in 1996
Folklore/Ghosts

There's a lot more to the Grand Strand than just sun and surf. How about buried treasure, ancient civilizations, shipwrecks, and ghosts? In Tales along the Grand Strand of South Carolina, Blanche Floyd relates stories like the failed Spanish settlement attempt in 1526, Blackbeard's lost treasure, the vast wealth of Southern rice planters, the peculiar Hurl Rocks, the mysterious disappearance of Aaron Burr's daughter, the ghostly apparition that wanders through Murrells Inlet, the wreck of the Freeda A. Wyley, beautiful Brookgreen Gardens, the German POW camp in Myrtle Beach, and the awful force of Hurricane Hugo. This is the folklore, unusual history, and culture of the beach from a master storyteller.

Also by Blanche W. Floyd:
Ghostly Tales and Legends Along the Grand Strand of South Carolina
Tales Along the King’s Highway of South Carolina