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1-878177-12-5
$12.95 paperback
6" x 9"
144 pages black-and-white photographs
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As one of the most popular
vacation spots in the world, the Grand Strand sparkles with life and
activity. Yet beneath the sparkle, there are cryptic shadows—a chair
that rocks by itself, perhaps moved by the spirit of a young man who
took his own life after his love spurned him; a flickering light in the
window of an abandoned house, a beacon to guide home a captain lost at
sea before the Civil War; a monument cursed by an old woman accused of
witchcraft. Ghost hunters consider the area from Murrells Inlet to
Georgetown one of the most haunted regions on the East Coast. Blanche W.
Floyd has collected the tales that intrigue and frighten locals and
tourists alike. From the well-known Murrells Inlet apparition, Alice of
the Hermitage, to the ghosts that frequent Old Gunn Church, the Grand
Strand teems with legends of pirate treasure and lost Indians, of fierce
battles and killer storms, and spirits unwilling or unable to leave the
Grand Strand.
about the author
Blanche W. Floyd has lived in Myrtle Beach since 1950. She writes a
column for The Sun News, and her articles have appeared in
numerous magazines and newspapers. Her other books include Tales
along the Grand Strand of South Carolina and Tales along the King’s
Highway of South Carolina.
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