Against this backdrop of our region’s checkered history, it is impossible to ignore that coastal South Carolina is a portal for hauntings. It all began with the arrival of early settlers and wealthy planters in the Lowcountry, the indigenous population was eliminated due to slavery and disease. Then Africans came ashore in droves, forced to work the land, often in dangerous conditions. During the Revolutionary War, British Redcoats occupied much of this region, sometimes pillaging and burning entire villages in their wake. During the Civil War, Confederates battled against Union soldiers, ruthlessly killing one another in the name of states’ rights and slavery. Over the last century, wealthy Northerners descended here, purchasing dilapidated plantation homes and renovating them into elegant hunting lodges in which to entertain illustrious friends.