Scary Hammock Coast hauntings: Spooky tales from Murrells Inlet to Georgetown

Scary Hammock Coast hauntings: Spooky tales from Murrells Inlet to Georgetown

Each autumn, as the light fades earlier and the shadows grow longer, it’s not unusual to overhear locals from Murrells Inlet to Georgetown describe unusual and unexplained happenings that can only be interpreted as hauntings by spirits and ghosts whose energies remain trapped in a soulful and bygone era. Indeed, Hammock Coast hauntings can be eerily perplexing.

For example, as researcher, storyteller and author Christine Vernon reported, strange occurrences have been happening for many decades at Litchfield Plantation.

Established by Thomas Hepworth in 1710, the property changed hands a couple of times before circa 1794, when politician Daniel Tucker took ownership. In 1797, he built a house there that still stands today. Upon his death that same year, his son, John Hyrne Tucker, inherited the plantation, which by 1850 was producing one million pounds of rice per year, according to “The History of Georgetown County South Carolina” by George C. Rogers Jr…

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