The Ghost of Mary
By: Beth Haigler and friends 


I have had only two encounters with ghosts both in Charleston S.C. I
stayed with a friend of mine who has since moved to places unknown
in a turn of the century house on Tradd street. Unfortunately, I don't
remember which house it was because I only stayed there once. I
was coming out the bed room and saw this woman dress in a long
brown calico dress walk from the bathroom and down the stairs. I
could see her plainly. She had brown hair up in a bun and looked as
if she belonged in the 1800's. The house was built in 1898. I panicked
and woke my friend up and said there was someone else in the house
with us. We ran down stairs (This was only a minute after I saw the
woman) but could find no one and the house was locked. She asked
me what she looked like and I told her. Then Janna looked relieved!
She said "Oh, that's just Mary. She won't hurt you." "Who's Mary I
asked. Janna said that Mary was the daughter of the first owner of
the house. She didn't remember the last name but Mary had died in a
carriage accident in 1901, in the bed that I was sleeping in. I was in
her bedroom. Talk about getting the creeps!
 



The Ghost cat


My friend asked not to have her name printed
but her ghosts can be printed.


It seems she has several including a ghost cat. I too have a ghost black
cat. When she was alive she had kittens under my neighbor's porch. One
day I came home and found that she had been hit by a car in front of my
house so I buried her in my flower garden in front of my window. A few
months later I'd see the form of a black cat run by me and out of the
closed back door. At first I thought my other black living cat Tasha was
having freak attacks and running around the door. But I followed this
streak one day and there was nothing there behind the door.
 



The Ghost of Emily
along with several other ghost


Another friend of mine had a sayonce and found out that the ghost was of
a young girl who adopted her and her husband. They don't know how she died
she wouldn't say. But she told them her name was Emily. There is also a
little boy who I have seen appear sitting on a chair. He looked like late
1800's or early 1920's. I've only seen him once. I've seen glasses hover in
the air. I saw paper come floating from the back room into the living room.
I think these ghosts are connected to the land not the trailer. Another
friend of my told me now she's haunted. She has seen a black man in slave
like clothing run from her bedroom through the living room and out of the
windows. Also a lady in a very prim and proper black dress who looks very
angry appears in her hallway when she and her husband have fights and slams
doors. I was there for one door slamming feast but I didn't see her. All the
doors from the bedrooms, the bathrooms and familyroom started slamming for about
five minutes then stopped. She wasn't in the House. She was fighting with her
husband in the yard and I was inside yelling: enough with the DOOR SLAMMING
ALREADY! There was also blood all over the table one night. I mean gallons
dripping off the edges on the floor. My other friend and her husband cleaned
it up and went to bed. The other friends got home in the morning and j and k
went to show them the blood and all they found was a bunch of crumpled paper
towels but no sign of the blood. They found out that the land was part of a
plantation where slaves were owned and there had been several horrible murders
there on the spot where the house was built in the early 1800's. Another friend
has a ghost that rings the phone, pops out lights and makes things hover around
her to let us know she's around.
 

The telephone that rings and
is never plugged in.


The first time it happened, My friend, I'll call her kay because she
doesn't want her real name used, was sitting in her living room.
It was about 8 O'clock at night and we were waiting for her husband to
get home. We were talking and suddenly we hear a phone start to ring. It
was kind of muffled so we knew it was the cell phone or her kitchen
phone. We started to look around because it kept ringing and ringing
until she went to where she was keeping newspaper to be recycled and
uncovered the old kitchen phone she'd just tossed in a corner (She does
things like that) and it was ringing. She held up the lose cord and said
"I don't think this is J calling." I was about to come out of my skin
and run, but she said it had happened to her before and no one would be
on the line but she wasn't scared. She said a lot of strange things had
been happening in the trailer where they lived. She said she had been
using the "board" and had found out something about what was happening.
Like there were two ghosts who were in the trailer but at that time she
didn't know who they were.