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by Sara Pitzer (Author), Georgia Byrd (Continued by)
Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder ... let your imagination run wild as you read about Charleston's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of the pirates hung at Battery Point, but perhaps you haven't heard about:
- Provost Dungeon, considered one of the worst American prisons of all time for its torturous punishments and is incredibly active with ghostly happenings;
- The Woman in Black at Poogan's Porch restaurant, an apparition that makes her presence known to employees and patrons alike; and
- The USS Yorktown, permanently docked in Charleston Harbor and brimming with tales of tragedies and hauntings.
Author Biography
Sara Pitzer has been traveling in and writing about the South since 1983. She has walked the Charleston streets, sampled as much low-country cuisine as one woman can, and stayed in many bed and breakfast inns and small hotels. Sara has been a newspaper reporter and columnist and written more than a dozen books about travel and food. She is also the author of Myths and Mysteries of North Carolina and North Carolina off the Beaten Path (Globe Pequot). Georgia R. Byrd has appeared on the Travel Channel, CNN, Good Morning America, and the TODAY Show as a travel and yachting consultant. She is the author of Haunted Savannah and Romantic Days and Nights in Savannah (Globe Pequot) and is the award-winning founding editor of Savannah Magazine.
