Tales from Brookgreen by Lynn Michelsohn

Author:Lynn Michelsohn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: lowcountry, ghost stories, ghost story, brookgreen gardens, folktale, myrtle beach, alice flagg, south carolina, charleston, ghosts, murrells inlet, gullah
Publisher: Lynn Michelsohn
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Miss Genevieve provided the conclusion of the story . . .

Although Dr. Allard tried to re-use timbers from St. John-the-Evangelist Chapel, he left the stone steps where they lay, never trying to include them in any other project. Perhaps he learned his lesson from the timbers.

Allard Belin Flagg died just after the turn of the century and the plantation passed out of family hands. Over the years, most folks forgot about St. John-the-Evangelist Chapel. Year by year, decade by decade, leaves and grasses covered the stone slabs in the deserted grove overlooking the Waccamaw River.

In 1910, my parents bought Wachesaw Plantation and we moved into the Hermitage. We had not only acquired a home but also its legacy of stories, secrets, and spirits. The stone steps of St. John-the-Evangelist were one of those secrets. Local people still living and working on the plantation led my parents to that lonely grove overlooking the Waccamaw River. As they told stories of St. John-the-Evangelist Chapel they scraped away layers of leaves to reveal the sandstone slabs hidden for so many years.

In 1925, when Mrs. Oliver had the Turkey Hill Church moved to Parsonage Point, my parents remembered the stone slabs at the site of St. John-the-Evangelist Chapel and donated them to be used as the steps for Belin Memorial Methodist Church. Teams of oxen pulled them to their present location, which looks out over the Inlet marshes and creeks. Today, it is while standing on these stone steps that some people see skeletons of wrecked ships out in the marsh.

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So these ghostly wrecks may have connections with the haunted land at Parsonage Point. They may have connections with Parson Belin’s Turkey Hill Church building. Or they may have connections with the stone steps from St. John-the-Evangelist Chapel. No one knows but all agree that ghost ships always bring to mind the long, and often turbulent, history of our coast.

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