Ghost Tour

We are getting our ghost orientation from our guide in one of the many pretty parks in the city. 

Officer Ruggerio guarding our group!

We heard about the first person in the US to be cremated after he almost buried his daughter alive in this cemetery. 

The Powder Magazine from 1713 housed the gun powder and is the oldest public building in Charleston. The roof was built full of sand so if there was an explosion the roof would cave-in and the sand would put out the fire. It is still there today. 

Some of the pretty buildings we passed:

At Phillips Church where we heard an eerie story about a woman who lost her baby after childbirth and may have been captured in a photo 99 years later.

 

Philadelphia Alley where duels were often held. 

At the halfway mark we have a few tired cadets...

The old Customs House where South Carolina ratified the US Constiution and where the pirate Blackbeard visited and took hostages leading to a crackdown on piracy in 1718. 

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Too dark now to take many photos but we wrapped up along the harbor and are now waiting in the bus to take us back to the Yorktown.