Battery Carriage House Inn
Tucked behind the 1843 Stevens-Lathers mansion on Charleston's Battery, this brick carriage house opened as an inn in 1970 under the Drayton-Hastie family and earned a reputation as the city's most haunted lodging. Guests in Room 10 tell of a courtly "gentleman ghost," a gray, shadowy figure who glides through the room and has been felt slipping beneath the covers, said by some to be a young man from the building's student-boarding days who took his own life. Room 8 carries a grimmer presence: a headless, gray-coated torso lingering at the foot of the bed, long believed to be a Confederate soldier from the years the Battery was shelled during the Civil War. Both apparitions have been reported by visitors for decades, and the inn (now operating as 20 South Battery) remains a fixture of Charleston ghost lore.
📍 20 South Battery St, Charleston, SC 29401, Charleston, SC · Get directions