Prince George Winyah Episcopal Church
Dating to the 1740s, with its first service held in 1747, Prince George Winyah is one of Georgetown's oldest churches and anchors a historic burial ground in the heart of the district. Its best-known haunting belongs to two young women, remembered as devoted friends who were to be married and instead fell ill and died of fever within days of one another before their weddings. Buried in their wedding dresses, the pair are said to still keep each other company: on warm summer evenings people walking the churchyard and the nearby Beth Elohim cemetery report soft girlish laughter rising from among the graves, sometimes accompanied by glowing orbs in the live oaks overhead. The tale is preserved in Elizabeth Huntsinger's Georgetown ghost collections and recurs on Lowcountry haunted-history guides, making the churchyard one of the area's most retold spectral sites.
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