The Pink House
Built around 1712 from pinkish Bermuda coral stone, this narrow three-story house on cobblestoned Chalmers Street is among the oldest structures in Charleston and once served as a tavern, likely with a brothel above, for the sailors and pirates passing through the colonial port. Visitors and locals report the soft sound of footsteps climbing the three-hundred-year-old stairs through the night, windows that burst open with no hand touching them, and the prickling sense of being watched from an empty stairwell. The most often-described spirit is a wispy female figure who paces the third floor as if waiting for someone, long thought by some to be the pirate Anne Bonny. Historians note no record places Bonny here, so the lingering presence is more plausibly one of the women who once worked the house in its tavern-and-bordello days.
📍 17 Chalmers Street, Charleston, SC 29401, Charleston, SC · Get directions