51 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com BY SARAH ROSE & SOPHIE ROSE Haints, Hags & Plat Eyes Eerie estates and unexplained encounters Against this backdrop of our region’s checkered history, it is impossible to ignore that coastal South Carolina is a portal for hauntings. With the arrival of early settlers and wealthy planters in the Lowcountry, the Indigenous population was eliminated due to slavery and disease. Then Africans came ashore in droves, forced to work the land, often in dangerous conditions. During the Revolutionary War, British Redcoats
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