Charleston Gothic: Part 2- Buried Treasures
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's Island beaches to a forgotten corner of a graveyard. What emerges is not a simple ghost story, but an obsession—shared by scholars, storytellers, and an entire city convinced that something precious was buried in the South Carolina Lowcountry and must be found.
Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle By C.G. Jung
Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South
Carolina Lowcountry
Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys
Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2
Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner
Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles
The New York Evening Post
The Charleston News and Courier
The Sullivan's Island Edition of The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Durham and Elizabeth Verner Hamilton
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:11.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight, between science and the supernatural, |
| 0:18.0 | between history and horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things, |
| 0:25.6 | stories that you want to hear, stories that you need to hear, stories that will sink their teeth in, |
| 0:34.6 | and never let you go. My name is Mike Brown, and this is Pleasing Terror's. |
| 0:48.2 | Pleasing Terror's Podcast, Episode 48, Charleston Gothic, Part 2, Buried Treasures. |
| 1:03.7 | Some nights when I arrive early for my ghost tour, I take a seat on a bench in Washington Square |
| 1:09.9 | Park beside the monument to Henry Timrod. |
| 1:13.8 | From there, near the intersection of Broad and Meeting Streets, the four corners of law stand in |
| 1:19.3 | quiet symmetry, City Hall, the county courthouse, St. Michael's Church, and the federal courthouse, |
| 1:27.0 | which contains a historic post office. From's Church, and the Federal Courthouse which contains a historic post office. |
| 1:30.3 | From that bench, I can watch other ghost tours gather in front of the Daniel Ravenel House, |
| 1:36.3 | just beyond the brick wall that borders the park. |
| 1:39.3 | I listen as the guides begin their stories. |
| 1:43.3 | The Daniel Ravenel House is a late 18th century Charleston single house, |
| 1:48.0 | built between 1796 and 1800, after an earlier dwelling burned down. |
| 1:53.7 | The property has remained in the same extended family, |
| 1:57.4 | the Mizziques, and later the Ravanaugheselles since around 1710, making it one of the longest |
| 2:03.5 | continuously held residential parcels in the city. |
| 2:08.7 | It is also perfectly placed for ghost tours. |
| 2:12.1 | Clearly visible from the park, its elevated piazza serves as a natural stage. |
| 2:20.6 | Groups can gather at the corner without blocking traffic. |
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