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| Alice’s Grave |
Ghost stories can
sometimes be grueling and creepy; they can give you nightmares even. Very
rarely do you hear of any ghost stories that don’t have some horrifying story
to go along with it. Alice of the Hermitage’s ghost is one of the exceptions.
This story is about a sad, young teenaged girl who was in love with someone whose
social class wouldn’t allow her to be with. She doesn’t haunt just because she
wants to scare people, she haunts the earth in search of her beloved engagement
ring.
Alice lived with
her mother and brother in Murrells Inlet in South Carolina near the coast. She lived
in a house that still stands today called The Hermitage , which was built by her brother. Alice came from a family of wealthy doctors, so
understandably when she fell for a lumberman who was beneath her wealth status,
it was frowned upon. Alice paid it no mind, she loved him regardless of his
economic status and ended up accepting an engagement ring from him. When her
older brother and mother caught wind of this, they forbade it and told her to
take off her ring. She did as they asked but in turn, she concealed the ring by
tying it to a ribbon around her neck and hiding it underneath her shirt.
Eventually, she had more disagreements with her mother and brother about her
fiancé, which resulted in Alice agreeing to be sent off to boarding school in
Charleston. While she was there she got “love-sick” and fell ill and weak to
the point of borderline immobility. Her brother ended up having to take a 4-day
carriage ride to go pick her up. The long ride didn’t help her already
declining condition at all and it caused her to fall even more ill by the time
they reached Murrell’s Inlet. While bed-ridden and weak, she had no energy to
continue concealing her ribbon tied ring and it accidentally slipped out in her
brother’s presence. He saw it and angrily threw her ring into a nearby marsh.
After several attempts of asking guests to find her ring, no one ever attempted
to search for it. About a week of being bedridden in her home in Murrells Inlet,
she fell into a coma and she ended up passing away before she could search for
her ring.
Now, she roams
the earth in search of her ring because it was the only thing she had from her
beloved since her family forbade their relationship. There are rituals performed by walking circles around her grave backwards thirteen times at night
and then leaving a ring on her grave. Legend says that doing so will make Alice
appear. There are other rituals performed, some that have reported granted your
wishes or made a ring suddenly fly off of a visitor’s finger. People often
visit her grave and leave different things from coins, jewelry, and flowers.
Alice is just a mere, teenaged ghost who died of a broken heart and only longs
for her dear ring.
Works Cited:
Segars,
Bill. Sciway.net 2006. http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/wp-content/uploads/alice-marker.jpg.
Accessed 10 Oct. 2016.
“The
Hermitage.” Sciway.net. Sciway LLC. http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/georgetown-county/the-hermitage.html.
Accessed 10 Oct. 2016.
“The
Legend of Alice Flagg.” Angel Fire. http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/mytrip/alice.html.
Accessed 10 Oct. 2016.
“Ghost
of Alice Flagg.” Hauntedstories.net. https://hauntedstories.net/ghost-stories/south-carolina/ghost-alice-flagg.
Accessed 10 Oct. 2016.
Links
for even more leads than this article provides visit:
The Ghost of Alice Flagg, Scary EPVs and Videos and Pictures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9qSY6ODMCs
In this video, YouTube user Joey Blackrose is at the cemetery
where Alice is buried and is taking a video of what he is experiencing, as well
as EVPs of him trying to communicate with her spirit.
Honeymoon from Hell
http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/honeymoon-from-hell?cdn_provider=auto
In this movie, a young couple honeymoons to low country South
Carolina but they end up getting stuck due to a hurricane and get haunted by
the alleged ghost of Alice Flagg.
Ghosts of South Carolina: Two Stories of Lost Love and Tragic
Death
http://archive.independentmail.com/features/ghosts-of-south-carolina-two-stories-of-lost-love-and-tragic-death-ep-412898299-349166541.html
This webpage tells anyone who is interested how to find Alice’s
gravesite, the Hermitage and other historical sites in the area.
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