Richmond Haunts Short
Ghost Stories of the University of South Carolina Horseshoe
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About this episode
| The University of South Carolina’s historic Horseshoe carries more than two centuries of campus memory. Its supernatural traditions include the spirit of university president J. Rion McKissick, who is buried near the South Caroliniana Library, and reports linked to buildings around the green.
This Short also visits DeSaussure College, whose uses included a Civil War hospital and later institutional roles, before turning to the strange figure known as the Third Eye Man. University sources note that versions of that legend were shaped or even manufactured by later storytellers. The episode shows how campus history, student tradition and deliberate invention can become difficult to separate after a story has been retold for generations. |