If you want to spend Halloween weekend reading ghostly tales, there is a new book out that even tells of haunted legends in Newberry. John Boyanoski has released a follow up to his 2006 collection of Upstate ghost stories with “More Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina.”
The book includes a story of a haunted house in Newberry.
The story surrounds the house owned by local bookstore owner Randy Berry.
Berry recalls one night hearing singing coming from his infant's bedroom. While Berry's wife slept, he went to check on their daughter. When he opened the door to check on his daugher, the singing stopped.
Later a neighbor told him the house was haunted. A girl between the ages of 8 and 10 fell down the steps at the home in 1874 and had been buried in the backyard. It is thought the little girl still roamed the home.
Fairfield's historical witches, a haunted former hospital and the many ghosts of Winthrop University's Tillman Hall, Boyanski takes readers on a tour of a hauntingly familiar spectral hot spots of the Upstate.
Other spooky tales told include stories of a skeleton in a window, Spartanburg's haunted railroad tracks, a shadow that leaves its owner, a family dog who plays with a ghost, and a Main Street Greenville art studio haunted by multiple visitors, including a Civil War soldier who allegedly held his bayonet to the artist in residence's throat.
The book includes reports of a ghost named Bill who haunts the bar at Greenwood's Inn on the Square and plays tricks on customers.
“These are stories that have never been talked about publicly,“ said Boyanoski. “They are family stories, rather than legends that have been passed around for years.“
Boyanoski says it is hard not to find a town in the Upstate that isn't in the book and one man talks with ghosts almost daily.
To read about Berry's ghostly encounter, and the others, “More Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina” is available at Book on Main.
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