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Charleston Gothic: Part 2- Buried Treasures

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12/14/2025

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54 minutes

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Pleasing Terrors

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<p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> 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.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p id="docs-internal-guid-30e06520-7fff-3ad4-2966-042167bbf370" dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by  Christopher Byrd Downey</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle By C.G. Jung</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Carolina Lowcountry</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p id="docs-internal-guid-9b41c93d-7fff-dd17-ac45-6f78d5fba9d6" dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. 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Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The New York Evening Post</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;">  </p> <p dir="ltr" style= "line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0.0pt; margin-bottom: 0.0pt;"> <span style= "font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The Charleston News and Courier</span></p> <p>The Sullivan's Island Edition of The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Durham and Elizabeth Verner Hamilton</p>

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