Show Notes
Six months removed from "The Summer of Love", the United States was a powder keg of change, violence, courage, and citizens fighting for their beliefs. South Carolina was no different and in the town of Orangeburg, students from the then South Carolina State College voiced their displeasures of wrong doings in the community. A week of tumult, unrest, and violence all culminated on the night of February 8, 1968 on the campus lawn.
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This week, we get you ready for spooky season with tales from around South Carolina about legendary witches, a strage UFO sighting, and some creatures that no one can explain.
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Straight out of an urban legend, a couple on a date in 1958 decided it would be a good idea to park in a Dillon County cemetery in the wee hours of the morning. What happened next was terror come to life. Gunshots blasted through the back window of the vehicle causing a foot pursuit, a 200 person manhunt, and a convoluted confession of sorts.
In 2021, an armored car containing close to $1 Million dollars was robbed by unknown assailants. What seemed to be an ambush was investigated and it was discovered that the perpetrator was "not that unknown" after all.
In 2014, 911 dispatchers in Pickens County,SC were called to the scene of a murder which looked to be the work of an intruder. Indeed it was an intruder, but a phone fauxpas revealed something much more sinister was at play.