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Palmetto Ghosts


Our storytellers are experienced tour guides with a passion for entertaining and enthralling their audience. Knowledgeable in South Carolina history, they recount eerie events from the past with a vigor and dynamism that captivates listeners of all ages.

Jan Elder was born in Blowing Rock, NC.  She grew up in and around the tourist industry.  She has been a real estate developer, auctioneer, legal librarian, and an appraiser of collectibles, antiques and furniture.  She went to school in Miami, graduating with a Degree in communications.  She came to Charleston to learn about antiques and soon realized that she could get into the historic homes for free if she had a tour guide license.  So, she became a tour guide.  She started by giving ghosts tours and didn’t expect to like it because her first love was history.  She soon realized just how many people were interested in hearing the ghost stories and enjoyed the fact that she could tailor each story to any specific audience.  This made it fun.  She was disappointed that there wasn’t a CD of ghost stories, so she decided to make one.  This has been a labor of love.  She has always been a writer and already had the bones of most of the stories.  She collected the best voices she could find – tour guides, voice over actors, stage performers etc. and Palmetto Ghosts was born.

John Young
, writer and City of Charleston Licensed Tour Guide.  He gives general history, ghost, black history, and Revolutionary War tours for Original Charleston Walks.

Muima Alada Shinault-Small, Gullah Adaptation by Muima, a Charleston native and graduate of Univ. of SC, with an MA in History from the Citadel.  She is a storyteller and a City of Charleston Licensed Tour Guide.  A Deal With the Devil was originally published in 1921 as Madam Margot by John Bennett and reinterpreted by Jan Elder and Muima Shinault-Small.

Bruce Burgy is a retired executive, consultant and sailing enthusiast who is experienced in radio drama and voice-over for industrial films. He lives on Folly Beach, SC.

Arthur Ravenel, Jr. is arguably the most familiar name in Charleston and its best raconteur. He is currently serving on the Charleston County School Board.

Boo Shepparddivides her time between Folly Beach and Charleston. She is formerly from Orangeburg, SC and has written for and performed in numerous theatrical productions. She is an advocate for the soon to be Folly Beach Community Art Center.

Perry Roland, voice of John Peoples, mass murder and purveyor of wisdom.

Blues performed and created by: John Winkler, aka Juke Joint Johnny, on harmonica, plays regularly at local night spots. Drew Baldwin on antique harp guitar, drums provided with the back of the antique harp, tiple and egg. Cover art by Matthew Campbell, aka Matty Dreadlocks, retired pirate.
Palmetto Ghosts is a CD of stories of greed and deception, lost loves and fiendish bargains with the devil, mass murderers and more, all interlaced with eerie and melodic tones.

Click on the following links to listen to excerpts:

Introduction and Poogan's Porch

A Deal With The Devil and The Gray Man

The Unknown Voice of Kiawah and Miz Nollie's Blue Bowl

Mass Murder At The Six Mile Inn and Infamy At The Jones Hotel


Other Ghost Story CDs are currently in production.

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