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6. Charleston, South Carolina
Known as the “Holy City” for the church spires that dot its skyline, Charleston is one of the oldest cities in the U.S., and also one of the most haunted. Victorian mansions line the downtown area known as the Battery, which was a protective artillery installation during the Civil War, and it is here that many of the city’s most haunted houses can be found. Perhaps the most famous is the Battery Carriage House Inn, a hotel where people have reported seeing everything from strange lights, to the gentlemanly ghost of a student who died after leaping off the roof, to a headless torso that appears at guests’ bedsides in the middle of the night. Charleston is also known for a number of ghost stories that originated with the Gullah, a West African culture that populates parts of South Carolina and Georgia. The most famous Gullah horror stories usually center on Boo Hags, a type of blood-red vampire that wears human skin as a mask and feeds on its victim’s energy while they sleep.
六、查爾斯頓，南卡羅來納州
查爾斯頓因教堂尖頂布滿天際而被稱為“圣城”，它是美國最古老的城市之一，也是最鬧鬼的城市之一。維多利亞時代的房屋在市中心地區排成一線，這里被稱作‘炮臺區’，指內戰時期的一種防護火炮裝置。城里大多數鬧鬼的屋子都在這個地區。最為著名的或許要數炮臺馬車客棧，人們在此看到的靈異現象可謂五花八門，包括奇怪的光線，從樓頂跳下的一個名學生化身成的紳士鬼魂，還有在午夜出現在客房床邊的無頭軀干。查爾斯頓還因許多起源于古勒的鬼故事而出名，古勒是一種西非文化，存在于南卡羅來納和喬治亞部分地區。最著名的古勒恐怖故事常常集中到布哈格身上，那是一種血紅色的吃人的東西，它帶著人皮面具，乘人熟睡時吸食人的能量。
Most Haunted Place: the Dock Street Theater
Charleston is full of buildings with a checkered past, and one of the most well known is surely the Dock Street Theater. Built in 1809, the theater is said to be the home of two spirits. The first is Nettie, a poor prostitute who was killed near the theater after being struck by lightning. The other is the ghost of Junius Brutus Booth, an actor who is more famous today for being the father of John Wilkes Boothe, the man who killed Abraham Lincoln. Both spirits are said to wander the backstage area of the theater, and many workers and performers claim to have spotted them.
最恐怖之地：船塢街戲院
查爾斯頓的建筑大多有著錯綜復雜的過去，而其中最出名的肯定是船塢街戲院。戲院建于1809年，傳說里面有兩個靈魂。一個名叫內蒂，是一名可憐的妓女，在被閃電劈中之后死于戲院附近。另一個是殺死林肯的兇手，朱尼厄斯·布魯特斯·布斯的鬼魂。據說兩個靈魂常出沒在戲院后臺，很多工作人員和表演者都聲稱看到過。
