Chapter 1: What is the preview of this week's Patreon episode?
Welcome to a preview of this week's Patreon episode. One that was slightly delayed, but I think it's well worth the wait. This week I am joined by Soleil from our recent two-part series entitled Folly Beach. If you haven't heard that, both of the episodes are already out on Patreon. You could listen to them right now. That series already has so much going on in it. It's a completely crazy story.
And during my multiple interviews with Soleil, she told me that she had another story, a ghost story that she experienced when she was growing up, and it takes place at the same beach, Folly Beach. At the time, I told her, we should just save this one because your story already has so much going on, but... She joined me for this episode to talk about that additional story.
And I have to say, I thought it would be a little bonus story. It ended up being a lot crazier than I ever imagined. It's actually a series of events that takes place over three years and starts when her mom decides to take a Civil War relic that she found at a beach near an old fort.
Aside from that, we also talk about her reaction to the episodes, Reiki, cats, and hanging out with high school goths in graveyards. This is a short preview. If you want to hear the full thing, along with Folly Beach parts one and two, they are all out now at patreon.com slash otherworld.
This was way back in like the early 2000s. This would have been sometime between 2004 and 2006 that this occurred. There are two forts out on Folly Beach that were never properly excavated. One of them was on the beach and the other is in the woods. It is still in the woods intact and has still not been properly excavated. The one that was on the beach,
Was washing away and it was huge news and every huge local news and everybody was talking about it, who was interested in preserving local history, that kind of thing. So my mom was like, hey, guys, we're going to go out to Folly Beach and we're going to go like check out like what's out there. So we all got our little shovels and we went out there and.
The thing that was really interesting was that because Folly Beach is a barrier island, the sand is constantly shifting and the ocean is constantly like picking things up and bringing them back out. So as soon as something gets buried, it eventually gets uncovered. And so when we got there, there was so much of the fort that was just sticking up out of the sand.
And there were things that you could just, I mean, you could just lean down and pick stuff up.
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Chapter 2: What ghost story did Soleil experience at Folly Beach?
It was a pretty wild experience.
And this was a fort before?
Mm-hmm. Yeah, and you can actually still see it. It's in the ocean now, and you can still see the concrete pillars sticking out of the water, but it's fully underwater now.
A Civil War fort.
Yep, a Civil War fort. This was the fort of the 54th Regiment, which was, you know, the first all-Black regiment in South Carolina. So... We go out there, there's just stuff laying around. There's also a ton of archeologists out there because they are there to collect and preserve what they can of South Carolina history. And so it was pretty cool and it was also very lucky.
I found a bunch of fossilized cow bones. My brother found a button. My stepdad found a coin and my mom found this thing. It was a little metal 54.
That's crazy, actually.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy. So this guy walks over and he's like, hey, you know, I'm a local archaeologist. What have you got? I can tell you about it. And so we show him everything and I show him my cow bones and he's like, oh, yeah. So these are here because they would roast entire cows on the beach and that's how they would feed the army.
So there's a ton of fossilized cow bones that were like coming up out of the sand. And then he explained, you know, like the button was like a Civil War period button, but like he couldn't tell us like exactly what it was from. And he looked at the coin and he gave my brother or my dad an approximation of like when the coin was from.
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Chapter 3: What Civil War relic did Soleil's mom find on Folly Beach?
We're stoked. We're all like, we're all big into history. So we, we go home. We're so excited. We're like, Oh wow. Like we just like walked away with like a real piece of like South Carolina history and like, it's okay for us to have it. Cause normally it's not okay for you to go to a historical site and just kind of pick through artifacts. Yeah.
I was going to say that seems very unusual.
Well, South Carolina is an unusual place.
This is a very Southern experience you're having where there's a, like an open archaeological site that's just washing into the ocean and people can come and pick through it.
Yep. So we're super excited. We wash everything together. And then my mom has this mosaic table that she still has. I love that table. And we all like wash our stuff and we lay it on the table to dry and we all sit around the table and we're just like everyone is so happy. And then it was like this scene from The Mummy where everyone's sitting there and like the wind goes like...
And then everyone gets a chill up their spine. Um, that happened to my family. We were all sitting around the table and it was like the air shifted and we all had the same feeling. We all looked at each other and in unison, we said, we have to take the stuff back. So we go literally right then, right there. We get in the car and we go take the stuff back. But my mom can't let go of the 54.
So, um, we agree. It's really cool. And like, we don't, we also like want to keep it. So, um, we take, we take the 54 back home. And what followed was about, um, three years of nonstop paranormal activity in our house. Um, it was experienced by years. Yep. Three years. Um, It did not stop.
I want to hear about this.
Oh, yeah. I'm going to hit some highlights for you. Please. So the paranormal activity did not stop until the 54 disappeared. We have no idea where it went. My mom has this huge curio cabinet that she has, like, all of her little, like, collections and treasures in. And she had it on display on the first, like, the very first shelf, and it was, like, right in, like, the back. And, um...
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Chapter 4: What unusual archaeological discoveries were made at Folly Beach?
Anyway, so... One of the things that I frequently experienced, the first time I experienced it, it was really scary. I was home alone. My parents were out of town. I was babysitting my little brother. I'm like 17 at the time and he's like 10. And I'm also responsible for caring for our dogs. So it's nighttime about to go to bed.
I let the dogs out because we had, we had a golden retriever and a Chihuahua and they were really good, uh, really good, well-behaved dogs. And so I, you, you, it was easy to just let them in the backyard, like without the leash. So they go to go to the bathroom and I hear somebody from the woods. And so our house was backed up to the woods and, um, that used to be all wetlands.
Now it's a golf course. Um, and, And I hear somebody calling my dog's names from the woods. And my dogs hear it too. They stop and they look at it. And Lola, our golden retriever, who never growled at anybody, growls. And she runs back to the house. And then as the dogs are running back to the house, I hear somebody yelling my name. And so I freak out. I call my parents.
I'm like, there's somebody in the woods calling my name. And my parents are like, You're making it up or it's John messing with you. John's our neighbor who like I went to high school with his son and he he's him and his wife have always just been so nice to me. Like they used to like give me rides to school and stuff. And like John would just never do something like that.
Like he was he would like tell you stupid dad jokes. But John's not the kind of guy who would like go stand in the woods and like try to creep you out. So I was like, I really don't think that that's true, but whatever. My parents don't believe me. Fast forward three months later, I'm out of town with my parents. We're on a family trip.
My mom's friend, Becca, good family friend, is watching the dogs. And she calls my mom and she's like, hey, I can't go over to your house anymore. I took your dogs to my house. And my mom's like, what happened? And she's like, oh, I was letting your dogs out. And somebody in the woods started calling your dog's names. And then they started calling my name and my husband's name.
And her husband was there. And he also heard it. And he was like yelling through the phone. And my parents just, like, look at me, and I'm like, I told you. I told you I didn't make that up. So that was, like, the beginning.
And, like, I assume nobody would, absolutely nobody would know those people's names.
No, nobody would have known. Becca and Brian did not come over to my parents' house very often. And, like, they hadn't been introduced to anybody in our neighborhood. And then, of course, like, this kept happening. This happened to my brother. This happened to my brother with his friends. This happened to some of my friends. This happened to me again several times after this.
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