Alice, The Ghost of Hermitage

Alice died more than a hundred years ago, but she still comes back to her home today searching for her engagement ring. She was the only daughter of the family that owned the great Wachesaw Plantation. Her father died and her brother, Dr. Allard Belin Flagg, was the person taking care of her. Alice was sent to a Charleston boarding school. She fell in love at the age of fifteen and became secretly engaged. In order for her family not to get angry with her, she wore her ring on a ribbon around her neck and kept it hidden close to her heart. She contracted a deadly fever and her brother brought her home from boarding school. Her brother discovered the engagement ring around her neck and snatched it off and threw it into a stream. Alice discovered her ring was missing and became more upset. In her weakened, feverish condition she kept asking for her ring. Alice died of typhoid fever, longing for her ring. When Alice died she was temporarily laid to rest near the Hermitage. She has been seen many times near her final resting place, behind the wrought-iron gates of All Saints Churchyard. Alice is always searching for her lost ring.

Alice’s old home, the Hermitage, has been moved from its original creek side location in Murrells Inlet. It is no longer open to the public. All Saints’ Waccamaw Episcopal Church is located on Shell Road off of US 17, approximately 12 miles north of Georgetown.