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The ghost of Mary Smith haunts the Mary Smith House of Charleston, SC. Josiah Smith, Mary Smith's father, supposedly built the house for his daughter in hopes it would attract a suitor. "The story goes either [Mary Smith] was extremely ugly and didn't have any suitors coming after her, or just didn't want to get married. She lived as a spinster in the house her entire life," exclaims current owner, Donna Bennett.
But Mary Smith doesn't just jingle her keys. Bennett's daughter and granddaughter were sleeping in that room one night and said they could feel someone pressing on them. All they did was blame each other for restless sleeping. |
Bennett has owned the sprawling 5,000 square foot house in the Ansonborough section of Charleston for a year. She said she noticed that it was haunted from the beginning. Bennett had hired a young man to paint a room on the fourth level. After he was done he started on another part of the house and her daughter stayed in the room he had finished. Bennett's daughter said she heard keys jingling, but didn't know where it was coming from. The painter told the Bennett's he heard keys while he was up there too, and he also couldn't place where the sound was coming from.