Reader Submission: The Haunted Painting
“When I was 18, my wealthy older brother moved me and our parents into his house so he could move closer to work and so we would get out of the crappy neighborhood we were in. This house was only six years old and held no paranormal experiences like our old house did… until about a year late
My dad frequently uses eBay and bought an old painting. He was really excited and presented it to me and my mom. The colors were very vibrant and pretty, but the actual picture was ugly. It was of a little girl holding a pear. The little girl looked like an alien and was unproportional. It was just weird. My dad hung the painting on the landing that led upstairs to my room. ‘Wonderful,’ I thought.
Built in 1802, Charleston’s Old City Jail housed some of the state’s most infamous criminals, including rebellious slaves, 19th-century pirates, and Lavinia Fisher, America’s first female serial killer. Thousands of inmates died within the structure’s imposing walls and it’s these tormented spirits that reportedly haunt the old building today.