Case file · Haunting
Alice Flagg, Murrells Inlet
Alice Flagg, a teenager from Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, died in 1849 after her brother forbade her engagement; she is said to search the Hermitage and All Saints churchyard for her lost ring.
1849 CE · 33.55, -79.04 · status: legend
The account
Her marked grave bears only the word 'Alice'. Visitors walk round it backwards and leave rings and flowers.
The sceptical view
Family records confirm her death; the ring story comes from later retellings collected by Genevieve Willcox Chandler and Nancy Rhyne.