Forgotten Tales of South Carolina

Forgotten Tales

by Sherman Carmichael, Kyle McQueen (Illustrator)

From the desk of master storyteller Sherman Carmichael comes a collection of over one hundred quirky tales from South Carolina. The origins of these stories are as elusive as the swamp monster that slinks along the bottom of Lake Murray and as hidden as the moonshine bootleggers buried inside the Stumphouse Tunnel between Charleston and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Discover how the witch Mary Ingelman of Fairfield County caused a man's cow to fly into the air, read the prehistoric petroglyphs of Pinnacle Mountain and visit the mermaid entombed inside the Hall of Wonders. Collected from Greenville to Myrtle Beach and down the coast, these stories have survived blizzards, tornadoes and pterosaurs to make it to the pages of this offbeat and rare collection.

Genres: History

147 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 11, 2011

Reviews

[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy this author and his tales around my state, but the stories in different books definitely bleed together and I feel sure I've read some of these in his other works. Still always a good read, though!

[Ray Perdue · Rating 1 out of 5]

A bizarre collection of interesting, inane and weirdly repetitious stories. Often I get the feeling that the author is just copy and pasting stuff from Reddit.

[Ashlee · Rating 1 out of 5]

The organization of the stories in this was horrible! Instead of grouping different versions or similar stories together they were spread out over several pages with others in between. Only about two of the stories were actually interesting.

[Allie · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was absolutely HORRIBLE!!!! It's was terribly written and had ton of useless information