The Mermaid Returns: Part 1

Pleasing Terrors by Mike Brown

Dec 1, 202252:30Society & Culture

This is the first in a three part series about one of Charleston, South Carolina's lost stories. It combines history, ghosts, true crime, amd fairytales.

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