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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- I first met Mary Bloomfield about 100 years after she died.

She was dressed to the nines wearing a lovely hat, looking out toward the Charleston harbor.  Mary said her husband should be returning by ship from Boston any day now. I didn’t argue. It does no good to contradict the dead. 

If they’re stubborn enough to believe something after they’ve died you have little chance of convincing them otherwise. Though, historians and storytellers in Charleston will tell you Mary’s husband will never return. That he died on that ship, lost like so many souls on so many ships, to the perilous Atlantic Ocean.

But Mary waits. Her hope never dims. Her love never lost. “Until death do us part,” is not a concept she has accepted. If you don’t believe you’re dead you don’t have to part. So she waits there in the Unitarian Church graveyard… 100 years after her burial.

You can visit the Unitarian Church cemetery on your own or take a guided tour of Charleston haunts. This city is full of haunting ghost stories. Here’s a few links to get you started:

http://www.bulldogtours.com/index.html

http://www.charlestontours.net/tours/tourType.cfm/ttid2/1094

http://www.blackcattours.com/hauntedcharleston.html