Spooky and Old

Charleston is known as a favorable ghost habitat. This residence is the Thomas Rose House, on Church St., built around 1740. In 1786 a bloke named Joseph Brown Ladd was wounded in a duel, carried to this house, and expired therein. This sort of stuff happened a lot in the 18th and early 19th centuries; famous people killed in duels included Alexander Hamilton (the same bloke on the $10 bill) and Alexander Pushkin, the Russian poet. The bloke who died here wasn't even named Alexander, and perhaps this is the reason his ghost is said to inhabit the premises. Or not.