Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael is back with more mysterious tales from South Carolina; from Plantersville to Loris and from Beaufort to Clinton. Many of these stories have been told and retold throughout generations, like the red-eyed specter that roams the stairwells of Wilson Hall at Converse College or the haunted grave site of Agnes of Glasgow in Camden. In 1987, a construction company unearthed the bodies of fourteen Union soldiers from the Civil War; twelve of the bodies were found without their heads.

Introduction: Lost in legend -- The time: 1819 -- The victims: two corpses and a cow -- The gang: the forgotten members -- The trial: colonial justice is not criminal justice -- The escape: a last bid for freedom -- The sentencing: colonial justice equals colonial corruption -- The execution: in the words of those who witnessed it -- The method: death by hanging : colonial justice versus criminal justice -- The allegations: colonial justice versus criminal justice -- Power and greed: politics at its best -- Land swindling: the keys may be key -- Motive: the sins of the father -- Conclusion:

Based on the 2d. ed. of The bad wife's looking glass, or, God's revenge against cruelty to husbands by M. L. Weems, printed in 1823.