Description
In June 1867, a devastating hurricane hit Charleston, South Carolina. As floodwaters rose, hundreds of residents gathered outside Dr. William G. Trott’s apothecary, demanding he release a “captured mermaid.”
Was the storm just a natural disaster or the vengeance of a powerful water spirit?
Nicole Caudle explores one of Charleston’s strangest historical legends.
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