Parker's Ferry Road

South Carolina · United States · Cemetery

Pull into the church driveway at the end of the road, kill the lights, sound the horn three times, then pull back out facing the way you came.

Parker's Ferry Road on Edisto Island, South Carolina runs straight, with a church at the end of it.

The procedure is exact and everyone gives the same version. Pull into the church driveway. Turn your headlights off. Sound the horn three times. Then pull back out onto the road, facing the way you came.

What is supposed to come at you is a circle of lights.

The explanation offered locally connects it to a battle fought nearby. Parker's Ferry was the site of a Revolutionary War ambush in 1781, when Francis Marion's men caught a British column on the causeway through the swamp, so there is a real engagement behind the claim.

An addition from March 2004 supplied further detail.

The road is public and the church is a working one, which is worth remembering before sounding a horn three times outside it at night.

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Where is Parker's Ferry Road located?

Parker's Ferry Road is in South Carolina, United States.