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No matter where you go, and whether you believe them or not, there are always ghosts stories and stories of hauntings, and the Upstate is no exception.Downtown Greenville even has a tour hosted by ghost hunter Jason Profit that takes visitors to some of the sites where people have had what they call paranormal experiences.Back in 2009, News 4 looked into reports of a ghostly apparition caught on camera in an Anderson municipal building. To see the story and video, click here. Many places in the United States have legends surrounding “cry baby” bridges, believed to be the sites where babies died, either as the result of tragic accidents or at the hands of murderous mothers. In the Upstate, there are multiple locations with similar stories, including one on High Shoals Road, just south of Anderson, and in Union, near Rose Hill Plantation on Sardis Road .Some believe there are ghosts at The Inn at Merridun bed and breakfast in Union. According to the Discover South Carolina Web site, guests can catch a whiff of cigar smoke and rose-scented perfume believed to be the spirits of late residents T.C. and Fannie Duncan.Another legend says that there is a ghostly hitchhiker on Highway 76 who is looking for a ride to Pickens Street in Columbia. Some say that the ghost is a woman who was killed on a bridge in the 1940s while trying to go home to see her mother.On a Web site called Shadowlands Haunted Places, there are entries of a number of places believed by some to be haunted.According to the Web site, the balcony of the Abbeville Opera House is haunted by a black patron who was murdered when the opera house seating was segregated.In Anderson, a ghostly figure from the 1500s is believed to appear on Cobbs way, according to Shadowlands, and the Sullivan Music Center at Anderson University is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of a young girl who is there waiting for someone.All over South Carolina, and in several locations in Columbia, people have claimed to have encounters with the paranormal, according to the site.According to StrangeUSA.com, a slave named Eloise haunts Three Bridges Road in Powdersville. The story is that Eloise was traveling with her master through Powdersville, where Confederate soldiers stored gunpowder during the Civil War. Union soldiers killed her master, and distraught by his death, she stayed with him and was also killed. People have reported seeing an apparition along the road, and hearing screams and crying.South Carolina Paranormal Research and Investigations also list dozens of allegedly haunted sites all over the state.Among those they list in the Upstate is a graveyard near Furman University that was mostly for children buried in the late 1700s to late 1800 that has reports of lights, laughter and running sounds.On Route 107 in Greenville County, there have been reports of a man who was killed in a crash in the 1950s who is seen walking along the highway on dark rainy nights who then disappears. People refer to him as "the hitchhiker."SCPRI says that in Gray Gray Court, the story is told of an old lady lived at the end of the road from the tunnel. They say a neighbor boy went to borrow eggs one day and thought that the old lady had a lot of money,so he planned to knock her out and take it. Instead, when he hit her, he killed her. The story, says that on rainy days as you pass through the tunnel, you can see the old lady and hear her cries.It has also been said that if you stop in the tunnel and cut off your car it will not start again. And the old lady will get in the car with you. Scary stuff.