In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's Island beaches to a forgotten corner of a graveyard. What emerges is not a simple ghost story, but an obsession—shared by scholars, storytellers, and an entire city convinced that something precious was buried in the South Carolina Lowcountry and must be found.

Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle By C.G. Jung

Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South

Carolina Lowcountry

Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys

Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2

Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner

Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles

The New York Evening Post

The Charleston News and Courier

The Sullivan's Island Edition of The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Durham and Elizabeth Verner Hamilton