The tale of the swamp girl is a tragic story of a young woman trying to make her way to Columbia, South Carolina. A well dressed women was seen walking down a dark highway, in the middle of dense swampland. A couple, seeing the girl, stopped to offer her a ride. The young girl accepted the ride explaining that she was on her way to Columbia to visit her sick mother.
The couple resumed driving and talking. The wife asked the young girl a question and when she received no response she turned around and discovered the young girl had vanished.
In hysterics, the couple drove the rest of the way to Columbia. The wife was so upset her husband had to take her to the hospital. Remembering the address that was the young girls destination, the husband made his to Pickens Street. The women, who answered the door, knew immediately why he was there. He was one of three other people who had picked up the women in the swamp only to have her disappear. As it turns out that the girl from the swamp and the women on Pickens Street were sisters. The disappearing girl was killed in an auto accident. On the anniversary of her death, she appears on the swamp road were she lost her life.
