Daisy Bank's Glass Coffin | Campfire Tales

This episode of Southern Gothic presents a haunting tale set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, centered on Daisy Bank—a once-thriving rice plantation with no physical remains today. The story follows a young sea captain who abandons his life at sea to marry the daughter of a wealthy rice planter, only to lose both his wife and newborn child in childbirth. Consumed by grief, he has her buried in a custom glass-enclosed coffin beneath a live oak, where he visits daily to gaze upon her preserved form. After his death, the plantation falls into ruin, and local legend claims his ghost still appears at the grave each evening. In the 1920s, a pair of drunken lovers discover the hidden grave, shatter the glass coffin in a moment of reckless curiosity, and witness the corpse instantly disintegrate into dust. Since then, the grave has vanished, and the captain’s spirit has never been seen again. The episode weaves historical context about rice cultivation and slavery in the antebellum South with a gothic romance steeped in loss, obsession, and supernatural consequence.