Before the name "hurricane" entered our everyday vocabulary, before weather apps and Doppler radar, the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean had their own way of explaining the violent storms that ripped through their islands. They feared and respected a force of nature embodied not as a storm system, but as a wrathful, commanding deity: Guabancex The Furious Goddess of Storms.
Along the quiet coast of South Carolina, where Spanish moss drapes from old oaks and sea breezes carry the scent of salt and sand, a ghost is said to walk.They call him the Gray Man of Pawleys Island, and locals know that when he shows up, trouble isn’t far behind.
