Clay Haus. Aiken-Rhett House. Beauregard-Keyes House. Custom House. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the picture: The Custom House is located on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
It is part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, which was the very first historic site maintained by the National Park System. The Custom House is now a museum that is open for guided tours. All of the furnishings are original, which is pretty rare to find. Friendship Hill. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the picture: Friendship Hill National Historic Site is located off State Route 166 in Point Marion, Pennsylvania.
Friendship Hill was Albert Gallatin's wilderness house. Albert Gallatin was a very influential politician, he served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1801 - 1814 for President Thomas Jefferson and President James Madison. He arranged the financing for both the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expeditions. To learn more about Albert Gallatin, see the official Friendship Hill website.
Friendship Hill is supposedly haunted by Albert Gallatin's first wife, Sophia. Where do you want to go? Gardner-Pingree House. The House of the Seven Gables. This experience occurred around the year of 1996.
I can't quite recall the exact date considering it's been a while. I was visiting Salem for the first time after having a brief stay in Boston. We traveled from Boston to Salem by train early in the morning and had planned to make it a full day visit. Jennie Wade House. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the picture: The Jennie Wade House is located off Baltimore Street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Jennie Wade House wasn't Jennie Wade's home - it was actually rented by Jennie's sister, Georgia McClellan, and Georgia's husband, Louis, who was fighting in the war. Lalaurie Mansion. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the photo: The Lalaurie Mansion is located at 1140 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Lalaurie Mansion was the home of Doctor and Madam Lalaurie, a wealthy New Orleans family in the mid-1800's. It is supposedly one of the most haunted places in all of New Orleans! Legend has it that on April 10, 1834 a fire broke out in Lalaurie Mansion's kitchen. Mudhouse Mansion. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the photo: Mudhouse Mansion is located on Mudhouse Road, just off Lake Road, outside Lancaster, Ohio.
Mudhouse Mansion is one of Lancaster's most famous abandoned places. It was built sometime between 1840-1850. In 1919 the property was sold to Henry and Martha Hartman. Henry Hartman died in 1930 and the property was inherited by Lulu Hartman-Mast, his daughter. Oak Alley Plantation. Octoroon's House - 734 Royal Street. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the picture: The Octoroon's House is located at 734 Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The house at 734 Royal Street is haunted by the ghost of an octoroon (a woman who is 1/8 black) named Julie. In the early 1800's it was common for young men to acquire an octoroon to keep as a mistress. Owens-Thomas House. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the photo: The Owens-Thomas House is located at 124 Abercorn Street in Savannah, Georgia.
The Owens-Thomas House was designed by William Jay, a young architect from England. Construction started in 1816, and was completed in 1819. The home's first owner was Richard Richardson, a wealthy banker and cotton merchant. He only lived there for three years, when he had some financial troubles and lost the house. Ropes Mansion. Mount Washington Tavern. In November 1999, my husband Gary and I were visiting with his family in the Cumberland area of western Maryland for Thanksgiving.
His parents still lived in the house in the town of Ellerslie where Gary was raised. My husband and I are both history buffs, so part of our visit there was a tour of some nearby historical sites. We went to Fort Necessity, where George Washington and General Braddock fought during the French and Indian War. After seeing that, we stopped at another site - the Mt. Washington Tavern in Farmington, western Pennsylvania. Mount Washington Tavern was built in 1828, and provided food, drink and lodging for travelers using the Old National Road (now U.S. 40), especially the stagecoach clientele.
My husband and his father glanced around downstairs, but were eager to see the second floor. I was frozen in shock. But lucky for him, I had lockjaw at the moment, just as frozen in time as he was. I couldn't talk about it for a long time. Ward House. Roberts Road House. Sorrel Weed House. Pioneer Village. Click on any of the titles in the option box below to view the photo: The Pioneer Village is located at 14344 Fairgrounds Road in Kenton, Ohio (Hardin County).
It is right next to the County Fairgrounds. The Pioneer Village is made up of several buildings: A barn, the Beech Grove School, the Dunkirk Jail, a log cabin, and the Yost farmhouse. All contain historical exhibits, including many antique farm implements. I visited the Pioneer Village in July 2008, as part of a paranormal investigation with the Buckeye State Paranormal and Haunting Investigators.
For more information about the investigation results, please visit the official BSPHI investigation report. Where do you want to go?