Post by Graveyardbride on Oct 22, 2014 11:30:25 GMT -5
New Jersey/Pennsylvania Ghost Excursions
Cape May, New Jersey, is almost a hundred miles south of Philadelphia, but well worth the trip. “Cape May looks haunted,” wrote Charles J. Adams III of this Victorian-era seaside village. Visitors can lodge with ghosts, visit museums that have ghosts, even go to beaches where there are ghosts. Haunted accommodations include the Queens Hotel and the Washington and Windward House Inns. The latter’s Wicker Room, located on the third floor, has witnessed several otherworldly encounters with an only partially departed Irish maid. The rugged dunes of Higbee Beach are haunted by two spirits – Old Man Higbee and an elderly servant.
Lancaster, the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, is approximately 75 miles west of Philly. A white phantom has hovered for many years above the seats and stage of the Fulton Opera House. Built in 1852, the theater’s upper balcony continues to chill some technicians, who avoid working there alone. A “ghost light” has reportedly been placed off-stage to deter spirit activity. Lancaster Cemetery may have need of such a light. There, a statue of a lovely young woman allegedly strolls the grounds, as does her spirit. So forbidding was Rock Ford, a Georgian mansion built in 1793, that vagrants refused free lodging there. Now a museum, the house is haunted by the first owner’s son, who committed suicide within its walls.
New Hope, some 40 miles south of Philadelphia, is a tony river town that was once a noted artists’ colony. It is now a popular ghosts’ colony. Sometimes the artist becomes the ghost, as is the case with Joseph Pickett. The famous painter died in 1918, but his apparition occasionally manifests itself in his former studio and sometimes roams the towpath of the Delaware Canal. Little wonder that the spirit of a Revolutionary War soldier is said to haunt the Logan Inn (pictured above) where soldier’s corpses were stored in the cellar during the bitter winter of 1776-77 until the ground thawed and the bodies could be buried.
Source: Mark Brewin, Discovery Travel.