| This A&E video focuses on four famous
houses—their histories and haunts. The Joshua Ward House in Old Salem, where the 17th
century Sheriff George Corwin, cursed by his victim Giles Corey, still haunts modern-day
sheriffs from his grave in the basement. Raynam Hall on Long Island, where two ghosts
linger: Major Andre, hung as a spy and sad Sally Townsend, who lost her Loyalist lover
when she betrayed Benedict Arnold’s plan to surrender West Point to the British. One
of the most interesting sections was on the Myrtles Plantation, claimed to be
America’s most haunted house. Chloe, a house slave, was rejected by her master, the
Judge, who had tired of her. He threatened to send her back to the fields and had one of
her ears cut off. In this version (very different from the ones I’ve read), she
decided to poison a cake with oleander and when the family fell ill, to nurse them so
devotedly that they would never let her be sent away. Instead the Judge’s wife and
two children died and Chloe hung herself. The children have appeared in the house and
Chloe herself may have been caught on a photograph. San Diego’s haunted Whaley House
is also featured, with ghosthunters Richard and Debbie Senate. Debbie very vividly
re-enacts a hanging on the stairway: the house was the site of the lynching of a
French-Canadian man, "Yankee Jim," who was hung for being an outsider. There are
appearances by local historians and folklorists, with some lightweight speculation on why
ghosts haunt and what function they serve. |
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