What's unusual in New Hampshire?
New Hampshire the "Granite State". The beauty of the White Mountains and clear mountain streams make it an ideal place for hiking and camping. However, just perhaps one night with the moon shining bright as you're sitting by a glowing campfire someone unseen taps you no the shoulder, "May I join you?"
Located in southwest New Hampshire on Highway 114 is the town of Hennicker. There is a two story wood frame house which is situated on a hill overlooking the town. The house which is known as "Ocean - born" Mary's house is privately owned but it may be possible to arrange to see it. The local people love to talk about what is haunting it.
Mary Wallace got the nickname "Ocean-born" because she came into this world on an Irish immigrant ship called the "Wolf" in 1720. When pirates boarded the ship the passengers and the ships cargo were spared because the baby's mother agreed to call the little girl Mary which had been pirate Don Pedro's mother's name.
The "Wolf" reached Boston and Mary's parents settled in New Londonderry, New Hampshire where Mary grew up. She married a man called Wallace giving him four sons. After the birth of her fourth son Mary became a widow. Meanwhile the pirate who had named Mary retired and settled in Henniker, New Hampshire. He built a large house on 6,000 acres. When he heard that Mary was a widow he invited her and her sons to come live with him. Mary became his wife and they lived there many happy years.
One day Mary found her husband the pirate dying in the garden the victim of a knife attack. She granted him his dying wish by burying him under the hearthstone in the kitchen. Mary inherited the house and lived there until she died in 1814 at the age of 94. The house has passed through many hands then always in the presence of Mary's ghost.
The ghostly appearances that have been seen and felt by the living began soon after Mary died when an apparition of a 6 ft. woman with red hair and green flashing eyes could be seen in the upstairs bay windows and on the central staircase. All along she could also be seen in the garden throwing something into the well. Two state troopers have claimed to have seen a tall 6 ft. woman with red hair dressed in a green gown crossing the road below the mansion. People who have visited the house claim that when they have touched the hearthstone in the kitchen they have felt "strange vibrations".
It appears that Mary tries to be helpful to the living and does her part to protect the mansion. During a fierce storm in this coastal town she was seen helping a family repair the garage. In the 1930s the house was owned by Louis Roy. When a hurricane hit the area in 1938 he claims that Mary saved his life 19 times during the storm. Roy's mother who is supposedly a psychic claims to have seen Mary's ghost on this and other occasions.
Mrs. David Russell who owned the house in 1963 said that at that time their caretaker dropped a space heater down the stairs. At the bottom the kerosene and the flames started burning the stairs and started reaching up the walls. Having no water in the house her husband hurried outside to get snow. Standing there helplessly Mrs. Russell had watched the flames licking along when suddenly the fire went out just as if someone had smothered it with a blanket. By the time her husband returned with snow there was no more fire.
Mary still takes care of her house helping the living when she can. It's possible that the pirate Don Pedro in also around. However well-known parapsychologist Hans Holzer assisted by a medium was able to free the spirit of a servant girl and help her get to the world beyond.
In the town of Whitefield, New Hampshire there is a three story white house with a wooden porch going around it on three sides. It's located in an isolated patch of forest reached by a long, narrow winding tree-lined drive. It was built by Admiral Andrew Hawley who lived here with his wife. The Hawley's were not friendly people and the admiral would chase people off his property. He died in 1933 and in 1935 the house the captain had call "Miz 'n Top" was sold by his daughter to the J family.
The strange occurrences began when Mr. and Mrs. J decided to turn the attic into a club room for their son E.J. and his friends. They cut windows into the wall and threw out all the remaining admiral's possessions. Of course this upset someone unseen indeed.
Suddenly footsteps could be heard in the attic and on the stairs leading to it and in the corridor. When E.J. first slept in the attic he could hear the sounds of heavy footsteps and the sounds of heavy objects being moved overhead and down the hall. Many years later when E.J. was living there with his own family he went up to the club room to get a book. He walked into a thing that felt like a warm, wet blanket and touched him physically. A house guest saw the knob of the door leading to the club room turning by itself.
A medium who came to the house sensed the presence of the admiral and made contact with him. The admiral resented the owners of the house because he had wanted the house for his own son. He was asked to leave the former owners alone and the admiral consented to do so saying he could take care of himself. The spirit of the admiral appeared pleased that parapsychologist Holzer and his company had come from New York to speak to him.
In the charming seaport town of Portsmouth at 40 Court St. is the Sise Inn. This is a 1881 three story Queen Anne mansion which has a bright atrium that was built as an addition when the mansion was turned into an inn in 1986. Inside the inn there is beautiful, butter wood paneling, a Victorian atmosphere and antique furniture fills every room.
The mansion was built by wealthy, businessman John Sise for himself and his family. It remained a private residence until the 1930s when it began to be used for businesses.
One haunted area is Suite 204 on the third floor. Where some unseen entities enjoy annoying the living by locking and unlocking doors and playing with the ice machine throwing ice about. On a night when no guests were staying on the third floor the desk clerk heard the ice machine working up there. Going upstairs there she found a trail of ice cubes leading to Suite 204 which door was open and a heap of ice was found lying on the floor. No one was about.
At 2 AM guests staying in Suite 204 found that their key would not unlock the door. When the desk clerk couldn't open the door the manager was called but his emergency key was also of no use. All the other rooms were occupied so at 4 AM a locksmith was summoned. Amazingly when the locksmith arrived he had no trouble unlocking the door with the guests' original key. Whatever unseen entity had been there they had finished using the suite.
In other parts of the inn a male entity is known to come up behind maids cleaning rooms and putting his hands on their hips, one maid felt herself being pulled into a closet and other maids have had trouble with door locks. A female guest who was lying down felt someone lay down next to her. When a male guest witnessed a flying potted plant he asked for another room. The elevator has been known to go up and down by itself the doors opening and closing, a small rocker by the check-in desk rocks by itself.
Although there is no evidence of this the story goes that the butler who worked for John Sise fell in love with a maid. When the relationship went sour he killed the maid and hung himself in the room which is now Suite 204. In 1905 two houses from the Sise Inn a husband murdered his wife. It could be that both the wife and her murderous husband have moved over to the inn. And then there is the trickster who plays with the elevator, the ice machine and plays tricks on the maids. All in all it appears that these ghosts enjoy sharing the Sise Inn with the living much to the amusement of guests staying there.
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Mary Wallace got the nickname "Ocean-born" because she came into this world on an Irish immigrant ship called the "Wolf" in 1720. When pirates boarded the ship the passengers and the ships cargo were spared because the baby's mother agreed to call the little girl Mary which had been pirate Don Pedro's mother's name.
The "Wolf" reached Boston and Mary's parents settled in New Londonderry, New Hampshire where Mary grew up. She married a man called Wallace giving him four sons. After the birth of her fourth son Mary became a widow. Meanwhile the pirate who had named Mary retired and settled in Henniker, New Hampshire. He built a large house on 6,000 acres. When he heard that Mary was a widow he invited her and her sons to come live with him. Mary became his wife and they lived there many happy years.
One day Mary found her husband the pirate dying in the garden the victim of a knife attack. She granted him his dying wish by burying him under the hearthstone in the kitchen. Mary inherited the house and lived there until she died in 1814 at the age of 94. The house has passed through many hands then always in the presence of Mary's ghost.
The ghostly appearances that have been seen and felt by the living began soon after Mary died when an apparition of a 6 ft. woman with red hair and green flashing eyes could be seen in the upstairs bay windows and on the central staircase. All along she could also be seen in the garden throwing something into the well. Two state troopers have claimed to have seen a tall 6 ft. woman with red hair dressed in a green gown crossing the road below the mansion. People who have visited the house claim that when they have touched the hearthstone in the kitchen they have felt "strange vibrations".
It appears that Mary tries to be helpful to the living and does her part to protect the mansion. During a fierce storm in this coastal town she was seen helping a family repair the garage. In the 1930s the house was owned by Louis Roy. When a hurricane hit the area in 1938 he claims that Mary saved his life 19 times during the storm. Roy's mother who is supposedly a psychic claims to have seen Mary's ghost on this and other occasions.
Mrs. David Russell who owned the house in 1963 said that at that time their caretaker dropped a space heater down the stairs. At the bottom the kerosene and the flames started burning the stairs and started reaching up the walls. Having no water in the house her husband hurried outside to get snow. Standing there helplessly Mrs. Russell had watched the flames licking along when suddenly the fire went out just as if someone had smothered it with a blanket. By the time her husband returned with snow there was no more fire.
Mary still takes care of her house helping the living when she can. It's possible that the pirate Don Pedro in also around. However well-known parapsychologist Hans Holzer assisted by a medium was able to free the spirit of a servant girl and help her get to the world beyond.
In the town of Whitefield, New Hampshire there is a three story white house with a wooden porch going around it on three sides. It's located in an isolated patch of forest reached by a long, narrow winding tree-lined drive. It was built by Admiral Andrew Hawley who lived here with his wife. The Hawley's were not friendly people and the admiral would chase people off his property. He died in 1933 and in 1935 the house the captain had call "Miz 'n Top" was sold by his daughter to the J family.
The strange occurrences began when Mr. and Mrs. J decided to turn the attic into a club room for their son E.J. and his friends. They cut windows into the wall and threw out all the remaining admiral's possessions. Of course this upset someone unseen indeed.
Suddenly footsteps could be heard in the attic and on the stairs leading to it and in the corridor. When E.J. first slept in the attic he could hear the sounds of heavy footsteps and the sounds of heavy objects being moved overhead and down the hall. Many years later when E.J. was living there with his own family he went up to the club room to get a book. He walked into a thing that felt like a warm, wet blanket and touched him physically. A house guest saw the knob of the door leading to the club room turning by itself.
A medium who came to the house sensed the presence of the admiral and made contact with him. The admiral resented the owners of the house because he had wanted the house for his own son. He was asked to leave the former owners alone and the admiral consented to do so saying he could take care of himself. The spirit of the admiral appeared pleased that parapsychologist Holzer and his company had come from New York to speak to him.
In the charming seaport town of Portsmouth at 40 Court St. is the Sise Inn. This is a 1881 three story Queen Anne mansion which has a bright atrium that was built as an addition when the mansion was turned into an inn in 1986. Inside the inn there is beautiful, butter wood paneling, a Victorian atmosphere and antique furniture fills every room.
The mansion was built by wealthy, businessman John Sise for himself and his family. It remained a private residence until the 1930s when it began to be used for businesses.
One haunted area is Suite 204 on the third floor. Where some unseen entities enjoy annoying the living by locking and unlocking doors and playing with the ice machine throwing ice about. On a night when no guests were staying on the third floor the desk clerk heard the ice machine working up there. Going upstairs there she found a trail of ice cubes leading to Suite 204 which door was open and a heap of ice was found lying on the floor. No one was about.
At 2 AM guests staying in Suite 204 found that their key would not unlock the door. When the desk clerk couldn't open the door the manager was called but his emergency key was also of no use. All the other rooms were occupied so at 4 AM a locksmith was summoned. Amazingly when the locksmith arrived he had no trouble unlocking the door with the guests' original key. Whatever unseen entity had been there they had finished using the suite.
In other parts of the inn a male entity is known to come up behind maids cleaning rooms and putting his hands on their hips, one maid felt herself being pulled into a closet and other maids have had trouble with door locks. A female guest who was lying down felt someone lay down next to her. When a male guest witnessed a flying potted plant he asked for another room. The elevator has been known to go up and down by itself the doors opening and closing, a small rocker by the check-in desk rocks by itself.
Although there is no evidence of this the story goes that the butler who worked for John Sise fell in love with a maid. When the relationship went sour he killed the maid and hung himself in the room which is now Suite 204. In 1905 two houses from the Sise Inn a husband murdered his wife. It could be that both the wife and her murderous husband have moved over to the inn. And then there is the trickster who plays with the elevator, the ice machine and plays tricks on the maids. All in all it appears that these ghosts enjoy sharing the Sise Inn with the living much to the amusement of guests staying there.
Time to book a room for your next vacation...
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