The evening closes with a bonfire and ghost story retellings, continued into the late hours of this most haunted night of the year. The inn's Halloween treat is its Halloween Boo event: a ghost hunt on the grounds and along Route 2A into St James Cemetery to catch a wondering spirit. No wonder it is rumored to be haunted: Adelaide's room in the main house, the attic, the grounds.Ĭaptain Grant's is a popular bed-and-breakfast inn today: many visitors come here in search of the mansion's special ghosts. Soldiers lived here during the Revolutionary War, fugitives riding the Underground Railroad stopped by here during the Civil War era. Its first owner, Captain Grant was lost at sea leaving his young widow, Adelaide to bring up their children alone in the proud, new house. It has a long history filled with mysteries, personal tragedies and memories from turbulent times. Museum closes after October 30th for the winter season.Ĭaptain Grant's is another beautiful residence from the colonial period. In the month of October the museum hosts special events such as candle-lit house tours complete with ghosts stories and walks in a haunted corn maze. It is furnished with period pieces as it could have been while the old colonial family lived there. Today the house is a museum in the midst of a state forest. Many say that some people from the big extended family stayed on long after their deaths: the ghosts of old Deacon Richard Hale, his son John and wife Sarah and Lydia Carpenter, a family servant have all been seen hovering around. His family continued to live in the house for many years: siblings and in-laws, cousins and nephews and nieces. One of them was Nathaniel Hale, the famous patriot spy executed by the British. It used to be home to a large family with over 10 children. A beautiful, Georgian-style house with maroon sidings, the first few rooms of the Hale Homestead were built in 1746.
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