The house was built in 1896. No guest rooms are in the actual house, but we stayed in what was the original kitchen. We were not allowed to take photos within the actual house, but did take some on the veranda. The things that happened didn't seem that extraordinary when they happened. In the dining room (not in the actual mansion, but in the building that serves guests meals), a sash that was around the baby grand piano started swirling. I thought it was the wind, but there was no air blowing and no air vents that could be seen. It just lasted for about 10 seconds and then quit.

The other things were little as well. We were sitting on the veranda and the timer turned off the lights! We sat there in the dark rocking in the chairs. I said, "good thing I wore my sweater!" and blew out steam from my mouth. I had noticed that my nose was cold too. My husband had large, open eyes and then blew out too, but there was no steam! I just picked up my camera for the heck of it and clicked it towards him. I got it developed and there is a smoking mist in front of my husband! It is amazing how if you look at it long enough, you can see a face in the picture looking like a man sticking his head out of the window to look at me on the veranda! Only two other photos had 'orbs' that I could spot in them. One of the same spot on the veranda and then one in our room that was the old kitchen.

We laid in bed and nothing happened. I woke up and said, "what's that" and my husband looked up and we both saw a light. I was speechless for a second and then said, "oh, it's the light coming in the window." Well, we looked the next day and found out that there couldn't have been any light to come into the room at that angle! Hmmmmmm.....

Nothing else happened until the next day. We wanted to get some video of the grounds. My husband got just a few minutes and then the battery light comes on! We had, I know, over 300 minutes left on that battery! We then went to the backup battery (a two hour one) and it was completely dead! We watched the film when we got home. I saw a small golden colored orb-like thing whoosh around me near the front walk to the house and then Bill had one around him up on the veranda at the front door. There was a disturbance in the film at one time. We had not hit "pause" or "stop". During the disturbance you can hear a loud humming sound. Then, the last little bit of excitement came when watching the tape we did outside our room. I'm talking, giving a description of which room was ours and the history of the place and you can hear on the tape what sounds like footsteps running above us. The thing that really got us... we neither one heard it while standing there, only on the tape.

So... did we have real ghost encounters? I am not sure, but think we may have.