Williamsburg Ghost Tour Blog
William and Mary Hauntings
1. Sunken Garden Welcome to the Sunken Garden, built in the mid-‐1930s by President FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps and modeled after the Chelsea hospital gardens in England. The Sunk ...
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Brafferton House
Welcome to the College of William and Mary! William and Mary was founded by royal charter in 1693, making it the second oldest college in the US after Harvard, pre-dating Williamsburg as the capital ...
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Governor's Palace
The Governor’s Palace, built in the late 1930s. The original building was destroyed by fire in 1781 while it was used as a hospital for American soldiers wounded at the Battle of Yorktown. Befo ...
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Bruton Parish Church
The Bruton Parish Church is the oldest building in Colonial Williamsburg; construction on the building was completed in 1683. It served as a hospital during the Civil War, and later as a mass bur ...
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Merchants Square
This story takes place shortly after the Civil War in the late 1860s near South Henry Street in Colonial Williamsburg's Merchants Square. Along Henry Street was a small white house that belo ...
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Matthew Whaley Elementary School
We’ve all hated school at one point or another in our life, but have you ever been terrified of the school you were restrained in? Of course massive exams and strict teachers rattle our bones every ...
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Fort Magruder
Williamsburg is famous for history, particularly the Unites States’ beginnings. It is in the same James County as Jamestown (the first permanent English settlement on the East Coast—the first Span ...
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Peyton Randolph House
Over the last few years, the entertainment industry has really gone horror happy. These days, zombies, circus freaks, and vampires hog the camera more than television stars, and plenty of fright flick ...
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George Wythe House
The Wythe House was the home of George Wythe, the first signer of the declaration of Independence from Virginia, friend of George Washington, first law professor in the United States, and friend and m ...
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The Kimball Theater
The small and quaint Kimball Theater here in Colonial Williamsburg’s Merchants Square did not always occupy this space, and is not a historically recreated colonial building like the rest of Colonia ...
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