Williamsburg Ghost Tour

4. President's House

Williamsburg, VA

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Built for and still housing the President of the College, the President's House has contained its own fair share of grizzly and gruesome encounters. During the Revolution, it was the headquarters of Lord Cornwallis and later as barracks for French troops who accidentally burned the interior. After the Battle of Williamsburg in 1862, the college's buildings, steps, and lawn overflowed with the wounded from both sides while they awaited treatment. The lush green grounds soon turned red with blood and were littered with amputated limbs. For years residents of the house claimed that one of the closet doors would not remain shut. The President residing in the house at the time called a handyman to fix the door, who remarked that there was nothing wrong with the door and that he wasn't going to charge for it, but there was no way that he could get the door to stay shut. So residents accepted the swinging door that would never shut until electricians working on a crawlspace in the house discovered the bones of a skeleton pressed into the brick wall. After the mysterious bones were removed, the door would shut. No one knows who the bones belonged to, who hid them there, or why. Presidents and visitors also tell stories of the Frenchman's ghost and see strange apparitions of a French soldier. Others have heard faint sounds of a woman weeping. It is rumored the cries belong to girl who committed suicide after her father forbid her from marrying the man she loved. The words "Oh fatal day" were mysteriously etched on a window frame of her room. Sources: http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/virginia.htm and Penguin Press, Jackie Eileen Behrend The Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hauntings-Williamsburg-Yorktown-Jamestown/dp/0895872102 and http://www.paranormalsearchers.com/2009/08/college-of-william-and-marys-ghosts.html and http://delayedreactionlounge.blogspot.com/2012/04/ghosts-of-william-and-mary.html and http://www.examiner.com/article/even-more-campus-ghost-stories-william-mary-gmu-and-georgetown