Williamsburg, a haunted city… Ian Robertson - SUN MEDIA © Photos Sun Media This building was used formerly as law courts. There are not only the alive ones which visits this old British capital of the first American State… According to many anecdotes’, last and recent, phantoms would haunt the surroundings. The certain evenings, bravest among us can join to the guided turns launched in 2004 by Bruce Luongo to explore sites where, one tells, of the strange things occur and sometimes even can be seen or physically felt. When the wind strips their sheets the trees of these rectilinear streets where 88 original or rebuilt residences are drawn up, the most courageous visitors hear these stories whereas they are joined together in a basement of tavern.

Great center Of 1699 to 1780, Williamsburg was the political, cultural center and intellectual of most important and populeuse American colony. All the ideas with the source of a government says responsible and those surrounding the concept of personal freedoms were nourished by personalities such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and Peyton Randolph.

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Then, 80 years later, the reverend W.A.R. Goodwin, vice-chancellor of the church of the parish of Bruton, recruited the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and started the restoration of the old city. Functioning like a non-profit-making private company and without governmental assistance, the historical part of the city accomodated, since 1932, nearly 100 million visitors. Each new day that the cocks accomodate while singing sees its batch actors to cover their costumes of time to undertake their rounds and their speeches. Actors Those which are in the search of phantoms could confuse them with these capped actors of tricorns and buttoned frock coats. But you recall, the day belongs to the alive ones, as they say. After a supper with old in one of the many taverns still opened to the paying visitors, my companions and me, we ventured under the reverberators with the gas which drives out the shade of the buildings and the pavements. To create a certain atmosphere in the basement of the tavern Shield, the storyteller, Tim McCarthy, lets its face be made sprinkle by the yellow light of a lantern which it holds in his hand, after having reduced electric lighting. It is time, says it, to speak about the unexplainable one. Legends One of the most contemporary stories of McCarthy is that of guide-interprets with the pink dress of this place. This woman, who always covered the same costume of time, entered to work this day early. She discussed with the preserving one, then says to him that she was to leave because she had something to make. But when the other guide-interpreters arrived and that the preserving one says to them that the guide had passed earlier, they all were struck, said McCarthy, on a more intimate tone. “It is that this injury had died ten hours earlier. She had come to return a last visit to her friend “, says it… Through the old city, rumours of cries and slappings of doors were reported. But sometimes, of the phantoms and visitors touch even physically appear. The Randolph House, Nicholson corner and North England, are well-known for this kind of phenomena. Built in 1715 by William Robertson then increased, she was visited by the Washington General itself in her time. But Peyton Randolph, former president of the first Congress, would still wander in these places, 231 years after its death in 1775. One evening, something pushed a guard of safety to the bottom of several steps but “when it was turned over, it”, had not said nobody there McCarthy. Another time, a guard “was found in the basement, its revolver with the hand, trembling of fear. It resigned the following day and always refused to reveal what had occurred.” The Tunings tavern In the tavern Tunings, extremely popular to the 18th century near the punters and of the musicians, one says that the chairs move there all alone, sometimes even with individuals who sat there! One day, known as McCarthy, “somebody saw a young girl vêtue of a long blue dress with a fair hair. It had sat on a chair; it rose, made a reverence and disappeared “. It is called Abigail. An investigator in paranormaux phenomena said to have met a man called Peter who “was opposed by those which had rebuilt the old city while omitting to rebuild its house”. The spirit called to the investigator that it had deposited a flower with the feet of a woman who had given rise to a premature child and whom she returned to work at this place “the lovesongs in love thus exist even after death”, said McCarthy. In the same tavern, on the occasion, a man carrying of clothing of the 17th century “walks while moving back through the walls while greeting people, then fleet in the airs to the window of the second stage to look at there, thus frightening the girls”.