McRaven House - Paranormal Activity
In 1960, the house was sold to the Bradway family, who restored McRaven and opened it to the public as a tour home in 1961, which it remains today. In 1984, Leyland French purchased McRaven and did further restoration, French was the first owner since the Murrays to reside in the house. Aside from a modern kitchen and bathroom in its basement, McRaven has remained largely unchanged since the 19th century.
Reports of paranormal activity are spread throughout the house; the center of activity seems to be the middle bedroom upstairs, the room where Mary Elizabeth Howard died during childbirth. Her ghost has been seen in the corner of the room, and on the bed where she passed away. The bedside lamp in the room is reported to turn on and off, seemingly at will. Mary Elizabeth's ghostly apparition has appeared on the house's flying wing staircase, and in the dining room. Mary Elizabeth's wedding shawl is displayed at the house; some people say it emits heat, while others claim it feels as if it is going to jump out of their hands.
Not long after current owner Leyland French had purchased the property, a tour guide was bringing a group through the house when one of the tourists asked if the piano in the parlor worked. The guide pressed a key to find that it in fact did not work. When the group was exploring the bedrooms, the sound of a beautiful Waltz was heard from the piano in the parlor. The guide quickly made her way downstairs but found the room empty.
As time passed, the disturbances got worse the atmosphere became oppressive, a new demonic presence seemed to roam the House. On one particular occasion, a door was slammed through its own volition on the hand of Mr. French, causing injury. On another occasion, the owner states that as he walked through the parlor, he was pushed to his knees from behind by an unseen entity. He then saw the ghost of former owner William Murray on the staircase, fearing for his own sanity he moved out until an exorcism could be performed. The atmosphere now is a benign one, although ghosts are still seen at the McRaven House.
The ghost of William Murray is still seen by visitors usually at the top of the flying wing staircase. Murray's wife and daughters ghosts haunt the grounds of the house. You have the best chance of seeing there spirits early in the morning or at dusk.
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