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A peculiar fascination with Haunted Places — Ropes Mansion Salem USA

 



Built around 1727, the Ropes Mansion is a historic Georgian-style mansion in Salem, Mass.

The house is a two and ½ story building with a wood clapboard exterior and a slate-shingled gamble roof and is located on a one acre plot of land on Essex Street.

In 1768, Judge Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., purchased the house.

The Ropes family then lived in the house until 1907, when the house was given to the Trustees of the Ropes Memorial for public benefit. 

The house is considered to be one of the most haunted in Salem. 

Nathaniel Ropes was an unpopular Loyalist judge and died of smallpox whilst his house was being stoned by a rabble outside in 1774. 

His wife Abigail burnt to death after her dress caught fire from the fireplace in 1839. Both are said to haunt the house. 

The garden was designed and laid out in 1912 by John Robinson, in a style that would have been an appropriate match to the Colonial Revival style of the house. 

It is a formal garden, with a symmetrical layout of curving paths that ring a central sundial. 

There is a full-time gardener who maintains the impeccable grounds and grows an astounding array of flowers. Roses, dahlias, delphinium, and hydrangea, to name a few. There are benches throughout the garden, and a giant beech tree to sit under.

Tragedy struck the Ropes Mansion again in August 2009.

 The Ropes Mansion caught fire. 

The plaster ceilings were destroyed, as were the carpets and wallpaper. 

Yet the employees of the Ropes Mansion swiftly responded, saving the majority of the home’s artifacts! 

Cause? Some suspected a heat gun that had been used in an exterior renovation. Others suspect the ghost of Abigail Ropes!

Superstition says that the Ropes Mansion is unquestionably haunted. Visitors to the Ropes Mansion claim that they can hear the sounds of Abigail’s agonized screams… Some say that they can even see her ghost. Others say that Nathaniel Ropes haunts the house alongside her.

Do Rachael and Elizabeth Bernard revisit the home, as well? 

Do their spirits linger about this eighteenth-century home?

There are accounts that the mansion’s garden is likewise haunted. Visitors claim to feel the icy touch of an unseen spirit — or hear the whispers of a disembodied voice.

We are visiting this Halloween and making this one of our stop on our Haunted Holiday to Salem. Make sure that you come over to our social pages at https://www.facebook.com/AnneAndRenata/

and our You Tube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOwobMoOcEyHunPXgRlxDw

to check out our paranormal adventures.

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I am a paranormal investigator and ghost hunter with my own ghost tours business. I love to travel and see all of the most haunted places in the world. Follow my ghost hunting updates on Medium.com as I travel to Salem this October 2024.

I am also a claircognizant psychic tarot card reader, manifesting coach, paranormal explorer, witch and I have a passion for helping people overcome road blocks and stagnation and to find the magic in the world. Pleased to meet you!

Find me on Facebook here:https://www.facebook.com/tarotqueenbee/for my ghost hunting stuff find me here:https://www.facebook.com/ozghosttours/


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