The Benson house

Pennsylvania · United States · House

Several are reported in this 1800s house in the northern Pennsylvania mountains. One appears only as a head and torso.

Several figures are reported at this house from the 1800s, in the mountains of northern Pennsylvania.

One is described as a head and torso only, with no lower body, and the original account speculates about who he might have been. That speculation is set aside here, because it is speculation about a man's status based on his appearance and there is nothing behind it.

What can be said about the region is documented. Northern Pennsylvania had free Black communities from the eighteenth century onward, and this was Underground Railroad country, with routes running north through these mountains towards New York State. Black families lived, worked and farmed here as neighbours rather than as servants.

The living residents have their own accounts of the rest.

A partial apparition is worth noting as a form. It recurs across the literature and nobody has a good explanation for why some figures appear incomplete.

The house is private.

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Where is The Benson house located?

The Benson house is in Pennsylvania, United States.