Audubon House and Gardens
Harbor pilot and master wrecker Captain John H. Geiger built this home between roughly 1846 and 1850, raising a large family here before it was rescued from demolition and opened as a museum in 1960. Geiger's ghost is the most reported spirit, a distinguished man in 19th-century dress glimpsed at upstairs windows, on the balcony, and walking the gardens, said to guard a fortune rumored buried on the grounds.
The haunting feels protective and proprietorial; objects reportedly move when visitors misbehave, and one guest claimed an icy hand gripped his wrist after he reached for an item. Tied to the home's yellow-fever-era past, children's voices and laughter have surfaced on EVP recordings, with a young girl reported upstairs.
Visitors describe a tobacco scent, footsteps, and a watchful presence, and several paranormal groups have investigated.
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