Fort Mifflin
Fort Mifflin, on the Delaware River, absorbed one of the heaviest bombardments of the Revolutionary War during the 1777 Siege of Fort Mifflin, its garrison holding before withdrawing. Its most famous specter is the Screaming Woman, said in lore to be Elizabeth Pratt, an officer's wife who died of yellow fever in 1803 after losing her children to the disease; her shrieks from the officers' quarters once grew loud enough that startled neighbors phoned police, who arrived to find the fort empty.
Others tell of a Faceless Man in the blacksmith shop, a lamplighter on the grounds, and a Tour Guide apparition that greets visitors before vanishing, while voices, footsteps, and cannon-like booms keep logging in the casemates and powder magazine. The fort openly hosts overnight ghost-hunt programs.
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