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15th anniversary of Paranormal Adventure Tours at Fort Delaware

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Our team has completed another season of Paranormal Adventure Tours at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island with Delaware State Park staff. This amounts to over 60 hours of time on the island or the Delafort ferry heading to the island. We’re so grateful to have completed another season, and especially so given that this was our 15th year! You can find 15th-anniversary DSGI merch in our online store. If you’d like more of the history on the Fort, I do include some in a past post where I talk about my experience with the ghost cat Bill. I definitely talk about Bill the cat during most of the tours I lead, it was after all my very first paranormal… Continue reading

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Bellevue (Hall) Mansion in Wilmington, Delaware

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Nestled in the heart of Wilmington, Delaware, Bellevue Mansion is a historic mansion located in Wilmington, Delaware. The mansion was built in 1855 for Hanson Robinson and his wife, Anne Poultney. It was originally meant to be a Gothic Revival-style castle and was named Woolton Hall because Robinson was a wool merchant. Wasn’t he clever? However, the mansion was owned by several wealthy families, including shipping magnate C.R Griggs and then the DuPont family. William DuPont (1855–1928) acquired the property in 1893. His son William DuPont, Jr. (1896–1965) inherited the estate from his father upon his death in 1928. He eventually remodeled the Gothic castle into the Neo-Classical Bellevue Mansion seen today, becoming an almost identical copy of his home… Continue reading

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Uncovering the Dark Secrets of Pennhurst Asylum

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Pennhurst Admissions Building

Some believe that tragedy and trauma can leave behind an energy that haunts the living, perhaps manifesting as ghosts, which serve as links to the past. Imagine someone enduring something so painful that the strength of their emotion ‌imprints into a place for all eternity.  When you type “Pennhurst” into a Google search bar and hit enter, the results you receive will be inundated with horror, despair and injustice. While I knew some of the basics heading up to Spring City, Pennsylvania last night, I didn’t know the gory details of what happened at Pennhurst after it opened in November 1908. The Diamond State Ghost Investigators have visited Pennhurst many times, but Sunday night was my first investigation there. I… Continue reading