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VT Bennington Museum,Bennington,VT

VT Whitingham, VT. (Town Hill) is the BRIGHAM YOUNG MONUMENT. VT

VT Billings Farm, Woodstock, VT

VT Black gorilla holding a VW, Brandon, VT

VT Calvin Coolidge birth place, Plymouth,VT

VT Catamount Statue, Bennington, VT

VT Chester A Arthur birth place, Fairfield,VT

VT Floating Bridge, Brookfield, VT

VT Giant pig statue in drag, Burlington, VT

VT Giant metal winged monkeys, Burlington, VT

VT Gorilla holding a car up, Leicester, VT

VT Hubbardton Battlefield and museum, East Hubbardton,VT

VT Hyde Log Cabin, Grand Isle,VT

VT, 19' Ladderback Chair, Bennington,VT

VT Mountain Lion(Catamount) statue in Bennington, VT

VT, The Nose, VT

VT Conestoga Wagon, Pittsford, VT

VT Seth Warner Monument, Bennington, VT

VT, The Chin,VT

VT, The Forehead, VT

VT, The Adams Apple, VT

VT The Mouth, VT

VT The wooden rocking horse , Winchendon, MA


VT The Stockade, Pittsfield, VT

VT The world's largest granite quarry & amazing headstones to those who died,Barre,VT

VT Vermont Marble Exhibit, Proctor, VT

VT Vermont Raptor Center,Woodstock, VT

VT, Worlds Largest Bee, 800 pounds, in Jerry Costello's back yard, W. Dover, VT

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VT The Shelburne Museum(a must!), Shelburn,VT

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VT Rokeby, Ferrisburgh, VT   More Info

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Burlington - University of Vermont - Converse Hall is haunted by a former student  who committed suicide there.

Cuttingsville - Bowman House - haunted by an unidentified woman.

Waterbury - Old Stagecoach Inn - Room 2 is haunted by Margaret Spencer who died there.

Stowe - Emily's covered bridge - haunted and has appeared in several newspapers over the years.

Brattleboro - The Country Club - Workers describe hearing voices above the dinning area of the country club.    None of the waitresses like to close alone.  Reports of footsteps walking overhead and other various sounds. To date, do not beleive any paranormal studies have been done.  No one claims to know who the ghost or ghosts are.

Streamwood - St. John's parking lot - lights,shadows,moans....of boy killed in car accident

Winooski - Winooski High School - In the 1960's 5 students were killed in a crash comming back from Canada. A mass wake was held n the school's gym. Janitors now report strange sightings.

Burlington - The University of Vermont -  has another ghost residing in the Farm on Spear Street.

West Salisbury - The Shard Villa Mansion  - It currently has an attached retirement home on the back.  The main house is still maintained much like it was when it's original owner/builder Columbus Smith and family lived there during the Victorian Era.  Columbus and Harriet Smith's two children died untimely deaths.   It is said that the mansion is haunted by the ghost of Columbus Smith.  Occasionally a human shaped indentation will appear on the bed in his bedroom.  Care takers once witnessed pieces of a silver tea service being flung one by one off a sideboard.  A baby has been heard crying in the night.  A caregiver was driving into work one morning and saw a lady in a red dress in one of the upstairs windows.  Later on that morning, this same caregiver was asked by an elderly resident who the young lady in the red dress standing at the foot of her bed was?   Another employee was sitting on a couch in the livingroom during a night shift when she claims Columbus Smith appeared dressed in formal attire including top hat.  Many staff members have heard their names called thru the mansion.

Colchester - St. Michael's College - There are a couple of places on campus that seem to have ghostly visitors.  1)   The theater supposedly is haunted by a nun who assists actors.  There have also been incidents reported during performances of props disappearing with no explanation. 2)  The mens' first year dormitory also an evil presence.  in the 60s or 70s,  young men were holding some sort of occult meetings     One of the men insisted  that he needed to close the "portal" before they left, but by that time security was  there and they tossed them off campus.   the door to the attic is padlocked  shut.    However, lights go on in the attic and footsteps are heard  in the middle of the night by the residents on the top floor.  The image of the pentagram   still exists on the floor despite attempts to replace the wood.

Brattleboro- Madam Cheries-
There is a logging road outside Brattleboro (on the state line) where there are the remains of what was a large stone mansion. When you go there at night you can feel a negative presence. There is a spiral marble staircase which if you sit at the top and close your eyes, you can picture burning figures rolling down the steps. This was a luxurious house of ill repute in the early nineteen thirties. It burned to the ground with everyone inside in the thirties.

Shelburne -Wake Robin .
Wake Robin is a nursing home, and in room 229 there is a ghost there.  There was a lady who used to stay in that room.  Before she died, she told the nurses that she would come back to haunt them.  She said that she would ring the bell and haunt them. There are also two more down stairs. They are a couple who occasionally hit the bell to the elevator and run up and down the hallways.

Burlington
UVM has a few haunted buildings
- GrasseMount House has a history of voices and doors locking and slamming on the second floor when no one is up there.
- Center for Counseling and Testing - The former director saw the ghost of Captain Jacobs, a retired seaman who died there in the early part of the 20th century.  Also, mild poltergeist activity has been reported there as recently as 1992
- Agriculture Department AKA Bittersweet House has a female ghost in period dress (c. late 19th century) that appears from time to time.
- Redstone Hall (dormitory) has an intermittent ghost that appears in the back staircase and has been seen to run through walls.  He's not fond of female students for some reason (pertaining to the circumstances of his death) and has chased people out of the area on occasion.
- Coolidge Hall (dormitory) has a few ghosts throughout, including a male presence that likes to wake up the residents by staring at them.
- Center for Cultural Pluralism AKA Allen House has a ghost on the top floor.  Though it doesn’t manifest visually, a cold presence can follow one around from time to time.
- Converse Hall (dormitory) has a new addition in the form of a suicide committed in 1998 by an engineering student.  Though never seen, he turns radios on and off and interacts with electrical equipment.  The student electrocuted himself in 1998.
- Millis Hall (dormitory) had a female ghost on the 2nd floor during the 97-98 year.

Burlington-The Champlain Mill-
A retired woolen mill from the 20's has been renovated into an arts and crafts mall.   The sounds of machinery as well as the voices of the children who operated the machines can be heard throughout the night.
Also, in the late 20's the neighboring Winooski River flooded, filling the Mill with river water.  Security guards at night report the sounds of rushing water throughout the basement level.

Castleton-Castleton State College-
Two hundred yards off of off of Castleton State College lies an abandoned building.   The inside is filled untouched museum pieces that appear to have been left behind.   Although there is no way to enter the building -- the objects inside seemed to get tossed around.

Goddard College-
In the manner house there is a ghost. Last semester a perspective student walked into the manner where a man was playing the piano. The student asked the man for directions and he just continued to play she walked out frustrated and was heading into the upper garden when she turned around and the piano player was demonically laughing at her and vanished into the air the same sort of thing has happened to many students.  the whole campus has spooks left and right

Stowe- Emily's bridge-
Ghost of a small child holding a blanket at foot of the bridge seen in Aug. 99

Northfield-Norwich University-
In Alumni Hall, one of the dorms, a cadet hanged himself a few years back.  A couple years later, his brother went to Norwich, got the same room, and hanged himself too.   Now the room is boarded off.

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Home to four generations of the Robinson family, Rokeby, built in 1793, is significant for its role in the Underground Railroad and for the many letters, account books, and diaries kept by the family while they lived in the house that document the first two generations' involvement in the antislavery cause. A National Historic Landmark, Rokeby was constructed by Thomas (1761-1851) and Jemima (1761-1846) Robinson, Quakers who were active members of the Vermont and Ferrisburg Anti-Slavery Societies. Their son Rowland Thomas Robinson (1796-1879) made abolition the cause of his life and sheltered fugitive slaves at Rokeby. Hundreds of letters written to Rowland Thomas between 1830 and 1865 are now located at the Sheldon Museum Archive and Research Center in Middlebury, Vermont. With abolition as the most common theme, these letters were written by local and regional antislavery activists, as well as national figures such as Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison, and Issac T. Hopper. These letters show Rowland Thomas' involvement in the Underground Railroad and are proof that he harbored fugitive slaves at Rokeby, negotiated freedom papers for former slaves from their masters in the South, and helped freedmen find employment. Family letters not only validate Rokeby as a stop, they add to our knowledge, correcting and sharpening our understanding of the Underground Railroad and providing insight into how "the legend outgrew the reality." Now a museum, Rokeby is fully furnished with Robinson family belongings, including furniture, clothing, dishes, books, art, and other artifacts.

Rokeby is located in Ferrisburg, Vermont on US Route 7 at the corner of Robinson Road just north of Ferrisburg. It is open to the public.

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