For your enjoyment we would like to present to you things that have gone bump in the night.  Usual happenings include hearing footsteps when no one was there, items mysteriously moving, lights turning themselves on and, of course, voices.

It is up to you to:       BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

The following reports are direct quotations from visitors and employees of the Castle. You can read many more ghostly reports by reading the guest books the next time you visit Miramont Castle.

-This picture was taken in April 2006. In May we held a birthday party for a volunteers grand daughter. She was turning 12. The party itself was held in the tearoom. Our Society president, her sister (the grandma) and niece (the mother) decided to leave the festivities and go to the second floor. As they were walking down the hall to Marie Francolon's bedroom, they saw a black figure standing in the doorway leading to the bedroom. When they entered the bedroom, the black figure was looking in the window (from the outside?). The three retreated back into the dressing room to regroup. They went back into the bedroom and saw the figure in the mirror (just as in the picture). They then saw the figure of a woman in the mirror above the fire place. She was followed by a young girl and a man. All three were dressed in Victorian Clothing. There was no one else in the room but them (at least no other human someone)

This is a photo taken in Marie Francolon's Bed Chamber. The image on the right is a close up view of the mirror in the middle of this photo.....

You can see the mannequin in the mirror wearing the purple dress in the photo on the left but where is the woman in black in the wider image?

-I was in the tearoom kitchen with my friend (and our president) Kathy.  Her youngest son was with us; he was about 3 years old at the time.  We were the only ones in the castle (or so we thought).  Dusty grew real nervous and scared.  He came to me and asked who was in the castle and I told him we were the only ones.  He was very scared and wanted to go upstairs to the third floor.  I had to carry him.  We went up there and Kathy decided to take me down the servant’s staircase to the chapel.  I again had to hold Dusty; he refused to go down the stairs.  Kathy went to the chapel door, cracked it open and could hear singing.  I went down and couldn’t hear anything, but the spot was very cold and the hair stood up at the base of my neck.

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-Another time Kathy, my mom and myself were in the solarium (we do a lot together).  Again, we were the only ones in the castle.  I heard a man and woman having a heated discussion.  I looked at Kathy and she looked at me as if to say “did you hear that”?  Just then, my mom asked if we heard that and the voices stopped.

-My last episode was during Victorian Christmas.  I was by the craft table, and Dusty was cleaning the guest bedroom.  He looked in the mirror and the face of a woman in Victorian dress was looking back.

-Then there was the time that Kathy was by the butler’s kitchen looking toward the grand staircase.  She saw a man in a frock coat and a woman in a bustle dress wearing an old style hat coming down the stairs.  She could see right through them.

-A psychic was going through the castle and said she felt and conversed with the spirit of Mother Francoln’s niece, Amanda.  We don’t know if the Francoln’s ever had any relatives there from France.

-Several dolls have been restored and displayed on the fourth for by the little landing going to the servant’s quarters.  The area had been sealed off for quite a while. Since then, one of our volunteers who works in the gift shop saw a young girl, holding a doll in the Christmas room.  She thought it was a doll at first, but then realized that she could see right through her.

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-A man with a video setup saw the same girl carrying a doll in the same room.  He too could see through her.

-A young woman said that at the grand staircase, the tablecloth with the flowers on it just came off of the table.  She said that another woman saw it with her.

-Another board member had her first experience in March of 1999.  She had been involved with the castle for about 1-1/2 years.  She had heard stories, but thought people were making them up.  It was closing time, around 3:05pm.  The sun had already gone behind the mountains.  With workbag and pocket book in tow, she began to walk from the front counter (in the gift shop) to the rear hallway.  When she looked up, she saw her.  She was a woman dressed in a cream colored dress with long sleeves, high collar, laced bib front and ankle length.  She was coming toward Bee.  The biggest problem was that she had no head (the woman).  Whoever or whatever is was seemed to turn as looking back at Bee and disappeared into the Christmas room.

Do you have your own story to share? If so, we would like to hear from you.  We would like to hear from you even if you don’t have a story! If you would like to share your own ghostly story, please contact us.

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