Welcome To Pilgrim Ghosts
The sweet story of the first Thanksgiving is a mask for Plymouth’s dark and disturbing truths filled with demonic entities, soulless sea captains, and enraged natives’ spirits. Venture with Pilgrim Ghosts on an eerie walk through old Plymouth to hear New England’s most coveted and creepiest ghost stories.
A Hill Of Broken Dreams
Deadly outbreaks of disease and bloody skirmishes between the pilgrims and the natives gave birth to a resilient nation. But it also created a spectral landscape that the town just can’t seem to shake. Stand with Pilgrim Ghosts on the precipice of history at Plymouth Rock, where the bodies of dead pilgrims and Natives once lay.
Learn about Cole’s Hill, Plymouth’s first burial ground that doubled as a field of skeletons left behind by Natives suffering from disease and warfare. It then became a graveyard for English settlers as the elements picked them off one by one. Many whispers have been heard here when no one else is around, and shadow figures are known to dart around the area.
Discover the truth behind the Pilgrim’s first settlement. Pilgrim Ghosts reveals the shocking realization the people of Plymouth came to in the 19th century when these bones were rediscovered and much more.
What Will I See?
Visit Plymouth’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:
- The Trask Museum – Furniture slides across the second floor, and a grandfather clock often opens on its own. Moans and groans come from the bedroom of the deceased owner, who can’t deal with his death, even today.
- Burial Hill – With tombs dating back to 1681, Burial Hill is a treasure chest of history and hauntings. A series of paths lead visitors through this decrepit graveyard, acting as a looking glass into the spirit world at the same time.
- Captain Thompson Phillips House – Legally declared haunted in 1733, the Captain Thompson Phillips House has been the center of a great debate for almost three hundred years. Stories of slamming cabinets and phantom sea captains have haunted the house for generations.
Portals To Hell
Walk with Pilgrim Ghosts to The Taylor House to hear the accounts of a portal to the underworld in the home’s basement. Intriguing and frightening, these tales have led paranormal investigators such as Jack Osbourne and Katrina Weidman of Portals To Hell to the home’s doorstep.
Long before it was an inn, this house was the home to a sea captain and his two sons who died at sea. But are these tortured souls responsible for the physical attacks that have frightened those subjected to them? It is said that the hauntings were so profound that the bed and breakfast had to cease operations.
Learn how the poltergeist of The Taylor House attacked the unlucky caretaker. Whether it be an angry entity or something demonic, Pilgrim Ghosts promises to reveal the truth of this horrid haunting on a nightly walking ghost tour of Plymouth.
Why is Plymouth so Haunted?
America’s First Haunted House
When Plymouth comes to mind, most people think of the Mayflower’s heroic landing at Plymouth Rock, William Bradford, and Squanto. Not many know that it’s also the birthplace of America’s first haunted house.
Listen closely with Pilgrim Ghosts outside the Captain Thompson Phillips House, and listen for the growls and howls that chased frightened carpenters out of the home in 1733. It’s said that they refused to pay rent any longer after experiencing slamming cabinets and eerie blue lights that kept them awake at night.
Reverend Josiah Cotton’s inability to rent the house to anyone after the rumors began led to the first court case over a haunted house in US history. To this day, the home is believed to be haunted by the Captain Thompson Phillips House by the captain himself, but is it really his ghost who torments guests? Find out on a heart-pounding ghost tour with Pilgrim Ghosts.
Plymouth’s Most Haunted
Plymouth’s most haunted places are attached to unexplainable events that ring out into the night in devilish ways. There’s unfinished business in Plymouth. It can be seen inside the Plimoth Plantation, where tools and artifacts move across the old plantation freely, sometimes disappearing altogether.
Work never seems to stop in this Puritan society, which still functions in the afterlife. The apparitions of men, women, and children are all seen together in the old Plymouth Cordage Company Museum, still creating rope as they did in 1824.
The Spooner House has made quite the name for itself in Plymouth. Workers in 2005 met the spirit of a little girl who is said to have died of neglect and poor health in the 19th century. Her shoes were found in the building during construction, and many have had encounters with her ever since.
The Plymouth Light Station, or “The Gurnet Light” as it is often referred to, is a haven for lost sailors and souls. The ghost of a woman named Hannah Thomas still tends to the lighthouse while waiting for her husband to return from the Revolutionary War. The Plymouth Light Station is also haunted by another young woman who jumped to her death at the age of 16 off of “Lovers Rock” after her father forbade her to marry her lover.
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
