| We've found the ghosts of Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay, Long Island to be camera shy, but they are very present to the senses in this 366-year-old house. The Townsend family were the original owners of this historically important home, now a museum. They lived there in peace and comfort along with their servants until the Revolutionary War. British soldiers occupied the house and lived there alongside the family. They used it as their headquarters because of its close proximity to the Long Island Sound. --- |
| During this time, eighteen year-old Sally Townsend and British Lt. Col. John Simcoe fell in love. John wrote Sally an epic Valentine poem that become her most precious possession. Eventually, Lt. Col. Simcoe returned to England leaving a heartbroken Sally behind. Sally never married nor did Simcoe. In the Raynham Hall video to the left you will see what happened when Diane Hill communicated with Sally's distraught spirit. - when a ghost from the past entered the present. --- |