HAUNTED HISTORY OF THE SEVEN SISTERS INN

There are a couple verified deaths within the Inn, one occurring in each of the two homes on the property. Given that, there have been numerous accounts of supernatural happenings spread throughout the property. The Inn's International House is noted for it's more "physical" and visual spirits, with sightings of apparitions and people being touched. The Scott House, is noted for its mischievous ghosts and for being an active in the audible sense. As a participant of the event, you can hope to see apparitions, feel cold spots, hear phantom voices and even be touched by an unseen hand!

THE SCOTT HOUSE GHOST
The below picture was taken on the second floor of the Scott House (pink) using an ultra violet illuminator and digital camera. The photo was taken by Bob of Odyssey Star Productions at 2:57AM on Saturday March 7, 2009.

TESTIMONIALS OF PAST GUESTS AND HAUNT PARTICIPANTS

"3 November nights!" We chose the Inn based on hearing that the Inn was quite active. There were seven of us staying in the pink house together the first evening. We rented the whole Inn for a Tuesday and Wednesday evening but one couple stayed that we did not know on Monday evening. We were all over at the pink house around 12-12:30 and made our way up to Lottie's Loft. We were up there for about 45 minutes talking and taking photos. I had a Nikon D80 with a sigma electronic flash attached and a digital HD video camera. I went over to the bed closest to the little rocking chair and sat down. I asked a few questions to the little girl that has been said to haunt the loft and I mentioned that she should not be afraid to go to the light. I think that she listened well. I wasn't talk about my flash but my electronic flash on my camera started to strobe non-stop. It never recharged - it just continued to go off until I would physically turn it off. This continued every time I turned it on for the next 3-5 minutes and then walked downstairs to the bottom step of the loft and it worked fine. I used it for the rest of the week and it worker d just fine. I am a professional photographer and have worked shooting celebrity comedians for many many years and published a book in 2003. I have been shooting for over 19 years and never seen an electronic flash do that on a camera. My studio lights have done that with a perfect explanation but I have never seen a flash do this on a camera and have no explanation whatsoever. The next morning our friends that were across the hall called me on my cell phone to see if I was up because they said they could clearly hear me laughing in the room next to them and thought I was up. My husband was asleep and I had just gotten up and was going over work on my computer. Two days later - a friend told me that she heard all of us in my room talking for over an hour and figured we all were still in my room but she saw us go to bed and I went to sleep shortly after I went to lie down, and she stayed up for a while later. She did not know that my other friend said the same thing two days earlier. I usually take a number of photographs when we go to these places and in my own work I never alter any photographs because I want my photography to be true photography - I do the same here and have photographed a number of apparitions in the past including with photographs I take now. I can confirm one clearly as a face to an apparition but have been looking at a few others and using everything I know20about photography to analyze them. I do believe that there were some photos with details that are still being questioned. We also heard an extremely loud sound like an armoire falling over on the main floor of the Pink house. The floor vibrated. We had two people upstairs that were changing and they asked us if we were ok. Two of us were on the main floor and two people were outside. They asked us, when we opened the door, if we fell down the steps. We were sitting in the parlor and myself and a friend were talking for about 30 minutes after a dinner at the Inn. I had a temperature monitor with me and my friends husband came in and started antagonizing by saying that he didn't believe any of this and that they needed to do something significant to make him believe anything and then something rattled on the mantle or near it (perhaps the xylophone next to the fireplace). So I turned on a hand recorder and used the temperature monitor which was pointed over to the piano - with a laser - so we could keep it on the same spot. It was 77 degrees and we asked for the temperature to go to 72. It consistently goes down to 71.9. I read it off as Joe, my friend, encourages something to lower the temperature saying he isn't positive he believes in this. Every time he speaks the temperature continuously goes down. In less than 8 minutes the temperature goes to 72. We asked for it to=2 0continue down to 70 if there was one spirit or 69 if there was more than one. It went to 69.9. We asked it to go to 69.7 if it was a man, up to 70 if it was a woman and 69.6 if it was a child. Just a side note - we had been speaking about our children for most of the time that we were sitting there. It went to 69.6 and held. My husband and 3 other friends came in and said that they would believe if the spirit could make the temperature go up to 72.3. They stayed for about 10 minutes and then left and then we were getting ready to go and I took the temperature with the laser on and it was exactly 72.3. I asked the "child" if he or she was interested in the piano due to the fact that it was also a player piano. A friend had shut the top to the keys and I asked if it wanted us to open it - go to 73 degrees. It immediately went to 73 degrees. We asked the child if it liked watching the piano play and wanted us to start it for one song. We asked it to go back up to 73.5. It didn't move for a few minutes and I asked if it was lonely and missed his/her family. I asked if he/she wanted to be with them. The temperature read 73.9 then back to 73.5. We played a song on the piano and even though I did not feel sick I was cold and clammy. My friend felt my forehead and after the song we said a sweet goodbye and left. That night we we re in Sylvia's room, the room I stayed in, and the lights were off. Of course, everyone was with us and I heard a little girls voice singing. I asked that everyone be quiet but that's difficult for people talking at the same time. When they were quiet for 10 seconds the second they started their talking again I heard her again. A friend had her little dogs and we checked the room and they were curled up asleep on the bed down the hall. I was told the next day - before I mentioned the singing - about a doll that we did know about and was in the closet. Cindy told us that she learned that the doll supposedly sang. It sounded like a little girls voice singing. I don't know if was a doll or something else. We went upstairs to the loft again and I brought my video camera. I started to talk to the little girl and started by saying Sweetheart if your here and something touched my elbow twice in a row. I turned on a flashlight I was holding and there was nothing there. I took a photo of the bed right before this happened and there are 2 little orbs to the left side almost exactly where I was touched when I started to sit down. We opened the lock on one of the attic doors (crawlspace doors) and looked inside. I told the couple that was staying up there that the story is that those doors have latches because they open on their own and that the furniture is pushed up against them for that=2 0reason. So a girlfriend locked the latch and pushed the table up against the door. The next morning I walked up before we left and a different friend and myself noticed that this particular door was unlatched and the furniture was moved away from it and it was open about an inch. I asked our friend and she said 30 minutes earlier she walked through to make sure everything was still shut because she knows the story and wanted to make sure and at that time it was closed. I told the staff and mentioned that even though we re-latched the door we did not move the furniture against it, and that they might want to do that. There was a lot of activity and even though, in the past, I have caught a number of additional apparitions at places some of the photos that I have taken are interesting. I just thought this may interest you with your future investigations. -Sincerely, Britt L.G. "The Chandelier" I was in the Bonnie room with 3 other women. We had been in there about 20 minutes with no activity. The owner Bonnie came in to see how we were doing and if we had questions, at this time she started telling us stories of her experiences, we had moved out into the hall outside the room for her to show us something and we heard a knocking in the room, Bonnie and I went back in the room, when suddenly starting in the hall and spreading into the room a strong perfume smell developed. One of the men who had joined us by this point went around trying to find out if any females had perfume on, we did not! At this time Bonnie who was standing next to me hit me in the arm and said "look" the Chandelier was swaying heavily back in forth, we had asked about 15 minutes before this if they could make the it swing...... Several people tried to debunk it by going upstairs to make it swing, and they could not, there is a vent in that room but it was on while we were in there and we had already checked the flow during the 20 minutes we were in there and it did not make the chandelier move at all. After about 4-5 minutes the perfume smell totally disappeared and the chandelier had stopped. -Lynne W | Palmetto Florida "A Ghostly face in Judy's Room." Seven Sister's Inn is an amazing site for an investigation. Not only is the location gorgeous, but the homes themselves are tremendous. My dad and went on the Oct. 18th hunt and it was better than we expected. We had the front door to the Scott open for us. I heard what sounded like the front door to the Scott House open, proceeded by footsteps on hard wood going up the staircase at approx. 10:20 that night while sitting in Sylvia's room. After a minute or so passed, I walked into the hallway and looked down the stairs and then over the railing to discover that no one had entered the house, nor came up the staircase. We spent the night in "Judy's" room and that provided several experiences. We turned in about 2:30am, my father in the main bedroom and I in the sitting room off to the back, sleeping on a day bed. I'd fallen asleep fairly quickly, but did wake many, many times during the night to the sound of loud footsteps. Twice! Twice that night I woke to see an outline of a female's face in the doorway of the bathroom. I could not make out lips and there was no body, but a distinct whitish face with dark hair parted in the center and pulled away from the face. I could also see the darkness of eyes and a nose. NEVER before that night have I encountered anything paranormal. It was not at all scary! It simply moved slightly forward through the door frame and vanished. It appeared twice. The most odd incident also occurred sometime between the hours of 2:30 and 7am. It was cold that night, around 48 degrees... for a Florida girl...COLD. I'd forgotten to pack slippers and so I put on a pair of socks and turned in. My dad came in around 7 to wake me up and as I stood on the wood floor, realized that my socks were not on my feet. I sat back on the edge of the bed and asked him if he noticed me taking them off as we talked. He looked at me oddly and said "no". As I looked around the edge of the bed and in the surrounding area, I didn't see them. When I went to pull the covers up on the top of the bed, I found the socks, folded neatly, one on top of the other, tucked just under the top fold of the duvet. So, so odd. I know with 100% certainty that I did not remove them in the middle of the night, nor did I take them off that morning. It was wild. I didn't lose my flip flops but the sock incident has me scratching my head. It is an amazing place and again, very comfortable feeling. Not ominous. I hope to participate in the November hunt. Can't say enough about the TAPS and Odyssey Star team. Great event. -Julie M. | Singer Island Florida "Toothpicks!" Dear Odysseystar: My Daughter and I recently attended the Halloween Murder Mystery Dinner at the Seven Sisters Inn in Ocala florida and had some real experiences. First while checking the place out we locked our room and took a walk around the buildings meeting some real people from TAPS and other guests. When we returned to our room my daughters wine glass broken and a candle lighter was also knocked of the table and on the floor- We questioned each other if we had accidentally done this and neither of us had. Later after the dinner we returned to the room we found toothpicks scattered on the closet floor- we had not noticed them before and did check the room out thoroughly. We had heard that Sylvia didn't like things out of place so we had moved pillows and looked at everything- We were told that there had previously been a problem with toothpicks but the staff had removed them from the room and thrown them out well before we arrived. TAPS people asked us to put them back on the floor and spell something- My daughter spelled " HELLO" and we left again- When we returned someone had messed up the word? We were then getting ready to retire, I was sitting on a couch 5 ft from the fireplace with my daughter over by the TV when a book dropped off the mantel.? We looked at each other- neither of us was even close to it- We looked at the mantel and it was solid- She was getting creeped out and slept with he lights and TVon all night- It was very strange but we never felt scared. After coming home we both cant wait to go back. -James C. & Ashleigh
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