MUSEUM GUIDE OR GHOST?,FAIRLAWN MANSION,SUPERIOR,WISCONSIN

This forty-two-room Victorian museum is haunted by a ghost who helps visitors find their way around.She is usually mistaken for a museum guide who dresses in authentic costumes of the 1890s. Sometimes she even helps visitors find specific displays and then disappears from sight. Her presence is often presaged by a strange damp chill in the air. The ghost is thought to be a servant girl who worked for the Martin Pattison family.They moved into the house in the 1891 and lived there until 1918. Pattison sponsored Scandinavian immigrants by paying their way to America. In return they agreed to work in his home for a certain lenght of time. Pattison was a kind man who treated his servants like members of the family. This particular servant girl is said to have been murdered by her new husband after she left Fairlawn. Perhaps she is returning to the only place where she found real happiness while alive. HAUNTED PLACES,pp.456-457.

Does make one wonder. I'll keep this in mind the next time I go touring.

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