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The Haunted Cottage Grand Opening (Harpers Ferry) 
We will have a Grand Opening Open House at the Haunted Cottage on Saturday March 6th, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST!
Have your chance to explore Harpers Ferry’s Most Haunted House absolutely free! Learn the history and hauntings of one the nation’s most haunted houses.
Seemingly cursed by the heritage of the Booth family legacy, the Haunted Cottage has gone down in local legend, hidden and forgotten in the hills of Harpers Ferry, WV!
According to local legends, The Haunted Cottage is the most paranormally active location in all of Harpers Ferry! Tales of ghostly apparitions, shadowy figures and poltergeist-type activity permeate the history of this property…
Until now, the Booth House has remained unavailable to the public, lost and forgotten. Then, in 2009, the determination of two friends finally made it possible for research into the building’s dark legacy to come to fruition…
John Wilkes Booth himself probably stayed here. Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U.S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry (in present-day West Virginia). Booth had been rehearsing at the Richmond Theatre when he abruptly decided to join the Richmond Grays, a volunteer militia of 1,500 men travelling to Charles Town for Brown’s hanging, to guard against any attempt by abolitionists to rescue Brown from the gallows by force. When Brown was hanged without incident, Booth stood in uniform near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown’s fate, although he admired the condemned man’s bravery in facing death stoically. His wife awaited him in Harpers Ferry after that dreadful night of assignation in 1865. He never arrived.
