LOCATION FILE
Gardner-Pingree House
FOLLOWSalem, MA
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An 1804 Federal-style brick mansion designed by Samuel McIntire, now part of the Peabody Essex Museum. On April 6, 1830, the elderly merchant Captain Joseph White was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in an upstairs bedroom, the result of a murder-for-inheritance plot. The sensational trial, prosecuted by Daniel Webster, is widely cited as an influence on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Reports center on the second-floor bedroom where White was killed, with visitors describing cold spots and an uneasy presence.
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Open to the public through the Peabody Essex Museum.
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