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In Stony Point, N.Y. stands a curious and Colonial era house called the "Poor House". It was the first almshouse in that vicinity. If we recall Dickensian England’s institutions of the workhouse and debtor’s prison, the Poor House is a living monument to these. The original cell for local debtors and shackles are still intact. It is on the national list of historic houses. This house is alleged to be haunted too. In the early 1970s there was a hullabaloo about the owners having hired an exorcist to rid the place of spooks. The story went that this place was a British sentry post and General Wayne while enroute to the battle of Stony Point arrested the sentries and executed them on the spot and buried them on the property. It is supposed that the ghosts of the two British soldiers are what haunt the area.

Story found on XOMBA.com

 

This house is for sale and you can buy it for $419,000.00

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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