What "Ghost Hunters" 15-th episode about
(Case #1: Pawtucket, Rhode Island - Slater Mill)
TAPS heads over to visits the historic Pawtucket Slater Mill, which is the oldest industrial site in the US, and is a state landmark. The mill is also the first successful water powered factory in the United States. The mill was opened in 1793 with initially 9 children working on the machinery (7 girls and 2 boys). These children where hired to work on the machines small and tight areas surrounding the machinery. Some of the children lost their lives be accidentally getting ought up the machinery while it was still running, while other children had lost fingers and other appendages while working on the machinery.
Claims of paranormal activity include: Rumored to have the spirit of a 9 year boy roaming the mill, several cold spots in different locations, the feeling and sensation of watched inside the bell tower of the mill and general feeling of discomfort, noises indicating the mill being operated, old mill machines turning on be themselves with no one operating them, alarm systems not functioning stating that it was due to people still inside the mill when there are none, a mill wheel turning around by itself without cause and on it's own.
(Case #2: Simsbury, Connecticut - Pettibone Tavern)
On the second case of the episode, TAPS heads over to Simsbury, Connecticut to visit the Pettibone Tavern.
The tavern was built in 1780 where a sea Captain named Jacob Pettibone use to live in. The tavern recently underwent a damaging fire. The tavern's owners invited TAPS to investigate before renovation work takes place. It is rumored through legend that Captain Pettibone's daughter, Abagael, was beheaded along side a man that wasn't her husband, by her husband after he had found them sleeping together one day.
Claims of paranormal activity include:Rumored to have the spirit of Abagael roaming the tavern, other full body apparitions which include a dark man standing in a corner, hearing one's own names being called out, strange images inside a bathroom mirror which use to be Abagael's room, sensations of people touching their shoulders, phantom smells of barnyard-like kinds of odors.
Episode number: 15
Episode name: "So She Married An Axe Murderer"
Episode release date: 11 september 2008 at 01:00
Status: aired
Rating: 6.6
