ATLANTA, Ga. – All October, a Marietta historic house appears like one thing proper out of Disney’s Haunted Mansion.
“Lots of people are available in and are startled once they see the casket, although no one’s there, it’s slightly startling,” stated Trevor Beemon, govt director of Cobb Landmarks and Historic Society.
Usually, Beemon says all of the curtains would shut shut and the rooms pitch black.
He says all the things that’s reflective is roofed with black material for a spooky cause.
“They had been afraid they’d see the deceased within the mirror with them and they’d be the following particular person beckoned into dying,” he stated.
Again within the mid-Nineteenth century, Beemon says the house was occupied by the Root household, one of many first pioneer households in Marietta.
Two of the members of the family died in the home; it’s the place additionally they had their funerals.
“You’ll have arrived in your common garments. Solely the household was allowed to put on black as a result of they had been in full mourning,” stated Beemon.
Beemon says the hair of the deceased was put in jewellery to maintain the reminiscence of a liked one shut and a physique in a casket was at all times carried out with their toes dealing with away from the home.
“If the physique was turned again in direction of the home it will beckon different individuals in the home to dying with them,” he stated.
In fact, a historic house has occasional hauntings. And should you’re courageous sufficient, there are flashlight excursions supplied proper earlier than Halloween.
“We really feel like they could nonetheless be right here and hopefully they really feel like we’re being good caretakers of the home,” Beemon stated.
Whether or not you’re at house for a great scare or are fascinated by all issues macabre, there’s one thing we are able to all study from the Victorians.
“Individuals had been taught to be afraid of dying and the afterlife and the Victorians took a special strategy,” he stated.