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Click on any of the photos on this page to view a larger version of the photo.
There were so many orbs (caused by lens refractions, dust particles, etc.) found in the photographs taken in the
museum, that we do not mention them individually in this section of the investigation report. See the Unusual Photos
section of the report for details on those photographs.
For additional photographs of the 1st Floor of the Strawberry Hill
Museum see our first investigation.
This large chapel is located in one of the many additions to the original house.
It is a full-sized chapel in every respect. This is the location of one of the sightings of the "Lady in Red"
(see the Background section of our original investigation report for more details on that story). A "female
presence" was felt in this room by a group of psychics that visited the museum several years ago. During our
first investigation, Dave identified a localized electromagnetic field that he was unable to explain. In the Follow-Up
to that original investigation, we described the need to spend more time investigating in the chapel.
The chapel has also been the scene of reported auditory phenomenon, like the unexplained sound of music and singing.
See the Background section of our original investigation report for more details.
For our Return to Strawberry Hill, we spent a fair amount of time in the chapel...and obviously took a large number
of photos. For a full description of the interesting things that we encountered in the chapel see the Active Chapel
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This jumbled hallway connects the chapel to the tower and the front hallway. Its
fairly nondescript, except for the fact that it links two of the reportely paranormally active locations within
the building. This picture is actually shot in the hallway looking into the tower. You can see the stained glass
above the doorway from what used to be an external window prior to the chapel being added to the building. |
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The tower of the building is three stories...four stories high if you count the above-ground
portion of the basement under the tower. It is basically a round room on each floor of the building. |
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the tower. Its in this first floor section of the tower that a small girl spirit was reported to be seen rocking
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This room off of the main parlor is called the men's library. In the corner of this
room is a large archway that leads into the building's tower. This room looks completely different without Christmas
decorations. |
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The main parlor was the center of the 1st floor of the original family residence.
The amazing woodwork continues into this room, and the walls are adorned with dramatically bright Victorian style
wallpaper. |
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The ladies' parlor is adjacent to the main parlor and the front hall and its windows
look out onto the large wrap around porch on the front of the house. You will find portraits of James A. Cruise,
Margaret E. Kerstetter Cruise Scroggs, John B. Scroggs hung on the wall (see the History section of our original
investigation report for details on these individuals). |
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This was the main dining room of the original building when it was a family residence.
The intricate woodwork is beautifully kept and intact. The room is awe-inspiring when you first walk into it. The
door between the main dining room and the children's dining room was once seen swinging open and then closed over
and over again with no apparent cause (see the Background section of our original investigation report for more
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The building, with its 42 rooms, was just too large to full investigate
during the four hour investigation. Since this was our second investigation at the Strawberry Hill Museum, we focued
in on specific locations and spent very little time investigating in these six areas....
BACK ENTRY AND CHILDRENS' DINING HALL
- This area of the building is part of an addition to the original family household. Due to a lack of reported
phenomenon in the Children's Dining Hall, we chose this room as a place to stash our extra equipment. Plus Francie
kept us going with a box of donuts and ice-cold water.
TEA ROOM - This room is
now enclosed and houses the museum's tea room. But it was originally a porch on the southern face of the home.
The bay windows of the main parlor are still intact and stick out into the tea room making the room and interesting
shape.
OFFICE & STORAGE - This
area of the building is also part of an addition to the original family household. There is a wide hallway that
leads from the children's dining room to the storage areas, museum office, and a men's and woman's bathroom. While
unexplained footsteps were once heard in the wide hallway, we did not choose to investigate this portion of the
house on either of our visits to Strawberry Hill.
GIFT SHOP - The room that
is currently the gift shop was once the nuns' dining room during the years the building was an orphanage. The gift
shop is definitely worth checking out...and is one of the ways the museum pays for its operations and the preservation
of the building.
OLD KITCHEN - This room
was the kitchen of the original family household. From this room there is a cramped winding stairway that goes
up to the servants quarters on the 2nd floor and on up to the 3rd floor. From this room there is also a steep stairway
with an extremely low ceiling that leads down into the original portions of the building's basement. Due to this
room's central location near stairways to every floor of the building, this is where we set up Stew's DVR camera
system.
FRONT HALL - The front entry
way was the original entry to the house and exibits some of the most beautiful woodwork in the house. It is also
the location of the main formal stairway leading to the second floor. |
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