Episode
Ghost Hunters: Betsy Ross House
Overview
On the season premier of the show, TAPS heads over to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the home of Betsy Ross were TAPS will investigate several claims of paranormal activities. Later, on the second investigation of the episode, TAPS heads to Glen Mills, Pennsylvania to investigate a 300 year old residence.
Details
- Series
- Ghost Hunters
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2009-03-11
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Betsy Ross House is Episode 1 in Season 5 of Ghost Hunters. It aired on 2009-03-11. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: Edith Wharton Estate
TAPS heads over to Lenox, Mass., to investigate the home of author Edith Wharton.
Episode 4: Club Dead
TAPS heads to Florida to investigate claims of the paranormal made in part by staff members of the historic 'El Circulo Cubano de Tampa', which include a female apparition who haunts the the location. Later on the second investigation of the night TAPS heads to an abandoned Trelles Clinic in Ybor City to investigate other claims of paranormal activities.
Episode 5: Soul Searching
TAPS heads over to the Belcourt Castle located in Newport, Rhode Island to investigate claims of the paranormal.
Later, on the second half of the episode, TAPS heads over to Somerville, Massachusetts to investigate Sacco's Bowl Haven, which is an old-time candlepin bowling alley.
Episode 6: Titanic Terror
TAPS heads over to Atlanta, Georgia at the Pemberton Place to investigate claims of paranormal activities at a local aquarium. The Georgia Aquarium is the home of a large exhibit of rare RMS Titanic artifacts that have been linked to paranormal activities in the aquarium.
Episode 7: Crossing Over
The TAPS teams is joined by the GHI team (Ghost Hunters International) in a joint investigation of the Spalding Inn located in Whitefield, New Hampshire. The Spalding Inn is said to have been purportedly haunted by the ghost of child roaming around the hallways of the inn. Other claims include a shadowy figure that also haunts and watches people on the grounds from the windows.
Episode 8: Garden State Asylum
The TAPS team heads over to Newark, New Jersey to investigate an psychiatric hospital and facility, where people have claimed to hear and disembodied screams and sightings of a former nurse that use to work at the facility.
Episode 9: Inhuman Entity
Ladouceur House, Blackstone Massachusetts
The team returns with all new cases. First up is the private residence of the Ladouceur family in Blackstone, Massachusetts. Once when Roxanne, the mother, was sitting on the couch, the couch was stuck with such a violent force that it literally moved while she was sitting on it. Then, while in the basement, the couple's 17 year-old son Gabriel saw a five-foot tall black mass come towards him at full speed. He was so startled by the encounter that he yelled for his parents to come rescue him. But since the Ladoucer's can't just pack up their things and move, they've enlisted the help of TAPS.
The Brentsville Historic Centre, Prince William County Virginia
Next, the team heads to the Brenstville Historic Centre. The town was founded in 1820 as a courthouse town and numerous witnesses have made claims of paranormal activity. People have claimed they saw faces in the windows of the courthouse, particularly in the second floor window of the judge's room. Another witness claims to have seen the face of an African American woman looking out of the jailhouse door but when he blinked the face was gone. Allegedly, there was a slave who shot her master in that room. Despite all of these sightings, Robert Orrison, the current site manager is a big sceptic and has called TAPS in to verify or disprove the accusations that others have made.
Episode 10: I am Not Guilty
In this Civil War-themed episode, the Ghost Hunters visit the historic Samuel Mudd House, famous for being a pit stop for John Wilkes Booth on his escape route following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Samuel Mudd met John Wilkes Booth six months before the assassination and let Booth stay in his home after tending to Booth's broken leg following the assassination. Mudd's involvement in the plot remains unclear, but he was found guilty of conspiracy. Now, several apparitions allegedly haunt the house (now operating as a museum), including a soldier and a woman in a white dress believed to be Samuel Mudd's wife, Sarah.
Then, the team heads to Virginia to visit the Edgewood Plantation, part of the ancestral home of U.S. Presidents William Henry and Benjamin Harrison and site for the Confederate army during the Civil War. Today, it is officially a national- and state-regulated landmark and is a hotbed of paranormal activity, including full-bodied apparitions.
Episode 11: Civil War Spirits
While investigating one of the bloodiest battlefields in history, TAPS has a close encounter with Americas past
Episode 12: Essex County Jail
TAPS is joined by special investigator and host of SyFy's "Destination Truth", Josh Gates who will help the team in investigating claims of paranormal activities in New Jersey's Essex County Jail.