Episode
Ghost Hunters: Murdered Matron
Overview
Robert Richard Randall was a philanthropic sailor who donated Snug Harbor to the city to provide housing and services to retired sailors in the 1800s. While there are no sailors there today, there certainly are some apparitions. In the matron's cottage, the matron's young mentally ill son had been chained in the basement. He escaped and murdered his mother, and was later hanged for his crime. Her ghost has been spotted in several locations across the campus. Other claims include a steeple bell ringing unexpectedly and a woman dancing in the chapel, plus doors slamming and apparitions in the music hall- one was even captured in a photograph! Could it be the ghost of the matron?
Details
- Series
- Ghost Hunters
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 2011-10-26
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Murdered Matron is Episode 20 in Season 7 of Ghost Hunters. It aired on 2011-10-26. The runtime is 45 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 19: Stage Fright
The Rapids Theater in Niagra Falls, NY was built in 1921, but the suicide of an actress years ago has placed a paranormal shadow over the building.
Claims include apparitions crossing the stage, a woman's voice and female whistling and high heels clicking. Doors also tend to open and close on their own, including a fire door in the front tunnels, a type of basement. In the Orchestra Pit, people see legs walking around in the auditorium when there is no one there.
Episode 21: The Bloodiest 47 Acres
Spectral inmates are sought at Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City.
More episodes from this season
Episode 18: Roasts And Ghosts
TAPS investigate the world famous New York Friar's Club! There won't be much laughing at the eerie Main Street Armory in Rochester, however, when TAPS checks into their claims of paranormal.
Starting at the Friar's Club, the famous hang out for comedians known for roasting one another in Manhattan. In addition to jokes, people hear voices whispering, doors opening and closing and have seen apparitions throughout the building. Could it be the ghost of comedian Al Kelly, who died in the dining room?
Other claims include cold spots, people being touched, shadow figures that speak, and full bodied apparitions.
Next, the team heads on to the Main Street Armory! Given all the live firing activities that have gone on there, the chances that soldiers perished here are quite high. People see apparitions dressed in military garb. In the office, something continually moves items around a table to the point where the owner, Scott Donaldson, changed the locks on the doors. As a blind man, he relies on things being exactly in their place.Even with the doors locked, his belongings are continually moved about.
Episode 22: Voices of Pain
Louisville's Waverly Hills Sanatorium is revisited for a probe of the nurses' wing.
Episode 17: Well Of Horror
Jason along with daughter Haily, visit a house to investigate child ghosts who occasionally bounce balls and are heard walking back and forth on the third floor. Jason allows Haily to take the lead on her first investigation, as he believes that child ghosts are more apt to make contact with younger females. The group just might have thought correctly after Haily hears whispering voices.
Episode 23: Distillery of Spirits
The team visits Kentucky to probe a distillery where the ghost of a colonel may lurk and to investigate a nightclub with a grim past.
Episode 16: Harvesting Murder
TAPS investigates Hawaii's Plantation Village in Waipahu, where sightings of a ghostly girl and possibly haunted artifacts are reported. Later, the team visits Ventfort Hall in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Episode 24: Membership Denied
Probing Connecticut's Hartford Elks Lodge #19, where doors are said to jiggle on their own and phantom voices have been heard. Also: Missouri's Morse Mill Hotel is investigated.
Episode 15: Ghost Of Carnegie
TAPS looks into stories of doors slamming, apparitions and disembodied voices at the Carnegie Library in Philadelphia.
Episode 25: Christmas Spirit
Oh haunted town of Bethlehem. TAPS investigates an historic inn and then an old roadhouse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Though it's Christmas City, Bethlehem has some spirits that aren't quite so bright! The town would love to find peace on earth for those souls whose bodies have long departed.
At the Sun Inn, the belief is that the ghost of a little girl is caught in the building's attic. She could be Sarah a little girl who died at the inn. In the Guest Room, people hear her singing. In the Great Room and dining room, people have seen an apparition outside the window looking in- on the second floor! In the attic, a visitor brought a teddy bear and was poked in the side as the bear was knocked out of his hands. Other visitors heard her crying "don't go" when they tried to leave the attic.
The next night, TAPS heads to the Hanoverville Roadhouse, where a little boy's apparition has been seen with tears in his eyes. He is about 8 to 10 years old with dark hair and dark clothing, and he is very, very sad. He has tapped customers on the hip. In the owner's bedroom a ghost actually SAT on the bed with the resident owner and he couldn't move because the covers were pinned under invisible weight!
Episode 14: Ghostly Evidence
TAPS visits the Reed Homestead of Townsend, Massachusetts, where sightings of a ghostly grieving mother are reported. Next, they investigate stories of an apparition of a Confederate soldier at Summerseat Farm in Maryland.
Episode 13: Dark Shadows
TAPS is summoned to Newport, R.I., to investigate Seaview Terrace, the setting for the gothic soap-opera, "Dark Shadows," where a door handle is said to have turned on its own and seemingly inexplicable footsteps and banging have been heard.