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Vermont Ghost Stories and Hauntings - The Bowman House

Cuttingsville, VT - The Bowman House is located right across the street from the Bowman Mausoleum in the Cuttingsville Cemetery. Made wealthy from his tanning business, Mr. John P. Bowman built a mausoleum to hold the remains of his wife and children, including a life-size statue of him, flowers in hand, walking up the steps in grief. If you drive along Route 103 in Cuttingsville, the eerie site of a ghostly white figure standing outside the door of the Laurel Glen Mausoleum with a wreath and key in one hand and a top hat in the other may startle you. Yet, it is merely a statue of Mr. Bowman, who along with his family, is interred within the walls of the great stone vault.
The life-size statue of Mr. Bowman has been visible at the steps of the mausoleum since 1881, when the wealthy farmer had the vault constructed to house his wife and two daughters. Inside the crypt is a life-size statue of his oldest daughter who died when she was an infant, along with busts of his wife and other daughter, who tragically died within seven months of each other. Ten years later, in 1891, Mr. Bowman passed away and was also buried within the crypt.

Although strange occurrences have been reported around the mausoleum at night, the house across the street from the cemetery seems to be the hotspot for ghostly haunting. Some believe that the ghosts of Bowman and his family still reside within the mansion they had once occupied during life. The mansion stood vacant for years but was eventually purchased. The new owners have reported seeing spirits of the Bowman family throughout the house. As a matter of fact, it is so haunted that the owners will no longer stay at the house after dark.
Cavendish, VT - Deacon Jonathon Wheelock's farmhouse - The house was a farmhouse in Cavendish, VT built by Deacon Jonathon Wheelock in 1789, when he founded the first Episcopalian church there. Wheelock was the victim of a violent accident that took his life. Every so often encounters of classic poltergeist activity have been reported. Such as things not being where they were left, moved from room to room when no-one else was in the house, objects falling off shelves, etc., which eventually culminated in sightings. On rare occasions, witnesses would wake up and see a bluish form, vaguely human-shaped, either looking at them or out the window of the rooms, depending on who was encountering the ghost at the time.