Why is the Whaley House haunted?
Oral tradition states that the Whaley family believed the house to be haunted by Yankee Jim Robinson, the man Thomas Whaley watched hang on the property before the house was built. Some believe that the spirit of Violet Whaley, who committed suicide here in 1885, haunts the house. Mr. and Mrs. Whaley are both believed to haunt the house, perhaps because their daughter Violet is still here. Another spirit believed to inhabit the home is that of Marion Reynolds, Thomas and Anna Whaley’s great-granddaughter, who died tragically in the house in 1912.
