Is Morris-Jumel Mansion really haunted?

Visitors rate Morris-Jumel Mansion at 72.2 out of 100 on our EHP (Estimated Haunted Probability) scale. So far 3 people have shared firsthand experiences from this location in the comments.

Where is Morris-Jumel Mansion located?

The address is 65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY 10032. GPS coordinates: 40.8344715, -73.9385157.

What kind of haunted place is Morris-Jumel Mansion?

Morris-Jumel Mansion is listed under Historical Buildings in our New York section.

What is the nearest town to Morris-Jumel Mansion?

Fort Lee, NJ is the closest town, about 2.0 miles away, with Edgewater (2.0 mi.) and Inwood (2.2 mi.) also nearby.

Morris-Jumel Mansion - New York, NY

Morris-Jumel Mansion, some say, is haunted by the ghost of Eliza Jumel, by a grandfather clock that talks, and by a Hessian soldier that comes out of a painting a la the Harry Potter books. The mansion was built in 1765 by Roger Morris, a British Army colonel, and was used as a military headquarters for both sides of the American Revolution. In fact, it was to here that George Washington retreated after the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776. In 1810, Stephen Jumel and his wife Eliza moved here, but Eliza was remarried in 1832 to Alexander Hamilton assassin and former VP Aaron Burr after her former husband perished by mysterious circumstances. It is her ghost that was allegedly seen in the 1960s by a touring group of schoolchildren. So the story goes, the children were behaving a little too boisterously for the solemn surroundings; the ghost told them to quiet down and then simply floated away.

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Geographic Information

Address

65 Jumel Terrace
New York, NY 10032
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GPS

40.8344715, -73.9385157

County

New York County County, New York

Nearest Towns

Fort Lee, NJ (2.0 mi.)
Edgewater, NJ (2.0 mi.)
Inwood, NY (2.2 mi.)
Cliffside Park, NJ (2.7 mi.)
Leonia, NJ (3.2 mi.)
Palisades Park, NJ (3.2 mi.)
Fairview, NJ (3.5 mi.)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ (3.6 mi.)
Ridgefield, NJ (3.7 mi.)
Manhattan, NY (3.8 mi.)

Contact Information

Website: http://www.morrisjumel.org/

Quick Answers

Is Morris-Jumel Mansion really haunted?: Visitors rate Morris-Jumel Mansion at 72.2 out of 100 on our EHP (Estimated Haunted Probability) scale. So far 3 people have shared firsthand experiences from this location in the comments.
Where is Morris-Jumel Mansion located?: The address is 65 Jumel Terrace, New York, NY 10032. GPS coordinates: 40.8344715, -73.9385157.
What kind of haunted place is Morris-Jumel Mansion?: Morris-Jumel Mansion is listed under Historical Buildings in our New York section.
What is the nearest town to Morris-Jumel Mansion?: Fort Lee, NJ is the closest town, about 2.0 miles away, with Edgewater (2.0 mi.) and Inwood (2.2 mi.) also nearby.

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Comments (3)

Paul | August 14, 2014

I have a friend who's worked for the city's park's dept as a historical guide for many years. he said he has never seen anything here and while the house seems very sad and the people on site shamelessly plug the ghost stories claiming all sorts of possible ghosts he knows of no one whose actually seen or experienced anything themselves.
- Sharon Reed | July 29, 2015
  
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wendy | January 4, 2016

Our elementary school visited the Jumel Mansion back in the early 1960s. I remember seeing a women in old-fashioned clothing from a second-storey windowbalustrade looking at us.

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