Ghost Story of the Jamesport Manor Inn, Long Island, New York :: Ghost Stories Urban Legends

Jamesport manor Inn, Long Island, New YorkThe vote counter is a 65 year ageing Hispanic woman from Riverhead, New York. I collected the story over the phone on April 2, 2006. She started off by telling me that the story took score in 1988 on Long Island. Her landlord had told her about a wonderful eatery that she just had to go to, so on a Friday nighttime the storyteller and her husband decided to try it out. When stepping up to the Jamesport manor house Inn she had a creepy feeling just from looking at the old mansion. She claimed that it had an eery sort of feel to it and obviously did not look like a typical restaurant. Although she had just recently moved to Jamesport, she lived most of her life on Long Island and was surprised she had neer pick upd of the restaurant. She began asking her waiter any(prenominal) questions about how newly the restaurant was and about the owner and such. She was told that the mansion was build in the 1800s and was obviously somewh at restored. It was recently purchased by a topical anesthetic townsperson and had somewhat recently opened up. The waiter began teasing that the mansion was purportedly haunted because it was so old and there were generations of families who lived and died in the house. He was new to the restaurant but the chefs and other ply at the restaurant claimed they could hear people walking around and opening and closing doors. He told her that the staff generally liked to leave at the same time of night to avoid being alone in the mansion, being that it was haunted. The waiter make a point of claiming that everyone else says its true as well. He had never heard the ghosts, but he was sure they existed in the mansion.My first begin at finding information was by typing in Jamesport Manor Inn + ghosts at the search engine Google. I found an oblige from The Suffolk Times, a local newspaper about the rebirth of the Jamesport Manor. It included a picture of the mansion with its owne rs, and there was a brief paragraph on the suspicion of ghosts roaming the area. As for tales about ghosts and later use as a house of ill repute, Mr. Whines laughed and said, Im a trained historian, so I cant tell you about that.