Comments on: The Ghosts of Old Bethpage Village Restoration

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:20:12 +0000

Yes I know

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 22:21:06 +0000

Hi Kevin this is the girl that was talking to you about it on the was to the hullet house wit my mom and my friends mom

By: Christina

Christina — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:49:22 +0000

We just visitied the village yesturday, my children aged 11 and 14 for the first tme, my youngest son loves American history and was REALLY enjoying the village…until…..we went into the general store, he loved the store part, got candy, spoke to the man there, played checkers….then we went into the part of the house that was the “home”….all of a sudden I could see this look on his face and I asked him what was wrong, he said “mom, I dont like this house, it gives me a bad feeling, I dont like this feeling, it is making me afraid…I need to leave now!” it scared me and it scared him. He was fine in all the other house tho.

By: gothiccurios

gothiccurios — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:59:41 +0000

I remember you of course. You told me many of these stories when I used to tour the site pretty frequently. Hard to do now that I’m a thousand miles away. How has the staff cutbacks affected things? Made my blood boil to hear about it. You guys need more staff, not less.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:53:05 +0000

I’m also the guy to whom the abovementioned incident happened to in the Conklin House– that a massive object seemed to come up to me while I was reading and I jolted and looked up and there was nothing there.
There are many other stories about that house. One that I think is especially interesting is something I was told by a volunteer. She was working in the house and when all the visitors were out, she heard what sounded like a child’s footsteps above in the hall, running from, and back to the “lumber” room (closet) upstairs. The volunteer figured there was someone still in the house. She went upstairs and found no one was there. This is interesting because the Conklins had a disabled boy who they kept locked up in the lumber room. He appeared in a census, and never appeared again. Local rumor where the house was from, Village of the Branch in Smithtown, said that the poor boy died in the room of neglect. Did the volunteer hear his little footsteps?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:19:27 +0000

I just want to clarify something I wrote above– I was stationed at the Hewlett house on Friday, July 15, and was talking to the girls then, not on Wednesday the 13th, when this paranormal event happened.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:14:48 +0000

Hi. I’m a docent at Old Bethpage, and spoke with one of the girls who was in this party as I was walking back to Hewlett house where I was stationed that day. I later met the young girl to whom the incident happened, and her sister and I think Grandmother. I see it happened on Wednesday, the thirteenth. I can tell you that the girl was completely healed then, when I saw her arm on Friday. I saw the picture on her grandmother’s cell phone, and can testify that there was a faint letter “H” scratched into her shoulder. Did they mention this above? That the fingernail marks turned to the letter H that night? The sister testified to this also, and what amazed me is that the letter “L” and letter “H” are scratched into the beams of that room where the incident happened (kitchen, read above description of Hewlett House). There are more H’s than L’s. The scratch on her arm looked the same as the H’s scratched on the beams. I made light of the scratchings earlier in the day to the new guy I was teaching the house to, but after I heard about the H on the girls arm and then saw it in the picture…….well, I don’t think I’ll be making light of those scratches on the beams again! To repeat, the girl was completely healed the day I saw her which was two days later on Friday, July 15, 2011.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:02:13 +0000

i go to camp at Old Bethpage restoration village and today July 13, 2011 we went inside the Hewlett House. On the wall there is a cloth the stitching that a little Girl made at age 6 about she death and if she died to Remember her. One of the workers was telling us about it and in the other Room we heard a bang. If you Read the Passage then you saw that in one of the houses it sounded like a shelf falling that’s what it sounded Like. Then three of my Friends got scared and went into another Room all three of them got Freezing Cold for about a Minute. Then out of no where one of my friends Felt something Grab her arm and dig its nails into her as she looked up she saw nothing. She ran out of the house crying in pain for the Rest of the day she Had a Red arm with tiny little indents or marks on her arm. Who knew one little camp 5 hours Monday through Friday can Scar your Life and Leave you in the pain and Memory of being Grabbed on the arm. Left with marks and when she looked up NOTHING WAS THERE. My opinion is not to Go into that house.

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