A team of 'ghost hunters' have surveyed a 338-year-old inn-turned-museum in Connecticut after employees spotted a well-defined shadow sitting in an arm chair in the building's living room.
In February, board members at Leffingwell House in Hartford alerted local business Paranormal Revelations after they apparently witnessed the shadow sit down and stand up twice from a large pink chair.
When the ghost hunters visited the historic city landmark, they also saw the figure, though all they could make out was the torso, Donna Fasulo, the case manager and co-founder of the group, said.
Inn: The Leffingwell House Museum, pictured, is being searched for ghosts after a well-defined figure was spotted in February
'That was very intriguing,' Fasulo told The Norwich Bulletin of the February sighting, adding that the group came back for a closer inspection earlier this month.
On their second visit, the group expanded their search, looking at the living areas as well as the basement.
The survey of the homestead, which served as an inn and tavern during the time of the Revolutionary War, began at dusk on a Saturday night and finished about 1 a.m. Sunday.
Team ghosts: Paranormal Revelations co-founder Donna Fasulo leads team members Jason Marchant and Susan Oulett into the Leffingwell House Museum in Norwich, Connecticut
Equipment: Paranormal Revelations co-founder Myron Curtiss, pictured, adjusts a special infra-red sensitive camera in the basement of the Leffingwell House Museum
The team set up audio and video equipment, full-spectrum camera photography and electromagnetic field measurement equipment in every room in the house.
'There were a few times where it sounded like we might have caught something (on recording equipment),' Myron Curtiss, the lead investigator said, adding that they're still processing the data collected.
Paranormal Revelations found out about the Leffingwell building on the internet and then contacted its owners for permission to search for ghosts.
Old: The homestead served as an inn and tavern during the time of the Revolutionary War
Overnight: The survey of the homestead, pictured, began at dusk on a Saturday night and finished about 1 a.m. Sunday
Recording: The team set up audio and video equipment, full-spectrum camera photography and electromagnetic field measurement equipment in every room in the house, pictured
Curtiss said he hoped to make a third visit, and is awaiting approval from the Leffingwell Inn board.
Leffingwell House was built as a simple two room house in 1675 and expanded to become an inn and pub in the early 1700s.
The house has not been remodeled in more than 200 years and in 1960 was moved 800 feet by the Society of the Founders of Norwich to accommodate Route 2.
Vice president of the Leffingwell House Museum board, Greg Farlow, who spotted the shadow in February, researched the home's former occupants from the 18th and 19th centuries.
'The Leffingwells lived here only until after the Revolution, then it went to the Huntington family. I think it would be Ruth Huntington in that chair,' he told the newspaper.
Heritage: The Leffingwell House, pictured, was built as a simple two room house in 1675 and expanded to become an inn and pub in the early 1700s
Moved: The house has not been remodeled in more than 200 years and in 1960 was moved 800 feet by the Society of the Founders of Norwich to accommodate Route 2
Whose spirit? Vice president of the Leffingwell House Museum board, Greg Farlow, researched the home's former occupants from the 18th and 19th centuries and believes the ghost was Ruth Huntington
