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The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

History That Haunts: Inside West Hill Manor, Part One | Guest Beth O’Brien

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

Ghost Stores, Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural Stories

Natural Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Personal Journals, Science, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

West Hill Manor in Burlington, New Jersey, is a historic treasure—one built between 1797 and 1799 in rare Federal style. But this stately home is more than a museum of early American architecture—it’s a place where history refuses to stay silent.

Psychic medium and paranormal investigator Beth O’Brien joins us on The Grave Talks to share what she’s experienced while volunteering at West Hill. A passionate advocate for its preservation, Beth has seen and felt things most visitors never do—things that suggest the spirits of West Hill are still very much present.

Within its walls, the cries of Susanna Emlen may still linger. She underwent one of the earliest known breast cancer surgeries in the United States—performed without anesthesia—and survived. Many believe she never truly left the room where it happened.

Then there’s Eliza Gurney, the manor’s second owner, whose deep friendship with President Abraham Lincoln left such an impression that one of her letters was allegedly found in his coat the night of his assassination.

But beyond the historical intrigue, modern paranormal reports make it clear—West Hill is more than a relic. Disembodied voices, phantom footsteps, unexplained touches, and even the sound of gunfire echo through the halls, suggesting something unseen remains active within.

Beth O’Brien takes us deep inside the spiritual heartbeat of the house—and why it continues to mystify everyone who steps inside. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:30.6

Lewis Capaldi partnered with Better Help to get word out about how important therapy can be.

0:36.6

I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever.

0:42.2

Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult.

0:46.6

But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good.

0:51.2

Because I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy.

0:54.1

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0:57.9

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1:04.8

Today on the Grave Talks, part two of history that haunts inside West Hill Manor,

1:07.2

a conversation with Beth O'Brien.

1:13.5

And when you said that furniture moving, is that something that you've seen in the house?

1:17.1

I haven't physically seen, but I heard. You can hear it. Yeah.

1:22.2

Heard to where on the paranormal team, one of the very first ones that were there, there was only like six people, and we were all down in the kitchen, and you heard this like that,

1:26.7

you know, the noise of a chair moving

1:28.3

across the hardwood floor so we heard that and we all go running upstairs and see the one thing

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