Investigating Edith Wharton’s Haunted Mansion, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In 1901, legendary author Edith Wharton built The Mount—a grand summer estate meant to be her personal retreat from the world. Yet more than a century later, her words still ring true: “I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’m afraid of them.” Over the years, the mansion’s beauty has been shadowed by stories of disembodied voices, footsteps echoing through empty halls, and an unshakable presence that lingers long after the guests have gone.
From its transformation into a girls’ school to a theater troupe’s residence, The Mount has accumulated layers of emotion, history, and mystery. Now, Crypto Paranormal Investigations, led by Miranda Arthur-Smith and Nick Smith-Koblitz, ventures into its opulent yet haunted corridors to uncover what still stirs within its walls.
In this chilling episode of The Grave Talks, they share their findings, experiences, and evidence from one of America’s most literary hauntings. Because at The Mount, it seems the stories never truly end—they just change narrators.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, investigating the Mount, the home of writer Edith Wharton, |
| 0:07.2 | a conversation with Crypto-Pranormal Investigations. |
| 0:28.5 | Edith Wharton was a prolific American writer, and at the end of her life, she put together her best ghost stories for publication. In the preface to the book, she wrote, I don't believe in |
| 0:35.2 | ghosts, but I'm afraid of them. |
| 0:44.4 | In 1901, she and her husband at the time built an opulent home they called the Mount. |
| 0:51.1 | It was their summer home for nine years before the couple divorced and Edith moved to France. |
| 0:57.5 | The Mount went on to become the Fox Hollow School for Girls until they closed their doors in 1976. |
| 0:59.6 | A couple of years later, it became the home of the Shakespeare and Company Theater Troop. |
| 1:05.2 | In 2001, restoration began on the Mount, and it reopened as a historical museum. |
| 1:12.6 | It has said that the mount is haunted. |
| 1:15.6 | Could the ghosts that Edith Wharton didn't believe in still be there to frighten others? |
| 1:22.0 | Recently, Crypto-Pranormal Investigations investigated the home. |
| 1:26.9 | They are dedicated to the documentation and study of paranormal phenomena and allegedly |
| 1:31.7 | haunted locations through an objective and scientific lens. |
| 1:36.6 | So what did they find? |
| 1:38.6 | Today on the Grave Talks, investigating the Mount, with Miranda Arthur Smith and Nick Smith Koblitz of Crypto-Panormal |
| 1:48.2 | investigations. |
| 1:53.7 | First of all, thank you for having us both on. It's great to be here. For those who may not be |
| 1:59.7 | aware, the Mount was the summer residence of the author Edith Wharton. |
| 2:04.7 | She was born Edith Newbolt Jones and purchased the home with her husband, Teddy, in 1901. |
| 2:11.7 | And the construction of the house took only about 14 months. |
| 2:16.0 | A little joke I like to make is that I don't think you could |
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