Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm & Mild from Erin

Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

Sitting at the end of a long, tree-lined driveway, the White Hill mansion in Fieldsboro,

New Jersey has always held secrets.

During the American Revolution, the home concealed colonial troops from British and German forces,

later political leaders used tucked away upstairs spaces for a clandestine rendezvous.

The attic once held a bordello, and when one of the owners was arrested for bootlegging

during prohibition, officials found more than 1,000 gallons of liquor hidden on the property.

Today, the secrets of the White Hill mansion are different.

They come from darkened corners where voices call out when no one is there.

They shuffle up the stairs at night, invisible footsteps on empty staircases.

They even come from above, the thudding sounds from higher floors that some have described

as reminiscent of a body being dragged across a floor.

I'm Amy Bruney, and this is Haunted Road.

In 1722, Robert Field purchased 300 acres of land in White Hill, a borough near Trenton,

New Jersey.

Almost 20 years later, he built a Georgian-style home on the property.

The beginnings of the White Hill mansion that sits there today.

Field's son, Robert Field II, inherited the property in 1757.

A prominent lawyer, Robert II, expanded the home and established more businesses on the

property.

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