Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the spirits of White Hill Mansion with Don Reichard.

Now, have you heard about the paranormal reports of the paranormal, I should phrase it that way, quite a while back?

Is this been something that people have kind of talked about for quite a while in association

with the White Hill Mansion?

No.

So here's the weird thing.

When I started volunteering there, I had so many need experiences and I had gone to the board at the time.

And I was like, listen, I would really like to start like a paranormal program, let people come in here and experiment.

It'll help you fundraise. Because I don't know. I'm sure your listeners know this. It is extremely hard to get grant money for historic houses. There's a lot of competition

out there. And most of these grants are matching grants, which means you have to be able to raise

money to match the grants you get. So it's not like someone's going to give you a million dollars

to fix up a really cool historic house. You have to match that money. So you have to be able to raise

money. So what's a great way to raise money? Oh my gosh, this place is actually haunted.

You know, let's try to share that with people. And they thought it was nuts. It actually took about

14 months for me to convince them. Finally, they said, okay, well, started on a limited. So we did like

one or two a year. So it took a long time for that kind of to grow. But during this time,

we started talking to people. So we met people who were busboys, who were waitresses that had

came to visit the restaurant who had lived there before.

There was a couple different owners in the last couple years that the restaurant was going.

And every now and then, we would get a story from them about how kids were playing upstairs while their parents were in the bar working as a bartender or whatever,

and they would have an experience.

We had a waitress who came in who had an experience.

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