The Hauntings of the McRaven House in Vicksburg, Mississippi

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This house was the headquarters for the Union occupation of Vicksburg in July 1863. Colonel Wilson, in command of the Union soldiers, and Captain McPherson, a former resident of the city, were quartered there. McPherson served as a liason between the occupying troops and the townspeople. One night he failed to return from his rounds and was declared missing. Then his mutilated apparition, dripping with water, appeared before Colonel Wilson and told his commander that he was murdered by Confederate sympathizers and thrown into the river. McPherson's bloodied phantom has appeared to several other occupants of the house since the Civil War. He is not the only ghost seen here. The specter of a woman with long brown hair and a plain dress appeared to very reputable witnesses in the middle bedroom, and the ghosts of Civil War soldiers have been reported in the gallery. The building was exorcised by an Episcopal priest in 1991, but the uninvited houseguests keep returning.