Beth Brown did what no Virginia author before her has done – organized a team of paranormal researchers to investigate rumors of ghostly phenomena at Berkeley Plantation, former home of Presidents Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, in Charles City County, Virginia. The investigation and her findings are part of her new book, "Haunted Plantations of Virginia".
“The plantation employees were experiencing so many unexplainable things that it was becoming difficult to feel comfortable on the job,” said Brown. “I originally expected to debunk most of the reports as the natural sounds of an old structure, but I must admit what the team and I found was truly astonishing.”
Because of the evidence Brown and her team obtained at Berkeley Plantation, the site recently became the focus of an episode of the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular “Ghost Hunters” series. The episode is scheduled to air during the 2010 season.
"Haunted Plantations of Virginia" includes twenty previously unpublished reports of paranormal encounters and documents the author’s investigations at fourteen historic locations. Some of the sites included are Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester, Endview in Newport News, Shirley, Berkeley, and Kittiewan Plantations in Charles City, Weston Manor in Hopewell, Scotchtown in Hanover, and Belle Grove in Middletown.
Beth Brown is a Richmond native, a freelance writer of historical and paranormal articles, author of "Haunted Battlefields:
