Visiting the house of Marek Twain: Gothic residence on the hill

Visiting the house of Marek Twain: Gothic residence on the hill
29 January 2025 J.W.H
ghosts

It is said that Mark Twain House in Connecticut is haunted by the whole family of Clemens. A family home with deep sadness remains a place of great literary sense, because the tragedy seemed to follow Clemens.

Mark Twain House is a pretty Gothic residence at Hartford in Connecticut Mansion, where he lived in 1874–1891, is celebrated both because of his architectural charm in Hartford district and his amazing legends.

The house belonged to the family of Clemens and Samuel Clemens, which was the real name of Marek Twain. This Victorian Gothic house in Grand 25 Room was a place where Twain wrote iconic novels, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which makes him a literary sanctuary.

He built a house for his family, and Twain wrote: “For us our home … He had a heart, soul and eyes with which he sees us; and approval, treatments and deep sympathies; It was from us, and we were his confidence and we lived in his grace and in peace to his blessing. “

Mark Twain House: It is believed that the authors at Hartford in Connecticut are haunted by the Clemens family.

They did not live in this too long and had to move to Europe in 1891 due to financial problems. In 1903 they could live in him again, but they sold him because it recalled too many memories of their daughter Suzy, who died at home when they were in Europe. Twain never returned to it.

The Twain House brand went through a familiar process of falling after it was sold out of the family and was restored in the 1960s before it was transformed into a museum.

Mark Twain and supernatural

However, the beloved residence of Twain, which now serves as a museum, is said to have restless ghosts, which leads to his reputation as one of the most haunted Connecticut locations. This is not so far, because Twain and his family were quite involved in spirituality at the turn of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century Sianin and the media that were furious. Something that Ghost Tours, on which the museum focuses on.

Mark Twain: The writer was interested in both science and spiritism. Here in the Laboratory of Nikola Tesla; 1894.

But did he really believe in ghosts? In his supernatural story, ghost history, apparently mocks this idea and gives the impression that Mark Twain himself does not believe in ghosts. But his life was certainly related to him. When he was a child, she was a woman who claimed that she had medicinal powers and could cure toothache with touch. When he met his wife, Olivia Langdon, she was partly paralyzed after falling on ice at the age of sixteen. She was unable to leave the bed for two years. She went to a healer named Dr. Newton, who prayed for her and corrected her, although she did not fully regain her touch.

Mark Twain would also have what believed that the prophetic dreams of the death of his brother and he was intrigued by the “transfer of thinking”, in which he believed that he loudly talked about what his wife thought.

Even the birth of Marek Twain's family looked through spiritual lenses. When he was born in 1835, Komet Haley shot the night sky. This made his mother believe that he was intended for larger things. When he died on April 21 in 1910, you could also see the Haley comet in the sky, just like when he was born. As he said to his friend, Albert Bigelow Paine: “I came with Komet Halley in 1835. He is approaching again next year and I expect to leave her. “

Visiting the house of Marek Twain

Several paranormal investigations have reported increased activity at home, and now the home museum even offers its own ghost trips. Even the celebrated paranormal researcher Lorraine Warren visited Mark Twain House. The house was also on numerous television rooms after hunting for ghosts, but what exactly is the rumors about it?

Visitors to the museum, which venture too close to Twain's desk, often described a sense of discomfort or a sudden shiver. Pararanormal researchers report that EMF (electromagnetic field) are jumping near the author's personal belongings, adding a further intrigue to the view that Twain – or maybe one of his loved ones – has not yet left the rooms.

Woman in white

Olivia Susan Clemens: (March 19, 1872 – August 18, 1896). It is believed that she is a woman in the white persecution of Marek Twain's house.

“Woman in White”, such a classic character in Ghost Lore, like the mysterious, is one of the most frequently reported apparitions. It is said that Victorian clothes and hairstyle wearing a phenomenon, seemingly clear and walking around the house, and then disappear into the air.

This spectral figure, often noticed on the stairs or in the corridors, is sometimes believed to be the daughter of Twain Susy, who tragically died at home Mark Twain when she was 24 years ancient core meningitis. Most Clemens children never grew up. Of the four, their son Samuel died when he was two diphtheria, before they moved home, and his father blamed himself for not getting dressed enough for a boy. Jean was an epileptic and died because of a robbery in a bath and drowned. Only their middle daughter, Clara, grew up and got married.

However, it seemed that Suzy's death broke them because she was her favorite daughter. She was a talented writer, and her father perceived her as wonderful. According to guides taken during a trip around the house, people sometimes say that they feel terrible neck pain and headache while entering the room that died.

A woman in black

Witnesses describe a disturbing sense of observation in rooms filled with Victorian decor, which, despite its heat, has remaining cool. Some also say that “a woman in black”. The same revelation or something else? There are also those who claim that Livy Clemens, her mother who spent her life, decorating the house to persecute him.

After the death of their children, both she and her husband withdrew from society and each other, very involved in spiritism and trying to communicate with the dead. Those who say he sees her often see her in a black dress and a black bonnetta.

Woman in black: Olivia Langdon Clemens with her daughters, Susy, Clara and Jean in 1884. Many claims that she is a woman in Black Ghost, according to people, persecuted Mark Twain's house with the rest of her family.

Some also say that they hear the sound of children, and some say they felt the touch of petite hands, thanks to which people believe that Suzy is not the only Clemens who persecuted Mark Twain's house. Echoes of Steps, feeble whispers, and even melancholic notes of the ancient piano are sometimes heard by guests, adding a haunting layer to the cozy Twain marina.

Does Mark Twain persecute the house?

Twain's beloved room on the third floor has a particularly amazing reputation. It was here that Twain rested, smoked cigars and thought about his letters. He was a massive smoker, up to 40 cigars a day.

Today, some guests report cigars in a room that smells of smoke, despite the fact that smoking has been forbidden at home for years. People have adapted to the supernatural sense that Twain Spirit can continue, contemplating his works or simply enjoying tranquil smoke. Some even claimed that they could hear a tender buzzing of billiards, as if Twain was still there, absorbed in the game.

Pool: One of the alleged haunted rooms at the house of Mark Twain. // Source: John Hoey/ Wikimedia

It is said that Mark Twain is haunting a lot of places, for example, a house where he lived at 14 West 10th Street between the fifth and sixth alley for about a year. This house is widely considered a very haunted house for a long time, even before it moves in. Although he was a bit of a skeptic of ghosts, he had strange experiences there, and the rumors are that he was haunting him now.

The haunted house of Marek Twain

Are all the ghosts? Does the house he loved so much or is the whole of Clemens to stay at home? Some even say that a maid manifesting up as an elderly woman also persecutes the house, frozen during the era of Twain.

Twain once said: “For us, our house was not invalid matter – it had a heart, soul and eyes with which he sees us.“It is as if the house itself consumed the emotional and innovative energy of the Twain family, making it a haunted artifact, not just a building.

References:

Why did the TV series “Ghost Hunters” have many visits to CT Mark Twain House

New York Ghosts: Mark Twain

Hartford Twain House

Inside the haunted residence of Connecticut, Marek Twain

The Mark Twain House Ghost Tour :: General discussion

Mark Twain and supernatural – American visits

Image Source: Pixabay.com

  • J.W.H

    About John:

    John Williams is a Reincarnationist paranormal Intuitive freelance writer...he is living proof of reincarnation existence, through his personal exploration, he has confirmed its authenticity through visits to the very lands where these events transpired.

    Through guided meditation/s using hemi-sync technology he has managed to recollect 3 previous lives to his own, that go back to the Mid to Late 19th century.

    JWH - "You are the GODS! - Inclusion of the Eternal Light of Love and you shall never die”.

    “Death is Just the Beginning of Life”