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In a dusty, sun-drenched room at the top of a flight of steep, winding concrete stairs, in the attic of the Plank House, there’s a ghost.
Actually, there are two of them. Or maybe three. It all depends on how many of them want to come out and play.
“The little girl is about 13 years old,” said Susan Bove of South Jersey Paranormal Research, a ghost-hunting group that has visited the historic home in Marcus Hook about 10 times to check out reports of ghost sightings. “We can hear her talking and knocking on the walls. She tells us that the knocking is for her.”
Saturday, Bove spoke to a group of residents about the little girl, her brother and the other ghosts she’s communicated with at the home on Market Street, reputed to be a former hangout of the pirate Blackbeard and his crew. Her presentation was part of the borough’s Psychic Fair, sponsored by the Marcus Hook Preservation Society to raise funds for the revitalization of the Plank House.
“We’ve put the name Elizabeth on her, but we’ve also heard the voice of a man calling her Judy,” said Bove, who thinks the girl died sometime in the 1970s. “There’s a little boy who’s with her sometimes, but he’s not quite as strong. We’ve picked him up kind of sounding very pathetic, saying ‘They can’t hear us.’”
Bove’s group uses crystals, sound recorders and other devices to search for proof of ghosts, and she says the home is a veritable treasure trove of evidence.
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