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The 76 House Ghost Hunt - Psychic Mediums & 3 Course Meal
The reported, witnessed and experienced Haunting's at The 76 House will send a shiver down your spine. With many visitors, guests and staff experiencing some much paranormal activity makes this one haunted and at times frightening location!!
Many voices, full blown apparitions have been experienced and witnessed coming from rooms were no-one is in situ and many guests have been touched and many have felt the cold spells that simply come and go.
You will be enjoying dinner in the executioners room, and this is just one of the areas that has had many reports of ghostly shadows.
The 76 House has dark secrets, and when the lights go out, some area's have become over-bearing, whilst young men, feel the pain and suffering that happened in this village.
3 Course Dinner Starts at 8pm and Ghost Hunt from around 9:30pm.
This event includes psychic medium and a 3 course dinner (See below for food options). You will be dining with the psychic, and then the Ghost Hunt will start. You'll be ghost hunting in the most active areas of this very haunted former Jail and dinner is served in the very Jail that was once used.
You have the option to participate in Ghost Hunting Vigils, Tarot Cards (1st come, 1st served basis), and lone Vigils.
Food Options:
Course 1:
Chinoise Salad
Course 2:
Famous Yankee Pot Roast
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Chicken Galantine
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Atlantic Salmon
Course 3:
Apple Crunch
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Chocolate Ganache Cake
Wine, Beer, Coffee, Tea's and Sodas are all Included
Your food selection will be taken when you arrive.
Menu meal choices are at times subject to change depending on Restaurant Availability.
Location History:
The Old '76 House is not simply one of America's oldest taverns. Built in 1668, The Old '76 House had a profound effect on the outcome of The Revolutionary War. Through its long use as a meeting place for patriots, The Old '76 House established itself as safe ground for Americans when the air was rife with revolution and the tavern itself served as the "prison" of the Revolution's most notorious spy, Major John Andre. That is why The Old '76 House is often referred to as "Andre's Prison", not a real prison, in fact never having been a place of incarceration for anyone before or since. On the contrary, The Old '76 House has been a haven for many a weary traveler for more than two hundred years. This great tavern has accommodated on various occasions, every General of the west wing of the Continental Army including Commander-in-Chief General George Washington who, with his chief provisioner Samuel Fraunces, dined in the comfortable atmosphere of The Old '76 House.
The story of Major Andre and Benedict Arnold is one strewn with deception, fateful remorse, and mortal consequences. It is also a story which could have changed the outcome of the Revolution. Andre, a charming, handsome, young man, was adjutant general to General Sir Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in North America. Arnold was a brilliant and respected general as well as a great friend of General Washington.
General Benedict Arnold, having been severely reprimanded by Congress and, in fact, court martialed, had become embittered and ready to betray his country. Truly a brilliant general, he realized the strategic importance of West Point and, drawing on his longterm friendship with Washington, sought to secure the command of the fortress. Washington, who regretted the treatment and reprimand of Arnold, granted his request and thus Benedict Arnold was placed in a position to betray his country.
Arnold began to correspond secretly with General Clinton about his plan to let West Point fall into British hands. As a result, Clinton sent Major Andre up the Hudson in the British Sloop-of- War, Vulture, on September 20, 1780 to meet with Benedict Arnold. Andre was rowed ashore at the long cove just south of Haverstraw, where the two men conferred until sunrise. Their plans for the handing over of West Point still not complete, they rode on horseback to the home of Joshua Hett Smith, which stood on what is now known as Treason Hill. There it was agreed that Arnold should have one of the links removed from the great iron chain which stretched across the Hudson from West Point to King's Ferry to prevent the passage of British ships up the river. Arnold planned to replace the iron link with rope, on the pretext that the chain needed mending.
Plans were completed and Andre hid his papers, showing the fortifications of West Point and the placement of soldiers, between his "stockings and feet". Toward evening he asked to be rowed back to the Vulture, but Smith said it was too dangerous and persuaded Andre to cross the Hudson at Stony Point and proceed to the British lines by land. Near Tarrytown he was stopped by three American soldiers who discovered the incriminating papers and took him to the nearest commanding officer. From there he was taken to Tappan, where Washington had placed his headquarters, and imprisoned in The Old '76 House - then called Mabie's Inn.
After a trial in the Dutch Church in Tappan, a court of inquiry reported that Andre ought "to be considered a spy from the enemy and that, agreeable to the law and usage of nations, it is their opinion he ought to suffer death." He was marched up the hill to a gallows at noon on October 2, 1780. As he stood beneath the gibbet he said: "All I request gentlemen is that while I acknowledge the propriety of my sentence, you will bear me witness that I die like a brave man." In 1820 Andre's remains were brought to rest in Westminster Abbey, London where he is regarded as a hero. Benedict Arnold died in London in 1801, shunned by friend and foe alike.
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LocationThe '76 House Restaurant (View)
110 Main Street
Tappan, NY 10983
United States
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| Minimum Age: 16 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
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