American writer Mark Twain became famous all over the world by far not only books about the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The haunted house, which the great writer left behind, has been haunted by those who love to tickle their nerves for more than half a century with otherworldly forces.
From 1874 to 1891, Mark Twain lived in a Gothic mansion in Hartford, Connecticut. It was there that he composed his best works: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
This Twain home was designed by New York-based architect Edward Tuckerman Potter. The interior decoration (walls and ceilings of the common rooms) was carried out by the world-renowned artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Once Mark Twain went with his family to Europe. At this time, his beloved daughter Susie died of meningitis, after which the writer never returned to the mansion, as the memories caused him unbearable mental suffering.
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In 1903, the house was sold, and a school and a library were opened in it. In 1962, the old mansion was recognized as a US National Historic Landmark, and the Mark Twain Museum was opened there. After that, paranormal phenomena began to occur in the house.
In the 1960s, museum workers began to observe inexplicable things in the house, such as the smell of cigars in the billiard room and study, or the appearance of a woman in a white Victorian nightgown, mistaken for the writer's late daughter, Susie.