The Peyton Randolph House tradition

Record summary

The Peyton Randolph House in Williamsburg is an eighteenth-century residence associated with prominent Virginia families and the colonial capital’s preserved urban landscape. It has become one of Colonial Williamsburg’s best-known haunted-house traditions, with stories of apparitions, illness and unsettling occurrences. The case is useful for examining how restoration, guided interpretation and living-history presentation affect paranormal narratives. The house’s construction and occupants can be independently verified, but the reported supernatural experiences are mostly later accounts whose earliest publication and relation to commercial tourism need careful investigation.