Castle Hill

Castle Hill's most cited paranormal report concerns the so-called Pink Bedroom, where guests over more than a century have described the scent of perfume in unoccupied air and brief sightings of a young woman in period dress. Psychic researcher Hans Holzer visited Castle Hill with the medium Virginia Cloud and concluded, in his published writing, that the Pink Bedroom contained two distinct presences. Holzer attributed the more active figure to the Revolutionary War era, hypothesizing that she may have been one of the women of the household who detained Tarleton's officers in 1781.

Folk accounts collected in regional travel coverage describe the apparition as 'playful' toward favored guests and dismissive toward those she finds unwelcome — a pattern in which some sleepers in the Pink Bedroom rest peacefully and others report being woken by movement, footsteps, or the sense of being observed.

A secondary set of reports concerns sounds elsewhere in the house: the scrape of chairs across wooden floors, glasses clinking, and footsteps crossing rooms. Local lore frames these as residual echoes of the antebellum-era parties hosted by the Rives family in the early-to-mid nineteenth century.

Castle Hill is privately owned and is not open to the public for tours, investigations, or overnight stays. The accounts that survive in print come from earlier eras when the property occasionally received researchers and journalists. Current owners do not host visitors, and contemporary paranormal-tourism writing on the house is largely a recapitulation of Holzer's twentieth-century reporting.