![]() "A lot of times when you go on these things you don't find anything - even though the place is supposed to be haunted," Spangler said. "Larry and a couple of the crew members were quite surprised about what we found," said Scott Spangler, lead investigator for Southeast, which has been investigating things that go bump in the night for two years. That's Electronic Voice Phenomena to those outside the spirit-tracking trade. Team members would only say that their seemingly sophisticated set of ghost-detecting instruments registered a high level of activity. "I knew they would respect the house and its history." What exactly did the team discover inside the walls of the 242-year-old farmhouse? Those involved in filming the episode have been sworn to secrecy. "The only reason I agreed is that I knew they weren't some silly group," Moore said. Because Moore is friends with members of Southeast Virginia Paranormal, he looked on the pitch more favorably. "They had been interested in Williamsburg, but they wouldn't play ball," Moore said. Another important factor made it attractive. It served as a hospital during the 1862 Peninsula campaign. Michael Moore said that the Newport News house, a local landmark on the National Register of Historic Places, appealed to show producers because of its connections to the Civil War. tonight on the History channel's show "Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy." Producers for the program, which takes a loving look at homegrown kookiness, came to Virginia to film part of an episode titled "America After Dark." Endview curator J. ![]() ![]() He was a little freaked out about that." Larry's spooky adventure at Endview airs 9 p.m. "He didn't want to go upstairs by himself and he didn't want to go out to the graveyard. "We're a professional group and we try to act professionally, but sometimes it's hard not to laugh," Griffith said. "He was very scared," said Clint Griffith, a member of the Newport News-based Southeast Virginia Paranormal Investigations which led the expedition. To hear some tell it, his experience at Endview plantation was creepy enough to make the hair under that baseball cap stand on end. The group could not declare the house haunted however, they did gather evidence of possible paranormal activity, such as EVP's of several strange noises and ghost voices on their digital recorders.Last fall, blue-collar comedian Larry the Cable Guy traveled to Newport News to indulge in a few rounds of Civil War ghost hunting. Self-proclaimed "redneck" comedian Larry the Cable Guy visited the plantation with Southeast Virginia Paranormal Investigations, a local paranormal team and joined them in investigating the house. Media Įndview Plantation was featured on Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy in the episode "America After Dark". As of Summer 2010, operating hours have been cut back so that the site is closed to the public Tuesday and Wednesday, with additional closings in the Winter. The property has been used for once-a-year Civil War Reenactments, and has recently restarted reenactments of the Siege of Yorktown on a bi-annual basis. Living Historians are only present at special events. It is primarily a House Museum, with visitors touring the four interior rooms, which portray a collection of medical supplies, a standard parlor, Union soldier gear, and a bedroom. The site is now officially known as "The Civil War at Endview: A Living History Museum". The post Civil War addition to the house was torn down, and the lost chimney rebuild so as to make the building reach its 1860 appearance. Įndview was acquired by the City of Newport News in 1995. Endview was briefly used as a field hospital by the Confederacy during the 1862 Battle of Dam Number One (part of the Peninsula Campaign). Humphrey Harwood Curtis, Jr., one of two doctors in Warwick County, Virginia. Military use again came during the American Civil War, when the building was occupied by Dr. General Thomas Nelson, Jr.'s Virginia Militia used it as a resting place on September 28, 1781, en route to Yorktown shortly before the surrender of the British troops under Lord Cornwallis. The house and grounds were used by military forces during the Revolutionary War. 362 Yorktown Road, Newport News, Virginiaģ7☁2′12″N 76☃4′30″W / 37.20333°N 76.57500°W / 37.20333 -76.57500 Coordinates: 37☁2′12″N 76☃4′30″W / 37.20333°N 76.57500°W / 37.20333 -76.57500Įndview Plantation (Harwood Plantation) is an 18th-century plantation which is located on Virginia State Route 238 in the Lee Hall community in the northwestern area of the independent city of Newport News, Virginia.Įarlier known as the Harwood Plantation, the house was built in 1769 by William Harwood along the Great Warwick Road, which linked the colonial capital of Williamsburg with the town of Hampton on the harbor of Hampton Roads.
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