Welcome, I'm glad you decided
to join me here at Zurich Mansion tonight. I am the curator and director of
the tour you are about to take.
It is said that England is the most haunted country in the entire
world. What English castle or stately manor would be complete without a
headless horseman, a gray lady, phantom monk or a ghostly bride?
Tonight I ask you to join me in exploring some of these legends that
surround the phantom figures that have become such an important part of
English heritage. But I do have to warn you that you might not like what you
find.
Around
the room you are in right now, you will find some of the histories of
haunted mansions from all around the world, including Zurich Mansion. The
accounts and descriptions are very real and well documented and I urge you
not to take them lightly. So please take the time to read through them as
they will help prepare you for the journey you are about to take tonight.
Zurich
Mansion was a manor originally built on the heathers of the English country
side over a thousand years ago. But at the turn of the 17th century the
manor was moved brick by brick to the shores of a small private lake here in
the United States by King Henry (the 8th) VIII. The lake was then renamed
Lake Zurich and you are now standing in a section of this once proud and
stately manor.
King Henry VIII moved Zurich
Mansion in a hope that the spirits of his deceased wives and lovers would be
left in England, and since the completion of the Mansion in the United
States many of it's visiting guest have reported seeing strange and
unexplainable things late at night.
Tonight
I'm inviting you to tour one of the sections of Zurich Mansion that has not
been open to the public for over 150 years. This section was known as "the
East Wing" and was reportedly the most haunted part of Zurich Mansion.
I must forewarn you we have no
control over the spirits within "the East Wing" and can not truly explain
the things that might happen here in tonight. Remember, Things that seem
alive may very well be dead, and things that appear dead may mysteriously be
alive.
All
the Events that you may see, hear and even experience in Zurich Mansion
tonight, are very real, So please beware, as we wouldn't want you to become
part of the mansion's legend.