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    The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle
    The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle
    The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle
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    The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle

    By Harle H. Tinney

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    There’s hardly a room in Belcourt Castle that is specter free. In The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle, author Harle Tinney shares over twenty paranormal experiences at Belcourt Castle in Newport, Rhode Island. This sixty-room mansion was completed in 1894, but it stood empty for many years until Donald Tinney and his family purchased it in 1956.

    Accompanied by photographs, The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle, includes personal anecdotes and some third party stories. Tinney recounts some of the home’s visitors—the mysterious monk, the pink lady in the Madame’s bedroom, the suit of armor that screams, ghostly dancers in the French Gothic ballroom, and a disembodied arm that pointed through the staircase at a painting, which mysteriously fell from the wall only a few minutes later. Judging from the list of apparitions and eerie feelings in some areas, Belcourt Castle might just be the most haunted house in America.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 22, 2010
    ISBN9781440199110
    The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle
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    Harle H. Tinney

    Harle Tinney studied pre-med at Albion College in Michigan and cello at Brown University before her marriage to the artist, restorer and collector, the late Donald Harold Tinney. The Tinney Family acquired art works and furniture from thirty-three countries and many other Newport mansions over a sixty year time span. In 2010 Harle Tinney celebrated her fiftieth year in residence at Belcourt Castle, where some sixteen ghosts have manifested. Paranormal investigators, such as Ghost Hunters and RISEUP, found that some of the spirits are attached to certain antiques, while others occasionally revisit the historic house.

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      The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle - Harle H. Tinney

      Copyright © 2006, 2012 Harle Tinney.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      All photographs in this book are the property of Harle H. Tinney

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-9913-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4401-9911-0 (e)

      iUniverse rev. date: 08/11/2021

      Photography by Keith A. Henry and others

      Contents

      Preface

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter IBelcourt Is Not Haunted

      Chapter IIBelcourt Becomes a Home

      Chapter IIIThe Bride

      Chapter IVThe Monk

      Chapter VThe Cassone

      Chapter VIStrange Noises

      Chapter VIIConversations with Ghosts

      Chapter VIIIThe Monk Speaks

      Chapter IXThe Monk Walks Again...and Again

      Chapter XThe Disbelievers

      Chapter XIThe Mysterious Hand

      Chapter XIIThe Pope

      Chapter XIIIThe Believers

      Chapter XIVDiscovering the Monk

      Chapter XVThe Secret Door

      Chapter XVIOther Ghosts

      Chapter XVIIChristmas Party Apparition

      Chapter XVIIIWho Moved the Tools?

      Chapter XIXFootsteps

      Chapter XXAmateur Ghost Seekers

      Chapter XXIParanormal Investigations

      Chapter XXIIIn Life I died, In Death I live

      Chapter XXIIISpirit Orb

      Chapter XXIVGuestly Stories

      The Author

      Acknowledgements

      List of Photographs

      Figure 2: Harle Tinney and Virginia Smith

      Figure 3: Belcourt Castle West Façade

      Figure 4: Self-Portrait of Benny Collin

      Figure 5: Musicians Gallery with white sheet ghost

      Figure 6: Tinney Family in the Versailles Dining Room

      Figure 7: Donald and Harle Tinney’s formal wedding photo by Coit Studio

      Figure 8: The Tinney Family in the Seaverge Library in 1956 photo by Jerry Taylor

      Figure 9: The monk appears in the grand hall photo enhanced by Keith A. Henry

      Figure 10: Italian walnut cassone ca. 1390. Photo by Harle Tinney

      Figure 11: Belcourt’s medieval style Master Bedroom. Photo by Residential Properties

      Figure 12: French Gothic Ballroom

      Figure 13: Exterior of Belcourt with Westerly Rhode Island granite (left)

      Figure 14: Painting of Mary Magdalene by Guido Reni

      Figure 15: Francis I style Grand Stair

      Figure 16: Cabinet with reliquary of Pope St. Sylvester I. Photo 1978 by John T. Hopf Corporation

      Figure 17: Thirteenth Century stained glass in the French Gothic Ballroom

      Figure 18: Italian battle armor ca. 1450

      Figure 19: German woodcarving of a monk

      Figure 20: Belcourt’s Family Chapel

      Figure 21: Francis I Music Room

      Figure 22: Virginia Smith and the French Gothic salt chair

      Figure 23: Mrs. Belmont’s Bedroom

      Figure 24: Ruth Tinney in her pink gown, photo by Coit Studio

      Figure 25: English Library

      Figure 26: The organ loft in the French Gothic Ballroom

      Figure 27: Harle and Donald Tinney at New Year’s Eve

      Figure 28: Spirit orb over Donald Tinney’s head. Photo by Larry Brown

      Figure 29: The Haunted Gallery

      Figure 30: Harle Hope Hanson Tinney. Photo by Steven Stanley

      Preface

      In 1956 the Harold B. Tinney Family purchased Belcourt, a historic sixty-room castle on world-famous Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. They saved it from being torn down. Between 1940 and 1975 about fifty Newport mansions were demolished as functionally obsolete. They were called white elephants and no consideration was given to the skilled craftsmen and architects who built them, or for the social history of prominent citizens who lived in the mansions.

      Admiring the lost arts, the Tinney Family learned and practiced many artistic skills such as oil painting in the style of old masters, wood carving, and stained glass in the thirteenth century style. These arts were lost rapidly because of the invention of machinery in the twentieth century. The Tinneys amassed a collection of antique furniture from 33 countries and 37 other Newport landmarks to exhibit within the main rooms of Belcourt. The antiques were skillfully restored using old masters techniques.

      Though the Tinney Family had encountered a few unexplained phenomena in their residences, they refused to share the stories outside the family. As a visitor, on a guided tour, Miss Virginia Smith became aware of spirits in the castle. Miss Smith researched and discovered evidence of ghosts, mostly attached to antiques in the Belcourt collection. She began to remove the stigma associated with seeing ghosts, in her popular slide lectures, which benefited Belcourt’s preservation. Miss Smiths’s lecture focused on ghosts she encountered in her travels around the world as well as in Newport, where she now resides. Miss Virginia Smith’s Ghost Tour was expanded to include a guided tour and a shocking demonstration of energy in two chairs in Belcourt Castle’s ballroom.

      As Ghost Tour attendance revealed that the subject was growing in popularity, Mrs. Harle Tinney began to share some of the Tinney Family experiences with visitors. Thousands of guests have been introduced to the historic house museum through this intriguing subject.

      Mrs. Tinney has related some eerie stories of haunting in the first edition of this book published in 2010. Some current stories have been added to the second edition of The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle.

      Occurrences continued into 2012.

      Foreword

      by Virginia L. Smith

      Belcourt Castle is full of ghosts. Indeed, it just may be the most haunted house in America. From dungeon to rafters, there is hardly a room in the mansion that can be said to be specter-free. I count sixteen of them: the man buried

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