Location:
This fort is located on 178 acre
Pea Patch Island, 15 miles south of Wilmington, near Delaware City, and
close to the junction of U.S. Highway 301 and Highway 7.
Phone: 302-834-7941.
  
Description:
A pentagonal military fortress,
complete with a dungeon.
History:
Housed confederate prisoners during the Civil
War, and was used as part of the coastal defense networks of World War
1 and World War 2. In 1951, it became a state park, was restored and
opened to the public.
Photo from: VisitTheFort.com
History of Manifestations:
A lot of prisoners have been held here,
including pirates and confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Most
of the ghosts seen here come from that time period. Human pain and misery,
violence, survivor guilt and death in such a place often produces restless
spirits that can't let go of this world and enter the next.
1) In the dungeon - People have
heard moaning, and the sounds of clanging chains, from the prisoners
held here long ago in unpleasant conditions.
2) Under the ramparts and the parade
grounds: fleeing Confederate soldiers have been spotted by the living,
perhaps an emotional imprint of a failed escape attempt.
In 1985, a visitor snapped a picture
of a see-through Confederate Officer standing in an archway, still being
held as a prisoner of war, after all these years, not willing to go
to the other side for various reasons.
3) It seems pirates who were caught
long before the Civil War also are hanging around the place. A park
ranger was quite surprised one day to see a pirate, dressed in a beautiful
green silk shirt and white silk pants, looking out a window at the fort,
wistfully yearning to be free.
Still Haunted?
Many prisoners of old are still
not free, despite the fact that they are dead.
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