{"id":512,"date":"2015-07-06T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2015\/07\/06\/a-ghostly-visit-to-sagamore-hill\/"},"modified":"2015-07-06T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:19:00","slug":"a-ghostly-visit-to-sagamore-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2015\/07\/06\/a-ghostly-visit-to-sagamore-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ghostly Visit to Sagamore Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Roosevelt Family Portrait 1907<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Hello my name is Nicholas Fitzke and I am the ProRanger currently stationed at Fire Island National Seashore.<\/p>\n

One of the most important ways the park service functions is through resource sharing. I learned on my arrival to Fire Island that the park shares its law enforcement resources with neighboring Sagamore Hill National Historical Site, a former home of Theodore Roosevelt. This is a way for smaller monuments and historical parks to still feel safe even if they aren’t large enough to contain their own law enforcement department.<\/p>\n

My first day on the job I participated in some of this resource sharing and got to take a trip to Sagamore Hill. My supervising ranger and I took a walk around the grounds. The house is currently under renovation so we didn’t get to take a look inside but the grand reopening is July 12th and is slated to be a large event.<\/p>\n

We did get to visit Old Orchard, the home of Theodore’s son Ted Jr. just down a path from the main house. Old Orchard was given to Ted Jr. after Theodore’s death in January of 1919. Inside is a great museum that covers the career and accomplishments of Theodore Sr.<\/p>\n

Now it is the policy of the National Park Service to denounce all claims of supernatural phenomena in the parks but when I visited Old Orchard something strange happened. At the top of a staircase in the home is a painting of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, the wife of Ted Jr. Most people confuse her with the other famous Eleanor with the same name but she was a separate person. As I walked past the painting a strange feeling of Deja vu overcame me. I walked down the staircase with this very haunting feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Eleanor Butler Roosevelt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Later that day one of the interpretive rangers at the park told me that Eleanor had committed suicide in that very stairway. Did I cross paths with a ghost? Who knows? This spooked me but it was definitely an interesting story to learn about.<\/p>\n

If you want to learn more about the Roosevelt family and their life you can visit Sagamore Hill National Historical Site’s website at: http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/sahi\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Check back next week for my experience with a dead humpback whale and its autopsy.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roosevelt Family Portrait 1907 Hello my name is Nicholas Fitzke and I am the ProRanger currently stationed at Fire Island National Seashore. One of the…<\/p>\n

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