PHASM

The Green

Dover, Delaware, United States

Other · local-legend

The Story

The figure attached to Dover’s Green is an angry judge who refuses to retire from the neighborhood. Delaware Haunted Houses describes his apparition walking among nearby tombstones before venturing onto the square. The account identifies no judge by name, leaving the stern nighttime wanderer as a local tradition attached to the historic civic space.

The Hauntings

The figure attached to Dover’s Green is an angry judge who refuses to retire from the neighborhood. Delaware Haunted Houses describes his apparition walking among nearby tombstones before venturing onto the square. The account identifies no judge by name, leaving the stern nighttime wanderer as a local tradition attached to the historic civic space.

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