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I would like to set the record straight. I work at Baker Mansion. There is no historical basis for the haunting of the little boy. Really, Mrs. Baker and her daughter and two sons are the only ones said to haunt the house. Also, most likely, nobody was stored in the basement. The one son did die in a steamboat explosion but most likely was not stored in the basement. Now, I am not saying that it is not haunted. I’ve had a few experiences-hearing footsteps, smelling perfume, etc. I just don’t think it is as haunted as everybody thinks it is. I do think something is there, though.

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This is a load of baloney. I live in the Altoona area and have been to the Baker Mansion MANY times growing up. The only “story” I ever heard about the Mansion was the “dancing wedding dress”. I recently took my niece and nephew to see the Mansion and, suddenly, there are all these stories of it being haunted. It took mere moments to debunk nearly every single story they told. The account of things falling over in one room was simply loose floor boards. If you stand one end of one of the floor planks, it makes things at the other end of the room wiggle.

I was VERY disappointed. The guides knew little to nothing of the history of the Mansion. *I* knew more about the Mansion and the Bakers than they did!!!

The tour guides need to spend less time on the *REAL* history of the Bakers and the Mansion than they do on the fabricated stories of the “ghosts” who have “appeared” in the last 15 years.

This statement is true. If you are there at night, or just standing outside, looking in the window, you may see the dress moving. I was walking wit some friend, and we stopped to look in the window, and we all saw the dress moving passed the window. It was on of the scariest things i have ever seen.

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Hi have lived in altoona for all my life, until I moved to somerset not to long ago. I’ve known Baker Mansion, for years, I also know their are people their who havn’t moved on. People should let the experts figure things out, When you asume to know what your talking about especially the history of Altona, It makes you sound like a fool. I’ve lived on westchestnut ave. to the zoo, from one end to the other. I’ve seen many things, from apperations to my sister having a friendship with them. If you were smart you would go to your local library and dicover the amazing history in Altoona. If you were to look into your own haunting and find you are not alone, I would and have looked into their pasts. Keep tring to speak with them. Close minded people should look else were if they do not believe. I have now got a new and amazing history I am always looking in. Try Somerset county. Beautiful.

The dress is probably stage propped and the house comes with it’s own halogram machine. Get some real evidence-it’s more convincing.

I lived in Altoona all of my life. I feel that the house has some spirits. It has always been a spooky looking place. Spirits do things when they want to. Not when you want them too.

Just last night and the night before me and my boyfriend was riding by on our bikes this was around 8:30 pm and well the light on, on the top floor to the right. and we felt like we was being followed or watched. im going tobe riding by there tommorow night to see if its on.

I am from the johnstown area and visited last october and as we were leaving at around dusk we saw what appeared to be a transparent figure in the window. There was no one else in the house at that time.

ummm….. while reading this my bedroom door opened and no one was there

IT WAS SCARY

Ok, let’s really set the record straight. The Baker’s that built the Baker Mansion died out with that family, any ancestors left have the surname of Woods. No one in the mansion ever died of unnatural causes, and there were never any young boys living in the mansion. When the home was finally completed, the Baker’s daughter was 12, and her two brothers were in their late teens. As the writer of the murder mysteries for the mansion, and the vice president of the Historical Society, I have been from the top of the mansion to the very bottom, typically turning off lights as I went, and I have never experienced anything odd. I’m not saying that the possibility of ghost doesn’t exist…just don’t get your hopes up too much! And by the way, the dress is located in what used to be Anna’s bedroom on the second floor, and there is no way it’s visible from the window. For more info, go to blaircohistory.org.

Ok, while we are setting records straight, let’s include this little bit of information: I have been in the mansion a few times for different events, during on afternoon visit to the mansion while in the basement I asked the tour guide about a set of steps leading to an opening in the wall.. he explained that way back when that was where they kept ice. I asked if I could walk up the steps and take a look, he agreed. Upon walking up the steps, I was unable to move past the third step from the top as I was overwhelmed with a feeling that I should not go any further. I immediately came back down the steps and my husband, laughing at me, said he would take a look… and he did, all the way to the top and upon looking in the opening , he saw nothing BUT…. once he came down and joined me and the tour guide , the tour guide told us that way back when ,l one of the Bakers had indeed died at the property and his body was kept in the ice bin until it could be taken care of and burried. No more than a minute later all three of us heard a knocking sound comming from what sounded like, in side the hole in the wall. We all looked at each other and the tour guide himself looked amazed.
If that was not enought to make you think twice about the mansion… when my husband and I left… we got into out car and after he started the car…there began this buzzing noise that neither of us could explain. He got out of the car, still parked in the mansions driveway… and began to search the car for this buzzing noise… to our surprise, a portable back rest ( one that my husband takes with us for times when his back acts up and he needs the extra support while driving, which also has the option to flip a switch to allow a vibrating heat option)… the back rest was in the back of the car, and had not been used that day… was switched to the on position. We both just wonder to this day how that could have happend, since , agin he had not used it and our car was locked while we were in the mansion and it was not on when we got in the car but instead started buzzing after we started the car and were getting ready to drive away.
I believe that if YOU dont believe, you will not experiense anything, but if you are someone who is opened to believing, they will show themselves in one way or another.
Visit the mansion and decide for yourself.

Seriously, is the place haunted or not?

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/bc150/story.html?id=a47d7e7f-a9b9-4309-944a-993d516e9c35
this might help u april baker u r part of this family ur bro or sun is dead sorry

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/bc150/story.html?id=a47d7e7f-a9b9-4309-944a-993d516e9c35

april baker this might help u good luck