PORTRAIT OF THEODOSIA BURR

Picture of Theodosia Burr, Click to read the real-life ghost story

On December 31, 1812, the lovely and vivacious Theodosia Burr, spouse of well off Governor Joseph Alston of South Carolina, departed her significant other's ranch and cruised north on the Patriot to visit her dearest father, the renowned Aaron Burr, in New York City. Toward the beginning of January the vessel was addressed off Cape Hatteras by boats of Great Britain, at that point at war with the United States, however was allowed to continue on its adventure. The Patriot was never observed again nor, with any assurance, was Theodosia. A furious tempest that very night cleared the shore of North Carolina. Some say that amid the hurricane privateers boarded the Patriot, expelled all resources, constrained travelers and team to walk the board, at that point sank the ship. Yet, legend holds on that Theodosia survived, that she was thrown shorewards in a little watercraft onto the Outer Banks, dispossessed of all belonging aside from a representation of herself, and that, with her rational soundness totally gone, she was from that point tended to by a Banker angler and his better half. 

The years passed by. In 1869 the unusual lady turned out to be sick, and a specialist from Elizabeth City was brought in to go to her. He did what he could, however obviously she had not long to live. As he was leaving the wiped out room, the poor angler's better half told the specialist that, as she had no cash, he would need to pick something from the house for his compensation. When he answered that he might want to have the great looking representation holding tight the divider, the harassed old lady sprang from her bed. "It is mine! You should not have it! I am headed to visit my dad in New York, and I am taking this photo of his sweetheart Theodosia!" With that, she snatched the canvas, hurried through the entryway, kept running down the surf, and strolled into the sea.. The following day, the representation appeared on the shoreline. It is actuality, not legend, that the specialist took the photo from Nags Head to his home in Elizabeth City, that a descendent sold it a craftsmanship merchant who thus sold it to an individual from the Burr family, and that it exists today.