The molded lava fireplace in the billiards room is one of the mansion’s original treasures. Rose Knox reportedly spent $200,000 in the early 1900s for the piece, which came from an Italian castle.
Every old house has its characteristic creaks and groans: the hiss and moan of steam heat, the whine and crack of old wood, the rustle of mice in the walls. But when you’re lying awake in the middle of the night at the Olde Knox Mansion, the things that go bump in the night aren’t so easy to explain away.
The 110-year-old Johnstown home, now run as a museum and bed and breakfast, is rumored to be haunted