This area is said to be haunted by the Screaming Woman, traditionally believed to be the ghost of Elizabeth Pratt. Elizabeth was married to an officer and her daughter, who lived with them at the fort, fellin love with and wanted to marry an enlisted man. Elizabeth could not accept this and disowned her daughter. The daughter died of typhoid fever before they could reconcile, which threw Elizabeth into a deep depression. She hanged herself over the balcony of the second floor (although when I orginally heard the legend her room was described as being on the first floor and it was said she hanged herself in there)
It is claimed that the police have been called out there to investigate the screams when witnesses heard them and thought someone was being murdered.
This story always seemed too convenient for me. Recent research that was published by Tony Selletti in Fort Mifflin: A Paranormal History revealed that Elizabeth Pratt never lived in the area of the Officer's Quarters, but was housed with the officer's families on the grounds now occupied by the artillery shed. (Incidentally always an area of activity)
In the new book, a different Elizabeth is credited with possibly being the screaming woman. I am still not convinced. There are very few first hand accounts of the screaming woman, and no proof that the screams emanate from inside the fort, since the officer's quarters are right next to the edge of the fort.
What we have documented in the officer's quarters appears here:
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