History & local legend
The Betsy Ross House on Arch Street in Philadelphia is a museum associated with the upholsterer credited in American tradition with making the first United States flag. Its small rooms present the domestic and working world of eighteenth-century Philadelphia. They have also attracted visitors looking for a different kind of connection with the past.
In its published investigation of the house, the group Phantom Detectives reported thermal-camera images that it considered unusual, sounds interpreted as voices, and motion sensors responding when no visible person was nearby. The investigators also described apparent figures in camera imagery. Their account is a modern ghost-hunting report, rather than a story tied to a single identified former resident.
