History & local legend
Selma Mansion is an eighteenth-century house in Norristown, built in 1794. Its ghost stories often involve sounds and smells associated with the daily habits of former residents, rather than a clearly visible apparition.
A 2026 Action News report recounts the smell of cigar smoke in a former owner's study and the scent of roses in a room associated with his wife. Footsteps have also been reported without an apparent person moving through the house. People who interpret these experiences as hauntings connect them with residents still occupying familiar rooms.
