History & local legend
The Swetland Homestead in Wyoming, Luzerne County, began as a house built in 1803. Generations of the family enlarged and furnished it before donating it to the Luzerne County Historical Society in 1958. Its period rooms trace different eras of domestic life, from an early summer kitchen to a parlor furnished in the style of the 1860s.
One reported disturbance occurred while the museum was displaying Victorian mourning customs. In a 2011 Times Leader interview, society curator Mary Ruth Burke recalled a door opening and a noise coming from upstairs while the house was arranged for the exhibit.
The homestead later appeared in a season-two episode of the paranormal series Ghost Detectives.
