History & local legend
West Overton Village near Scottdale grew around the Overholt family's farm and distillery. A 2007 Tribune-Review report collected ghost stories associated with several of its surviving buildings, including two different barns and the family homestead.
At the museum's first haunted-house program, a volunteer in the small barn dragged a chain across the upper floor to create a frightening sound. When he stopped, the noise reportedly continued. A separate story came from reenactors camping near the big barn: they saw a shadow shaped like a man in a stovepipe hat pass their tents, but found nobody when they investigated.
Inside the Overholts' house, staff described brief glimpses of figures moving between rooms and footsteps when no one was nearby.
