History & local legend
Whitefield House in Nazareth dates to 1743 and houses the Moravian Historical Society's museum. Its second floor once served as a residential nursery for children from Nazareth and Bethlehem, a history later connected with reports of childlike presences.
In an October 2011 Patch article, board member Barbara Dietterich recounted a ghost-hunting group's visit to the chapel. A former museum employee accompanied the group and later told the docent that a tennis ball placed on a bench had lifted, bounced, and rolled away. The investigators interpreted the movement as the activity of a little girl.
Dietterich had not witnessed that experiment herself. A separate account came through docent Megan Cassidy, who said people had reported hearing a piano upstairs when the room was empty, although she had not heard it.
