by William Brown

Created on: April 06, 2011   Last Updated: April 13, 2011

Former Philadelphia resident Robert and Donna Snow has heard stories of a superlative mansion standing uninhabited in a wooded area around West Point, Mississippi near the Tombigbee River. Speculating if anything could be as imperial as the stories indicated, the Snow family set out to check for themselves. Subsequently to the voyage of the Tombigbee River by ship and lacerating through vines and under bushes, the family caught their first glimpse of the old mansion.

The enormous four story structure, which was built around the early 1850’s by Colonel George Hampton Young, was left abandoned for over fifty years after the death of the Young family. Colorless paint was shedding from its massive columns and shutters hanging awry from windows or lay scattered around the foundation. Bats, birds, and rodents made their nest up in the octagonal cupola for over decades. On the east side of the house, graffiti covered over several feet of the plastered wall and vines curled up its sides into broken windows.

While Mrs. Snow cautiously walked her way across the disintegrating porch, they decided that Waverly was the home for them. Underneath all the peeling paint and decay, the home was a majestic. The house lacked furniture and curtains but it was the most elegant piece of structural design they have ever seen.

The Snows moved into the house and embark on an enormous renovation procedure. Even though the house was in poor condition, it was structurally sound. While restoring other rooms in the house, the Snows all resided in single rooms. Within months, the house was back to its vigorous stage.

Throughout the renovation, thoughts of paranormal never cross the Snows’ mind, even though the family would be awakening by what sounded like a large explosion in or quite near the house. The Snows would get up in the middle of the night, snatch their flashlights, and search the premises only to find nothing that may have caused the sound.

These explosive noises continued few nights a week during their first year they moved into Waverly. After a while the family became accustomed to the sound and no longer decides to get up out of bed to investigate. The family would describe the sound as someone slapping a large, flat object down on the surface of another wide, flat object with great force.

Months after the finale of the nighttime explosion, the family encounters another presence in their home. One day while Mrs. Snow was walking across a landing on the second floor,

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