Growing up in PA, we heard a lot of spooky stories regarding the Pitcairn family... my sister's friends would sometimes mention the Pitcairn [haunted] mansion. They spoke of deformed descendants still living there. They mentioned the horridly abstract notion of inbreeding to a small child (me).
Turns out this terrifying fictional place I built up in my head as a kid has always been a beautiful sprawling estate which houses an amazing cathedral, a museum, and a mansion. No ghosts nor deformations were spotted. It was a wonderful tour and a great way to spend a windy Saturday afternoon.
Glencairn is a castle-like mansion in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, that was home to the Pitcairn family for more than 40 years. Now the Glencairn Museum, it contains a collection of about 8,000 artworks, mostly religious in nature, from cultures such as ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Roman Empire and medieval Europe, as well as Islamic, Asian, and Native American works. The nine-story, granite-and-ruddy-colored-stone mansion features more than 90 rooms on 10 floors.
