Yankee Jim, a spirit that was hung on the property for stealing a boat, lives here.
Yankee Jim Robinson was a tall man with unruly blonde hair. He was hung on the
property before the Whaley House was built for supposedly stealing a boat. His
accomplices were let off with much lighter sentences although no explanation is given
why except that he may have been the mastermind behind the plan. There was never
any hard evidence found. Yankee Jim had been seen in a rowboat in and around the
schooner Platus. It was not an easy hanging, sketchy history reports claim the gallows were
built for men of regular height. Yankee Jim was a very tall man, so when they pulled the
wagon out from under him, his feet still touched the ground. He strangled to death
proclaiming his innocence.
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