Ghost Hunting and Cocktail Party at Southampton's Port of Missing Men Offered October 22

The Southampton History Museum is offering a rare peek into the Port of Missing Men, a Gilded Age Southampton mansion, and a ghost hunt with the Long Island Paranormal Investigators on Saturday, October 22.

The Port of Missing Men is one of the last surviving mansions from the Gilded Age with an interior that’s unchanged since the Roaring Twenties and may be the last on Long Island owned by the original family, according to the museum. The mansion was built by H.H. Rogers Jr. whose father was the wealthiest man in the United States in 1910. The estate was created on over 2,000 acres on the Great Peconic Bay as a hunting lodge.

“It was a place for men to hunt and get away from their families who summered in Southampton, hence the name ‘Port of Missing Men,’” the museum noted.

The main event is the cocktail party in the mansion’s great room starting at 6 p.m. followed by the ghost hunt in a guest wing built in 1661 by a pioneering family. But for an extra cost, a select few guests can arrive at 5 p.m. for a private tour led by the owner through a private wing that leads to a Prohibition era lounge.

Cocktail party attire is suggested, though to protect antique rugs, high heels are discouraged.

The cost to attend the party and ghost hunt is $250 per person or $400 per couple. With the Prohibition lounge tour, the cost is $500 per guest.

RSVP by October 18. For reservations, call 631-283-2494 or go to southamptonhistory.org/event-details.