Peyton Randolph House (Randolph–Peachy House)

The Peyton Randolph House (also referred to in some sources as the Randolph–Peachy House) is an early-18th-century domestic building within Colonial Williamsburg. Its oldest portion is dated to about 1715, and it is described in heritage sources as one of the museum's oldest surviving buildings. It is presented and interpreted as part of Colonial Williamsburg's historic-area offerings and is included in visitor guides and children's guides to the site. In regional paranormal and ghost-tour materials the Peyton Randolph House is repeatedly framed as a prominent haunted location in Williamsburg. Multiple paranormal/ghost-tour websites describe the house as "one of the best-documented houses in Williamsburg in terms of its spiritual activity" and claim it has been the subject of repeated investigations. These sources commonly link its purported activity to themes of family division, disease, and death in the site's past, but do not provide detailed primary historical documentation tying specific incidents to named spirits in the supplied excerpts. Some paranormal/ghost-tour sources assert that "paranormal investigators have documented EMF anomalies, temperature fluctuations, and EVP recordings" at the house; however, the provided materials do not include original investigator reports, raw data, or peer-reviewed analysis. Visitor anecdotes and tour narratives appear in fan and tour pages, but the supplied excerpts do not record specific sensory descriptions, named entities, or verifiable primary evidence. Thus, within the provided documentation the Peyton Randolph House is both a well-attested historic building and a focal point of local haunted-house tradition and paranormal-tour narratives, with investigative claims reported by paranormal-leaning sources but not substantiated in the cited primary documentation.