Ghosts on the Coast, a New Jersey based paranormal team, suggested interested people should visit the St. Agnes Thrift Shop for Wednesday and Saturday bargains and perhaps even learn more about the historic actor Robert Mantell who once lived there.
The team, including Greg Gaggiano, recently videotaped inside the two-story thrift Shop, owned by St. Agnes Church and operated to support maintenance and other activities of the Our Lady of Perpetual Help St Agnes Parish, as part of their series on historic persons and places.
Ghosts on the Coast works towards keeping legacy alive and searches out myths and legends either to debunk them or to find further proof of their authenticity.
The visit to the St. Agnes Thrift Shop came as part of the team’s investigation into facts surrounding Mantell, once the most famous Shakespearean actors of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Mantell lived in the Victorian style house at 34 South Ave. and is buried at Bayview Cemetery in Leonardo. He has long been appreciated by the Atlantic Highlands Fire Department, who named the Robert Mantell department company in his honor in recognition of his generosity.
Mantell is buried at Bayview Cemetery in Leonardo, and the Ghosts on the Coast team also visited and videotaped scenes at his burial site.
In the video at the South avenue former residence, the Ghost on the Coast team suggest a visit to shop in the Thrift Shop and visit the house.
The St. Agnes Thrift Shop features furniture, china, books, jewelry, clothing,, seasonal decorations, costumes and kitchen ware in each of the rooms of the former Mantell mansion. It is open every Wednesday from 10am. to 3 p.m. and the second and fourth Saturdays of every month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The next Saturday the shop is open is tomorrow, July 26.
