Franklin Court and Benjamin Franklin ghost lore

Franklin Court, the site of Benjamin Franklin's colonial home and location of the Benjamin Franklin Museum, appears on many Philadelphia ghost tours and in anecdotes claiming sightings of Franklin's apparition or unexplained phenomena. These stories are framed as folklore tied to Franklin's public prominence and long local memory rather than as verified occurrences, and historians generally treat them as part of the city's ghost-tour tradition. The museum and reconstructed court interpret Franklin's life while public tours sometimes reference these popular legends.