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Interview with Dr. Mildred Usher, Ph.D Clermont Harbor, May 14, 2004 Interviewer: Russell B. Guerin, HCHS
When Dr. Usher was a young person in the 1950’s, she and a friend bicycled to the Pirate House. She thinks that there was an open house. A lady gave them a tour of the house.
What she remembers well was the “dungeon,” located in the basement of the house. Entered from the West side, it was below ground level, perhaps three or four feet. She recalls that she had to step down to enter. Inside, she saw metal rings in the wall and in the floor, and maybe in a wooden beam overhead.
In addition to the dungeon, Dr. Usher remembers that the lady pointed out that there was also a tunnel, but they did not enter it. She believes that it ran to the little bayou that fed the pond on the West side of the house.
The friend who made the visit with Dr. Usher was Joy Carr. Unfortunately, she is deceased.