PARK HILL — The George M. Murrell Home in Park Hill has been known for years as a haunted location.

For the past 16 years, around the Halloween holiday, storytellers have converged on the home for a ghost stories event where the public can attend and hear the stories first hand. The home will again be the backdrop this year for storytellers spinning yarns about the “Hunter’s Ghost” and other chilling accounts on Oct. 23 and 24.

Sessions will begin every 15 minutes from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with visitors moving through the house to listen to stories from six storytellers. A donation of $5 per person is requested for the storytelling, with reservations required because of limited seating. Children under 6 years of age are not encouraged to attend.

This year the historic house museum is announcing a new addition to its paranormal history, a book entitled “Ghost Stories from the Murrell Home.” A social center of the Cherokee Nation before, during and after the Civil War, the house has been witness to generations of historical and human interest events, according to a media release.

Collected over the years, stories have been contributed by Murrell Home staff, volunteers, visitors and local residents. More than 60 stories and pictures from the past and present are featured. The book provides a glimpse into the supernatural events that are said to have occurred at the site and in the surrounding area.

One story featured in the book, and also in the annual storytelling, is “The Hunter’s Ghost.” The legend grew out of the years George Murrell operated the mansion as “Hunter’s Home” before the Civil War. He often hosted fox hunts in the Cherokee Nation. This and other tales related to the historic home will be revived.

“This is such an exciting project,” said Jennifer Sparks, the editor of the book and president of the Friends of the Murrell Home. “Stories about the paranormal events at the Murrell Home have been circulating for decades, and we finally have a record of some of the strange events that have happened.”

The 17th annual innovative, family-oriented program will feature various storytellers in a number of rooms telling tales about the Murrell House, the Cherokee country, and other ghost stories, said David Fowler, who manages the historic site for the Oklahoma Historical Society.

“These will be family-oriented stories for adults and children,” said Martha Ray, director of the Oklahoma Historical Society’s Historic Homes division. “They will be told amid odd noises, eerie music, dark shadows and unexplained phenomena.”

Guests also will have a chance to explore the smokehouse and sample some hot cider and cookies provided by the Friends of the Murrell Home support organization.

The book “Ghost Stories from the Murrell Home” is a publication by the Friends of the Murrell Home, and proceeds from the book will help to preserve and interpret the historic site. The paperback volume is on sale now at the Murrell Home Gift Shop and retails for $10. Shipping is also available.

The Murrell Home is the only remaining antebellum plantation home in Oklahoma and is one of the oldest structures in the state. The residence, built about 1845, was home to prominent merchant George Murrell and his wife Minerva Ross, a niece of Cherokee Chief John Ross. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark and a certified Trail of Tears site.

To make reservations for the Oct. 23 and 24 storytelling or for more information on the new book, call 456-2751 or e-mail murrellhome@okhistory.org.