[citation needed] The museum was closed in January 2013 and all the Victorian era contents and period dolls were taken out.

[3] The historic haunted mansion of Joliet didn't stay on the market long, and the real estate agent selling the paranormal property credited Patch for getting word out about the foreclosure on North Broadway.

"You're responsible for this going viral," agent Maria C. Cronin said, telling how she had 175 people come through a Saturday open house—and that was after she closed the sale of the Hiram Scutt mansion.

[citation needed] Many paranormal investigation groups to have conducted investigation events in the home have also claimed the spirits of children and other entities remain in the house,[citation needed] including the Lady in Black, believed to be Adelaide Scutt, Hiram's Scutt's wife, who is seen dressed in mourning clothes.

The Scutt Mansion was featured in a season two episode of Paranormal Lockdown, where former homeowner Andrea Magosky quoted that the "house is cursed" after the house claimed her son Seth who died from an abdominal aneurysm and seriously injuring her husband, Patrick who fell down a spiral staircase he built, breaking his back.