Haunted Inns: Ghoulish Nights at Bed and Breakfasts

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 _ Bed and Breakfasts are such warm and inviting places to stay that some guests never want to leave. Sure, it’s all fun and games, until you hear whispers, creaky boards, or second guess weird shadows in the dark of night. Then you’re scrunched up, grasping a flashlight, or you know – your Blackberry. While many ghosts have long outlived their welcomes, guests should stay in peace. The inn-ghosts tend be all talk and very little action.

Still, if you’re in the mood to prove you’re not afraid of no ghost, here is a sampling of BnBFinder.com’s spookiest and most bootiful bed and breakfasts, known for their resident paranormal sightings.

Easy Spirits. In a historic city that preserves remnants of the past, Charleston, South Carolina is famed for its spirits and haunted happenings. The Battery Carriage House Inn is known as Charleston’s most haunted inn. While the current innkeepers say they have not seen these ghosts, guests and employees alike have had eerily similar encounters, rattling doorknobs and all. Among them a gentleman ghost, believed to be that of the young man whose family owned the house earlier in the century. Another of the inn’s ghosts, a headless torso, is likely a man from the Civil War era. The Battery was an active artillery installation during the siege of Charleston, and all the houses in this area were damaged and abandoned during the four-year bombardment. There is no proof the torso intends to harm anybody, although guests have admittedly felt a little intimidated by glowing lights and inexplicable occurrences. 

Hungry Ghosts. If you hear some grumbling at the Prospect Hill Bed & Breakfast Inn in Mountain City, Tennessee, don’t worry, it’s not your stomach, it’s just a ghost. Guests here have woken up to the scent of what they thought were peanut butter cookies and peanut butter muffins though peanut butter wasn’t anywhere in sight. One guest was all lathered up in the shower when the smell of liquor, spilled bourbon to be precise, filled his room. Unidentifiable footsteps, opening and closing doors, and civil war clad sightings happen randomly. One guest reported a female presence and lingering rose perfume in a room that unbeknownst to him is believed to have belonged to a grandmother, in the mid-Twentieth century.

Ghost & Goblin Trail. Why not circle the ghosts? You know, visit with each one? In Mount Washington Valley in New Hampshire, bed and breakfasts have teamed up so guests (and non-guests) can trek for treats. On Saturday, October 30th from 11 am to 4 pm innkeepers and trek-or-treaters will take over the area, dressed in costumes, sporting plastic pumpkins, and mingling with spirits. While there is a jumbled word contest and sneaky clues, the real mystery is in the ghost and goblin-hunt. Tickets to the trail cost $15. Separately, many area bed and breakfasts are offering special haunted packages so make sure to ask each inn about their resident ghosts but be careful you don’t get shushed! The Mt. Washington Bed & Breakfast in Shelburne has a ghost that frequently sits at the bottom of the stairs waiting for someone and likes to shush guests to keep quiet. The innkeeper says he’s one of three ghosts who live at the inn though there could be more. “I made them a deal, if they don’t bother me, I won’t bother them,” said
innkeeper, Mary Ann Mayer. Now multiply those ghosts by about a dozen inns—that’s a lot of goose bumps! 

For more information on haunted bed and breakfasts, haunted inns and the Ghost & Goblin Trail, visit BnBFinder.com haunted inns page or contact Maria Coder at 212.480.0414 x 16 or email press@bnbfinder.com .

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