Vermont’s haunted hotels are mostly small, old and personal: stagecoach taverns, farmhouses and village inns where the ghost usually has a name and a story the innkeepers are happy to tell. Every place on this list takes overnight guests today. We checked current names and status, corrected the details older guides got wrong and noted what we removed and why. Ghost stories are reported as guests, staff and local historians tell them. For haunted bridges, cemeteries and other sites, see our guide to haunted places in Vermont.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 18 Main Street, Stowe, VT 05672
Where to look The roof above Room 302, the third floor of the Main Inn
Reported ghosts Boots Berry, a horseman born at the inn who died saving a girl from the roof in 1902
Booking the haunted room Call the inn and request Room 302 in the Main Inn; it is a regular guest room.
The Green Mountain Inn has stood on Stowe’s Main Street since Peter C. Lovejoy finished it in 1833. It has been the Mansfield House and the Brick Hotel, took its current name in 1893, and today spreads across eight buildings with about 100 rooms, suites and village apartments, plus the Whip Bar & Grill, whose beams were salvaged from the inn’s old stable. Chester A. Arthur once acted in a play here.
Its ghost is Boots Berry, a horseman born in Room 302 in 1840 to a chambermaid and a stable hand. After years of drifting, the story goes, he came home in 1902, climbed onto the snowy roof to rescue a stranded girl and fell to his death after lowering her to safety. The inn itself tells the legend: on stormy winter nights, guests say they hear tap dancing on the roof above 302.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 302 on a snowy winter night, when Boots Berry’s tap dancing is said to be heard.
$$$ · Over $300Haunted room bookableHotel embraces its ghosts
Address 3567 Main Street, Manchester Village, VT 05254
Where to look Room 329, the halls of the main hotel, the Marsh Tavern
Reported ghosts Mary Todd Lincoln, and Green Mountain Boys from the tavern days
Booking the haunted room Call the resort and ask for Room 329; it is a regular guest room.
The Equinox grew from the Marsh Tavern of 1769, where Ira Allen proposed seizing Tory property to pay for his brother Ethan’s Green Mountain Boys. The long white columned hotel that grew around it became one of New England’s great summer resorts, across the street from where Charles Orvis founded his fishing company in 1856. Mary Todd Lincoln summered here with her sons in the 1860s, and her son Robert later built the Hildene estate just to the south.
Staff and guests have long said Mary Todd Lincoln never quite checked out: a woman in period dress glimpsed in the halls, sometimes with a child, who vanishes when approached. Vermont Magazine adds chairs that rock on their own, belongings that disappear and return, a bed in Room 329 that slid across the floor while a family watched, and a security guard who said an invisible force shoved him near a staircase.
Haunted Rooms tip: Have dinner by the stone hearth in the Marsh Tavern, the oldest part of the resort.
$$ · $150 to $300Haunted room bookablePet friendly
Address 18 North Main Street, Waterbury, VT 05676
Where to look Room 2, Room 3, the third floor
Reported ghosts An older woman in a long dress, thought to be Nettie Henry Spencer
Booking the haunted room Rooms are booked by number on the inn's site; choose Room 2.
The Old Stagecoach Inn was built in 1826 as a Federal style home for Waterbury’s first lawyer and soon became a stagecoach inn and tavern on the road to Stowe. By 1890 it belonged to the Henry family, and Annette “Nettie” Henry, who married rubber fortune heir Albert H. Spencer, gave it its Queen Anne porches. Restored in the 1980s, it was run for nearly 30 years by the Barwick family and has been owned by Christa Bowdish since 2022.
Nettie came home a widow, lived to 99 and is buried beside the church next door. Guests think she never left. Room 2 is the room people ask for: one couple told the Rutland Herald they saw an older woman in a long dress, her hair in a tight bun, standing at the foot of the bed. Others describe a late-night arrival let in by a kindly old woman nobody could identify, beds found stripped with the linens folded, and rocking chairs that move.
Haunted Rooms tip: Room 2 is the one to request, and the inn’s breakfast is reason enough to stay.
Where to look The Lindbergh Room, the tunnel and underground rooms, guest rooms in the main house
Reported ghosts Governor James Hartness, a boy named Charlie, and former guests
Hartness House was the home of James Hartness, a machine tool manufacturer, inventor, pilot, amateur astronomer and governor of Vermont from 1921 to 1923. He built the house in 1904, ran a 240-foot tunnel from the basement to his telescope, added underground rooms to work in, and hosted Charles Lindbergh in 1927. It has been an inn since 1954; it closed in late 2020, was renovated, and now operates as an inn and wedding venue with an astronomy museum on site.
Guests describe electrical oddities, closet doors that open by themselves, belongings rearranged or even packed back into suitcases, and static voices breaking through on cell phones. Some staff believe the governor is still keeping an eye on his house and his tunnels; others think former guests liked it too much to leave. Either way, ask about a tour of the tunnels and the observatory when you check in.
Haunted Rooms tip: Call ahead to confirm overnight stays, and ask about the tunnel, the telescope and the Lindbergh Room.
Where to look The original house and the newer wing
Reported ghosts A woman brushing her hair; a man in a traveling cloak staff call George
The Golden Stage Inn began in 1788 as a stagecoach stop, with separate rooms for gentlemen and ladies who, the story goes, shared a single chamber pot behind a screen. In the mid-1800s it belonged to the Universalist preacher Reverend Warren Skinner and, according to local history, served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. It returned to lodging in the 1980s and today is an eight-room bed and breakfast.
Staff describe two ghosts. One is a woman who is always seen brushing her hair. The other appears in the newer wing wearing a traveling cloak, as if he has just stepped off a coach; staff call him George, and more than one witness has said he looks like Robert Redford. The inn has been listed for sale, so call ahead to confirm bookings.
Haunted Rooms tip: The inn has been for sale; confirm it is taking bookings before you plan a trip.
Address 1119 Quechee Main Street, Quechee, VT 05059
Where to look The dining room, the halls and rooms of the old farmhouse
Reported ghosts John and Jane Porter, and a prankster called Patrick Marsh
The Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm is a white 1793 farmhouse on the road into Quechee village, close to the Ottauquechee River and Quechee Gorge. It has a restaurant and tavern open every evening and 22 rooms and three suites spread through the old house and its connected wings. It was built for Joseph Marsh, Vermont’s first lieutenant governor, and later belonged to John Porter and his wife Jane, who died in the house in 1900.
Guests and staff say the Porters never really moved out, and older accounts describe figures matching them around the inn. More often the stories are about sounds: footsteps and noises from rooms known to be empty. A third presence, named in local lore as Patrick Marsh, gets the blame for moving and rearranging guests’ luggage. None of it is documented, but it has been told for years.
Haunted Rooms tip: Dine in the inn’s tavern and walk down to Quechee Gorge in daylight.
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Where to look The hallways, the family room, the garden
Reported ghosts Mr. Tewksbury, said to have taken his own life here in the early 1800s
The Inn at Clearwater Pond is a long white farmhouse on seven acres of an old working farm on the Quechee-Hartland Road, a few minutes from Quechee village and the gorge. It has been a small, quiet inn since 2000, with five rooms and suites including a private cottage, a pool and a koi pond with a stone patio, and some rooms accept children or pets by arrangement.
Its ghost story is darker than most in Vermont. Local legend says a Mr. Tewksbury took his own life in the house early in the 19th century and has never left. Guests describe a man in the hallways and the family room, in the garden and even in their rooms, along with knocking on doors, things breaking, a tap on the shoulder and a voice speaking in the night. We could not find a record of Mr. Tewksbury, so treat him as legend.
Haunted Rooms tip: Walk the lawn down to the pond at dusk, then lock your door and listen for knocking.
Address 2057 North Main Street (Route 118), Montgomery, VT 05470
Where to look Room 3 and its shower
Reported ghosts The showering ghost of Room 3
Booking the haunted room Ask for Room 3 when you book by phone.
The Black Lantern Inn is a red brick 1803 stagecoach stop beside the village green in Montgomery, in the hills below Jay Peak near the Canadian border. It is the oldest known building in town and is listed on the National Register as the Montgomery House. After it closed in 2015, a group of locals took it over and reopened it as a ten-room village inn.
Its ghost is one of the more harmless in New England. Locals call the spirit of Room 3 the showering ghost, because the shower in that room turns itself on, runs for a few minutes and then turns itself off again, as if someone had stepped in for a quick rinse. Plumbers who have checked the fixtures reportedly found nothing wrong.
Haunted Rooms tip: Ask for Room 3 and keep a towel handy.
Reported ghosts Voices and laughter from unoccupied rooms
The Brass Lantern Inn is a restored brick farmhouse and wood-framed carriage house, dated by the inn to about 1810, on Maple Street just north of Stowe village. It became an inn in 1988 and is now a family-run, nine-room bed and breakfast with a full breakfast and views toward Mount Mansfield, a short drive from the Green Mountain Inn and the ski area. The property was listed for sale in 2026, so confirm bookings directly.
The ghost story here is about sound. Guests say a lively group comes in next door late at night, talking and laughing as if back from a party, but in the morning nobody was booked into that room. The innkeeper told The Vermonter in 2026 that guests tell him the same story. Nobody has given the voices a name, but they are a good reason to pair a night here with a stay at the Green Mountain Inn.
Haunted Rooms tip: Combine with a night at the Green Mountain Inn in the village.
The Norwich Inn, Norwich: Vermont Magazine reports Mary “Ma” Walker, who ran the inn from 1920, in a long black dress on the third floor, especially Room 20.
The White House Inn, Wilmington: a 1915 summer mansion where Clara Brown is said to haunt Room 9.
Removed from this guide: the Saxtons River Inn, because we could not confirm it currently takes overnight guests (it was built in 1903 as the Hotel Kimball, not 1834 as older guides say); and a duplicate Green Mountain Inn entry that described a different building, the ‘Clyde River Hotel’. Corrected: the Green Mountain Inn was built in 1833; Chester A. Arthur acted in a play there rather than staying as president.
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The Green Mountain Inn in Stowe and the Old Stagecoach Inn in Waterbury are the best known. The Green Mountain Inn tells the legend of Boots Berry, said to tap dance on the roof in snowstorms; the Stagecoach Inn’s Room 2 is linked to Nettie Henry Spencer.
Which Vermont hotel has a haunted room you can request?
Room 302 at the Green Mountain Inn, Room 2 at the Old Stagecoach Inn, Room 329 at the Equinox and Room 3 at the Black Lantern Inn are all asked for by number. Call the hotel to request them.
Is Mary Todd Lincoln's ghost at the Equinox?
That is the legend. She summered at the Equinox with her sons in the 1860s, and staff and guests have described a woman in period dress, sometimes with a child, who vanishes in the halls.
Are there ghost hunts in Vermont?
Haunted Rooms does not currently run events in Vermont. The nearest is the Fort William Henry ghost hunt in Lake George, New York, about an hour from southern Vermont.
Is the Saxtons River Inn still open?
We could not confirm that the 1903 Saxtons River Inn currently takes overnight guests, so it is not on this list. Call ahead if you want to visit its restaurant.
Sources and how we research
Every hotel in this guide is checked against the hotel’s own website, historic register listings and news coverage. Ghost stories are reported as the hotels, guests and local historians tell them; we note where a story can’t be confirmed. Read how we rate haunted hotels.
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