Haunted Cashtown Inn Ghost Hunt & Sleepover, Cashtown, Pennsylvania

Haunted Cashtown Inn Ghost Hunt

Confederate Headquarters. A Cellar Field Hospital. The Inn Where Gettysburg Began

On the old Chambersburg Pike, eight miles west of Gettysburg, a red brick inn has stood at the crossroads of Cashtown since around 1797. Generations of travelers stopped here for a meal and a bed on the road between Chambersburg and Gettysburg. In the summer of 1863, the travelers were an army.

The Inn That Only Took Cash

The inn began life as a tavern and stagecoach stop, the first one west of Gettysburg. Its early innkeeper, Peter Marck, famously accepted nothing but cash from his guests, and the name stuck to the inn and to the village that grew up around it.

Headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia

In late June 1863, Robert E. Lee’s army poured east through the mountains toward Gettysburg, and the Cashtown Inn sat directly on its path. Confederate generals A.P. Hill, Henry Heth and John D. Imboden made the inn their headquarters. Officers planned in the parlor, and on July 1, Lee and Hill are said to have conferred in front of the inn as the first shots of the Battle of Gettysburg were fired to the east. It is often said that more Confederate soldiers passed through the Cashtown Inn than any other building north of Richmond.

As the fighting raged, the inn’s cellar was turned into a makeshift field hospital. Surgeons worked by lamplight among the brick ovens and the cold spring that still runs beneath the building, and amputations were carried out with little or no anesthetic. After three days of battle, the long Confederate wagon train of wounded rolled back through Cashtown on its retreat to Virginia, carrying thousands of suffering men past the inn’s front porch.

The inn later appeared in the 1993 film Gettysburg, with members of the cast staying under its roof during filming. It has also been featured on Ghost Hunters. Many of its guests say they have never been alone here.

The Spirits of the Cashtown Inn

Guest books in every room record decades of strange experiences, and the stories are remarkably consistent. Heavy footsteps pace the hallways at night when no one is there. Doors rattle, knobs turn, and guests hear light knocking at their door, only to open it onto an empty corridor.

The Confederate Soldier

The inn’s best-known spirit is a young Confederate soldier. He is most often seen standing in a doorway on the first floor or walking the upstairs halls. Local accounts say he was shot by a townsman, carried to the inn for treatment, and died in a second-floor bedroom. Guests and staff have also reported a soldier in the Henry Heth room and near the bar.

The A.P. Hill Room

Named for the general who made the inn his headquarters, the A.P. Hill room is considered the most haunted room in the building. Guests have watched the rocking chair rock by itself, and have felt the weight of someone sitting down on the bed beside them when they were alone in the room.

Voices, Pipe Smoke and Phantom Horses

Upstairs, guests report a loud sigh at the foot of the bed and the murmur of men’s voices behind closed doors. One guest smelled pipe tobacco in her room and asked her neighbor if he had been smoking. He didn’t smoke. Others have woken in the night to the sound of horses outside, have returned to find their belongings moved or their suitcases packed, and have heard the cries of men in pain echoing through the halls. A woman in old-fashioned dress has been reported in the General Lee Suite.

The Porch and the Grounds

Outside, the empty porch swing has been seen rocking on still nights. An old sepia photograph of the inn shows a faint, transparent figure standing beside a man on the porch, and no one has ever explained it. The owners say the land around the inn is just as active as the building itself.

We have the whole inn to ourselves for the night. Are you brave enough to join us?

What’s Included in the Ghost Hunt

Your after-hours investigation includes:

• Exclusive after-hours access to the Haunted Cashtown Inn
• Structured investigation sessions led by experienced Haunted Rooms America investigators
• Use of professional ghost hunting equipment, including EMF detectors, trigger objects, thermal imaging devices and motion sensors, plus EVP sessions run by our team
• Free time to investigate independently
• Optional Estes Method sessions run by our team during free roam
• Snacks and refreshments provided
• Your own room and extended investigation time* – Overnight VIP guests stay the night in one of the inn’s historic rooms, each named for a Confederate general, and can keep investigating long after general admission ends.
• Breakfast* – After a night of investigating, guests in the inn’s seven rooms and suites are served breakfast. (The Officers’ Reserve apartment has its own kitchen, and breakfast is not included.)

The Overnight VIP Rooms

• A.P. Hill Room (for two): the room General A.P. Hill occupied when the inn was Confederate headquarters, with a queen canopy bed and 1800s signatures of visitors and stagecoach drivers still visible on the walls. Grant Wilson stayed here when Ghost Hunters investigated the inn.
• Robert E. Lee Suite (up to four): a king bed and a sitting room with a full sleeper sofa.
• Pender Suite (up to four): a two-room suite above the area used as a field hospital, with a queen bed and a full sleeper sofa. Jason Hawes chose this suite when Ghost Hunters investigated the inn.
• Anderson Suite (up to four): also above the old field hospital area, with a queen Victorian bed and a full sofa bed.
• Imboden Room (for two): General Imboden’s office on July 4, 1863, as he oversaw the Confederate retreat, with a queen four-poster bed.
• Pettigrew Room (for two): one of the original 1797 guest rooms, with a queen iron bed.
• Heth Room (for two): named for the general whose division opened the Battle of Gettysburg, with an antique double bed.
• Officers’ Reserve Apartment (up to six): the former innkeepers’ quarters, partly original to the 1797 building, with a king bedroom, a queen four-poster bedroom, a queen Murphy bed, two bathrooms and a kitchen.

Equipment and recording: Guests are welcome to bring their own ghost hunting equipment (EMF meters, spirit boxes, REM pods and similar). For the privacy of other guests and venue security, photography, video and audio recording are not permitted at any point during the event.

TICKETS ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED