Story found in Robin Mead’s Haunted Hotels


This bed and breakfast was built in the 1850’s and the current owner thinks that three ghosts still linger here. The innkeeper Vera Van Atta believes she was called by Bertha Jane Von Kamecke, the former owner, to restore the old property. Bertha, Rose and a mysterious man haunt this place.


Some of the stories Van Atta recited were that of one of the ghosts, Bertha, putting her own framed pictures up around the house and moving a huge antique beveled mirror about five feet from the wall above the bathroom sink to the middle of the bathroom floor. The mirror was seemingly untouched and still intact. Bertha also moved another rather large wall mirror into the middle of the floor in a room called the Blue Lounge.


Rose was another ghost who chooses to stay in the Yellow Room. Her presence is unexplained but she likes to open the bedroom door. Van Atta eventually put up a hook-and-eye latch to help keep the door closed but Rose has figured out how to open this as well. Rose also plays with different items in the room including the many dolls kept there. She also tampers with items that guests bring in, like one guests music box that played late at night until the guest woke up and tampered with the box until it stopped.


The third ghost is that of a mysterious figure of a man standing by the bed in the Medieval Room. A guest was woken by the smell of baking one morning and found this man standing by the bed, only to disappear seconds later.