CAPTAIN DANIEL PACKER INNE
Inn — Mystic, Connecticut
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/captain-daniel-packer-inne-mystic-connecticut/

Inn research record.

Captain Daniel Packer Inne is an inn in Mystic, Connecticut. Inn research record. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

Captain Daniel Packer — square-rigger master and Revolutionary War veteran — bought the land bordering Water Street on the Mystic River in 1754 and finished his house there in 1756. The inn fed travelers between New York and Boston who slept over before Packer ferried them, horses and coaches and all, across the river on his rope ferry at Packer Landing, entertaining the table meanwhile with tales from his years at sea. The property stayed in the family — Packers, then their Keeler descendants — into the late 1970s, when it had fallen far enough that demolition was discussed; Richard and Lulu Kiley bought it in 1979 and spent four years restoring the mantels, beams and fireplaces with eighteenth-century methods.

THE CAPTAIN AND THE LITTLE GIRL
The Connecticut Office of Tourism's haunted-places writeup records what guests and staff have described for decades: a sea-captain apparition, glasses that shift on their own, footsteps with no one to make them. Regional tellings supply the cast — the Captain himself, who swore he would never leave the inn, and his grandniece Ada Clift, said to have died of scarlet fever at seven in a second-floor bedroom in 1874 and to linger as the house's 'giggling ghost,' waving at guests and playing hide-and-seek; the bar sells a cocktail called Ada's Choice.
These are filed as reported experience, which is all they have ever been. The dossier's research notes keep the honest frame: the reports are real testimony attached to a documented 1756 inn, and the confidence figure describes their attribution, not the spirits.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Reported experience] multiple phenomena: Guests and staff describe a sea-captain apparition, shifting glasses and footsteps. Captain Daniel Packer Inne, a hotel in Mystic, Connecticut, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Witnesses report it; the record leaves it there. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.
  source: The Haunting of Eastern Connecticut (https://ctvisit.com/articles/haunting-eastern-connecticut)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The Haunting of Eastern Connecticut — Connecticut Office of Tourism
  https://ctvisit.com/articles/haunting-eastern-connecticut

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