Captain Daniel Packer Inne
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.
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Is Captain Daniel Packer Inne haunted?
The record holds 1 claim — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed reported experience. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
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.
The record of claims
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.
Sources on file
- 01The Haunting of Eastern ConnecticutConnecticut Office of Tourism · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.