Captain Grant's 1754 Inn
An inn in Preston, Connecticut, Captain Grant's 1754 Inn is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Inn research record. The archive files it under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.
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Is Captain Grant's 1754 Inn haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
Captain William Grant built the house in 1754 in Poquetanuck Village for his wife Mercy and their children, then died at sea; Mercy lived in it into her eighties, and three generations of Grants followed her. The inn's own telling has Continental soldiers garrisoned there during the Revolution and escaping slaves sheltered during the Civil War; Poquetanuck's first cemetery sits directly behind the property. The house is on the National Register, has run as a bed-and-breakfast since the 1990s, and has been featured by HGTV, Yankee Magazine, and the Netflix series 28 Days Haunted — which is where much of the current file comes from.
The Adelaide Room and the rest
Guest reports center on the Adelaide Room: a woman in colonial dress standing by the bed holding two children's hands, a television that turns itself on and off, a shower curtain knocked down without a hand on it. Elsewhere in the house the catalog runs to random knockings, the sensation of a caressed cheek, the shade of a young child passing through a guest, footsteps in the attic, and electronic voice phenomena said to capture a young girl's voice. The owners characterize the whole population — they count twelve spirits — as friendly but protective.
Every item is reported or produced under paranormal-investigation conditions; none is documented. The file keeps the pairing it found: one of Connecticut's genuinely old houses, with a cemetery out back, and a hospitality business that lists its permanent residents on the website.
The record of claims
Tourism records a longstanding haunted-inn reputation without establishing an entity here. A hotel in Preston, Connecticut with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Haunted Hotels'. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.
Tourism records a longstanding haunted-inn reputation without establishing an entity here. A hotel in Preston, Connecticut with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.
Sources on file
- 01Haunted HotelsConnecticut 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.