GENERAL STANTON INN
Inn — 4115 Old Post Rd., Charlestown, Rhode Island
Status: Status unknown · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/general-stanton-inn-charlestown-rhode-island/

Inn research record.

General Stanton Inn is an inn in Charlestown, Rhode Island. 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.

The General Stanton Inn stands on Charlestown land the Narragansett granted Thomas Stanton in the 1650s for negotiating the return of a kidnapped Niantic girl from Block Island. His grandson Joseph Stanton II built the inn in 1740 beside a circa-1667 dwelling that became a school for Native children — the 'Indian Room' survives in the building — and the family's telling runs through nearly every Rhode Island era since: Sons of Liberty meetings and a Washington spy-ring tradition in the Revolution, an Underground Railroad stop in the 1840s, an illegal gambling room with a retractable roulette wheel, Prohibition rumrunner patronage.
The inn counts four presidential visits in its own history and reopened as a restaurant and tavern in 2022 under its sixth owners.

FILED AS REPORTED
Rhode Island Monthly's haunted-places survey records what interviewed staff describe — voices, footsteps after hours, objects that move, cold areas. Regional haunted-travel writeups name the resident presence 'the General,' a male apparition said to favor the second floor and to have once escalated from tapping a workman's shoulder to throwing an object when ignored; the inn appeared on Ghost Hunters in October 2007.
None of it is more than testimony, and the dossier says so: the file holds a documented 1740 inn and a steady modern stream of reported experience, with confidence figures describing attribution rather than the afterlife.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Reported experience] multiple phenomena: Interviewed staff describe voices, footsteps, moving objects and cold areas. The Charlestown hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It's a reported experience — real to the people who had it, unresolved for everyone else. '16 Real-Life Haunted Places in Rhode Island' carries the account. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.
  source: 16 Real-Life Haunted Places in Rhode Island (https://www.rimonthly.com/haunted-places-rhode-island/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· 16 Real-Life Haunted Places in Rhode Island — Rhode Island Monthly
  https://www.rimonthly.com/haunted-places-rhode-island/

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