{"id":504,"slug":"golden-plough-inn-new-hope-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["At the core of the Golden Plough Inn, inside Peddler's Village in Lahaska, is a two-story stone tavern built in the mid-1800s — a stagecoach stop on Old York Road between New York and Philadelphia, in a Quaker-settled village that had a post office by March 1844 under first postmaster Thomas Betts. Earl Jamison bought the rundown farm property in 1962 and built Peddler's Village around its barns and outbuildings; the inn itself opened in 1987 with ten rooms and added nearly sixty more by 1998 as second-story shop space converted to guest rooms."]},{"heading":"The postmaster's rounds","paragraphs":["The village's own haunted-history telling names the resident: Thomas Betts, that first postmaster, is said to still make his rounds through the lobby. The reported experiences are catalogued small — a night auditor returning to find coffee stirrers arranged in a line across the lobby floor, phone calls placed to the front desk from unoccupied rooms, lights switching on, a dark figure at the end of the second-floor hallway outside room 202. In one telling, staff answering loud noises in empty room 202 found the television on and a deep voice asking what they wanted.","Bucks County Paranormal Investigations filmed a session after a guest reported a full-body apparition in room 123 in February 2020. The dossier files all of it as reported experience — a mid-1800s tavern inside a 1962 shopping village, holding the oldest kind of hotel story."]}],"name":"Golden Plough Inn","aliases":["Golden Plough Inn at Peddler's Village"],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn research record.","full_desc":"Golden Plough Inn is an inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Inn research record. The archive files it under 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. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"New Hope","county":"Bucks","state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.361358,"lon":-74.956796,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":381,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Employees report sounds and telephone activity in empty rooms, plus hallway shadows. Golden Plough Inn, a hotel in New Hope, Pennsylvania, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Witnesses report it; the record leaves it there. The account appears in 'Haunted Hotels in Pennsylvania'. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Hotels in Pennsylvania","url":"https://www.visitpa.com/blog/post/haunted-hotels-pennsylvania/","publisher":"Visit Pennsylvania","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Haunted Hotels in Pennsylvania","url":"https://www.visitpa.com/blog/post/haunted-hotels-pennsylvania/","publisher":"Visit Pennsylvania","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}