{"id":426,"slug":"golden-stage-inn-cavendish-vermont","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The inn was built in 1788 in the village of Proctorsville as a stagecoach stop — one room for men, one for women, a chamber pot behind a screen — and took travelers for decades before becoming a private house. The Reverend Warren Skinner, a Universalist minister, added the broad common rooms and barn in the mid-1800s and raised his family there; descendants who summered at the property included Broadway actor Otis Skinner and his daughter, author Cornelia Otis Skinner. The inn's own history files it as a reported Underground Railroad stop during Skinner's tenure, and it has operated as a bed-and-breakfast since the mid-1960s."]},{"heading":"What's reported","paragraphs":["The innkeepers' own accounting, collected across multiple owners, keeps a small roster: a woman seen endlessly brushing her hair in an upstairs window, and a cloaked, friendly man locals call George — an innkeeper's third-floor sighting of a traveler in an old-fashioned coat and hat is the clearest telling. Earlier keepers reported a figure walking in daylight through the kitchen and up the back stairs before vanishing; a photographer's shots kept developing with orbs. The most recent filings add a spectral cat crossing a guest's bed — though no cat lives at the inn, and one allergic guest's reaction is on the record.","The owners' house line is the file's posture verbatim: there is no proof the inn is haunted, and no proof it isn't — only two and a half centuries of hospitality, some of it apparently still on shift."]}],"name":"Golden Stage Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn research record.","full_desc":"Golden Stage Inn is an inn in Cavendish, Vermont. Inn research record. Its signature presence is George — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Cavendish","county":null,"state":"Vermont","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.385393,"lon":-72.607864,"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":314,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Innkeepers describe a cloaked, friendly apparition nicknamed George. The Cavendish 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. Sources including 'Haunted Vermont' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":"George","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Vermont","url":"https://vermontvacation.com/haunted-vt/","publisher":"Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[{"name":"George","claimed_identity":"George","verified":null,"summary":"Innkeepers describe a cloaked, friendly apparition nicknamed George. Golden Stage Inn, a hotel in Cavendish, Vermont, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. 'Haunted Vermont' carries the account. The lore has a face now: George. The file stays open on it. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","behavior":"Innkeepers describe a cloaked, friendly apparition nicknamed George.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Vermont","url":"https://vermontvacation.com/haunted-vt/","publisher":"Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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 Vermont","url":"https://vermontvacation.com/haunted-vt/","publisher":"Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":1,"sources":1}}