GOLDEN STAGE INN
Inn — Cavendish, Vermont
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Inn research record.

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.

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.

WHAT'S REPORTED
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Reported experience] apparition: 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.
  source: Haunted Vermont (https://vermontvacation.com/haunted-vt/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Vermont — Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing
  https://vermontvacation.com/haunted-vt/

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