Linden Bed and Breakfast
Linden Bed and Breakfast is a historic inn in Natchez, Mississippi. Historic inn in Natchez; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — 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.
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Is Linden Bed and Breakfast 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
One of Natchez's oldest surviving houses has worn three names. Alexander Moore raised the central four-room section around 1785 and called it Oaklands. U.S. Senator Thomas Buck Reed bought the place in 1818, renamed it Reedland, and added the frontispiece and the East Wing before dying in 1829 on his way to Washington. The buyer was Dr. John Ker — son of a Mississippi Supreme Court appointee — who renamed it Linden for the German national tree and added the living room and the ninety-eight-foot front gallery that defines the facade. In 1849 the widowed Jane Gustine Conner brought her ten children into the house, planted the seven Cedars of Lebanon that still anchor the lawn, and started a family tenure that never really ended.
Listed on the National Register in 1978, Linden operates today as a historic bed and breakfast on seven acres near the Natchez Trace, and its owners lean into storytelling tours that include the house's haunting side.
The reports on the drive
The lodged accounts are specific enough to map. A phantom horse-drawn buggy is reported in the driveway; the tap of a cane repeats along the west gallery — one guest timed the knocks at four- or five-second intervals through a 3 a.m. hour. A man in a top hat has been described standing in a child's bedroom, and a woman in the east wing is said to jump from the edge of the roof and disappear before reaching the ground.
None of the reports attaches to a documented death at the house, and the file files them that way — as accounts rather than events. In a town where nearly every antebellum home keeps a ghost, Linden's file is simply better indexed than most.
The record of claims
Visit Vicksburg recounts a phantom carriage and human apparitions. The site in Natchez, Mississippi gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi' carries the account. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.
Visit Vicksburg recounts a phantom carriage and human apparitions. The site in Natchez, Mississippi gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.
Sources on file
- 01Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in MississippiVisit Vicksburg · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
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