Old Stagecoach Inn
Old Stagecoach Inn is an inn in Waterbury, Vermont. Inn research record. The name the accounts keep returning to is Nettie Spencer. 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. 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 Old Stagecoach Inn haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed reported experience. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
The three-story inn at 18 North Main Street was raised in 1826, first as the home of Waterbury's founding lawyer, and converted soon after into a stagecoach inn and tavern on the road to Stowe. When the railroad came, city families stopped a night or two on their way to the mountain resorts. By 1890 the property belonged to the Henry family, and the spirited daughter of the house — Margaret Annette, called Nettie — married Albert H. Spencer, an industrialist who had made a fortune in Ohio rubber factories.
The Spencers kept houses in New York, Newport, Paris, and London, but Nettie kept coming back to Waterbury; she oversaw the Queen Anne facade alterations and the third floor that give the inn its look. Albert died in London; Nettie lived on at the inn until 1947, nearly a hundred years old, and was laid in the mausoleum at Hope Cemetery nearby. Within a year the main house reopened to lodgers, and it has run as the Old Stagecoach Inn since.
The landlady who still hosts
The inn's own record of the lore is a good one. Guests have reported rocking chairs moving, cabinet doors swinging, flickering lights, window shades that change position — and one guest who texted a friend that the inn was not haunted, a minute before the room lights came on by themselves. Former innkeeper Jack Barwick told of Scotch bottles that vanished and reappeared and a fire alarm torn off a third-floor wall in an empty building.
The file's anchor is the Room 3 account: after a late cancellation, Barwick met a couple at breakfast he could not place, who said an older woman — long dress, hair in a bun — had let them in after midnight and shown them the room. No guest matched her. The inn attributes its mysterious hostess to Nettie Spencer, still keeping house; the file keeps that attribution where it belongs, as the owners' telling.
The record of claims
An innkeeper’s account attributes a mysterious elderly hostess to former owner Nettie Spencer. A hotel in Waterbury, Vermont with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. Sources including 'Haunted Vermont' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
Alleged entities
An innkeeper’s account attributes a mysterious elderly hostess to former owner Nettie Spencer. The Waterbury hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. 'Haunted Vermont' carries the account. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Nettie Spencer.
Sources on file
- 01Haunted VermontVermont Department of Tourism and Marketing · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.