Ubon Thai Victorian Inn
An inn in Staunton, Virginia, Ubon Thai Victorian Inn is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Staunton landmark with a published haunting reputation. The name the accounts keep returning to is Mrs. Bagsly. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.
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Is Ubon Thai Victorian Inn haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend, 1 named entity — 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
The rambling red Victorian at 515 West Frederick Street in Staunton has had a complicated life: a private residence through the 1800s, then the Belle Grae Inn, and now the Ubon Thai Victorian Inn — authentic Thai cuisine on the ground floor, guest rooms upstairs. Staunton's tourism office lists it among the city's haunted locations, which is how the file picks it up.
The resident is called Mrs. Bagsby. She is said to have lived in the house in the nineteenth century and, in the local telling, never moved out — a spirit the tourism copy treats with the familiarity of a long-tenured landlady.
Room 7
Her reported habits are domestic rather than dramatic. Doors lock and unlock. Rocking chairs rock. The hot water supply is said to bypass the rooms of guests Mrs. Bagsby dislikes — plumbing as editorial judgment. Room 7 is where the sightings cluster, and it is the room the haunted listings tell you to request.
A paranormal group investigating the upstairs bedrooms reported catching a rocking chair in motion on camera, along with EVP responses in the hallway, the main dining room, and the gravel lot out back — their conclusion, that the spirits are present but nothing malicious. The inn's owners have made their own contributions to the lore: chef Ubon Herlong says she dreamed, while sleeping in room number one the year before buying the place, that the house belonged to her. It now does.
The file's reading
The brick is documented — a nineteenth-century residence turned inn, renamed when the Thai restaurant took the ground floor. Mrs. Bagsby is folklore kept by tourism pages and visitor reports, which is where the archive files her: a landlady still managing occupancy, one lukewarm shower at a time.
The record of claims
Tourism attributes doors and rocking chairs moving to Mrs. Bagsly. Room7 in tourism narrative is where the accounts cluster — the site's own map of where to look. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Staunton Haunted Locations'. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.
Tourism attributes doors and rocking chairs moving to Mrs. Bagsly. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'Staunton Haunted Locations' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.
Alleged entities
Tourism attributes doors and rocking chairs moving to Mrs. Bagsly. The reports concentrate at Room7 in tourism narrative. A hotel in Staunton, Virginia with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Sources including 'Staunton Haunted Locations' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.
Sources on file
- 01Staunton Haunted LocationsVisit Staunton · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Discovery or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural reality.