Historic haunted places in Jim Thorpe, PA. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open seasonally for guided tours (admission charged).
Mary Packer Cummings, the youngest Packer daughter, left the mansion and its contents to the borough when she died in 1912, and lore casts her as a caretaker still watching over th…
Open to the public (inn; overnight stays and murder-mystery weekends).
This dark 1874 Victorian with its tower is a fixture of the Jim Thorpe ghost tour, where guides tie the activity to the Packer family and its early deaths. Guests describe footstep…
Ghost tours present this 19th-century hall as one of the busiest in town, home to several spirits, the best known an opera singer who supposedly died suddenly in connection with th…
Open to the public (guided tours; admission charged).
On the morning of June 21, 1877, before he was hanged, Alexander Campbell is said to have pressed his hand to the wall of Cell 17 and declared the mark would prove his innocence. G…
The inn's legend concerns Madeline, a 19th-century woman in a secret affair with a man who, like her, was promised to someone else. A desk clerk's error put her in Room 211 and her…