Is There A Ghost Living At Longfellow's Wayside Inn In Sudbury?

SUDBURY, MA—For years, guests staying at the historic Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury have been tucking little notes into the crevices of the walls or in drawers in the rooms to chronicle their encounters with ghosts.

The inn started as a two-family home in 1707 and became a working inn in 1716. The inn became famous when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used it in his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" poetry book in 1863. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, bought the property in 1923 and restored it. It's now known as the oldest operating inn in the country.

It's also said to be haunted.

Author Alyson Horrocks delves into the history of the haunt at the Wayside in Yankee Magazine's New England Travel Today.

Horrocks writes that she has never encountered any visitor from "the spiritual realm" during her many visits, but did recently learn about Jerusha Howe, the "ghost" at the Wayside Inn. Howe apparently was known as the "belle of Sudbury" and owned the first piano in town, one in which guests swear she still plays in the middle of the night today.

Believe it?

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