Haunted Green Mountain Inn in Stowe VT

Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, Vermont is a New England landmark. The historic Inn and adjacent Depot as historic buildings. There have been reports that the inn is haunted by the ghost of a former employee.

Ghost Stories

"Boots" Berry, born in room 1840 at Green Mountain Inn in 1840, was a local legend. He was the son of the horseman and a chambermaid at the inn. Boots entered his father's trade, caring for the horses and outfitting them for the stagecoach.

One day the horses on the stagecoach team bolted. Boots bravely risked his life to stop the team of horses from running away. He became known as a local hero. The good part of that was he never had to buy his own drinks at the bars in the county. The bad part was that he became a drunk, lost his job and began to wander. He traveled to New Orleans, where he landed in jail. In jail a fellow inmate taught him to tap dance.

Eventually Boots wandered back to Stowe, VT. A blizzard hit the region. A small girl got stranded on the inn of the room. Boots remembered a secret passage and managed to rescue the child from the roof. Unfortunately Boots slipped off fell off the roof and was killed. Ironically he had been standing on the roof over room 302, the very room he was born in 62 years earlier.

There have reports from guests that the sound of tap dancing can be heard on the third floor on stormy days.

History of the Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, Vermont

The Green Mountain Inn is a local landmark that was built as a private residence in 1833. In 1850 the original owner traded the house for a farm. The new owner added two wings, a dance hall and a double porch and called it the Mansfield House. .

Successive owner turned The Mansfield House into a hotel. The stagecoach stopped in front of the hotel until 1897. The train Depot Building was built next door, serving the new Mount Mansfield Electric Railroad line.

The inn was purchased in 1982 by Marvin Gameroff. A 150th anniversary restoration project combined the inn's country style elegance with modern conveniences. More recently they renovated the Annex Building, completed the luxury 22 room Mansfield House and opened rooms and shops in the railroad Depot building.