The General Wayn is located in Merion Station, NorthWest of Philadelphia.
The General Wayne Inn opened in 1704, and is reputed to be the oldest continuously functioning inn in America. Many famous people, including Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Edgar Allen Poe, have stayed at the inn through the years. Poe even wrote part of his famous “The Raven” while there.
Local historian Jay Robert Manty researched the inn’s history and found that the ghost that Alice Gormley had also been seen over one hundred years ago at the inn. In 1848, an election took place at the inn. During this, a woman went down to get some more ballots when she saw a soldier in a green uniform. This same soldier has been seen numerous times in the basement by the wine cellar. The witnesses perfectly described the features and clothing of the Hessian soldiers that occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War.
Unsolved Mysteries invited parapsychologist Michaeleen Maher to the General Wayne Inn to see if she could determine if the sightings were genuine. Starting with detailed floor plans, she uses statistical analysis to evaluate the responses of both skeptics and psychics that have been brought to the scene of the hauntings.
Michaeleen asked psychic Paula Rogers to walk through the building. She knew nothing about the inn’s history. While in the basement, she saw a young soldier hiding there. She believed that the clothing he was wearing was from the 1700s. She believed that he had been “left behind”. She sensed the soldier just a few feet from the spot where witnesses had reported seeing the Hessian soldier.
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