History & local legend
Brinton Lodge in Douglassville, Berks County, maintains a collection of reported encounters with a figure it calls the Dark Shadow. The operator traces these accounts back at least to the 1980s, with sightings concentrated around the main hall, staircase, and former barroom.
A hostess standing at a desk in the hall described watching a dark, mistlike shape descend the main staircase and enter the barroom. In a separate account, a visitor alone in that room saw a dark form come in from the hall and disappear.
A worker in the Douglass Room reported another sighting at about 10 p.m. This time the shape crossed the hallway toward the basement stairs.
