History & local legend
The Stage Coach Inn on Route 309 in Luzerne County was a restaurant built in 1946 and named for the area’s stagecoach history. A regular customer, later writing for the Haunt Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania, described an uneasy encounter there while waiting for the owners to close for the night.
The visitor was at the bar with a wife and another couple; the proprietors were friends, and they were waiting to leave together. As lights went out around the restaurant, the visitor crossed the foyer and felt a sudden insistence that it was time to go. Looking toward the main dining room, the visitor saw something resembling a shadow and had the strong impression it wanted nobody closer. That moment remained unsettling on later visits, even though friends had been elsewhere in the building throughout.
