History & local legend
Jean Bonnet Tavern is a stone inn west of Bedford whose history reaches back to about 1762. The tavern publishes several accounts collected by ghost-story writer Patti Wilson, including an encounter that happened after closing time.
A bartender and a companion had locked the empty bar while they took an intoxicated customer home. When they returned, they looked through a window and saw a man inside, drinking alone. They unlocked the door and searched, but could find nobody. The upper floors were secured behind locked ironwork, making it difficult for them to explain where he had gone.
Another visitor, Al Brindza, reported seeing people in frontier-style clothing looking through a doorway toward a pianist. When he looked away and back, the group had disappeared. Former owner Melissa Jacobs told a separate story about an attic apartment door repeatedly opening and closing between her visits, even when a search found no one inside.