History & local legend
The former Fruitville Hotel stood on Swamp Pike in Montgomery County, with a Schwenksville postal address. A woman who had operated it later posted a personal account of two boys appearing in her upstairs apartment.
She recalled waking to a boy in a baseball cap leaning over her bed, with another boy beside him. Their clothing looked to her like something from the early 1960s. When she asked why they were in her apartment, they walked out and continued talking as they went downstairs. She followed after putting on a housecoat, but found the guest floor empty. At the bar, her husband told her that no customers had brought children.
About a week later, a customer asked whether a swimming pool still stood behind the hotel. He told her that a boy from next door had drowned there years earlier. That conversation supplied a possible explanation for her encounter, although she had seen two boys and the customer had described one child’s death. Her account says the hotel was later demolished.
Sources
- Ghosts of America, former proprietor’s firsthand account, including bedroom and stairs
- Ghosts of America, account continued, including her later conversation and the hotel’s disappearance
- Ghosts of America, attribution and later reader’s family recollection
- Pennsylvania Department of State, corporation 783367, The Fruitville Hotel, Incorporated, at 506 Swamp PikeUnavailable ·