Former Crier in the Country site

History & local legend

Before it closed in 2007, the Crier in the Country was a restaurant in an old house in Chester Heights. Its long front porch became the setting of an encounter later described by a diner to Delaware County Ghosthunters.

During dinner, the narrator and a companion repeatedly saw a person dressed in white walk past the porch. When they asked their waitress about the figure, she told them no one was outside. After another pass, the diners left their seats to check the porch themselves. They found it empty.

The restaurant also had an upstairs tradition concerning Lydia Pennel, a widow said to return to a former bedroom. That room had become a dining room bearing her name. The building was eventually demolished.