History & local legend
The Germania Hotel in Potter County was built in 1856 by the Mueller family. Its upstairs guest rooms became the setting for several ghost stories, including a staff tradition about a little girl in Room 13. Writer and investigator Lou Bernard described his own visit with the Swartz Paranormal team in an October 2025 account.
The team arrived intending to arrange a future investigation, but the bartender invited them upstairs immediately. Repairs were underway, and the electricity was off. Investigators separated into rooms along the hall to take photographs and make recordings without interfering with one another.
The image that most impressed Bernard came from Room 19, not the little girl's reported room. He said an infrared photograph of that empty room showed what looked like a pair of human legs walking through it.
