History & local legend
Emily’s, the former Post Office Inn in Beckersville, takes its name from a girl in the building’s ghost stories. In 1997, restaurant owners Steve and Nancy Mooney adopted the name already used locally for the supposed presence. Her historical identity is unknown.
Berks County storyteller Charles J. Adams III interviewed a former waitress about an experience from the early 1980s. Only three employees were working when she heard a girl giggling. Expecting to find a child, she checked the ladies’ room and found it empty. Returning to the dining room, she heard another, softer laugh from the stairs, but nobody came down.
Other staff had reported similar laughter. A former patron writing in 2014 also remembered hearing the girl’s story at the Post Office Inn’s bar in the early 1980s, showing that the tradition preceded the restaurant’s change of name.
Sources
- Charles J. Adams III, 2005, interview with a former waitress and operator history on the archived Emily’s Pub website
- Berks County Eats, visit and photographs of the historic Post Office bar with its surviving post office boxes
- Emily’s Event Venue, current identity and historic uses
- Haunted Places, Sheri’s 2014 recollection of hearing the young girl’s story at the bar in the early 1980s
