History & local legend
Cornerstone Bed and Breakfast occupies a historic stone house at 33rd and Baring Streets in Philadelphia's Powelton Village. A guest recalling an autumn 2012 stay described waking in a front bedroom to see white mist close to her face. She felt cold and unable to move while her husband continued sleeping. The couple left despite having paid for a second night.
Another guest, writing as Amily in May 2014, described an October visit in a third-floor suite. Returning upstairs around midnight, she encountered a strong cigar smell and worried someone in her party had been smoking. She went into the bathroom before investigating. When she came back, the smell had vanished.
Sources
- PA Haunted Houses, guest’s April 2020 personal recollection of the fall 2012 stay
- Haunted Places, Amily’s firsthand Philadelphia Cornerstone stay, posted May 2, 2014
- University City Review, distributed by WHYY, historic house tour at the Cornerstone, 3300 Baring Street
- University of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia Community History Center, 1878 ward atlas showing the intersection
- Esri, the 3300 Baring Street street address
