History & local legend
The Doubleday Inn stands on Oak Ridge in Gettysburg, where John Forney’s apple orchard was caught in the fighting on July 1, 1863. The house itself came much later: it was built in 1939 for the Reverend Abram Longanecker and his wife, Agnes, and became an inn in 1987.
One ghost account, preserved in an archived paranormal case file by 2004, came from a guest writing about her mother’s experience. A steady humming awakened the mother, who saw the outline of a woman standing at the foot of her bed. The figure wore her hair in a bun, moved across the room and disappeared.
The same letter described hearing marching and voices calling back and forth outside at night.
Sources
- Paranormal Investigators and Research Association, Pennsylvania case files, 2004 archived account of the guest’s letter about her mother at the Doubleday Inn
- Doubleday Inn, Your Stay on the Battlefield, John Forney’s orchard and the home of Reverend Abram and Agnes Longanecker
- Stone Sentinels, 94th New York Infantry monument directly across Doubleday Avenue from the inn
- Doubleday Inn, location and contact information
- Whereorg, mapped inn address and entrance coordinates
