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Northampton County, Pennsylvania · Inns & businesses

Former Leithsville Inn

The Man in the Barn at Leithsville Inn

The former Leithsville Inn property at the junction on Leithsville Road, seen from above.

History & local legend

The former Leithsville Inn has a ghost story centered on its garage, once a barn. Local historian Karen Samuels recounted a tradition in which an unnamed man was dragged from the hotel, protesting his innocence, and hanged there.

Owners and visitors later associated an unexplained presence in the garage with that man. Staff reportedly left the televisions on for him.

Sources

  1. Lower Saucon Township Historical Society, Haunted Saucon Valley, Karen M. Samuels’s account, Fall 2018, p. 4
  2. Lower Saucon Township Historical Society, 2014 account of owners and guests seeing the man in the garage
  3. Pennsylvania State Archives, historic township map with the Leithsville Hotel in its business notices
  4. Restaurantji, address of the Leithsville Inn and former restaurant status
  5. Esri, exact Leithsville Road property
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Visiting

Historic restaurant site.

Image credit

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program, 2022 · License