History & local legend
Room C at the Yellow House Hotel near Douglassville has acquired a small tradition around a reading lamp beside a chair. Two guests, writing years apart, described finding its shade tilted after asking the room’s supposed spirit to make itself known.
The first guest stayed on January 12, 2013, while visiting Pennsylvania for an uncle’s birthday. Before leaving for the party, the guest asked for an obvious sign and checked how things were arranged. On returning, the lamp shade was leaning sharply to one side. The visitor recalled the stay in a January 2021 post.
In July 2024, a couple described reading that earlier account aloud and joking about it. They returned from getting pizza to find their lamp tilted. They straightened it, found it tilted again, and repeated the process. By about 5:30 the next morning, the shade had moved once more, becoming the detail they remembered most vividly about the room.
Sources
- Pennsylvania Haunted Houses, Yellow House Hotel visitor accounts, including the January 2013 guest’s 2021 recollection and a later couple’s experience with the same lamp
- Dave Edwards, WPVI–6abc Philadelphia, Halloween Haunts, October 2025, reporting at this specific hotel
- 6abc Localish, October 2025, reports guest and employee haunting traditions at the historic hotel
- Yellow House Hotel, operator’s history and address, former stage stop, country store and village switchboard