History & local legend
The Riverside Inn in Cambridge Springs was built in the 1880s as a resort for visitors drawn to the area’s mineral springs. Long after that health-resort era, guests and employees were reporting apparitions and the sound of children inside the old hotel.
Travel writer Wendy Royal collected one especially unsettling account: a guest reportedly saw a spirit lying in bed beside them. Sisters Jean and Suzanne Vincent, who participated in filming The Dead Files Revisited at the inn, described other complaints from guests and staff, including banging on bedroom walls and unexplained touches.
The hotel was still hosting paranormal sleepovers in October 2016. A fire destroyed the building in May 2017.
Sources
- Wendy Royal, Where & When Pennsylvania, guest and employee stories and October 2016 sleepover
- Suzanne and Jean Vincent, firsthand account of filming The Dead Files Revisited at the Riverside
- Erie Reader, interviews with Brenda Evans and Jeremy Ball, and the May 2017 fire
- Riverside Brewing Company, former inn grounds and the present reconstructed barn
- Esri, original street address matching the former property
