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Delaware County, Pennsylvania · Inns & businesses

The Radnor Hotel

The Voices Next Door at the Radnor Hotel

Aerial view of the Radnor Hotel and its courtyard beside East Lancaster Avenue.
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History & local legend

Room 309 at the Radnor Hotel in St. Davids has a particularly unsettling local legend: a woman is said to appear on the ceiling above the bed. A business traveler staying next door in March 2016 encountered something less visible but no less disturbing.

Writing from Room 308 on March 14, a guest named Tracy described hearing voices and other noises through the wall behind the bed while speaking to family on speakerphone. Assuming people occupied the adjoining room, Tracy turned off the speaker to avoid disturbing them. Outside afterward, two men mentioned the hotel’s haunting and Room 309 without knowing which room Tracy had booked.

Tracy returned to the front desk and asked about the neighboring room. According to the account, it was unoccupied. The next day another commenter, Karen, said she had overheard one of the men retelling the incident in the hotel bar.

Sources

  1. Haunted Places, accounts posted by Tracy and Karen on successive days in March 2016
  2. Ghosts of Delaware County, earlier local account of the woman in Suite 309
  3. The Radnor Hotel, official address and directions
  4. OpenStreetMap, hotel point and street number
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program, 2022 · License