History & local legend
The Baladerry Inn on Hospital Road near Gettysburg occupies the Bushman family’s former tenant farmhouse. Its ghost stories include soldiers on the grounds and a woman encountered in the kitchen—an episode innkeeper Judy Caudill recalled during a National Geographic visit published in October 2011.
Caudill said a visitor standing with her in the kitchen asked whether she believed in ghosts. She replied that she did not, really. He then described another woman he could see in the room: a stout figure wearing a long dress and apron, with her hair pinned in a bun. Caudill had not seen the woman herself.
She also told the writer about soldier apparitions associated with the area around the gazebo. During a separate stay reported in 2019, travel writer Holly Riddle found a binder in a sitting room where guests had recorded their experiences and left photographs of supposed figures and unusual shapes on the lawn and in the windows.
Sources
- National Geographic, 2011 visit and interview with innkeeper Judy Caudill
- Trazee Travel, visit to Baladerry Inn and the sitting-room binder
- James Gindlesperger, Bullets and Bandages, catalog contents distinguishing Bushman Tenant House from George Bushman Farm
- Baladerry Inn, operator’s current contact and address
- Visit Pennsylvania, state travel listing and geocoded location
