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Often called the most haunted place in Vermont, the Green Mountain Inn has a history and a ghost that just won’t give up the dance. might not look haunted from the outside but leaves plenty of guests wondering what they just experienced during a stay.

History of the Haunted Green Mountain Inn

Built in 1883, the Green Mountain Inn once boasted a large dance hall that attracted visitors from all across the region and was a popular place for presidents and famous actors to visit while in Stowe. Owners renovated the old hotel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which is right around the time that guests and staff began experiencing some peculiar things at the hotel.

The most common story told surrounds a man by the odd name of Boots Berry. Local legend claims that he earned the nickname Boots because he learned how to tap dance from a fellow prisoner while in jail and would delight locals by dancing through the streets. Supposedly born in one of the rooms at the inn, Berry later became the man in charge of the inn’s horses. When the horses escaped the property and raced through the streets, Berry was the one who chased after them and brought them back. People in town were so grateful for what he did that men and women alike lined up in the hopes of buying him a drink. Berry grew so famous that he eventually stopped working and lived solely on what his fans gave him.

Boots Berry also developed something of a drinking problem, which led to the owners firing him. Though not distraught, Berry did leave town and only came back several years later. Not long after moving back, he heard a young girl screaming and discovered her about to fall off the roof of the hotel. Berry raced upstairs and managed to pull her back to safety, only to die himself when he slipped off the roof.

Many people believe that Boots is the Inn’s resident ghost because of the noises they hear, which sounds just like someone tap dancing across the roof. Guests staying on the top floor of the Green Mountain Inn occasionally hear the sounds of someone dancing and footsteps jumping back and forth across the roof.

Boots Berry and his haunting of the Green Mountain Inn is unique because he doesn’t make appearances like other ghosts do. Rather than jumping out from behind closed doors and knocking on walls, he just likes to cut a rug on the roof of the old inn. Even decades after his death, he still loves to show off his dancing skills.

The lodge has been around since it was built in the 1926. At some unreported time in the past, there was a fire in the main lodge and a worker couldn’t escape from the fire. She died. It’s her ghost who is thought to haunt the lodge now. One guest reported to the store owner across the street that she was leaving the lodge because of an experience she had. After unpacking her bags, she found a woman standing behind her. The woman explained that her name was Beverly, and she worked in the hotel. The guest was annoyed that an employee would walk in unannounced and reported the worker to the front desk. They told the guest that they didn’t have a worker named Beverly.

The hotel was built in 1886 by John McMillin and has had many guests including some famous ones like Theodore Roosevelt. It’s a woman apparition who is seen wandering the halls of the hotel. A nearby location is said to be equally creepy. The McMillin family has a mausoleum where there is a dining room set up for the entire family. At each location is a column where the family members ashes reside. It’s said that a family of apparitions sits there at sundown. One person reported feeling a heavy anger while standing near the mausoleum, and he decided not to enter.

This bed and breakfast is considered one of the most haunted locations in Washington. It’s been featured in a documentary called Montgomery House: The Perfect Haunting. For years, the bed and breakfast was haunted by solid apparitions as well as voices. The house was built on a location that used to house an entire Native American tribe that died when the settlers came to America. After the filming, the owners of the bed and breakfast moved and sold the house. It’s a private home now.

The castle was built in 1892 and went from being a family home to a location for nuns then Jesuits. In 1968, it was turned into a hotel, and guests have reported many strange and unusual occurrences. Most happenings are reported in rooms 302, 304 and 306. The ghosts are thought to be a monk who hung himself and a young girl waiting for her love to come back from the war. When she learned he died, she jumped out the window. The drinking glasses in the cafe, which was previously the chapel, seem to explode.