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The historic Buck Hill Inn is situated in the idyllic forest scenery and cool climate of the Pocono Mountains. As railroad expansion in the late 19th century offered access to this once-remote region of Pennsylvania, a group of Philadelphia Quakers formed a corporation in 1900 to build a mountain retreat. The Inn, designed by the Philadelphia firm of Bunting and Shrigley and opened in 1901, contained 20 rooms and no private baths. The tremendous success and popularity of the Inn led to almost annual additions and alterations including the 1923 construction of a large rambling 4-story hotel of native stone in the Mission Revival style, also designed by Bunting and Shrigley. As the Poconos developed as a popular early 20th century tourist destination, other resort complexes followed including Pocono Manor (1902), and Skytop (1927). In addition to a main hotel, each also included a cottage community. Buck Hill and Pocono Manor, both established by Quakers, offered a relaxed, understated atmosphere in contrast to the grander scale and opulence of Skytop. Buck Hill was, even into the later years of the 20th century, one of the largest Pocono resorts.¹

Paranormal History

²Welcome to the Buck Hill Inn , a place possessed by evil with a long history of violence, murders, suicides and multiple reports of ghost sightings and strange noises. The hotel has been abandoned for over 10 years. One day the hotel owner committed his wife to an insane asylum, locked the front doors and never returned. The inn is built on land formerly owned by Quakers. The hotel's beautiful gardens were designed by one of the landscape architects who designed New York City's Central Park.

Buck Hill Inn is the site where a number of people have met bizarre fates. One victim, whose name is being withheld, was on his way out of the hotel when two gunmen pulled up in a black sedan and fired five .38 caliber rounds before speeding away. A drunk employee fell to his death from the fourth story, apparently while trying to get into the room adjacent to his. His body was found the next morning impaled on an iron railing. A visiting psychic reported that his death could have possibly been a suicide. In 1968, a local cabdriver was found alongside the hotel, shot to death in his car. One man was murdered in the laundry tunnel, allegedly because he was unable to pay his gambling debts to the Mafia. The case was never solved.

Guests of the inn have woken up to strange voices, shaking beds and even ghostly apparitions hovering above their beds. Eventually, the Buck Hill Inn's business suffered because of its growing reputation for being haunted. The hotel's bookings fell over 50 percent in just one year. Numerous guests have reported strange occurrences, ranging from bizarre electrical phenomena to actual ghost sightings.

The hotel owner's dog, Bradley, even refused to enter the hotel when brought near the premises.
James Wilson, former security guard, would routinely walk the perimeter of the hotel making sure all the lights were out in certain areas. Even though he knew these areas of the hotel were empty, he was constantly turning off the same lights and locking the same doors over and over again, all night long. Windows and doors in the hotel are notorious for opening and slamming shut of their own accord. Electrical devices (lights, televisions, hair dryers, etc.) at the hotel often turned on and off on their own. Even after wiring all of the aforementioned doors and windows shut, they continue to slam all night long.

The hotel is real, as are the reports of supernatural manifestations you will read about. We have not added to, or altered, the history of the hotel in any way. All of the people you will learn about through your stay, including the staff and guests, are or were real people. Their stories are all true, as are their sufferings. The extensive history we have prepared has been compiled from previously published articles and firsthand accounts.

MTV's Fear Episode 6 ==

Originally aired: Sunday March 11, 2001 on MTV <br />
Show Stars: Dan Gifford (Webvoice), Carla Baron (Psychic)<br />
Guest Stars:
Heidi (Cast Member)<br />
Jennifer (Cast Member) <br />
Andrew (Cast Member) <br />
Michael (Cast Member) <br />
Jesse (Cast Member) <br />
Amy (Cast Member) <br />


⁴The following locations are where the dares occured

East Room/The Lamp Room:
The East Room includes a haven of lamps from throughout the hotel. It contains a powerful evil energy that controls the entire hotel.

The East Room was purposefully built above an intersection of "lay lines". Lay lines are a supposed natural power grid that encompass the globe. They are believed to create a power vortex, which both attracts and traps spirits. A visiting psychic declared that the Buck Hill Inn was at the epicenter of a spiritual vortex. Lay lines intersecting in the East Room are rumored to create an inescapable vacuum, which prevents departed souls from passing on to the next life.
Before losing her mind, the owner's wife would routinely lie on the East Room's floor at the intersection of two very powerful lay lines. Eventually, she was committed to a mental correctional facility after suffering from what was described as a "schizophrenic episode." <br />

Main Lobby/Corridor Of Arches:
Professional psychics and paranormal researchers agree that the Main Lobby is the hot spot for many full-bodied apparitional appearances. Research has proven that spirits are attracted to the sound of bells. After he was fired in the 1960's, the stable manager herded all of the inn's horses into the main lobby of the hotel and then committed suicide. <br />

Kitchen:
Buck Hill's kitchen is a violent hot spot where staffers would brutally attack, stab, beat and--in one gruesome case--bash in the skulls of fellow workers with an iron meat tenderizer. In 1936, an employee who recently had been let go, was found swinging from a noose attached to the ceiling pipes. It was written off as a suicide, but most suspected otherwise.
In later years, a former cook reported that a bizarre cockroach infestation was taking over the hotel. Some mornings he would enter the restaurant and find the entire south wall of the kitchen covered in cockroaches. <br />

Room 354:
During the 66 years the Buck Hill Inn was operating, 73 people died at the hotel. Of those deaths, 5 occurred in Room 354. This is the hotel's most feared room, which maids refused to clean. At times, the room becomes freezing cold and fills with strange voices, while the doors slam continually.
A woman named Lorna Kilpatrick once stayed in this room, where she prepared for her wedding. The next day, Lorna was found murdered by the very priest who had performed her wedding ceremony. Father Anthony McClain was found later in his car less than one mile away, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Staff and psychics agree that Lorna's ghost still haunts this room today.<br />

A full-time maid was one of many who died in this room. In September 1962, her body was found lying in the cold water of this tub with her wrists slashed and her blood everywhere. She was found clutching a rosary that she had kept on her person since her confirmation 10 years earlier. She left friends and family confused over what caused her to take her own life.
Guests have left angrily after staying in the room because of the "ghosts." Finally, the room was locked permanently. <br />

Basement Men's Washroom:
Many atrocities have occurred in the basement men's bathroom.
In the early 1930's, two bootleggers were beaten to death in the hallway just outside of the basement men's washroom by a rival group of liquor runners. In the 1960's, a security guard was found bludgeoned to death with a meat mallet. His supervisor said he had been beaten so badly the marks from the mallet could still be seen on his head and face. Later, the security guard's wife held a séance with some friends in an attempt to speak with her deceased husband. In a bizarre twist, the entity that was contacted soon haunted the widow's home and basement men's room. A professional exorcist had to rid them of the entity, which was presumably not the spirit of her husband at all.

The bathroom has since seen strange poltergeist activity, such as toilet seats rising and falling on their own, strange voices, and doors opening and closing on their own. <br />

Washroom Junction:
This is the room where the body of 22-year-old housekeeper, Sarah Martin, was found lying next to a wall, dead from strangulation. After this discovery, residents living on that floor reported hearing sounds of gasping and heavy breathing in the halls. <br />

Staff Quarters 3rd Floor:
On this floor, several staff members have reported seeing a ghost of an older man in an old-fashioned military uniform listlessly wandering the halls at night. It has been reported that this bizarre apparition has even interacted with staff members. No one knows who he is or when he died, but you will know him by the large hole in the center of his chest, most likely made by a close-range musket blast on a field of battle.
Dozens of guests once witnessed the ghost when he walked through a garden party inconspicuously and then vanished. <br />

Basement Office:
The Buck Hill Inn's accountant committed suicide on the premises after having a disagreement with the owners over the books. Many employees believed his death resulted from foul play, and that the owner was involved.


== Resources

All content provided can be found in its original form. (No content provided is my own work)<br />

Official Site- Learn more about the Inn at Buck Hills¹<br />
Paranormal Soup- Soup for the soul...literally. ²<br />
PARAseek- A deatailed account of two paraprofessionals.³<br />
MTV Fear- A recap of Episode 6: Buck Hill Inn. ⁴