Windham, Connecticut

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Local legend ties this 1783 inn — originally three stories, reduced to two after it began to buckle around 1850, and converted to apartments in the 20th century — to the ghost of Elizabeth "Betsy" Shaw. In 1744, unmarried and pregnant, Betsy was shunned by her neighbors and reported to authorities by her own father; her newborn was found dead, and she was convicted and hanged by an all-male jury. The timeline doesn't actually line up — Betsy died decades before this inn was built — but local storytelling has long placed her ghost here anyway, walking the nearby road and the inn's hallways, where residents report hearing a baby crying with no infant in the building.
Former inn from 1783, converted to apartments in the 20th century. It is privately occupied and not open to visitors. View from the public road in Windham Center.
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