According to staff , Clara Brown’s people skills have
not improved with time. One guest, also with the
surname Brown, booked room number 9, the
Author and historian Th ea Lewis is a Vermont
room Clara moved into aft er her husband died,
native and the creator of Queen City Ghostwalk.
that remained her private quarters until she died.
Called Vermont’s Queen of Halloween, she’s been
Th e woman reported that during her stay at the scaring up history in Burlington and beyond since 2002, with
White House Inn she was visited in the mid-
her tours, special events and books for adults and children.
dle of the night by a well-dressed dowager. She
said the apparition sat in a chair next to her bed
Her titles with Th e History Press/Arcadia include
and announced, “One Mrs. Brown in this room
Haunted Burlington: Spirits of Vermont’s Queen City,
is quite enough!” Testy, long dead owners aside,
Ghosts and Legends of Lake Champlain,
Th e Boston Herald has called the inn, with its
Haunted Inns and
oversized feather beds, sweeping views, and formal
Ghostly Getaways of Vermont, and her latest off ering,
gardens, “One of the ten most romantic places in the
(May 2018) Wicked Vermont.
world”.
Th e White House Inn.
178 VT-9, Wilmington, Vermont
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