North Glenstone Roadside Inn with Long-Running Carl Lore
2610 N Glenstone Ave, Springfield, MO 65803
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Standard roadside motel rates. Check current operator listings for nightly pricing.
Access
Limited Access
Paved parking lot and corridors
Equipment
Photos OK
The building at 2610 N Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri began life as a Howard Johnson's, part of the orange-roofed national chain that anchored mid-century American highway travel. After Howard Johnson's exited the property, it operated as the Bass Country Inn, then later as the Campus Inn. The address sits on Springfield's commercial north corridor, a stretch of motel signage, fast-food pads, and surface parking that grew up around the U.S. Highway 65 corridor in the postwar decades.
The property's haunted reputation circulates entirely through paranormal-aggregator listings and informal staff and guest accounts. The Inn does not market itself as a haunted destination, and no historical society or news outlet has produced documented coverage of a death, incident, or notable event tied to the address.
Research quality on this venue is thin. Beyond confirming the address, the former Howard Johnson's pedigree, and the chain of subsequent operators, no archival or journalistic sources elaborate on the building's history.
Sources
The most-repeated story attached to the Bass Country Inn concerns a figure called Carl. Paranormal-aggregator listings describe him as a former bus person who has been reported in the kitchen and back hallways. The accounts describe items falling from shelves with no one nearby, the sense of legs visible on the far side of a work table that disappear when a viewer crouches to look, and figures glimpsed entering the office only for the door to be found locked from inside.
A second presence, identified only as a woman, surfaces in the same listings with notably less detail. The accounts describe her as less benign than Carl, but offer no name, era, or backstory.
The lore does not appear in news archives, historical-society publications, or first-party reporting. It exists primarily as a circulated retelling of an early Shadowlands Haunted Places Index entry. A rigorous account of the property would treat these stories as folklore in the strict sense — passed along between guests and staff, never independently corroborated.
Notable Entities
View the former Howard Johnson's roadside-inn footprint from the public street. The property has cycled through several owners and names since the original Bass Country Inn era; it is not marketed as a haunted destination.
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