Two-Building Hotel With Long-Running Staff Accounts
18360 Conneaut Lake Road, Meadville, PA 16335
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Standard chain-hotel rates with conference-center facilities, indoor pool, sauna, and on-site Davenport's Restaurant.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved
Equipment
Photos OK
The Days Inn Meadville Conference Center operates a two-building footprint at 18360 Conneaut Lake Road in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The main building houses the lobby, kitchen, lounge, and Davenport's Restaurant alongside two floors of guest rooms. The auxiliary building contains a laundry, two floors of guest rooms, and a partial floor of apartment units. The combined property includes 163 air-conditioned guestrooms, an indoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and conference space.
Meadville sits on French Creek in Crawford County and serves as a regional center for Allegheny College and the surrounding agricultural and manufacturing economies. The Days Inn property is the most prominent conference hotel in the immediate area. Specific construction dates and prior uses of the buildings are not documented in publicly available sources, and the haunted reputation rests entirely on submitted staff and guest accounts rather than on a documented historical event.
Sources
Submitted accounts at the Days Inn Meadville cluster in two distinct areas. In the main building, kitchen staff have reported brief apparitions in the kitchen itself, and overnight employees describe a window-reflection effect at the end of the second-floor corridor: looking into the large window at the hallway's end, they see a figure standing behind them, but find no one there when they turn around.
The most-cited single account involves the security guard's encounter with a kitchen radio. According to the submitted record, the guard switched off the radio, walked away, and heard it resume playing. He returned, switched it off again, and heard it begin a third time after he left the room. On his final return the radio was no longer playing music but the room was as he had left it. Staff have continued to log similar electrical anomalies in the kitchen.
The auxiliary building is described in the same submitted accounts as more consistently active. Doors are reported opening and closing on their own, lights cycling on and off, and the sound of footsteps following employees down the corridors. Loud thumps on guestroom doors occur in vacant rooms. None of these accounts have been confirmed by hotel management, and the property does not market its haunted reputation.
163-room two-building hotel with conference facilities, indoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and Davenport's Restaurant on site. Staff accounts of paranormal activity center on the second-floor corridor of the main building and the connecting hallway in the auxiliary building.
On-site American restaurant in the main hotel building.
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