The Wayside Inn

(72 Wayside Inn Road, Sudbury, Massachusetts) will be featured on the Travel Channel next month but it won’t be the typical piece that mentions fine dining, charming rooms and a quaint New England setting, or the Martha-Mary Chapel and other picturesque surroundings of the historic 1716 inn.

Last week, a paranormal crew spent a couple days at the Sudbury inn, including a night in Room 9 where over the years guests have claimed they’ve seen, smelled the perfume or experienced in other ways the ghost of Jerusha Howe. The group remarks that they saw an apparition Thursday night believed to be Howe, who died in 1842.

Jerusha Howe was the innkeeper’s sister. A pianist, she was born in 1797 and died unmarried at the age of 45 in 1842. While living at the inn, which at the time was a boarding house, Howe occupied rooms 9 and 10

Howe, aka ‘The Belle of Sudbury,” fell in love with a gentleman from Britain, who promised to love her forever. When he left to go back home, he promised to return and marry her. She waited, and waited but he never came back.

The story goes she died of a broken heart and for the past 150 years she’s been haunting the grounds,

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