Wickerham Inn - Peebles, OH - Ghosts and Hauntings on Waymarking.com

From the Ohio History Central website:

The Wickerham Inn is the oldest brick building in Adams County, Ohio and was one of the earliest taverns to exist in the Northwest Territory.

In 1797, Peter Wickerham moved to the Northwest Territory. Like many veterans of the American Revolution, Wickerham hoped to improve his fortunes on the frontier. He eventually settled in Adams County, in modern-day Peebles, Ohio. He built a cabin along Zane's Trace, an important road during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In 1800, Wickerham decided to build a brick tavern, which he completed in 1801. Known as Wickerham Inn, the tavern remained in operation until the 1850s. In the years leading up to the American Civil War, the tavern served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

According to legend, the Wickerham Inn is haunted. Purportedly, a stagecoach driver was murdered and beheaded in the tavern. Supposedly his body was not found for approximately one hundred years. In 1922, the inn was remodeled, and construction workers found a headless skeleton buried in the limestone floor. The body was purportedly buried, but the inn remained haunted.

From the Associated Content website:

Wickerham had the idea of adding a tavern onto his property, a place where stagecoach drivers could have a pint and relax for the night. One night though, a tragedy occurred at the Wickerham Inn tavern. A stagecoach driver was seen bragging to others about the amount of money he carried with him on his trip. Others claim that the man didn't say a word, but was targeted anyway.

Regardless of the story, the man was still brutally attacked. A worker was dispatched to his room when he did not check out, and found the room covered in blood. The walls, floors, and anywhere else the worker looked, he found blood but the body of the stagecoach driver had seemingly disappeared. The only trace of him, was a blood stain on the floor that resembled a headless body. Wickerham immediately ordered the room cleaned and everything made of fabric was burned, including the bed sheets and curtains. Despite repeatedly cleaning the floors, the imprint of the man's body kept returning.

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