The Ledger, the Cold Water, and the Inn's Silent Witness
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The Ledger, the Cold Water, and the Inn's Silent Witness
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Cold air, an open ledger dated November, and a glass of water still cold in a building with no heat since 1961-one meter reader’s chance discovery would undo a century of assumptions about a Soline County death. How did a thirty-six-year ritual by an innkeeper turn a verdict of misadventure into something that refuses easy explanation?
In this episode, we recount the documents, witnesses, and ledger entries that connect a twenty-four-year-old logger’s death in November 1887 to a ritual kept by the inn’s keeper for decades; we follow the trail from the Pallister Inn’s Room Seven to an archive box that rewrites a local ghost story and ask what the ledger was really meant to say.
Person: Steven Rafferty
Date: November 9, 1887 (date he was found dead)
Location: Room Seven, Pallister Inn, Harwick Crossing, Vermont
Event: Coroner’s inquest convened by County Coroner Absalom Dreer; verdict misadventure
Person: Ida Pallister (performed yearly ledger entries for 36 years)
- Bruce Vogel, a meter reader, found Room Seven unlocked and the ledger open in November 2009.
- The Pallister Inn had no heat and no running water since 1961 when the glass of water was found cold.
- The G. Mott party was recorded as "four persons, eleven nights" and left the morning after Rafferty’s body was found.
- The coroner’s inquest recorded cause as exposure and blunt injury to the posterior skull and closed in three weeks.
- Ida Pallister wrote "S. Rafferty" in the Room Seven ledger once every November for thirty-six consecutive years.
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