Golden Lamb Investigation
Saturday May 17, 2008
There is much history regarding the Golden Lamb and much of that history can be found at their
website http://www.goldenlamb.com
Rather than going into all of that history here in this report, we refer you to that website. Following is a
brief history:
The historic and charming Golden Lamb Inn, located in Lebanon, Ohio in Warren County and
northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio was founded in 1803 that makes it Ohio’s oldest inn.
Many famous people including Jonathan Garfield, William McKinley, John Quincy Adams, Benjamin
Harrison, William G. Harding, William Howard Taft, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Martin
Van Buren, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Henry Clay, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain have visited the Golden Lamb. Each one of their rooms is
named after one of its famous guests. There are rumored to be at least two possible ghosts at the
Golden Lamb.
The most famous ghost of the Golden Lamb is Sarah Stubbs (the daughter of Albert and Eunice
Stubbs. When Albert died, Eunice and her children moved to the Golden Lamb). Sarah was Isaac
Stubbs’ niece (he was the inn’s manager). The peculiar thing about this is that Sarah did not die
there, but grew up to be an old lady. So why would her ghost be there and as a little girl? Perhaps it is
because it is not she! Some believe it may be some forgotten guest who died as a child. Others
believe that it may be a girl named Eliza Clay, the twelve-year old daughter of Henry Clay who died
from a terrible fever at the Golden Lamb in 1825. Local legend has it that Eliza still haunts the halls of
the Golden Lamb. The only problem with that tale is that billing records indicate that the Clays stayed
at a rival hotel while in Lebanon, the Indian Chief Tavern.
At any rate, the paranormal activity is said to occur mainly in one specific room, Sarah’s room and
began after her stuff (including a rocking chair and bed side table) was moved into a different room
for display. This new room isn’t open to the public and the door is covered with Plexiglas, but this is
not the room where the center of activity is claimed to occur. Sarah is said to appear as a young girl in
a white nightgown and is known for knocking pictures off the walls and furniture, making noise and
feet stomping.
The other famous ghost who is believed by some to haunt the Golden Lamb is a well-known
defense lawyer, Clement Vallandigham, whose accidental shooting death occurred in his second floor
room on June 16, 1871.
Vallandigham came to defend Thomas McGehan who was charged with murder after a ballroom brawl.
McGehan’s defense was that the victim shot himself. And so did Vallandigham, as he accidentally
demonstrated to colleagues how the accident could have happened, to his own demise. It has been
said that you can sometimes smell his cigar smoke in the building and seeing a gaunt, gray man.
Paranormal activity has been claimed to take place in the Martin Van Buren Room (Room 27).
This is the room PSI (the Paranormal Scientific Investigators) stayed in! Another paranormal ghost
group for this investigation invited PSI. As we began our investigation, we set up our DVR multiplexer
unit with three infrared cameras in that room, as well as a Digital Voice Recorder. We took
thermohygrometer readings and EMF readings at regular intervals, noting the conditions into our
logs. We also made diagrams of the Martin Van Buren Room noting where the heating and cooling
vents were, where windows were, as well as anything electrical (i.e. electrical outlets, lamps, television,
radio, alarm clock, etc…). We began our actual investigation at 10:00 pm. Mark had his Sony IR 8mm
camcorder recording the entire night. Donnie and I both took many digital pictures. 35mm pictures
were taken as well as some Polaroid pictures. PSI decided to investigate using the procedures we
develop and the other paranormal group approached it using their methodologies. We pretty much
had full access but because there were guests, the individual guest rooms were off limits, other than
our own.
Previously another paranormal group had stayed in the Martin Van Buren Room and had reported
that something was amiss. Their EMF detector was blinking. They asked a question. Nothing
immediately happened, but then they report a small red light appeared. They took a picture and the
red light swooped away. Because of this activity being reported, we had our recording instruments
going the whole time there. Again, we took video and many pictures throughout the investigation.
Five items of interest to report:
1) One member had cold chills in one of the dining rooms, but after investigation, we found a
cooling vent at the top of one corner of the room and judged that to be the cause.
2) During our investigation we did an experiment in one room. We used a flashlight known to
‘flicker’ (light goes off and on) due to a loose connection. We went through a small series of yes and
no questions, one flicker meaning yes, two meaning no. At first it appeared to work and if you were to
watch just that small video clip, you might think it may have been paranormal activity, but after several
other questions, it became incoherent and made no sense. We thought this was of interest, because
we had seen supposed possible paranormal activity from another paranormal group video.
3) Just as we were finishing up from the previously mentioned experiment, we happened to run
into a reporter for Traveler Magazine. She was staying there as well and was interested in what we
were doing and interviewed us, asking a number of questions.
4) After the investigation and upon reviewing the evidence we found on one our videos, two
places where there was electromagnetic interference.
5) In conjunction with the electromagnetic interference just mentioned, a digital voice recorder
picked up approximately thirty seconds or so of a possible EVP. We couldn’t really make it out and so
would be classified in today’s current nomenclature as a class “B”.
PSI believes further investigation may be warranted in the future as time allows. Member of PSI
present included Mark Stewart and Donnie Shepherd. Members from the other paranormal group
included Wendy Sykora, Ron Fulkerson, and Scott Fulkerson.
Saturday May 17, 2008
There is much history regarding the Golden Lamb and much of that history can be found at their
website http://www.goldenlamb.com
Rather than going into all of that history here in this report, we refer you to that website. Following is a
brief history:
The historic and charming Golden Lamb Inn, located in Lebanon, Ohio in Warren County and
northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio was founded in 1803 that makes it Ohio’s oldest inn.
Many famous people including Jonathan Garfield, William McKinley, John Quincy Adams, Benjamin
Harrison, William G. Harding, William Howard Taft, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Martin
Van Buren, Rutherford B. Hayes, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Henry Clay, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain have visited the Golden Lamb. Each one of their rooms is
named after one of its famous guests. There are rumored to be at least two possible ghosts at the
Golden Lamb.
The most famous ghost of the Golden Lamb is Sarah Stubbs (the daughter of Albert and Eunice
Stubbs. When Albert died, Eunice and her children moved to the Golden Lamb). Sarah was Isaac
Stubbs’ niece (he was the inn’s manager). The peculiar thing about this is that Sarah did not die
there, but grew up to be an old lady. So why would her ghost be there and as a little girl? Perhaps it is
because it is not she! Some believe it may be some forgotten guest who died as a child. Others
believe that it may be a girl named Eliza Clay, the twelve-year old daughter of Henry Clay who died
from a terrible fever at the Golden Lamb in 1825. Local legend has it that Eliza still haunts the halls of
the Golden Lamb. The only problem with that tale is that billing records indicate that the Clays stayed
at a rival hotel while in Lebanon, the Indian Chief Tavern.
At any rate, the paranormal activity is said to occur mainly in one specific room, Sarah’s room and
began after her stuff (including a rocking chair and bed side table) was moved into a different room
for display. This new room isn’t open to the public and the door is covered with Plexiglas, but this is
not the room where the center of activity is claimed to occur. Sarah is said to appear as a young girl in
a white nightgown and is known for knocking pictures off the walls and furniture, making noise and
feet stomping.
The other famous ghost who is believed by some to haunt the Golden Lamb is a well-known
defense lawyer, Clement Vallandigham, whose accidental shooting death occurred in his second floor
room on June 16, 1871.
Vallandigham came to defend Thomas McGehan who was charged with murder after a ballroom brawl.
McGehan’s defense was that the victim shot himself. And so did Vallandigham, as he accidentally
demonstrated to colleagues how the accident could have happened, to his own demise. It has been
said that you can sometimes smell his cigar smoke in the building and seeing a gaunt, gray man.
Paranormal activity has been claimed to take place in the Martin Van Buren Room (Room 27).
This is the room PSI (the Paranormal Scientific Investigators) stayed in! Another paranormal ghost
group for this investigation invited PSI. As we began our investigation, we set up our DVR multiplexer
unit with three infrared cameras in that room, as well as a Digital Voice Recorder. We took
thermohygrometer readings and EMF readings at regular intervals, noting the conditions into our
logs. We also made diagrams of the Martin Van Buren Room noting where the heating and cooling
vents were, where windows were, as well as anything electrical (i.e. electrical outlets, lamps, television,
radio, alarm clock, etc…). We began our actual investigation at 10:00 pm. Mark had his Sony IR 8mm
camcorder recording the entire night. Donnie and I both took many digital pictures. 35mm pictures
were taken as well as some Polaroid pictures. PSI decided to investigate using the procedures we
develop and the other paranormal group approached it using their methodologies. We pretty much
had full access but because there were guests, the individual guest rooms were off limits, other than
our own.
Previously another paranormal group had stayed in the Martin Van Buren Room and had reported
that something was amiss. Their EMF detector was blinking. They asked a question. Nothing
immediately happened, but then they report a small red light appeared. They took a picture and the
red light swooped away. Because of this activity being reported, we had our recording instruments
going the whole time there. Again, we took video and many pictures throughout the investigation.
Five items of interest to report:
1) One member had cold chills in one of the dining rooms, but after investigation, we found a
cooling vent at the top of one corner of the room and judged that to be the cause.
2) During our investigation we did an experiment in one room. We used a flashlight known to
‘flicker’ (light goes off and on) due to a loose connection. We went through a small series of yes and
no questions, one flicker meaning yes, two meaning no. At first it appeared to work and if you were to
watch just that small video clip, you might think it may have been paranormal activity, but after several
other questions, it became incoherent and made no sense. We thought this was of interest, because
we had seen supposed possible paranormal activity from another paranormal group video.
3) Just as we were finishing up from the previously mentioned experiment, we happened to run
into a reporter for Traveler Magazine. She was staying there as well and was interested in what we
were doing and interviewed us, asking a number of questions.
4) After the investigation and upon reviewing the evidence we found on one our videos, two
places where there was electromagnetic interference.
5) In conjunction with the electromagnetic interference just mentioned, a digital voice recorder
picked up approximately thirty seconds or so of a possible EVP. We couldn’t really make it out and so
would be classified in today’s current nomenclature as a class “B”.
PSI believes further investigation may be warranted in the future as time allows. Member of PSI
present included Mark Stewart and Donnie Shepherd. Members from the other paranormal group
included Wendy Sykora, Ron Fulkerson, and Scott Fulkerson.
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