The Knickerbocker Hotel in Linesville, Pennsylvania has been investigated by the Northwest Pennsylvania Hauntings (NWPAH) paranormal investigators. They conducted this investigation in October 2006.

The hotel was originally called the Arnold House and built in 1882. Later on it became the Arlington Hotel and more recently the Knickerbocker. Some of the paranormal activity reported is running on the steps and a feeling of people rushing by.

A former owner has been witnessed walking in the building. A small boy was seen running down a hall before disappearing. A middle-aged man with a beard dressed in coveralls appears in the basement of the building.

You can find the Knickerbocker Hotel on our Haunted Places Map.

In March of 2008 Paranormal State aired an episode of their investigation of the Knickerbocker.

As of this writing the group seems to be off-line. Their web site at www.nwpah.com is not currently available. Using the “Internet wayback machine” you can see a snapshot of their site from August 2007.

From what we have been able to gather the NWPAH was started by the husband and wife team of Colette and Rick MacLees of Meadville, Pennsylvania in 2005. Meadville is not far from the Knickerbocker Hotel so it sounds like a natural fit to be investigated by local people.

Update: A few of the members of NWPAH have formed a new group. It’s called Keystone Paranormal. Brian Boughner who is a member of Keystone Paranormal told us in an email that they investigated the Knickerbocker Hotel recently and will soon have results posted on their site.

Keystone Paranormal has posted results and so has O.R.P.I.T.

Read some other investigation results from Keystone Paranormal.

There are some public photos from the NWPAH investigation available from flickr.com.

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