My Sun Inn Experience

Learning the local history of where you live is such an important thing. Leaving the comfort of your college campus can lead to new and interesting things. I learned this when my partner Laura and I were assigned a project in our J198 class. The assignment was to videotape and compile a story about something going on in the local Bethlehem area.

Laura and I decided to visit the Sun Inn, a historical inn filled with history. (http://www.suninnbethlehem.org/)What we didn't know about the Sun Inn when we went there was that it is allegedly one of the most haunted placed in Pennsylvania. Five different paranormal groups reported paranormal activity at the inn!

We wanted to focus our news story on this aspect of the inn, although we did take a tour of the inn and learn a lot about other history as well! After interviewing the inn keeper, the chef and even the manger of another nearby local business, we learned that they all believed in this paranormal activity as well. The staff at the inn and other residents of Bethlehem were so helpful and willing to provide us with stories and whatever other information we needed. Not only does our story, cut down from over an hour of footage to just a minute and a half, show the paranormal history of the Sun Inn, but it also shows the vibrant and friendly personality of the residents of Bethlehem.

Going off campus, you can discover things you never would have learned about otherwise. Like the ghost hunting tours that the Sun Inn does in Oct., or the fact that several Bethlehem residents have even experienced paranormal activity. Overall, visiting the Sun Inn and compiling our news story together was an interesting and fun experience I'm glad I had.