Overview
The Addy Sea faces the Atlantic across the dunes at Bethany Beach, Delaware — the cedar-shingled Victorian guesthouse John Addy built in 1902 as the family's seaside retreat, expanded and kept in hospitable service ever since, its copper tubs, pressed-tin ceilings and wraparound views making it the quiet resort town's signature stay. Its haunting is Delaware's best-known and most companionable, told by innkeepers and guests for decades and collected in the state's haunted-travel canon around three numbered rooms: Room 1's antique tub that trembles without cause, Room 6's organ music though no organ remains in the house, and Room 11's footsteps overhead on the roof — with supporting telling of a former handyman about his rounds, voices in the parlour and doors that ease; identifications are house tradition, unverified and shared with breakfast-table warmth. Nothing dark anchors the stories, and the inn wears them lightly beside its real distinction of continuous century-plus seaside service. Present the Addy Sea as boardwalk-era heritage first, its three storied rooms the gentlest haunting on the platform; room details from the inn's pages.