Stone Lion Inn Ghost Lore

The Stone Lion Inn is one of Guthrie's best-known historic residences and has developed a national reputation for paranormal stories. The large house was built in the early twentieth century for the Houghton family and later served different uses, including a funeral home, before being restored as a bed-and-breakfast. Its size, age and layered history made it an ideal setting for ghost lore. Guests and investigators have reported footsteps, voices, objects moving and apparitions, with stories often centering on members of the Houghton family or people associated with the building's funeral-home years. Some commonly repeated details—particularly stories about a child dying in the house—are difficult to verify consistently and should be understood as part of the property's folklore rather than accepted automatically as documented history. The Stone Lion is unusual because it is not simply an abandoned building with a ghost story; it remains an operating historic property. Its preserved rooms and furnishings create a strong sense of period atmosphere. For visitors interested in Oklahoma's haunted lore, it offers a good example of how an authentic historic house can accumulate a second identity through decades of guest stories, paranormal investigations and repeated retellings.