Location: The Farhampton Inn and Resort is located at 950 Oceanview Avenue in the small tourist community of Farhampton, fifteen miles northeast of Southampton on Highway 27 at Napeague Bay, a hundred miles northeast of New York City.

Description of Place: Sitting on 40 acres or seaside coastline of the tip of Long island, the Farhampton Inn is a three story former residence with twenty-two rooms above a rocky shoal overlooking a private stretch of beach. The white structure is designed in a Gothic Revival shingle-style with a turret room, extended dining room and steeply pitched shingle-styled roofs with steep cross gables and deeply overhanging eaves, four tall medieval-style chimneys and a loose irregular floor plan. Most of the interior is designed with a turn-of-the-century influence while still retaining its old-world charm with little Twentieth Century interference. There are also beach cottages, harbor houses, a separate chalet suite, a nearby lighthouse and a two-level suite in the turret of the main house. The turret has 30 foot high ceilings and a view of all sides of the building, popular with marriages and honeymooners.

Ghostly Manifestations: The Farhampton Inn is a bad example of what happens when a staff exploits its ghost for the wrong reasons. While haunted inns attract far more guests than they scare away, the day desk clerk Hamish Lazenby is often found guilty of using the ghost to avoid repairs and even pad the bills of distracted guests. However, as innkeepers and employees come and go, some guests choose to stay. Such is the case with the ghost at the Farhampton Inn.

Cradled between Napeague Bay and the highway, the town of Farhampton, New York has a rich tapestry of agriculture, shipbuilding and Federal-style architecture that lends the town an aura of historical value that manifests itself in ways unseen in other parts of the world. Located on the picturesque rocky shore of town, the Farhampton Inn, established in the heyday of those booming times when the town was finding its New England niche, still plays host to numerous weddings and romantic getaways for modern couples. Nearly forgotten in the inn's public history, the spirit of Captain Blazby Dearduff is nearly forgotten here, but some of the staff still hold on to his memory, even keeping his former bedroom historically intact apart from the rest of the inn which has been renovated and modernized at least twice. However, not everyone can agree his spirit is still around.

According to a 1971 issue of the Southampton Daily News, Jason and Allison Kripke, former owners of the Inn, recalled their dealings with Dearduff and his interactions with their employees.

“We pooh-poohed it and laughed,” Allison confesses, who considered herself to be a bit psychic, and reluctant at times to go upstairs because she felt a strong presence at the top of the stars that she called “The Captain.” A former assistant manager for the inn, she and her husband bought the location to save it in 1963, but she soon realized and discovered for herself who the presence was and that he was a good-natured ghost who seemed to only pull pranks on the guests and employees he didn’t like.

Dearduff's old bedroom is now Farhampton Inn's Room 13, and through the Sixties, his ghost made it a habit to pull the shower curtain off its rod even after it is glued and nailed on the rod. He was also known to oft times appear at the foot of the bed leaning at an angle on to a cane or getting seen descending the inn’s main staircase if but to vanish at the bottom. The television in Room 13 is known to go on and off, especially when the room has been vacant a while.

Allison also believed that Dearduff tended to lurk around in the attic as if he was rummaging through the boxes for something. Guests have reported hearing someone stomping around up there late at night, even once angering a New York detective one year to the point of asking for his money back. Once the innkeepers explained to him that it was not them who were making the noises, the detective moved to another room and remained relatively quiet for the rest of his stay,

Other odd things occurred at the inn. Objects in Room 13 tended to disappear, loud bangs were sometimes heard and disembodied voices whispered throughout the room and halls.

On one occasion, three mugs levitated off a shelf in the bar area and smacked a bartender named Barney on the back of the head.

“This kind of made a believer out of me...” Allison confides. “I was seated at the bar when it happened.”

The bar area and accompanying dining hall were best known for activity during the Summer of 1979, but the one room most known for activity is Room 13. In the Spring of 1980, a housekeeper was cleaning the room when she had unplugged the television to plug in a vacuum cleaner. A moment later, the television turned on by itself. Although innocuous, it was enough to terrify the young woman. That same month, another house-keeper restocking the honor bar claimed she felt someone hovering over her as she tried working. Upon hearing a raspy breathing behind her, she fled the room in fear. To this day, there is no honor bar in Room 13.

In 2002, the current inn owners Neil and Cory Deschanel hosted a public séance with psychic Dawn Rochner who seemingly connected with Blazby in an evening psychic session for guests in the dining hall. According to her, Blazby was uncertain what year it was and felt it was his duty to stay and protect the inn. Before several guests, Rochner called up Dearduff's relatives to take him "into the light" and exorcise his ghost from the inn. Since this date, no one has reported any new phenomenon in the inn, but this aspect isn't usually publicly revealed. Paranormal programming such as “True and Real Ghost Stories of the Supernatural,” still insists Dearduff still haunts Room 13, and while the stories of his ghost has faded away, some employees like Hamish Lazenby still try to encourage the tales.

"I don't believe the inn is haunted anymore." Curtis Brosnan, the night desk clerk, remises. "But I wish it was."

Linus Dalton, the current bartender, however, still thinks he feels a presence when he crosses the dining room as if he's not so sure.

History: Originally known as the Old Dearduff House, the house, designed by the Manhattan architect Robert D. Segal, was initially built as a summer home for Blazby Family, one of the founding families of Long Island society in the 1790s. The family also shared it with friends and family members until the 1890s when the family sold it along with most of their other area holdings. It reopened as housing for Naval officers during World War II, but after the war, the inn became a resort for high society jet-setters. Eventually, all the accommodations were winterized, making Farhampton a favorite year-round retreat for lovers and couples who sought its beauty, grace, and romantic solitude.

The majority of the haunting legends for the hotel occurred during the Fifties and the Sixties after which the hotel stood empty and shut down from 1963 to 1976 when it reopened. By this point, there was very little serious research on the activity here except the belief it was haunted by Captain Blazby Dearduff, whose legend had become distorted and exaggerated over the years. His altered legend appeared for the first time in modern memory in “True and Real Ghost Stories of the Supernatural” (Episode: "Farhampton Inn," October 28, 2012), a syndicated series with lackluster production values on the Ghost Network (now the Chiller Network) in New York City. The Farhampton footage demonstrates a boom in the way, an inexperienced narrator, a special effects man on-screen and a rather obvious overdub of an alleged witness "testifying" to her encounter. The only worthy note is that the segment also suggests the ghost in the Farhampton Inn could also be an unidentified former guest described as a popular male prostitute who died of syphilis in the inn in 1848.

Identity Of Ghosts: Better known as "Dearduff the Hooker," Captain Thomas Blazby Dearduff (1799 - 1843) was an Early Nineteenth Century ship captain of unremarkable history except for the fact he was descended through his mother to to the Blazby Family. At some point, he dropped the "Thomas" from his name, but he was the last known member of the family to live full time in the house until during one particularly hard winter in December 1843 that he froze to death in his bedroom. His original brass bed is still in storage in the attic, but his personality and history are so nondescript that over the years he was grandiosely changed from a sea captain to a pirate replete with a hook for a hand and a peg leg (and in some versions, even apparently a serial killer), but this could be part of confusion with the local ghost of Captain Janos Connery, who reportedly haunts the nearby lighthouse. It has since been rationalized that the knocking sounds people once reported hearing were actually the sounds of a phantom cane.

Source/Comments: How I Met Your Mother (Episode: "No Question Asked") - Architecture style and location based on the Castle Hill Inn in Newport, Rhode Island. Activity based on the the Kennebunk Inn in Kennebunk, Maine, the Captain Grant Inn in Poquetanuck, Connecticut, the Green Mountain Inn in Stowe, Vermont and the Captain Lord Mansion in Kennebunkport, Maine.