Grace Tremont

**Grace Tremont** was the wife of the farmer who owned the Tremont farm before it was turned into a hotel.

She had an incurable fatal disease but believed that bathing in the sulphur springs near the Tremont farm would cure her illness. This did not happen, but the presence of a Power Crystal in the water slowed the progression of the disease, extending her lifespan by several months.

At some point after her death, a local judge named Emmett Walker used forged documents to evict her family from the property in 1930. This caused Grace to begin haunting the building, residing in a mirror that she had owned and sometimes sitting upon her favorite rocking chair, causing it to move. She caused trouble at the Tremont for decades; when it was first being built, the judge went through six different architects and it took 14 years after the initial takeover of the land before the hotel opened for business in 1944.

In 1947, Grace's widowed daughter Daisy was working at the Tremont as a maid to support herself and her daughter, Ruby. Knowing that the judge had stolen her family's land, Ruby often spied on him and discovered that he was secretly behind an investment scheme which had defrauded some of his wealthy friends. After learning where the stolen money was hidden, Ruby confronted the judge in his room and demanded that he confess to stealing her family's land or she would reveal where he had hidden the money. Unwilling to let himself be blackmailed, the judge decided to keep her quiet more directly. However, as he reached for Ruby menacingly, his wife Winnifred entered the room, saw what he was doing and struck him over the head with a vase, inadvertently killing him. After Ruby told her mother what had happened, the two women decided that it would be best to cover up the judge's death so they secretly moved his body to the barn and buried it there. While disposing of the body, Mrs. Walker told Daisy that she hadn't grabbed the vase, it had just appeared in her hands, as if someone had put it there. Hearing this caused Daisy to believe that her mother had intervened to protect her grandbaby from harm.

Having died by violence, the judge's evil spirit had unfinished business that kept him from passing over. However, the presence of Grace's spirit in the Tremont kept his spirit trapped in the barn for over seventy years.

Many years later, when the Campbells purchased the building in 2020, Grace began trying to communicate with them in an attempt to restore the ownership of the property to her descendants, the Dunns. Aside from causing electrical disturbances, like flickering lights, Grace also used her mirror to communicate more directly. On at least four occasions, Grace caused her mirror's surface to fog over so that she could write one or two word messages meant for people who were close to it at the time.

Realizing what Grace wanted, Savannah Dillon retrieved the original transfer documents from the judge's office in 1930 and Harper Dunn took them back to 2020, proving the Dunns had legal ownership of the property. Ultimately, the Dunns and the Campbells decided to enter a 50/50 partnership. With this achieved, Grace departed the mirror, returned to the springs and said goodbye to those who helped her achieve her goal before moving on. The five Campbell and Dunn children watched her spirit ascend but decided not to tell their parents what they had seen.

However, once Grace's spirit had left the Tremont, Judge Walker's spirit was able to escape from the barn and enter the hotel where it began occupying Room 205, the room in which he had been killed.