The Common Man Tavern was built by Matthew Thornton in 1797 as a wedding present for his son James. But a few years later, James committed suicide. Today, witnesses report ghostly footsteps and several apparitions, but not ones belonging to James. Folks have seen a Native American, a little girl, and a woman in a long black dress. Spirits in the building are known to hum, knock things over, and play other tricks on the living.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 304 Daniel Webster Hwy
Merrimack, NH 03054
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 42.83961406432553, -71.49145656832843
- County:
- Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
- Nearest Towns:
- Litchfield, NH (0.7 mi.)
Merrimack, NH (1.8 mi.)
East Merrimack, NH (2.0 mi.)
Nashua, NH (5.3 mi.)
Hudson, NH (5.8 mi.)
Londonderry, NH (6.2 mi.)
Amherst, NH (6.9 mi.)
Bedford, NH (7.5 mi.)
Milford, NH (8.0 mi.)
Hollis, NH (8.4 mi.)
Contact Information
- Web:
- http://www.thecman.com/
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I worked here when it was Hannah Jack Tavern. Yes, this place is very haunted. We always thought it was Hannah Jack. She’d shut the lights off at the switch at night to make us leave when the place was closed to the public. In what was one of the dining rooms, we’d find table settings rearranged in the mornings when we came in. The upstairs was office space and we’d find pennies stacked on the desk, and lined up on the picture frames. The door to the kitchen would swing open and closed on its own. The arms of the chandeliers would bend down on their own and we’d have to bend them back up. Champagne buckets would get thrown over in room 3 and it was impossible to use a stand in that room. A speaker came flying off the wall across the room one night during dinner rush. In empty dining rooms you could hear the sound of chairs being pulled out from the tables like someone was sitting down. The owners once tried to live upstairs at one time, but couldn’t do it.
I lived in that house, upstairs, in 1967 or so. I saw a lot of strange unexplained things while living there. Usually there are not any incidents, unless the spirits are upset… Most of the activity took place at night, or early hours of the morning. I was 5-6 at the time, and was better able to see all this.
There cheese and crackers are good, lets say that. I had originally saw this place online as “Haunted” and I had no idea! I went there to check it out, Upstairs I felt some energy near an Indian painting. what was strange is when I walked up the stairs nothing was on them. when I walked down, I saw a long dark brown straight piece of hair. I had brought a family member later there who can communicate with spirits, near the staircase to the bar, even I felt a female energy.
How about the rushing of wind in the basement, as if someone was running past you, or the little boy standing in the road. I also lived upstairs, in the same room that a suspected suicide took place. Our family lived in that house around 1967.
Me and my family lived here around 1967 or so. Me and my mother have had some very strange experiences here, and although the stories by other people seem true, we have had other experiences that we have never disclosed to this day.