Jack Paladino, owner of the Cashtown Inn, said he never knows if he should believe customer's reports of ghostly activities.

But a recent visit from the Sci Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters show should help him make that determination in the future.

The crew arrived at his hotel Dec. 16, and left Thursday after four days of filming, Paladino said.

He said he's met a lot of ghost hunters, and the 16-man crew from The Atlantic Paranormal Society was very professional.

"Anything you see on that show - as far as I know - actually happened," Paladino said.

He said he couldn't say what the group found, until the episode airs in April.

In the show, the paranormal society actively debunks evidence they find during their investigations.

Most investigations turn up little or no paranormal evidence.

Representatives of NBC Universal - the company that owns the Sci Fi Channel - did not return an email request for comment, and TAPS could not be reached by phone.

Paladino said the Cashtown Inn represents a rare opportunity for ghost hunters. Many haunted places have one thing that repeats, but guests at Paladino's inn have reported boot steps, being touched while in bed, the sounds of children playing, the smell of cigar smoke and faces appearing in photographs of windows.

Paladino said he only had one experience in the 1797 house that felt supernatural.

Shortly after buying the property, he was standing at a sink, he said, when he felt a push from behind.

He turned to tell the person he didn't realize they were coming down, and there was nobody there.

He had a different kind of haunting this week.

The Cashtown Inn isn't large enough to house the entire TAPS crew, Paladino said, and some team members stayed at the Gettysburg Hotel.

They parked their van - with TAPS written on the side in large, yellow letters - in Lincoln Square.

Paladino said the team got Christmas cards from area residents, and fans showed up at the Cashtown Inn asking to meet the group.

"Sorry, they're working and eating," Paladino told them.

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