{"id":2480,"slug":"82-queen-charleston-south-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["82 Queen is the address — the 'couldn't agree' that's the partners' stuck, the 'number picked' that's the name's birth. The '1688' is the ground — the 'square laid' that's the plot's age, the 'slave quarters' that's the parcel's truth. The 'fire quake' is the survived — the '1861' that's the burn's date, the '1886' that's the shake's test.","The 'Lowcountry coined' is the made — the 'majestic cuisine' that's the first word, the 'genre born' that's the kitchen's mark. The 'almost gone' is the saved — the 'Stokes bought' that's the '78 threat, the 'Review stepped' that's the wrecking's stop. 82 Queen is the lasted — the 'competitors gone' that's the '82 field, the 'soup still' that's the menu's anchor.","The file keeps 82 Queen: the address name, the old square, the survived disasters, and the coined cuisine.","82 Queen is the archive's South Carolina file — the restaurant that named a cuisine."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["82 Queen is the archive's South Carolina file — where Lowcountry cuisine got its name.","A restaurant keeps its ground — the file's suggestion being that 82 Queen's hold is the layered: the 'slave quarters' that's the parcel's past, the 'almost razed' that's the save's close, and the 'Lowcountry born' that's the food's mark."]}],"name":"82 Queen","aliases":[],"type":"RESTAURANT","type_label":"Restaurant","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"The 1840s Queen Street restaurant in a three-building compound.","full_desc":"82 Queen is a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina. The 1840s Queen Street restaurant in a three-building compound. HauntHunt files it with haunted places and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still serves diners. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Charleston","county":null,"state":"South Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.828017,"lon":-79.972896,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Restaurant/bar","research_notes":"Restaurants/bars batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1937,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the courtyard. An old restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina gives the account a setting with real history behind the bar. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"82 Queen","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82_Queen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The compound dates to the 1840s. The restaurant's documented history in Charleston, South Carolina is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in '82 Queen'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"82 Queen","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82_Queen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the courtyard. 82 Queen, a restaurant in Charleston, South Carolina, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like '82 Queen'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"82 Queen","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82_Queen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"82 Queen","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82_Queen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}