{"id":1290,"slug":"bald-rock-group-lodge-delta-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Bald Rock Group Lodge sits in Cheaha State Park — Alabama's oldest continuously operating state park, opened to the public in 1933 on 2,799 acres straddling the Clay–Cleburne line around Cheaha Mountain, at 2,407 feet the state's highest point. Between 1933 and 1939, three Civilian Conservation Corps companies — the 465th, the 468th, and the veteran 2420th — built the park by hand: Cheaha Lake dug from the foot of the mountain, eleven stone cabins, two pavilions, Bunker Tower on the summit, and the stone lodge that served as the park's original hotel and restaurant.","The lodge still works — weddings, retreats, reunions — under the park system's care, an intact piece of New Deal rustic architecture."]},{"heading":"The investigation claim","paragraphs":["The haunting file is a single line, filed as such: the Southern Spirit Guide recounts investigators' claims of doors moving on their own and unusual recordings made inside the lodge. That is an investigation claim — logged by the people in the room, unverified beyond it — and the dossier's research notes add that the building's precise chronology and visitor conditions await independent verification.","What is documented is the lodge itself, raised by public labor in a depression decade and still taking bookings."]}],"name":"Bald Rock Group Lodge","aliases":[],"type":"LODGE","type_label":"Lodge","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Lodge in Delta; research record.","full_desc":"Bald Rock Group Lodge is a lodge in Delta, Alabama. Lodge in Delta; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":"19644 AL-281","city":"Delta","county":"Cleburne County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.440524,"lon":-85.675905,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":560,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Southern Spirit Guide recounts investigators’ claims of moving doors and unusual recordings. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It's an investigation claim — the kind that convinces the people who were in the room. Sources including 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part II' keep the claim in circulation. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part II","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-ii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research 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":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part II","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-ii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}