{"id":2633,"slug":"basin-park-hotel-eureka-springs-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Basin Park is the limestone — the '05 fireproof that replaced the burned Perry House, the catwalks that led to the mountain. The gambling was the Prohibition — the Joe Parkhill who ran the parlors, the Weasel who brought him down. The ballroom is the Barefoot — the '48 dance that's still held, the orbs that are seen.","The cave is the access — the hidden doorway that leads down, the spirits that are investigated. The spring is the sacred — the healing that drew Perry, the park that's adjacent. The Basin Park is the edgier — the downtown sister to the Crescent, the gangsters and the vortexes.","The file keeps the Basin Park: the 1905 limestone, the gambling parlors, the Barefoot Ballroom, and the cave.","The Basin Park is the archive's Eureka Springs file — the fireproof's ghosts."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Basin Park is the archive's Eureka Springs file — the edgier sister.","A hotel keeps its catwalks — the file's suggestion being that the Basin Park's hold is the escape: the iron walkways to the mountain, the gambling that was the sin, and the cave that's the passage."]}],"name":"Basin Park Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"1905 limestone hotel in the crooked-street town—Eureka’s second legend.","full_desc":"A hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Basin Park Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. 1905 limestone hotel in the crooked-street town—Eureka’s second legend. HauntHunt files it with local folklore and haunted places. The presences in its file go unnamed: the basin park ghosts, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Eureka Springs","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":36.410774,"lon":-93.744904,"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":"Historic site","research_notes":"AR 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":2175,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the ballroom and the halls. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It originates in investigator claims — compelling inside the team's log, unverifiable outside it. 'Basin Park Hotel' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Basin Park Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Park_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2176,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The Perry House fire’s memory is reportedly still felt. The accounts name only a collective — the Basin Park ghosts. A hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Basin Park Hotel'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Basin Park ghosts","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Basin Park Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Park_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened 1905 on the 1880s Perry House site. Basin Park Hotel's documented history in Eureka Springs, Arkansas 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. Sources including 'Basin Park Hotel' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1905","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Basin Park Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Park_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The Perry House fire’s memory is reportedly still felt. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Basin Park Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Basin Park Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Park_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Basin Park ghosts","claimed_identity":"The Basin Park ghosts","verified":null,"summary":"The Perry House fire’s memory is reportedly still felt. The presences go by the Basin Park ghosts in the file. Basin Park Hotel, a hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Sources including 'Basin Park Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"The Perry House fire’s memory is reportedly still felt.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Basin Park Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Park_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","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":"Basin Park Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Park_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}