{"id":2920,"slug":"beauvoir-biloxi-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Beauvoir is the last — the '77-'89 Davis retirement, the 'beautiful view' that the name means. The soldiers were the '03 — the veterans' home that it became, the 780 who are buried. The Katrina was the damage — the '05 hurricane that nearly took it, the restoration that followed.","The library is the presidential — the only Confederate president's, the papers that it holds. The cottage is the raised — the Greek Revival that's the Gulf style, the porches that catch the breeze. Beauvoir is the memory — the Lost Cause that's the museum, the Unknown Soldier that's the tomb.","The file keeps Beauvoir: the 1877 Davis home, the veterans' cemetery, the '05 Katrina, and the library.","Beauvoir is the archive's Biloxi file — the Confederate president's last."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Beauvoir is the archive's Biloxi file — the only Confederate president's home.","An estate keeps its veterans — the file's suggestion being that Beauvoir's hold is the dual: the Davis who wrote there, the soldiers who died there, and the Katrina that nearly erased it."]}],"name":"Beauvoir","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE","CIVIL_WAR"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"Jefferson Davis’s last home—the Confederate president’s Biloxi house.","full_desc":"Beauvoir is a house in Biloxi, Mississippi. Jefferson Davis’s last home—the Confederate president’s Biloxi house. The name the accounts keep returning to is Jefferson Davis. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Biloxi","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.426663,"lon":-88.935762,"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":"MS 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":2686,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Davis is reportedly seen in the house. Jefferson Davis is the name the reports keep returning to. Beauvoir wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Beauvoir' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Jefferson Davis","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Beauvoir","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvoir_(Biloxi,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2687,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the mansion. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Beauvoir' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Beauvoir","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvoir_(Biloxi,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Davis lived here 1877-89; the house is preserved. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Beauvoir'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1877","date_end":"1889","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Beauvoir","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvoir_(Biloxi,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Davis is reportedly seen in the house. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Beauvoir'. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Beauvoir","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvoir_(Biloxi,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Jefferson Davis","claimed_identity":"Jefferson Davis","verified":null,"summary":"Davis is reportedly seen in the house. The presence goes by Jefferson Davis. Beauvoir wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved. The lore keeps its witness.","behavior":"Davis is reportedly seen in the house.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Beauvoir","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvoir_(Biloxi,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic house; many are private residences—verify public access 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":"Beauvoir","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvoir_(Biloxi,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}