{"id":558,"slug":"beekman-house-middleburgh-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Beekman House is the ritual — the 'moving day' that's the appearance timed, the 'banker's suit' that's the Duryea dressed. The 'closet' is the exit — the 'beneath the stairs' that's the door he enters, the 'never again' that's the single sighting. The 'born and died' is the bound — the '1840 to '24' that's the lifelong resident, the 'every family' that's the greeted since.","The 'doorknob turns' is the tried — the 'unlocks itself' that's the night reported, the 'trying to get out' that's the witnesses' read. The 'first hops' is the valley — the 'Schoharie' that's the crop pioneered, the 'railroad president' that's the second career. Beekman is the courteous — the 'introduces once' that's the manners kept, the 'children speak' that's the mystery deepened.","The file keeps Beekman: the moving-day greeting, the closet's lock, the banker's suit, and the courteous ghost.","The Beekman House is the archive's New York file — the banker who greets each new owner."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Beekman House is the archive's New York file — the ghost with perfect manners.","A house keeps its ritual — the file's suggestion being that Beekman's hold is the introduced: the 'moving day' that's the schedule kept, the 'closet entered' that's the exit chosen, and the 'once only' that's the courtesy's rule."]}],"name":"Beekman House","aliases":[],"type":"BED_AND_BREAKFAST","type_label":"Bed And Breakfast","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Greek Revival home with a legend linking doors, whistling and an apparition to Duryea Beekman.","full_desc":"Beekman House is a bed and breakfast in Middleburgh, New York. Greek Revival home with a legend linking doors, whistling and an apparition to Duryea Beekman. Nicholas Beekman built the Greek Revival mansion in 1835. Duryea Beekman, born in 1840 and deceased in 1924, was associated with local banking and the Middleburgh & Schoharie Railroad. Local lore holds that The tourism trail recounts owners’ stories of a suited man, attributed to Duryea Beekman, entering the under-stair closet and of doors opening and whistling before sunrise.","address":"116 Middlefort Road","city":"Middleburgh","county":"Schoharie","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.597979,"lon":-74.329828,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"B&B guest access only through a legitimate booking; other rooms remain private.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1835,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":61.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":416,"type":"APPARITION","description":"The tourism trail recounts owners’ stories of a suited man, attributed to Duryea Beekman, entering the under-stair closet and of doors opening and whistling before sunrise. A hotel in Middleburgh, New York with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The account appears in 'Beekman House'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Duryea Beekman","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Beekman House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-beekman-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Nicholas Beekman built the Greek Revival mansion in 1835. Duryea Beekman, born in 1840 and deceased in 1924, was associated with local banking and the Middleburgh & Schoharie Railroad. The hotel in Middleburgh, New York has its past on record — this entry belongs to that verified layer. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Beekman House' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Beekman House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-beekman-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The tourism trail recounts owners’ stories of a suited man, attributed to Duryea Beekman, entering the under-stair closet and of doors opening and whistling before sunrise. The Middleburgh hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Beekman House' keep the claim in circulation. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Beekman House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-beekman-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Duryea Beekman","claimed_identity":"Duryea Beekman","verified":null,"summary":"The tourism trail recounts owners’ stories of a suited man, attributed to Duryea Beekman, entering the under-stair closet and of doors opening and whistling before sunrise. A hotel in Middleburgh, New York with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The account appears in 'Beekman House'. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Duryea Beekman.","behavior":"The tourism trail recounts owners’ stories of a suited man, attributed to Duryea Beekman, entering the under-stair closet and of doors opening and whistling before sunrise.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Beekman House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-beekman-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Beekman House","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-beekman-house","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}