{"id":3338,"slug":"bellamy-mansion-wilmington-north-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bellamy Mansion was built in 1861 — Wilmington's antebellum palace, the house finished the year the war that would end the world it represented began, its slave quarters and grand rooms being the era's architecture complete.","The file's documented spine is the timing: a mansion built at the system's last moment, its slave quarters intact — the building holding the whole structure of the world it was built for, preserved as the era's most complete domestic record."]},{"heading":"The Bellamy dead","paragraphs":["The lore reports the dead seen — the file's haunting being the mansion's whole population: the family and the enslaved who lived in the house's two worlds reportedly still there, the building keeping everyone it held.","The Bellamy dead are the file's signature — a mansion keeping both its registers, the slave quarters and the grand rooms holding the ghosts of the system the house preserved."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bellamy Mansion is the archive's complete file — an 1861 mansion with intact slave quarters, keeping all its dead reportedly still inside. The documented building is the record; the lingering population is the lore of a house that held the whole era.","A mansion that kept everyone keeps everyone — the file's suggestion being that Bellamy's rooms still hold the family and the enslaved in the house they shared."]}],"name":"Bellamy Mansion","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE","ANTEBELLUM"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The 1861 mansion—where the family and the enslaved left their ghosts.","full_desc":"Bellamy Mansion is a house in Wilmington, North Carolina. The 1861 mansion—where the family and the enslaved left their ghosts. HauntHunt files it with the antebellum era, local folklore and haunted places. Its accounts name only a collective — the bellamy dead. 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":"Wilmington","county":null,"state":"North Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.209225,"lon":-77.885767,"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":"NC2 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":3464,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the Bellamy dead. Bellamy Mansion wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Bellamy dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3465,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the mansion. A house with Wilmington's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It originates in investigator claims — compelling inside the team's log, unverifiable outside it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Bellamy Mansion'. 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":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1861 mansion is documented. Bellamy Mansion's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Bellamy Mansion'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1861","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington, North Carolina is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Bellamy Mansion'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Bellamy dead","claimed_identity":"The Bellamy dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Bellamy dead. A house with Wilmington's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. Sources including 'Bellamy Mansion' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","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":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Bellamy Mansion","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_Mansion","desc":"Mansion in Wilmington, North Carolina, US","extract":"The Bellamy Mansion, built between 1859 and 1861,  is a mixture of Neoclassical architectural styles, including Greek Revival and Italianate, and is located at 503 Market Street in the heart of  downtown Wilmington, North Carolina. It is one of North Carolina’s finest examples of historic antebellum architecture.  It is a contributing building in the Wilmington Historic District.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bellamy_Mansion_Wilmington_NC_front_02.jpg/960px-Bellamy_Mansion_Wilmington_NC_front_02.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":89},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}