{"id":1924,"slug":"bisbee-inn-bisbee-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Bisbee Inn is the miner's hotel — the 1916 LaMore that replaced the burned wooden lodgings, the brick rooms on Chihuahua Hill. The miners are the ghosts — the soot-covered men in the halls, the Room 11 rummager, the Room 15 sleeper who leaves the body print. The ghost cat is the famous one — Room 23's spectral pet, the Lady in White who walks.","The Peace Corps was the interim — the '60s headquarters in the old hotel, the names that changed from LaMore to Waters to Bisbee Inn. The mining town is the setting — the stairs and the narrow streets, the Copper Queen below and the Brewery Gulch view. The Bisbee Inn is the camp's haunt — the hotel where the miners stayed on, the ghost cat that's the resident celebrity.","The file keeps the Bisbee Inn: the 1916 construction, the miners' lodgings, the ghost cat, and the haunted rooms.","The Bisbee Inn is the archive's Arizona file — the hotel with the ghost cat."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Bisbee Inn is the archive's Arizona file — the mining hotel with the spectral cat.","A hotel keeps its pets — the file's suggestion being that the Bisbee's hold is Room 23: the ghost cat that plays, the miners who stayed, and the town that's stairs and ghosts."]}],"name":"Bisbee Inn","aliases":["Hotel La More","Hotel LaMore","Old Bisbee Inn"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Hotel promoting spectral-cat and woman-in-white legends.","full_desc":"Bisbee Inn is a hotel in Bisbee, Arizona. Hotel promoting spectral-cat and woman-in-white legends. Operator dates construction to 1915 and describes later boarding-house and Peace Corps uses. Local lore holds that Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn recounts a phantom cat in Room 23 and a Lady in White in the corridors.","address":"45 OK Street","city":"Bisbee","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":"85603","region":"West","lat":31.398036,"lon":-109.931834,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/","phone":"520-200-1772","year_built":1915,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Promotional stories are documented legends; no paranormal activity established. Operator historical narrative still needs archival corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":58.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":983,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn recounts a phantom cat in Room 23 and a Lady in White in the corridors. The figure answers to Phantom feline; Lady in White in the retellings. A hotel in Bisbee, Arizona with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Mysterious Meows'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Phantom feline; Lady in White","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mysterious Meows","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/haunted","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Operator dates construction to 1915 and describes later boarding-house and Peace Corps uses. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. The detail is preserved in 'Mysterious Meows'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mysterious Meows","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/haunted","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn recounts a phantom cat in Room 23 and a Lady in White in the corridors. A hotel in Bisbee, Arizona with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. 'Mysterious Meows' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Mysterious Meows' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Mysterious Meows","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/haunted","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"entities":[{"name":"Phantom feline; Lady in White","claimed_identity":"Phantom feline; Lady in White","verified":null,"summary":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn recounts a phantom cat in Room 23 and a Lady in White in the corridors. Phantom feline; Lady in White is what the reports name it. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'Mysterious Meows' carries the account. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Phantom feline; Lady in White.","behavior":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn recounts a phantom cat in Room 23 and a Lady in White in the corridors.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Mysterious Meows","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/haunted","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"reservation_requirement":"Book accommodation through operator","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:21+00:00","source":{"name":"Bisbee Inn","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Mysterious Meows","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/haunted","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Contact","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/contact","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Bisbee Inn","url":"https://www.thebisbeeinn.com/","publisher":"Hotel La More at the Bisbee Inn","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":3}}