{"id":1448,"slug":"brewery-tap-houston-texas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Tap is the crushed — the 'William' that's the ghost's name, the 'barrels' that's the killer's form. The 'saved bartender' is the kind — the 'friendly' that's the spirit's type, the '1920s' that's the death's decade. The 'Allen's Landing' is the nearby — the 'Plymouth Rock' that's the founders' step, the '1836' that's the city's birth.","The 'crypt below' is the buried — the 'Donnellan' that's the vault's name, the 'cannonball' that's the death's cause. The 'Magnolia Brewery' is the housed — the '1912' that's the building's date, the 'prohibition killed' that's the industry's end. The Tap is the kept — the '1987' that's the bar's birth, the 'EMF' that's the customer's tool.","The file keeps the Tap: the crushed William, the kind ghost, the nearby landing, and the kept bar.","Brewery Tap is the archive's Texas file — the bar built on a crypt."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Brewery Tap is the archive's Texas file — the ghost that saves lives.","A bar keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that the Tap's hold is the layered: the 'brewery' that's the building's past, the 'crypt' that's the foundation's secret, and the 'William' that's the resident's name."]}],"name":"Brewery Tap","aliases":[],"type":"BAR","type_label":"Bar","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Bar in Houston; research record.","full_desc":"Brewery Tap is a bar in Houston, Texas. Bar in Houston; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: William. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":"717 Franklin Street","city":"Houston","county":null,"state":"Texas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":29.785743,"lon":-95.388806,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Tourism listing documents the folklore and address; current operation or visitor hours not independently confirmed.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":676,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Visit Houston recounts a talkative apparition called William. The bar's reports are the kind old establishments accumulate — footsteps after close, presences in empty rooms. 'Haunted Places in Houston' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"William","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Places in Houston","url":"https://www.visithoustontexas.com/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/historic-sites/haunted-places/","publisher":"Visit Houston","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Visit Houston recounts a talkative apparition called William. Brewery Tap's file is the sort restaurants and bars collect over decades — staff sightings, closing-time sounds, the building after hours. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Haunted Places in Houston","url":"https://www.visithoustontexas.com/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/historic-sites/haunted-places/","publisher":"Visit Houston","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"William","claimed_identity":"William","verified":null,"summary":"Visit Houston recounts a talkative apparition called William. An old bar in Houston, Texas gives the account a setting with real history behind the bar. The file keeps William on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The reports keep the address on the map. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"Visit Houston recounts a talkative apparition called William.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Places in Houston","url":"https://www.visithoustontexas.com/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/historic-sites/haunted-places/","publisher":"Visit Houston","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research 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":"Haunted Places in Houston","url":"https://www.visithoustontexas.com/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/historic-sites/haunted-places/","publisher":"Visit Houston","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}