{"id":227,"slug":"brumder-mansion-milwaukee-wisconsin","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Brumder is the printed — the 'German papers' that's the fortune's source, the 'son's gift' that's the mansion's purpose. The 'Capone linked' is the rumored — the 'Pick brothers' that's the buyers' name, the 'speakeasy' that's the basement's use. The 'tunnel ran' is the snuck — the 'across street' that's the entrance's route, the 'Joe Enforcer' that's the door's guard.","The 'police once' is the visited — the 'payoff wanted' that's the raid's aim, the 'looked away' that's the bribe's deal. The 'George died' is the stayed — the 'before finished' that's the builder's fate, the 'his suite' that's the ghost's room. Brumder is the staged — the 'theater now' that's the basement's third act, the 'Gold Suite' that's the woman's haunt.","The file keeps Brumder: the printed fortune, the Capone rumor, the snuck tunnel, and the stayed builder.","Brumder Mansion is the archive's Wisconsin file — the mansion where the speakeasy became a stage."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Brumder Mansion is the archive's Wisconsin file — the publisher's gift turned mob speakeasy.","A mansion keeps its basement — the file's suggestion being that Brumder's hold is the tunneled: the 'Capone' that's the rumor's fame, the 'speakeasy' that's the rec room's use, and the 'theater' that's the space's now."]}],"name":"Brumder Mansion","aliases":["Brumder Mansion Bed & Breakfast"],"type":"MANSION","type_label":"Mansion","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Mansion associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"A mansion in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, built in 1910, Brumder Mansion is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Mansion associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Milwaukee","county":null,"state":"Wisconsin","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":43.063348,"lon":-87.966695,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1910,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"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,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":174,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Guests report noises and displaced objects. A house with Milwaukee's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Sources including 'Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests' keep the claim in circulation. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The mansion was built in 1910. Brumder Mansion's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. Sources including 'Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Guests report noises and displaced objects. Brumder Mansion wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"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 Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}