{"id":449,"slug":"bull-s-head-inn-cobleskill-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bull's Head is the provoked — the 'liquor license' that's the haunting triggered, the 'bar in her bedroom' that's the insult literal. The 'temperance' is the thrown — the 'silverware tossed' that's the glasses knocked, the 'white gown' that's the Mrs. Steacy wandering. The 'three fires' is the burned — the '1778 Brant's raid' that's the first destroyed, the 'girl frozen' that's the upstairs perished.","The 'Cobleskill's oldest' is the kept — the '1802' that's the fourth building, the 'town hall, courthouse, Masons' that's the roles rotated. The 'Erie bypassed' is the faded — the 'canal rerouted' that's the traffic lost, the 'Courter Mansion' that's the residence became. Bull's Head is the offended — the 'temperance lady' that's the bar's ghost, the 'napkins thrown' that's the protest continued.","The file keeps Bull's Head: the temperance ghost, the three burnings, the bedroom bar, and the tossed silverware.","Bull's Head Inn is the archive's New York file — the ghost the liquor license woke."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bull's Head Inn is the archive's New York file — the bar built in a temperance lady's bedroom.","An inn keeps its insult — the file's suggestion being that Bull's Head's hold is the provoked: the 'liquor license' that's the haunting's trigger, the 'three fires' that's the ground's history, and the 'silverware tossed' that's the protest eternal."]}],"name":"Bull's Head Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn research record.","full_desc":"An inn in Cobleskill, New York, built in 1802, Bull's Head Inn is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Inn research record. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Grace Steacy. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.","address":"105 Park Place","city":"Cobleskill","county":"Schoharie","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.679002,"lon":-74.485234,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Restaurant customers; ghost tours and investigations by appointment.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1802,"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":334,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Staff accounts attribute thrown tableware and a white-dressed apparition to former resident Grace Steacy. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Grace Steacy","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bull's Head Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/bulls-head-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Building dates to 1802 and served civic, residential and hospitality uses. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Bull's Head Inn' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Bull's Head Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/bulls-head-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Staff accounts attribute thrown tableware and a white-dressed apparition to former resident Grace Steacy. Bull's Head Inn, a hotel in Cobleskill, New York, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'Bull's Head Inn' carries the account. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Bull's Head Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/bulls-head-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Grace Steacy","claimed_identity":"Grace Steacy","verified":null,"summary":"Staff accounts attribute thrown tableware and a white-dressed apparition to former resident Grace Steacy. A hotel in Cobleskill, New York with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Sources including 'Bull's Head Inn' keep the claim in circulation. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Grace Steacy.","behavior":"Staff accounts attribute thrown tableware and a white-dressed apparition to former resident Grace Steacy.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Bull's Head Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/bulls-head-inn","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":"Bull's Head Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/bulls-head-inn","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}}