{"id":2817,"slug":"bulloch-hall-roswell-georgia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bulloch Hall was built in 1839 — the Roswell mansion where Mittie Bulloch lived before she married Theodore Roosevelt Sr., the house being the childhood home of a president's mother and the grandmother of a first lady: the Bullochs' daughter becoming the Roosevelt dynasty's root.","The file's documented spine is the connection's weight: a Georgia house that produced a president's mother, the Bulloch-Roosevelt link being the record's claim to national significance — the mansion where the South's daughter became the dynasty's matriarch."]},{"heading":"The Bullochs","paragraphs":["The lore reports the Bullochs seen — the file's ghosts being the family itself: the people who raised Mittie reportedly still at the hall where she grew up, the house keeping the family whose daughter married into the presidency.","The Bullochs' presence is the file's signature — a mansion keeping the family whose bloodline reached the White House, the rooms holding the people the record remembers through their daughter."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bulloch Hall is the archive's dynasty file — an 1839 mansion keeping the Bullochs reportedly still inside. The documented Roosevelt connection is the record; the family's lingering is the lore of a house that mothered a president.","A house that raised a president's mother keeps its family — the file's suggestion being that the Bullochs' hall still holds the people whose daughter married into history."]}],"name":"Bulloch Hall","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The 1839 house where Teddy Roosevelt’s mother grew up.","full_desc":"A house in Roswell, Georgia, Bulloch Hall is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1839 house where Teddy Roosevelt’s mother grew up. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the bullochs. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Roswell","county":null,"state":"Georgia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.039453,"lon":-84.350946,"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 / park","research_notes":"GA/TN 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":2487,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The Bullochs are reportedly seen. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'Bulloch Hall' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Bullochs","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2488,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the house. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1839; the Bulloch-Roosevelt connection is documented. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Bulloch Hall' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1839","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The Bullochs are reportedly seen. Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Bulloch Hall' carries the account. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Bullochs","claimed_identity":"The Bullochs","verified":null,"summary":"The Bullochs are reportedly seen. A house with Roswell's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. The report keeps its place in the record. The report keeps its place in the record. The report keeps its place in the record.","behavior":"The Bullochs are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","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":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Bulloch Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulloch_Hall","desc":"Historic house in Roswell, Georgia","extract":"Bulloch Hall is a Greek Revival mansion in Roswell, Georgia, built in 1839–1840 by enslaved African Americans. It is one of several antebellum houses in the city and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. This is where Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (\"Mittie\"), mother of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, lived as a child. It is also where she married Theodore Roosevelt's father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. Roosevelt himself visited the house in 1905. The descendants of Theodore Roosevelt and his three siblings, Anna, Elliott, and Corinne, are therefore descendants of Archibald Bulloch, the first governor of Georgia (1730–1777). It is now a historic house museum owned by","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Bulloch_Hall_Roswell_GA.JPG/960px-Bulloch_Hall_Roswell_GA.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":104,"lat":34.01514167,"lon":-84.367825},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}