{"id":2128,"slug":"ca-dzan-ringling-sarasota-florida","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Ca' d'Zan is the circus palace — the 'House of John' in Venetian dialect, the $1.5 million that was the '26 price. The Mable was the designer — the Doge's Palace that she copied, the terra cotta that she mixed herself. The rooms are the fifty-six — the ballroom and the tap room, the Sarasota Bay that's the Grand Canal.","The death was the timing — the '29 Mable loss three years after, the Addison's that took her. The museum is the bequest — the art that John left to Florida, the estate that's the Ringling now. Ca' d'Zan is the Roaring Twenties — the mansion that the circus built, the Venice that was recreated.","The file keeps Ca' d'Zan: the 1926 completion, the Mable oversight, the Venetian style, and the Ringling bequest.","Ca' d'Zan is the archive's Sarasota file — the circus king's Venice."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Ca' d'Zan is the archive's Sarasota file — the Ringling's dream home.","A mansion keeps its builder — the file's suggestion being that Ca' d'Zan's hold is the Mable: the woman who designed it, the three years she had it, and the Venice that she recreated."]}],"name":"Ca’ d’Zan (Ringling)","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_MANSION","type_label":"Historic Mansion","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_MANSION"],"groups":["historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"John Ringling’s Venetian-Gothic palace on Sarasota Bay.","full_desc":"Ca’ d’Zan (Ringling) is a historic mansion in Sarasota, Florida, built in 1926. John Ringling’s Venetian-Gothic palace on Sarasota Bay. The name the accounts keep returning to is Mable Ringling. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Sarasota","county":null,"state":"Florida","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":27.3644,"lon":-82.5597,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1926,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1378,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Staff report Mable Ringling’s presence and footsteps in the halls. The reports at Ca’ d’Zan (Ringling) are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. 'Ca’ d’Zan' carries the account. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Mable Ringling","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ca’ d’Zan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%27_d%27Zan","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1924–1926 for John and Mable Ringling; Mable died in the house in 1929. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Ca’ d’Zan' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1926","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ca’ d’Zan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%27_d%27Zan","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Staff report Mable Ringling’s presence and footsteps in the halls. Ca’ d’Zan (Ringling)'s file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Sources including 'Ca’ d’Zan' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Ca’ d’Zan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%27_d%27Zan","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Mable Ringling","claimed_identity":"Mable Ringling","verified":null,"summary":"Staff report Mable Ringling’s presence and footsteps in the halls. The site in Sarasota, Florida gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Mable Ringling. The report keeps its place in the record.","behavior":"Staff report Mable Ringling’s presence and footsteps in the halls.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Ca’ d’Zan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%27_d%27Zan","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Ca’ d’Zan","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%27_d%27Zan","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}