CAPTAIN TONY’S SALOON
Site — Key West, Florida
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/captain-tonys-saloon-key-west-florida/

The bar built around the hanging tree—the oldest saloon in the Keys.

Captain Tony’s Saloon is a site in Key West, Florida. The bar built around the hanging tree—the oldest saloon in the Keys. HauntHunt files it with dark history, local folklore and haunted places. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the lady in blue. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 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.

Captain Tony's is the tree's — the hanging that's in the bar, the 17 who were hanged. The icehouse was the morgue — the '51 building that stored the bodies, the cold that served both. The Sloppy Joe's was the origin — the '33 Russell that's the real first, the '38 midnight move.
The Hemingway was the regular — the '33-'37 evenings that he spent, the urinal that's the cat trough. The Lady is the blue — the woman who killed her family, the strangulation that's the ghost. Captain Tony's is the layered — the icehouse, the morgue, the telegraph, the bar.
The file keeps Captain Tony's: the hanging tree, the icehouse morgue, the Sloppy Joe's origin, and the Lady in Blue.
Captain Tony's is the archive's Key West file — the hanging tree's bar.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Captain Tony's is the archive's Key West file — the tree in the bar.
A saloon keeps its tree — the file's suggestion being that Captain Tony's hold is the hanging: the 17 who died, the icehouse that was the morgue, and the Hemingway who drank.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The Lady in Blue is reportedly seen at the bar. Captain Tony’s Saloon in Key West, Florida carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Captain Tony’s'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Captain Tony’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tony%27s_Saloon)
· [Investigation claim] apparition: Reported figures in the saloon. The reports at Captain Tony’s Saloon are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. The report is preserved in sources like 'Captain Tony’s'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Captain Tony’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tony%27s_Saloon)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The building’s morgue and hanging-tree history is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Captain Tony’s'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Captain Tony’s — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tony%27s_Saloon

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