{"id":1710,"slug":"cary-house-hotel-placerville-california","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Cary House is the golded — the 'dust in floors' that's the find's form, the 'fourth story' that's the bonus's build. The 'Stan' is the stabbed — the 'flirted' that's the clerk's sin, the 'mahogany stairs' that's the death's site. The 'whistle' is the heard — the 'Pretty Woman' that's the song's trigger, the 'pinch' that's the ghost's touch.","The 'Hangtown' is the hosted — the '8 miles' that's the Coloma's gap, the 'stagecoach' that's the stop's form. The 'Burned '56' is the rebuilt — the 'brick' that's the second's form, the 'elevator' that's the '26's add. Cary House is the kept — the 'Mark Twain' that's the guest's name, the 'Buffalo Bill' that's the other's fame.","The file keeps Cary House: the golded floors, the stabbed Stan, the hosted presidents, and the kept hotel.","Cary House is the archive's California file — the hotel that paid for its own growth."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Cary House is the archive's California file — the Gold Rush hotel that never emptied.","A hotel keeps its gold — the file's suggestion being that Cary's hold is the layered: the 'dust' that's the floor's treasure, the 'Stan' that's the staff's ghost, and the 'Hangtown' that's the town's shadow."]}],"name":"Cary House Hotel","aliases":["Cary House"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic hotel with phantom music reports.","full_desc":"Cary House Hotel is a hotel in Placerville, California. Historic hotel with phantom music reports. Its signature presence is Stan — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Placerville","county":null,"state":"California","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":38.731116,"lon":-120.797677,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Pass 1 source-grounded discovery; independent historical verification, coordinates and current access still pending. Confidence measures attribution quality, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":894,"type":"PHANTOM_MUSIC","description":"Visit California recounts accounts of piano music and an alleged former clerk called Stan. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'California’s Most Haunted Hotels' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Heard rather than seen: the report that keeps the file open.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Stan","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"California’s Most Haunted Hotels","url":"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/californias-most-haunted-hotels/","publisher":"Visit California","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Visit California recounts accounts of piano music and an alleged former clerk called Stan. The Placerville hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'California’s Most Haunted Hotels' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"California’s Most Haunted Hotels","url":"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/californias-most-haunted-hotels/","publisher":"Visit California","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Stan","claimed_identity":"Stan","verified":null,"summary":"Visit California recounts accounts of piano music and an alleged former clerk called Stan. A hotel in Placerville, California with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The account appears in 'California’s Most Haunted Hotels'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Stan.","behavior":"Visit California recounts accounts of piano music and an alleged former clerk called Stan.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"California’s Most Haunted Hotels","url":"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/californias-most-haunted-hotels/","publisher":"Visit California","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"California’s Most Haunted Hotels","url":"https://www.visitcalifornia.com/experience/californias-most-haunted-hotels/","publisher":"Visit California","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}