{"id":1545,"slug":"cassadaga-hotel-cassadaga-florida","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The hotel is the prophesied — the 'Seneca' that's the guide's name, the 'uncommon hills' that's the sign's form. The 'Colby' is the led — the '1875' that's the arrival's year, the 'baptism' that's the gift's source. The '1927' is the rebuilt — the 'burned' that's the '25's fate, the 'boarding house' that's the start's form.","The 'Catholic girl' is the converted — the 'Morn' that's the owner's name, the 'first night' that's the sighting's date. The 'mediums' is the housed — the 'daily' that's the service's schedule, the 'seances' that's the offering's form. The hotel is the kept — the 'Psychic Capital' that's the town's claim, the 'no cemetery' that's the irony's detail.","The file keeps the hotel: the prophesied site, the led founder, the rebuilt building, and the kept sanctuary.","Cassadaga Hotel is the archive's Florida file — the boarding house for the dead's friends."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Cassadaga Hotel is the archive's Florida file — the town where the veil stays thin.","A hotel keeps its spirits — the file's suggestion being that Cassadaga's hold is the professional: the 'mediums' that's the staff's trade, the 'Colby' that's the founder's vision, and the 'Morn' that's the skeptic's conversion."]}],"name":"Cassadaga Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Hotel associated with published local folklore.","full_desc":"A hotel in Cassadaga, Florida, Cassadaga Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel associated with published local folklore. Its signature presence is Lady of the Hallways — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Cassadaga","county":null,"state":"Florida","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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":"Discovery record. Coordinates, earliest legend source, independent history and current visitor rules require further verification.","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":769,"type":"APPARITION","description":"VISIT FLORIDA recounts the Lady of the Hallways. Cassadaga Hotel, a hotel in Cassadaga, Florida, 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. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Lady of the Hallways","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"A Guide to Florida Ghost Tours","url":"https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-ghost-tours/","publisher":"VISIT FLORIDA","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"VISIT FLORIDA recounts the Lady of the Hallways. Cassadaga Hotel, a hotel in Cassadaga, Florida, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"A Guide to Florida Ghost Tours","url":"https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-ghost-tours/","publisher":"VISIT FLORIDA","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Lady of the Hallways","claimed_identity":"Lady of the Hallways","verified":null,"summary":"VISIT FLORIDA recounts the Lady of the Hallways. A hotel in Cassadaga, Florida with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The account appears in 'A Guide to Florida Ghost Tours'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Lady of the Hallways.","behavior":"VISIT FLORIDA recounts the Lady of the Hallways.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"A Guide to Florida Ghost Tours","url":"https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-ghost-tours/","publisher":"VISIT FLORIDA","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":"A Guide to Florida Ghost Tours","url":"https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-ghost-tours/","publisher":"VISIT FLORIDA","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}