{"id":3545,"slug":"chapel-of-the-transfiguration-moose-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Chapel of the Transfiguration was built in 1925 — a log Episcopal chapel in Jackson Hole whose altar window frames the Grand Tetons, the mountains themselves being the altarpiece. The file's documented spine is the design's famous gesture: a chapel built so that the congregation faces the range, the Tetons in the window where the reredos would be.","The chapel's setting — Moose, Wyoming, in the park's early dude-ranch era — is the file's register: a rustic church at the mountains' foot, built for the valley's settlers and the tourists already coming."]},{"heading":"Figures in the chapel","paragraphs":["The lore reports figures in the chapel and the dead reportedly seen — the file's haunting being the chapel's own: presences in the log church under the Tetons, the valley's dead reportedly still attending. The file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the reports attaching to a building whose beauty makes it storied.","The chapel's dead are the file's register — a church whose window frames the sublime reportedly holding presences, the valley's congregation extending past the living."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Chapel of the Transfiguration is the archive's mountain-chapel file — a 1925 log church whose altar window is the Grand Tetons, keeping figures in its pews. The documented chapel is the record; the dead in the congregation are the lore.","A chapel that faces the mountains keeps its congregation — the file's suggestion being that the Tetons' most beautiful church holds worshippers the register no longer counts."]}],"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","RELIGIOUS","HISTORIC"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1925 chapel—where the Tetons fill the window.","full_desc":"A site in Moose, Wyoming, Chapel of the Transfiguration is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1925 chapel—where the Tetons fill the window. HauntHunt files it with religious heritage, historic sites and local folklore. The presences in its file go unnamed: the chapel dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Moose","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":43.531488,"lon":-110.834831,"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","research_notes":"MTWY 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":3900,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the chapel. Chapel of the Transfiguration in Moose, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Sources including 'Chapel of the Transfiguration' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3901,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the chapel dead. The reports at Chapel of the Transfiguration are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Chapel of the Transfiguration' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Chapel of the Transfiguration' keep the claim in circulation. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The chapel dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1925 chapel 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. Sources including 'Chapel of the Transfiguration' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1925","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the chapel. Chapel of the Transfiguration'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. The account appears in 'Chapel of the Transfiguration'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Chapel of the Transfiguration's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The chapel dead","claimed_identity":"The chapel dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the chapel dead. Chapel of the Transfiguration's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Sources including 'Chapel of the Transfiguration' keep the claim in circulation. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The chapel dead.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","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":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Chapel of the Transfiguration","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration","desc":"Historic church in Wyoming, United States","extract":"The Chapel of the Transfiguration is a small log chapel in Grand Teton National Park, in the community of Moose. The chapel was sited and built to frame a view of the Cathedral Group of peaks in a large window behind the altar.  The chapel, which was built in 1925, is owned and operated by St. John's Episcopal Church in Jackson.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration_Grand_Teton_NP1.jpg/960px-Chapel_of_the_Transfiguration_Grand_Teton_NP1.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":104,"lat":43.66011111,"lon":-110.71533333},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}