{"id":1252,"slug":"company-distilling-lynchburg-lynchburg-tennessee","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Lynchburg is a town of about six thousand in Moore County — a dry county that happens to hold the nation's oldest registered distillery, Jack Daniel's, in business since 1866. Company Distilling is the newcomer by a century and a half: founded in 2021 by Kris Tatum and Jeff Arnett, the former Jack Daniel's master distiller, it opened its Lynchburg location in May 2025 on the downtown square, four blocks from the Jack Daniel's visitor center, in premises that had previously held Lynchburg Winery and American Craft Distillers. Arnett called it a full-circle return to the town where his whiskey career began."]},{"heading":"What's reported","paragraphs":["Tennessee Tourism's haunted-destinations coverage files voices, objects moving where they shouldn't, and mimic-like sounds in the building — the standard inventory of a working hall with old bones. Nothing in the filing predates the distillery's arrival, so the reports attach to the building's longer commercial past on the Lynchburg square rather than to the stills.","The file's posture is honest: a real address, a real 2025 opening, and a brand-new layer of folklore in the one Tennessee town where whiskey history never needed ghosts to draw a crowd."]}],"name":"Company Distilling — Lynchburg","aliases":[],"type":"DISTILLERY","type_label":"Distillery","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Distillery in Lynchburg; research record.","full_desc":"Company Distilling — Lynchburg is a distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Distillery in Lynchburg; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Lynchburg","county":null,"state":"Tennessee","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.288888,"lon":-86.358684,"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":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","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":533,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Tennessee Tourism reports voices, moving objects and alleged mimics. Company Distilling — Lynchburg in Lynchburg, Tennessee 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. 'Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026' carries the account. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026","url":"https://www.tn.gov/tourism/news/2026/9/4/unique--immersive-experiences-at-these-haunted-destinations-in-tennessee-create-the-ultimate-spooky-season-road-trip.html","publisher":"Tennessee Department of Tourist Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tennessee Tourism reports voices, moving objects and alleged mimics. The site in Lynchburg, Tennessee gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026","url":"https://www.tn.gov/tourism/news/2026/9/4/unique--immersive-experiences-at-these-haunted-destinations-in-tennessee-create-the-ultimate-spooky-season-road-trip.html","publisher":"Tennessee Department of Tourist Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"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":"Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026","url":"https://www.tn.gov/tourism/news/2026/9/4/unique--immersive-experiences-at-these-haunted-destinations-in-tennessee-create-the-ultimate-spooky-season-road-trip.html","publisher":"Tennessee Department of Tourist Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}