{"id":1514,"slug":"country-squire-restaurant-inn-and-winery-warsaw-north-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Squire is the thrown — the 'darts' that's the weapon's form, the 'unprovoked' that's the flight's cause. The 'wee girl' is the seen — the 'steps' that's the sitting's place, the 'photo' that's the proof's form. The 'Joe West' is the checked — the 'schoolteacher' that's the founder's trade, the '1961' that's the dream's year.","The '200 years' is the old — the 'farmhouse' that's the wing's form, the 'Scottish' that's the owner's accent. The 'thermal image' is the caught — the 'floating woman' that's the figure's form, the 'Hannah Thistle' that's the cat's name. The Squire is the kept — the 'Kilt Buster' that's the steak's size, the 'labyrinth' that's the rooms' form.","The file keeps the Squire: the thrown darts, the seen girl, the checked founder, and the kept restaurant.","Country Squire is the archive's North Carolina file — the steakhouse that plays darts alone."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Country Squire is the archive's North Carolina file — the restaurant where the help never leaves.","A restaurant keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that the Squire's hold is the residual: the 'darts' that's the game's ghost, the 'Joe West' that's the overseer's name, and the '72-ounce' that's the living's draw."]}],"name":"Country Squire Restaurant, Inn and Winery","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn associated with published local folklore.","full_desc":"Country Squire Restaurant, Inn and Winery is an inn in Warsaw, North Carolina. Inn associated with published local folklore. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Joe West. 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":"Warsaw","county":null,"state":"North Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.999578,"lon":-78.092726,"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 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":744,"type":"FOOTSTEPS","description":"Visit NC attributes phantom footsteps to former owner Joe West. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. '8 Haunted Places in North Carolina' carries the account. The sound is the signature — visitors listen for it whether or not they believe.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Joe West","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"8 Haunted Places in North Carolina","url":"https://www.visitnc.com/list/things-go-bump-night-8-haunted-places-north-carolina","publisher":"Visit North Carolina","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Visit NC attributes phantom footsteps to former owner Joe West. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"8 Haunted Places in North Carolina","url":"https://www.visitnc.com/list/things-go-bump-night-8-haunted-places-north-carolina","publisher":"Visit North Carolina","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Joe West","claimed_identity":"Joe West","verified":null,"summary":"Visit NC attributes phantom footsteps to former owner Joe West. A hotel in Warsaw, North Carolina with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Sources including '8 Haunted Places in North Carolina' keep the claim in circulation. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Joe West.","behavior":"Visit NC attributes phantom footsteps to former owner Joe West.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"8 Haunted Places in North Carolina","url":"https://www.visitnc.com/list/things-go-bump-night-8-haunted-places-north-carolina","publisher":"Visit North Carolina","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":"8 Haunted Places in North Carolina","url":"https://www.visitnc.com/list/things-go-bump-night-8-haunted-places-north-carolina","publisher":"Visit North Carolina","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}