{"id":3566,"slug":"cunningham-cabin-moran-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Cunningham Cabin was built in 1888 — Pierce and Margaret Cunningham's homestead in Jackson Hole, one of the valley's first ranches, a dogtrot log cabin on the flats with the Tetons behind it. The file's documented spine is the homesteading itself: a couple's claim in the valley's hardest country, the cabin surviving as the park's memorial to the homestead era.","The Cunninghams' ranch — the cattle operation they built, the land they eventually sold — is the file's register: a pioneer family's documented life in the Tetons' shadow."]},{"heading":"The Cunninghams still home","paragraphs":["The lore reports figures at the cabin — the Cunninghams reportedly seen, the file's ghosts being the homesteaders themselves: the couple who proved up the claim reportedly still at the cabin they built. The homestead's isolation gives the reports their register — a cabin alone on the flats keeping its first family.","The figures at the cabin are the file's signature — the valley's early settlers reportedly still home, the homestead holding the people the homestead held."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Cunningham Cabin is the archive's homestead file — an 1888 dogtrot in Jackson Hole, where the Cunninghams are reportedly still seen. The documented homestead is the record; the family's presence is the lore the isolation grew.","A cabin that held a pioneer family keeps them — the file's suggestion being that the Cunninghams' claim on the land outlasted the claim itself."]}],"name":"Cunningham Cabin","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","FRONTIER","HOMESTEAD"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1888 cabin—where the ranchers’ valley stayed.","full_desc":"Cunningham Cabin is a site in Moran, Wyoming. The 1888 cabin—where the ranchers’ valley stayed. HauntHunt files it with the frontier, homesteads and local folklore. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the cunninghams. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Moran","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":43.77888889,"lon":-110.55777778,"coord_kind":"WIKI","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":3942,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the cabin. The site in Moran, Wyoming gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. 'Cunningham Cabin' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","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":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3943,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The Cunninghams are reportedly seen. The site in Moran, Wyoming 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. 'Cunningham Cabin' carries the account. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Cunninghams","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1888 cabin 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 'Cunningham Cabin' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1888","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the cabin. The reports at Cunningham Cabin are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The account appears in 'Cunningham Cabin'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The Cunninghams are reportedly seen. Cunningham Cabin in Moran, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. 'Cunningham Cabin' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Cunningham Cabin' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Cunninghams","claimed_identity":"The Cunninghams","verified":null,"summary":"The Cunninghams are reportedly seen. Cunningham Cabin's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The Cunninghams. The reports keep the address on the map. The lore keeps its witness.","behavior":"The Cunninghams are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","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":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Cunningham Cabin","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham_Cabin","desc":"Historic house in Wyoming, United States","extract":"The Cunningham Cabin is a double-pen log cabin in Grand Teton National Park in the US state of Wyoming. It was built as a homestead in Jackson Hole and represents an adaptation of an Appalachian building form to the West. The cabin was built just south of Spread Creek by John Pierce Cunningham, who arrived in Jackson Hole in 1885 and subsisted as a trapper until he established the Bar Flying U Ranch in 1888. The Cunninghams left the valley for Idaho in 1928, when land was being acquired for the future Grand Teton National Park.\nCunningham and his wife grew about 100 acres (40 ha) of hay, later irrigating another 140 acres (57 ha) to provide feed for 100 cattle and eight horses. His brother, ","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Cunningham_Cabin_in_Jackson_Hole.JPG/960px-Cunningham_Cabin_in_Jackson_Hole.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":89,"lat":43.77888889,"lon":-110.55777778},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}