{"id":203,"slug":"custer-house-at-fort-abraham-lincoln-mandan-north-dakota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The house is the replica — the 'reconstruction' that's the building's truth, the '1873' that's the original's year. The 'Little Bighorn' is the widowed — the '1876' that's the death's year, the 'black dress' that's the mourning's form. The 'billiard break' is the heard — the 'no ball' that's the table's state, the 'window' that's the sighting's frame.","The 'firm grab' is the touched — the 'reenactor' that's the witness's role, the 'no one there' that's the search's result. The 'Libbie' is the searched — the 'husband' that's the quest's object, the 'period dress' that's the guide's costume. The house is the kept — the 'Fort Lincoln' that's the fort's name, the 'interpreted' that's the tour's form.","The file keeps the house: the replica home, the widowed Libbie, the heard billiards, and the kept fort.","Custer House is the archive's North Dakota file — the widow who won't stop looking."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Custer House is the archive's North Dakota file — the replica that remembers.","A house keeps its search — the file's suggestion being that the site's hold is the widowed: the 'Libbie' that's the ghost's name, the 'black dress' that's the mourning's wear, and the 'billiard' that's the sound's echo."]}],"name":"Custer House at Fort Abraham Lincoln","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"A historic house in Mandan, North Dakota, Custer House at Fort Abraham Lincoln is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Mandan","county":null,"state":"North Dakota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":46.829484,"lon":-100.88706,"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. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":154,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Workers report unexplained touches and moved household objects. Custer House at Fort Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, North Dakota is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. The account appears in 'North Dakota Legend and Lore'. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"North Dakota Legend and Lore","url":"https://www.ndtourism.com/articles/north-dakota-legend-and-lore","publisher":"North Dakota Tourism Division","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The current house is a reconstruction. Custer House at Fort Abraham Lincoln's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. The record appears in 'North Dakota Legend and Lore'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"North Dakota Legend and Lore","url":"https://www.ndtourism.com/articles/north-dakota-legend-and-lore","publisher":"North Dakota Tourism Division","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"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":"North Dakota Legend and Lore","url":"https://www.ndtourism.com/articles/north-dakota-legend-and-lore","publisher":"North Dakota Tourism Division","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}