{"id":580,"slug":"dana-house-at-woodstock-history-center-woodstock-vermont","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Dana House is the kept — the 'three generations' that's the family's run, the '1807' that's the build's year. The 'merchant's' is the worked — the 'dry goods' that's the trade's kind, the 'store next' that's the shop's place. The 'Elm Tree' is the printed — the 'sons' that's the press's owners, the 'same building' that's the reuse's spot.","The 'society took' is the saved — the '1943' that's the wartime's buy, the 'history center' that's the use's now. The 'vampires told' is the dug — the 'lore' that's the exhibit's edge, the 'Green' that's the gathering's ground. Dana House is the free — the 'no charge' that's the tour's price, the 'collections' that's the rooms' fill.","The file keeps Dana House: the kept family, the merchant's store, the sons' press, and the saved society.","Dana House is the archive's Vermont file — the merchant's home that became the town's memory."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Dana House is the archive's Vermont file — the house that held three generations then the whole town's history.","A house keeps its stories — the file's suggestion being that Dana's hold is the gathered: the 'three generations' that's the family's run, the 'press next' that's the sons' work, and the 'vampire lore' that's the exhibit's edge."]}],"name":"Dana House at Woodstock History Center","aliases":["Dana Historic House","Woodstock Historical Society Museum"],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE_MUSEUM","type_label":"Historic House Museum","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"House museum associated with a reported disappearing pianist.","full_desc":"Dana House at Woodstock History Center is a historic house museum in Woodstock, Vermont. House museum associated with a reported disappearing pianist. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. The site is open to visitors. 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":"26 Elm Street","city":"Woodstock","county":"Windsor","state":"Vermont","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.62344,"lon":-72.513003,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":56.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":445,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Tourism recounts an employee’s story of a woman at the museum piano who vanished when approached. Dana House at Woodstock History Center in Woodstock, Vermont carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village","url":"https://www.woodstockvt.com/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales/","publisher":"WoodstockVT","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"June 17–October 3, 2026: Wednesday–Saturday 11am–4pm.","admission_fee":"Free admission.","tour_availability":"Guided Dana Historic House tours at 11:30am, 1pm and 2:30pm; library by appointment.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Visit: 2026 season","url":"https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/visit","publisher":"Woodstock History Center","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village","url":"https://www.woodstockvt.com/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales/","publisher":"WoodstockVT","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Contact","url":"https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/contact-us","publisher":"Woodstock History Center","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2},{"name":"Visit: 2026 season","url":"https://www.woodstockhistorycenter.org/visit","publisher":"Woodstock History Center","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}