{"id":1581,"slug":"dead-presidents-pub-wilmington-delaware","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The pub is the slipped — the 'Lemonade Mullery' that's the patron's name, the 'urine' that's the fall's cause. The '1960s' is the started — the 'rowdy bar' that's the predecessor's form, the 'broke neck' that's the death's form. The 'chapel' is the buried — the 'Jesus carving' that's the basement's find, the 'private homes' that's the building's start.","The 'dishes thrown' is the angry — the 'wait staff' that's the target's form, the 'hysterical laughing' that's the sound's type. The 'dominoes float' is the played — the 'game room' that's the piece's home, the 'clinking glasses' that's the toast's echo. The pub is the kept — the 'presidents' that's the decor's theme, the '1997' that's the current's year.","The file keeps the pub: the slipped patron, the started haunting, the buried chapel, and the kept bar.","Dead Presidents is the archive's Delaware file — the drunk who won't leave."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Dead Presidents is the archive's Delaware file — the patron who still throws dishes.","A pub keeps its regular — the file's suggestion being that the haunt's hold is the habitual: the 'Lemonade' that's the name's irony, the 'slipped' that's the death's banality, and the 'thrown' that's the ghost's sport."]}],"name":"Dead Presidents Pub","aliases":["Dead President's Tavern"],"type":"PUB","type_label":"Pub","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"WHYY recounts alleged moving objects attributed to Lemonade Mullery.","full_desc":"A pub in Wilmington, Delaware, Dead Presidents Pub is filed here for what the record attaches to it. WHYY recounts alleged moving objects attributed to Lemonade Mullery. Its signature presence is Lemonade Mullery — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Wilmington","county":null,"state":"Delaware","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.735651,"lon":-75.532104,"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":"2009 journalistic account. Identity/death narrative not independently verified; current business details unknown.","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":796,"type":"OBJECTS_MOVING","description":"WHYY recounts alleged moving objects attributed to Lemonade Mullery. The site in Wilmington, Delaware gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Haunted Locations of Delaware' carries the account. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Lemonade Mullery","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Locations of Delaware","url":"https://whyy.org/articles/haunted-locations-of-delaware/","publisher":"WHYY","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"WHYY recounts alleged moving objects attributed to Lemonade Mullery. Dead Presidents Pub's file is the sort restaurants and bars collect over decades — staff sightings, closing-time sounds, the building after hours. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Haunted Locations of Delaware' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Haunted Locations of Delaware","url":"https://whyy.org/articles/haunted-locations-of-delaware/","publisher":"WHYY","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Lemonade Mullery","claimed_identity":"Lemonade Mullery","verified":null,"summary":"WHYY recounts alleged moving objects attributed to Lemonade Mullery. An old pub in Wilmington, Delaware gives the account a setting with real history behind the bar. 'Haunted Locations of Delaware' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","behavior":"WHYY recounts alleged moving objects attributed to Lemonade Mullery.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Locations of Delaware","url":"https://whyy.org/articles/haunted-locations-of-delaware/","publisher":"WHYY","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","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":"Haunted Locations of Delaware","url":"https://whyy.org/articles/haunted-locations-of-delaware/","publisher":"WHYY","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}