{"id":1369,"slug":"duff-green-mansion-vicksburg-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Duff Green is the amputated — the 'soldier sits' that's the sighting's form, the 'clutching leg' that's the pose's detail. The 'blood stays' is the stained — the 'floorboards' that's the marks' spot, the 'hospital' that's the house's war job. The 'cannonball' is the struck — the 'beam' that's the hit's spot, the 'surrendered' that's the response's turn.","The 'reluctant haunted' is the owner's stance — the 'too beautiful' that's the pushback's form, the 'Annie tickles' that's the child's proof. The 'hundred reports' is the same — the 'one soldier' that's the figure's repeat, the 'fireplace' that's his seat's spot. Duff Green is the built — the '1856' that's the start's year, the 'finished after' that's the war's pause.","The file keeps Duff Green: the amputated soldier, the staying blood, the struck beam, and the reluctant owner.","Duff Green Mansion is the archive's Mississippi file — the house that kept its war wounds."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Duff Green Mansion is the archive's Mississippi file — the hospital that never discharged its patients.","A mansion keeps its stains — the file's suggestion being that Duff Green's hold is the wounded: the 'soldier' that's the sighting's form, the 'blood' that's the floor's keep, and the 'reluctant' that's the owner's odd."]}],"name":"Duff Green Mansion","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_INN","type_label":"Historic Inn","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic inn in Vicksburg; research record.","full_desc":"A historic inn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, built in 1856, Duff Green Mansion is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic inn in Vicksburg; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"1114 First East Street","city":"Vicksburg","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.322002,"lon":-90.881559,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.duffgreenmansion.com/","phone":null,"year_built":1856,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","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":612,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Visit Vicksburg recounts soldier and child apparitions. The site in Vicksburg, Mississippi gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The tourism source dates the former residence and wartime hospital to 1856. Duff Green Mansion's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. Sources including 'Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Visit Vicksburg recounts soldier and child apparitions. Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Haunted Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts in Mississippi","url":"https://www.visitvicksburg.com/blog/haunted-hotels-and-bed-and-breakfasts-in-mississippi/","publisher":"Visit Vicksburg","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}