{"id":2973,"slug":"eddy-brothers-site-chittenden-vermont","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Eddys are the spirit capital — the '70s séances that drew the world, the 'Spirit Vale' that's the name. The Olcott was the investigator — the '74 Sun articles that made them, the 'People from the Other World' that's the book. The Blavatsky was the convert — the Theosophy that she founded, the validation that she gave.","The father was the skeptic — the Zephaniah who beat the trance, the hot embers that he dropped. The spirits were the materialized — the Honto and the Byron, the hands that were the shades. The Eddys are the fraud — the 'spirit capital' that was the claim, the farmhouse that's the site.","The file keeps the Eddys: the 1870s séances, the Olcott investigation, the Blavatsky visit, and the farmhouse.","Eddy Brothers is the archive's Chittenden file — the spirit capital."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Eddy Brothers is the archive's Chittenden file — the materialized spirits.","A farmhouse keeps its séances — the file's suggestion being that the Eddys' hold is the claim: the spirits that materialized, the Olcott who wrote, and the fraud that's the question."]}],"name":"Eddy Brothers site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","SPIRITUALISM","LEGEND_SITE"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The séance farmhouse—where the Eddy brothers’ spirits reportedly appeared.","full_desc":"A site in Chittenden, Vermont, Eddy Brothers site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The séance farmhouse—where the Eddy brothers’ spirits reportedly appeared. The presences in its file go unnamed: the eddy spirits, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Chittenden","county":null,"state":"Vermont","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.703323,"lon":-72.949464,"coord_kind":"CITY","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 / park","research_notes":"NE2 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":2792,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The spirits are reportedly still summoned. The presences go by the Eddy spirits in the file. Eddy Brothers site in Chittenden, Vermont carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Eddy Brothers / Chittenden' keep the claim in circulation. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Eddy spirits","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Eddy Brothers / Chittenden","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Brothers","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2793,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the site. Eddy Brothers site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's an investigation claim — the kind that convinces the people who were in the room. 'Eddy Brothers / Chittenden' carries the account. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Eddy Brothers / Chittenden","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Brothers","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1870s séances are documented; the farmhouse site is real. Eddy Brothers site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Eddy Brothers / Chittenden' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1870","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Eddy Brothers / Chittenden","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Brothers","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The spirits are reportedly still summoned. The reports at Eddy Brothers site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Eddy Brothers / Chittenden'. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Eddy Brothers / Chittenden","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Brothers","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Eddy spirits","claimed_identity":"The Eddy spirits","verified":null,"summary":"The spirits are reportedly still summoned. The lore files them collectively as the Eddy spirits. The site in Chittenden, Vermont gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Eddy Brothers / Chittenden' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"The spirits are reportedly still summoned.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Eddy Brothers / Chittenden","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Brothers","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":"Eddy Brothers / Chittenden","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Brothers","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}