{"id":3399,"slug":"eloise-westland-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Eloise is the city — the 902 acres that were the campus, the 10,000 who lived there. The poorhouse was the '39 — the Wayne County that's the origin, the daughter who was the name. The treatments were the edge — the x-rays that were the first, the lobotomies that were the dark.","The cemetery is the 7,100 — the numbered bricks that are the markers, the unnamed who are the dead. The closing was the '84 — the psychiatric '79, the haunted attraction that's now. Eloise is the self-sufficient — the fire department that's the town, the railroad that's the internal.","The file keeps Eloise: the 1839 poorhouse, the 10,000 patients, the 7,100 unmarked, and the city.","Eloise is the archive's Westland file — the city that was a hospital."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Eloise is the archive's Westland file — the self-contained asylum.","A hospital keeps its cemetery — the file's suggestion being that Eloise's hold is the city: the 10,000 who lived, the 7,100 who are numbered, and the '84 closure that's the haunting."]}],"name":"Eloise","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","MEDICAL","ASYLUM"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1839 poorhouse—where 7,000 patients stayed.","full_desc":"A site in Westland, Michigan, Eloise is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1839 poorhouse—where 7,000 patients stayed. The presences in its file go unnamed: the patients, 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":"Westland","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":42.319173,"lon":-83.380778,"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","research_notes":"DET 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":3593,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The patients are reportedly seen. The reports at Eloise are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Eloise (psychiatric hospital)'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The patients","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Eloise (psychiatric hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3594,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the buildings. The reports at Eloise are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It originates in investigator claims — compelling inside the team's log, unverifiable outside it. The account appears in 'Eloise (psychiatric hospital)'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","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":"Eloise (psychiatric hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1839 poorhouse is documented. Eloise's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Eloise (psychiatric hospital)' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1839","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Eloise (psychiatric hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The patients are reportedly seen. Eloise's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Eloise (psychiatric hospital)' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The account appears in 'Eloise (psychiatric hospital)'. 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":"Eloise (psychiatric hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The patients","claimed_identity":"The patients","verified":null,"summary":"The patients are reportedly seen. The reports at Eloise are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file keeps The patients on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore. The file stays open on it. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","behavior":"The patients are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Eloise (psychiatric hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital)","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":"Eloise (psychiatric hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_(psychiatric_hospital)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}