{"id":1474,"slug":"errolton-columbus-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["For more than half a century the porch of Errolton had a resident narrator. Miss Nellie Weaver, born and raised in the Third Avenue house, sat there telling the Columbus stories she had lived, a fixture of the town until her death in the 1930s. She had married Charles Tucker in 1878 and — in what the guide calls her nuptial mirth — used her diamond engagement ring to scratch her name into a pane of glass in the south parlor. Tucker left a few years later; Nellie and her daughter Ellen stayed, she taught to keep the house, and the house slowly decayed around them.","In 1950 the property passed to Mrs. Erroldine Hay Bateman, who set about restoring it."]},{"heading":"The signature","paragraphs":["The restoration produced Errolton's only reported phenomenon. A workman accidentally broke the pane bearing Nellie's signature and the glass was replaced — after which, the account says, the etched name appeared again on the new pane.","Nothing else is claimed for the house: no footsteps, no apparition, just a signature that reportedly refused to stay removed. The story is filed as documented legend — written down, retold, and never verified — which is, as the file notes, the most honest status it can hold."]}],"name":"Errolton","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house in Columbus; research record.","full_desc":"Errolton is a historic house in Columbus, Mississippi. Historic house in Columbus; research record. The name the accounts keep returning to is Nellie Weaver Tucker. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":"216 Third Avenue South","city":"Columbus","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.508208,"lon":-88.407128,"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":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":702,"type":"STRANGE_IMAGE","description":"The guide recounts Nellie’s signature reappearing on replacement glass. The lore gives it a name — Nellie Weaver Tucker — which is what turns a report into a resident. A house with Columbus's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Nellie Weaver Tucker","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The guide recounts Nellie’s signature reappearing on replacement glass. A house with Columbus's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Nellie Weaver Tucker","claimed_identity":"Nellie Weaver Tucker","verified":null,"summary":"The guide recounts Nellie’s signature reappearing on replacement glass. The presence goes by Nellie Weaver Tucker. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The account appears in 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. The lore has a face now: Nellie Weaver Tucker.","behavior":"The guide recounts Nellie’s signature reappearing on replacement glass.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"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":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}