{"id":454,"slug":"fainting-goat-island-inn-nichols-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Fainting Goat is the floated — the 'river saw' that's the discovery's way, the 'for sale' that's the timing's luck. The 'roles stacked' is the passed — the 'ice post brothel' that's the uses' run, the 'railroad hotel' that's the '50s' job. The 'goats faint' is the named — the 'Porkchop' that's the pig's name, the 'smokehouse' that's her chosen's home.","The 'first place' is the won — the 'USA Today' that's the vote's source, the 'haunted hotel' that's the category's name. The 'boy most' is the active — the 'Fainting Room' that's his spot, the 'doll knife' that's the ceiling's find. Fainting Goat is the kept — the 'guestbooks fill' that's the proof's form, the 'skeptic turned' that's the owner's arc.","The file keeps Fainting Goat: the floated find, the stacked roles, the fainting goats, and the won first.","Fainting Goat Island Inn is the archive's New York file — the inn that won America's most haunted."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Fainting Goat Island Inn is the archive's New York file — the B&B voted most haunted twice.","An inn keeps its goats — the file's suggestion being that Fainting Goat's hold is the doubled: the 'goats faint' that's the name's odd, the 'boy' that's the ghost's kind, and the 'first place' that's the vote's proof."]}],"name":"Fainting Goat Island Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn research record.","full_desc":"Fainting Goat Island Inn is an inn in Nichols, New York. Inn research record. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":"1311 West River Road","city":"Nichols","county":"Tioga","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.020017,"lon":-76.370402,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Paid overnight guests; trail page says tours are exclusive to staying guests.","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/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":61.9,"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":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":338,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Guests describe two women taking tea, displaced furniture and footsteps on a vanished staircase. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It's a reported experience — real to the people who had it, unresolved for everyone else. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Fainting Goat Island Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/fainting-goat-island-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Former railroad hotel originating in the late nineteenth century. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Fainting Goat Island Inn' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Fainting Goat Island Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/fainting-goat-island-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"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":"Fainting Goat Island Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/fainting-goat-island-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}