{"id":398,"slug":"fairmont-hotel-deadwood-south-dakota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Fairmont is the stained — the 'ground blood' that's the '76 murder, the 'before built' that's the land's mark. The 'Maggie jumped' is the paced — the 'third floor' that's the corridor's walk, the 'Broadwater' that's the madam's end. The 'McCall roams' is the blamed — the 'next door' that's the Hickok's death, the 'killer haunts' that's the wrong address.","The 'rooms closed' is the gave — the 'too haunted' that's the renting's stop, the 'objects thrown' that's the guests' tell. The 'brothel menus' is the showed — the 'tours nightly' that's the past's sell, the 'Dead Files' that's the TV's stamp. Fairmont is the layered — the 'first murder' that's the soil's stain, the 'notorious' that's the brothel's rank.","The file keeps the Fairmont: the bloodied ground, the pacing Maggie, the roaming McCall, and the closed rooms.","Fairmont Hotel is the archive's South Dakota file — the brothel built on the first murder's spot."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Fairmont Hotel is the archive's South Dakota file — where the ground was bloody before the walls rose.","A hotel keeps its ground — the file's suggestion being that the Fairmont's hold is the inherited: the 'first murder' that's the land's mark, the 'brothel's dead' that's the floors' add, and the 'rooms closed' that's the giving up."]}],"name":"Fairmont Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"The 1898 building previously accommodated a brothel, baths and a speakeasy.","full_desc":"Fairmont Hotel is a hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota, built in 1898. The 1898 building previously accommodated a brothel, baths and a speakeasy. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend 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":"628 Main Street","city":"Deadwood","county":"Lawrence","state":"South Dakota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":44.387048,"lon":-103.720742,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1898,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Tourism-supported identity and attributed claims; operator access details require enrichment. Current business and historical footprint must not be conflated.","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":298,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Tourism identifies a haunted reputation and commercial paranormal tours. Fairmont Hotel, a hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. 'Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience' carries the account. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1898 building previously accommodated a brothel, baths and a speakeasy. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. The record appears in 'Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tourism identifies a haunted reputation and commercial paranormal tours. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","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 Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}