{"id":1234,"slug":"firefly-hills-farmhouse-beattyville-kentucky","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The farmhouse — locally called the Snowden House — stands on Pine Grove Road outside Beattyville, in Lee County where the Kentucky hills begin closing in toward the Red River Gorge. It is roughly a century old and spent recent years as the farmhouse on the Firefly Hills RV park property until owners Tonja and Troy Lesmeister renovated it and converted it to guest lodging."]},{"heading":"What's reported","paragraphs":["The local lore, collected by Kentucky After Dark and regional news coverage, concentrates upstairs: a woman seen brushing her hair in the third-story window; voices and rattling doorknobs; dishes crashing; the sensation of movement on the bed; and a bathtub that fills itself with water. Past residents supplied most of the accounts; the dossier files them as documented legend, which is the honest category.","The owners leaned in rather than out. Firefly Hills After Dark tours — run in October 2024 and 2025 — hand paranormal equipment to visitors, and the farmhouse is a passport stop on the state's Kentucky After Dark trail. A house that was private rumor for decades is now, by the tourism program's own lights, a documented legend with a reservation desk."]}],"name":"Firefly Hills Farmhouse","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house in Beattyville; research record.","full_desc":"Firefly Hills Farmhouse is a historic house in Beattyville, Kentucky. Historic house in Beattyville; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Beattyville","county":"Lee County","state":"Kentucky","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":37.586809,"lon":-83.70688,"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":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":515,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Kentucky After Dark recounts a hair-brushing apparition and unexplained dish and bathtub activity. The reports concentrate at Third floor of farmhouse at Firefly Hills RV Park. A house with Beattyville'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 account appears in 'The Congleton Building'. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":"Third floor of farmhouse at Firefly Hills RV Park","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The Congleton Building","url":"https://www.kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/beattyville-lee-county-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Kentucky After Dark recounts a hair-brushing apparition and unexplained dish and bathtub activity. Firefly Hills Farmhouse in Beattyville, Kentucky is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"The Congleton Building","url":"https://www.kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/beattyville-lee-county-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"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 Congleton Building","url":"https://www.kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/beattyville-lee-county-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}