{"id":399,"slug":"franklin-hotel-deadwood-south-dakota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Franklin is the grand — the '1903' that's the open's year, the 'steam phones' that's the luxury's list. The 'founder watches' is the stayed — the 'Harris' that's the ghost's name, the 'cleaning staff' that's his focus's odd. The 'presidents slept' is the hosted — the 'Roosevelt Taft' that's the register's fame, the 'Babe Ruth' that's the ball's name.","The 'pit pool' is the odd — the 'swimming' that's the basement's past, the 'matched funds' that's the build's deal. The 'spurs heard' is the walked — the 'bootsteps' that's the stairs' sound, the 'nobody there' that's the sight's lack. Franklin is the played — the 'casino now' that's the use's shift, the 'Silverado' that's the owner's name.","The file keeps Franklin: the grand open, the watching founder, the slept presidents, and the walked spurs.","Franklin Hotel is the archive's South Dakota file — the hotel where the founder still inspects the cleaning."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Franklin Hotel is the archive's South Dakota file — the grand hotel whose founder never left.","A hotel keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that Franklin's hold is the watched: the 'Harris' that's the ghost's name, the 'cleaning' that's his focus's odd, and the 'spurs' that's the stairs' sound."]}],"name":"Franklin Hotel","aliases":["Silverado Franklin Hotel","Silverado Franklin Hotel & Gaming Complex"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees.","full_desc":"A hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota, Franklin Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees. Its signature presence is Harris Franklin — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. It still takes guests.","address":"709 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":null,"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":51.9,"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":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":299,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees. A hotel in Deadwood, South Dakota with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience'. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Harris Franklin","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":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","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":[{"name":"Harris Franklin","claimed_identity":"Harris Franklin","verified":null,"summary":"Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees. The Deadwood hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. The reports keep the address on the map.","behavior":"Tourism recounts claims that Harris Franklin appears to check on employees.","area":null,"first_ref":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}}],"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":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}