{"id":459,"slug":"genesee-falls-inn-portageville-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Genesee Falls is the layered — the 'two burned' that's the site's past, the '1870' that's the current's build. The 'bare knuckle' is the fought — the 'ballroom' that's the ring's spot, the 'third floor' that's the bouts' height. The 'caretaker locks' is the kept — the 'his room' that's the door's guard, the 'two years dead' that's the watch's span.","The 'items returned' is the played — the 'ask nicely' that's the ritual's form, the 'flashlights' that's the spirits' yes. The 'child dressed' is the seen — the 'kitchen walks' that's the path's spot, the 'period' that's the clothes' mark. Genesee Falls is the drowned — the 'waterfalls' that's the suicides' spot, the 'family's habit' that's the deaths' kind.","The file keeps Genesee Falls: the layered burns, the knuckle ballroom, the locking caretaker, and the returned items.","Genesee Falls Inn is the archive's New York file — the inn where the caretaker still locks his room."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Genesee Falls Inn is the archive's New York file — the inn guarded by its dead caretaker.","An inn keeps its caretaker — the file's suggestion being that Genesee's hold is the locked: the 'his room' that's the door's guard, the 'waterfalls' that's the deaths' spot, and the 'ask nicely' that's the spirits' rule."]}],"name":"Genesee Falls Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn research record.","full_desc":"An inn in Portageville, New York, built in 1870, Genesee Falls Inn is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Inn research record. The archive files it under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":"6901 Hamilton St","city":"Portageville","county":"Wyoming","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.71237,"lon":-78.18958,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Lodging, booked tours and investigations.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1870,"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":343,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Owners report a period-dressed child and seated man; guests report footsteps and closing doors. A hotel in Portageville, New York with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. 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":"Genesee Falls Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/genesee-falls-inn","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Inn dates to 1870; its third-floor ballroom reportedly hosted bare-knuckle fighting. The hotel in Portageville, New York has its past on record — this entry belongs to that verified layer. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Genesee Falls Inn' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Genesee Falls Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/genesee-falls-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":"Genesee Falls Inn","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/genesee-falls-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}}