{"id":1926,"slug":"gila-county-jail-and-sheriffs-office-globe-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Gila's is the shot — the 'through bars' that's the murder's way, the 'sleeping cot' that's the victim's spot. The 'gallows built' is the stacked — the 'wooden frame' that's the site's first, the 'concrete poured' that's the jail's over. The 'Yuma doors' is the salvaged — the 'levers came' that's the parts' source, the 'frozen rust' that's the years' lock.","The 'fourth jail' is the counted — the 'adobe first' that's the line's start, the 'hanging tree' that's the pairing's grim. The 'catwalk jumped' is the seen — the 'trial walk' that's the bridge's use, the 'leaper' that's the ghost's guess. Gila's is the closed — the '1981' that's the last's year, the 'deplorable' that's the conditions' word.","The file keeps Gila's: the shot prisoner, the stacked gallows, the salvaged doors, and the jumped catwalk.","Gila County Jail is the archive's Arizona file — the jail built on its own gallows."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Gila County Jail is the archive's Arizona file — where the fourth jail stood on the scaffold.","A jail keeps its shot — the file's suggestion being that Gila's hold is the layered: the 'gallows' that's the site's base, the 'unsolved' that's the murder's state, and the 'catwalk' that's the ghost's walk."]}],"name":"Gila County Jail and Sheriff’s Office","aliases":[],"type":"FORMER_JAIL","type_label":"Former Jail","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Former jail associated with a fatal shooting and ghost tours.","full_desc":"Gila County Jail and Sheriff’s Office is a former jail in Globe, Arizona. Former jail associated with a fatal shooting and ghost tours. Completed in 1910 and closed in 1981; tourism recounts an inmate killed by gunfire from across the alley. Local lore holds that Arizona Office of Tourism recounts local haunting stories promoted through jail ghost tours.","address":null,"city":"Globe","county":"Gila","state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":33.393642,"lon":-110.741106,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1910,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":1981,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Exact location, homicide documentation and operator schedule pending. Undated October 30 tour listing not treated as upcoming.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"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,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":986,"type":"REPORTED_PRESENCE","description":"Arizona Office of Tourism recounts local haunting stories promoted through jail ghost tours. The site in Globe, Arizona gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 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":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Completed in 1910 and closed in 1981; tourism recounts an inmate killed by gunfire from across the alley. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. The detail is preserved in 'Ghost Tours of Arizona'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Arizona Office of Tourism recounts local haunting stories promoted through jail ghost tours. Gila County Jail and Sheriff’s Office in Globe, Arizona carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. 'Ghost Tours of Arizona' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Ghost Tours of Arizona' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"Jail closure","type":"CLOSURE","date_start":"1981","date_end":null,"description":"The Gila County Jail in Globe ceased operations in 1981 after more than seventy years. The 1910 concrete-and-steel fortress held everyone from copper-strike agitators to convicted killers, and its preserved cells — inmate graffiti intact — now anchor ghost tours trading on tales of a prisoner said to still prowl the tiers.","evidence":"CLOSURE","source":{"name":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Ghost Tours of Arizona","url":"https://www.visitarizona.com/like-a-local/ghost-tours-of-arizona","publisher":"Arizona Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}