{"id":471,"slug":"glebe-house-museum-woodbury-connecticut","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Glebe House is the '83 — the 'March 25' that's the met, the 'first bishop' that's the elected. The 'Seabury' is the chosen — the 'Scotland' that's the consecrated, the 'American Episcopal' that's the born. The 'Marshall' is the rector — the 'nine children' that's the raised, the 'three enslaved' that's the held.","The 'secret' is the meeting — the 'Tory clergy' that's the suspected, the 'independence' that's the church. The 'Jekyll' is the garden — the 'only US' that's the designed, the '1923' that's the restored. Glebe is the first — the 'gambrel-saltbox' that's the roof, the 'birthplace' that's the claimed.","The file keeps Glebe House: the 1783 election, the Seabury first bishop, the Marshall household, and the Jekyll garden.","Glebe House is the archive's Connecticut file — the church's birthplace."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Glebe House is the archive's Connecticut file — the elected bishop's room.","A rectory keeps its vote — the file's suggestion being that Glebe's hold is the chosen: the 'Seabury' that's the first, the 'secret' that's the met, and the 'Jekyll' that's the gardened."]}],"name":"Glebe House Museum","aliases":[],"type":"MUSEUM","type_label":"Museum","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Museum research record.","full_desc":"A museum in Woodbury, Connecticut, Glebe House Museum is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Museum research record. The archive files it under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":"49 Hollow Road","city":"Woodbury","county":null,"state":"Connecticut","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.54387,"lon":-73.204857,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Museum remains open during 2026 repairs; follow caution tape. Parking temporarily limited.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.glebehousemuseum.org/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"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":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":353,"type":"UNSPECIFIED_HAUNTING","description":"Tourism records a tradition of two alleged ghosts. Glebe House Museum in Woodbury, Connecticut curates the past professionally; the reports suggest some of the past curates back. 'Haunted Homes, Museums, and Theaters' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Homes, Museums, and Theaters","url":"https://ctvisit.com/haunted-homes-museums-and-theaters","publisher":"Connecticut Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"House built circa 1740; Anglican priest John Rutgers Marshall and his family arrived in 1771. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden","url":"https://www.glebehousemuseum.org/","publisher":"Glebe House Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tourism records a tradition of two alleged ghosts. The site's claim set is modest — appropriate for a building whose exhibits already do the unsettling work. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'Haunted Homes, Museums, and Theaters'. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Haunted Homes, Museums, and Theaters","url":"https://ctvisit.com/haunted-homes-museums-and-theaters","publisher":"Connecticut Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"2026 museum: Friday–Sunday 1–4 p.m.; regular season ends October 11. Garden daily dawn–dusk.","parking":"Limited during repair work.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden","url":"https://www.glebehousemuseum.org/","publisher":"Glebe House Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Haunted Homes, Museums, and Theaters","url":"https://ctvisit.com/haunted-homes-museums-and-theaters","publisher":"Connecticut Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"The Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden","url":"https://www.glebehousemuseum.org/","publisher":"Glebe House Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}