{"id":461,"slug":"grapevine-farms-cobleskill-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Grapevine is the shopping — the 'gift shop, bistro, wine cellar' that's the farm converted, the 'Hiltzes buried' that's the owners on-site. The 'second floor' is the kept — the 'David and wife' that's the regular spirits, the 'psychic heard' that's the voices confirmed. The 'children running' is the heard — the 'hallway footsteps' that's the vintage stairs, the 'recorded' that's the customers' evidence.","The '2002' is the woke — the 'vacant farmhouse' that's the newlyweds bought, the 'one week married' that's the business opened. The 'wine helps' is the joked — the 'complimentary tastings' that's the cellar's offer, the 'you may need one' that's the trail's copy. Grapevine is the domestic — the 'family spirits' that's the buried stayed, the 'ghost hunts' that's the tours offered.","The file keeps Grapevine: the buried owners, the running children, the psychic's visit, and the wine cellar.","Grapevine Farms is the archive's New York file — the farm where the owners stayed."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Grapevine Farms is the archive's New York file — the owners buried on their own shop floor.","A farm keeps its family — the file's suggestion being that Grapevine's hold is the domestic: the 'buried on premises' that's the Hiltzes stayed, the 'children running' that's the play continued, and the 'wine tastings' that's the courage offered."]}],"name":"Grapevine Farms","aliases":[],"type":"FARMHOUSE","type_label":"Farmhouse","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Farmhouse research record.","full_desc":"Grapevine Farms is a farmhouse in Cobleskill, New York. Farmhouse research record. 1850 farm adapted to a gift shop, bistro and wine cellar after an ownership change in 2002. Local lore holds that Customers report apparitions and sounds; folklore associates second-floor presences with David Hiltz and his wife.","address":"2373 State Route 7","city":"Cobleskill","county":"Schoharie","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.679002,"lon":-74.485234,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Commercial public areas; nighttime tours and investigations by appointment.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1850,"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":345,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Customers report apparitions and sounds; folklore associates second-floor presences with David Hiltz and his wife. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"David Hiltz","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Grapevine Farms","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/grapevine-farms","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"1850 farm adapted to a gift shop, bistro and wine cellar after an ownership change in 2002. A house in Cobleskill, New York with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Grapevine Farms' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Grapevine Farms","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/grapevine-farms","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Customers report apparitions and sounds; folklore associates second-floor presences with David Hiltz and his wife. Grapevine Farms in Cobleskill, New York is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. 'Grapevine Farms' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Grapevine Farms","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/grapevine-farms","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"David Hiltz","claimed_identity":"David Hiltz","verified":null,"summary":"Customers report apparitions and sounds; folklore associates second-floor presences with David Hiltz and his wife. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is David Hiltz.","behavior":"Customers report apparitions and sounds; folklore associates second-floor presences with David Hiltz and his wife.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Grapevine Farms","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/grapevine-farms","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Grapevine Farms","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/grapevine-farms","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}