{"id":3436,"slug":"greenwood-st-francisville-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Greenwood is the Barrow house — the 1830 Greek Revival that's the 'finest example', the 28 columns that surround. The 12,000 acres was the sugar — the 275 enslaved who were the census '40, the fortune that was the built. The fire was the '60 — the lightning that struck, the columns and chimneys that survived.","The Percys were the '15 — the rescue that's the working farm, the tourists who came early. The rebuild was the '68-84 — the Barnes who bought columns, the replica that's the 'no plans'. The movies are the fame — the North and South that's the film, the Jeepers Creepers that's the horror. Greenwood is the replica — the columns that are original, the house that's the '84.","The file keeps Greenwood: the 1830 Barrow house, the 1960 fire, the Barnes rebuild, and the movie fame.","Greenwood is the archive's St. Francisville file — the risen plantation."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Greenwood is the archive's St. Francisville file — the rebuilt column.","A column keeps its house — the file's suggestion being that Greenwood's hold is the survival: the '60 fire that left columns, the Barnes who rebuilt '84, and the movies that filmed."]}],"name":"Greenwood","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","PLANTATION","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The 1830 mansion—burned and rebuilt, ghosts included.","full_desc":"Greenwood is a house in St. Francisville, Louisiana. The 1830 mansion—burned and rebuilt, ghosts included. Its accounts name only a collective — the greenwood dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"St. Francisville","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.784234,"lon":-91.376417,"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":"Historic site","research_notes":"LA2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3678,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the Greenwood dead. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'Greenwood' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Greenwood dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Greenwood","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(St._Francisville,_Louisiana)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3679,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the mansion. Greenwood in St. Francisville, Louisiana is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The report is preserved in sources like 'Greenwood'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Greenwood","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(St._Francisville,_Louisiana)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1830 mansion and the fire are documented. Greenwood's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Greenwood'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The lore keeps its witness.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1830","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Greenwood","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(St._Francisville,_Louisiana)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Greenwood in St. Francisville, Louisiana is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 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":"Greenwood","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(St._Francisville,_Louisiana)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Greenwood dead","claimed_identity":"The Greenwood dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Greenwood dead. Greenwood in St. Francisville, Louisiana is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. 'Greenwood' carries the account. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The Greenwood dead.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Greenwood","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(St._Francisville,_Louisiana)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic house; many are private residences—verify public access 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":"Greenwood","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood_Plantation_(St._Francisville,_Louisiana)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}