{"id":512,"slug":"hanna-hotel-site-lock-haven-vicinity-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hanna's is the killed — the 'stairs' that's the fight's spot, the 'never caught' that's the killer's fate. The 'raft left' is the escaped — the 'lumbermen' that's the crowd's kind, the 'next day' that's the getaway's ease. The 'boots walked' is the heard — the 'large' that's the sound's mark, the 'haunted' that's the belief's form.","The 'elegant' is the praised — the '1859' that's the open's year, the 'finest' that's the paper's word. The 'park now' is the erased — the 'Riverview' that's the site's name, the 'children play' that's the spot's now. Hanna's is the gone — the 'torn down' that's the building's fate, the 'don't know' that's the walkers' lack.","The file keeps Hanna's: the stairs killing, the raft escape, the walking boots, and the playing children.","Hanna Hotel site is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the park where children play over a murder scene."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hanna Hotel site is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the haunted spot that became a playground.","A park keeps its past — the file's suggestion being that Hanna's hold is the erased: the 'killed' that's the stairs' deed, the 'boots' that's the ghost's sound, and the 'children' that's the now's irony."]}],"name":"Hanna Hotel site","aliases":["Former Hanna Hotel"],"type":"DEMOLISHED_HOTEL","type_label":"Demolished Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Demolished hotel research record.","full_desc":"Hanna Hotel site is a demolished hotel in Lock Haven vicinity, Pennsylvania. Demolished hotel research record. Article cites an October 28, 1859 Clinton Democrat description; demolished hotel site became Riverview Park in the 1990s. Folklore describes a persistent bloodstain and heavy footsteps attributed to an unidentified lumberman.","address":"Farrandsville Road","city":"Lock Haven vicinity","county":"Clinton","state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.21751,"lon":-77.61601,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"DEMOLISHED","access":"UNKNOWN","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":"Riverview Park","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":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":387,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Folklore describes a persistent bloodstain and heavy footsteps attributed to an unidentified lumberman. Hanna Hotel site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ghosts of the PA Wilds: The haunted Hanna Hotel","url":"https://pawilds.com/ghosts-pa-wilds-hanna-hotel/","publisher":"Pennsylvania Wilds","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Article cites an October 28, 1859 Clinton Democrat description; demolished hotel site became Riverview Park in the 1990s. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Ghosts of the PA Wilds: The haunted Hanna Hotel'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ghosts of the PA Wilds: The haunted Hanna Hotel","url":"https://pawilds.com/ghosts-pa-wilds-hanna-hotel/","publisher":"Pennsylvania Wilds","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Folklore describes a persistent bloodstain and heavy footsteps attributed to an unidentified lumberman. Hanna Hotel site in Lock Haven vicinity, Pennsylvania carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The account appears in 'Ghosts of the PA Wilds: The haunted Hanna Hotel'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Ghosts of the PA Wilds: The haunted Hanna Hotel","url":"https://pawilds.com/ghosts-pa-wilds-hanna-hotel/","publisher":"Pennsylvania Wilds","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"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":"Ghosts of the PA Wilds: The haunted Hanna Hotel","url":"https://pawilds.com/ghosts-pa-wilds-hanna-hotel/","publisher":"Pennsylvania Wilds","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}