{"id":202,"slug":"haunted-castle-house-brumley-missouri","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Castle House is the debunked — the 'no Dixons' that's the owner's own find, the 'paper trail' that's the method's rule. The 'skeptic bought' is the turned — the 'prove daughter' that's the purchase's aim, the 'five apparitions' that's the result's count. The 'dogs maybe' is the honest — the 'mass grave' that's the radar's hit, the 'bad litter' that's the mundane's guess.","The 'staircase shipped' is the grand — the 'London' that's the order's source, the 'rainwater sold' that's the cistern's use. The 'truce treated' is the legend — the 'both sides' that's the wounded's mix, the 'flag' that's the war's pause. Castle House is the named — the 'scariest Midwest' that's HGTV's award, the 'correcting myths' that's the owners' pledge.","The file keeps Castle House: the debunked Dixons, the turned skeptic, the maybe dogs, and the shipped staircase.","Haunted Castle House is the archive's Missouri file — the haunted house that fact-checks its own ghosts."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Haunted Castle House is the archive's Missouri file — the owners who corrected their own legend.","A house keeps its honesty — the file's suggestion being that the Castle's hold is the corrected: the 'no Dixons' that's the myth's fall, the 'skeptic' that's the owner's arc, and the 'dogs' that's the grave's maybe."]}],"name":"Haunted Castle House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Haunted Castle House is a historic house in Brumley, Missouri. Historic house associated with documented cultural history. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Brumley","county":null,"state":"Missouri","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.088523,"lon":-92.484333,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","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":153,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"The tourism source advertises paranormal narratives and investigations. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The account appears in 'Missouri's Most Haunted Places'. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Missouri's Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitmo.com/articles/missouris-most-haunted-places","publisher":"Missouri Division of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"A pioneer graveyard occupies the backyard. A house in Brumley, Missouri with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. The detail is preserved in 'Missouri's Most Haunted Places'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Missouri's Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitmo.com/articles/missouris-most-haunted-places","publisher":"Missouri Division of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The tourism source advertises paranormal narratives and investigations. Haunted Castle House in Brumley, Missouri is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Missouri's Most Haunted Places' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Missouri's Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitmo.com/articles/missouris-most-haunted-places","publisher":"Missouri Division of Tourism","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":"Missouri's Most Haunted Places","url":"https://www.visitmo.com/articles/missouris-most-haunted-places","publisher":"Missouri Division of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}