{"id":1477,"slug":"highland-house-columbus-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Highland House on Highland Circle is Columbus's 'robber baron' mansion — a grand neoclassical brick house that contractor W.S. Lindamood built in 1909–10 directly on the loss of its predecessor. Early on the morning of May 5, 1909, fire caught in the kitchen ceiling beside a chimney flue of the elegant antebellum home where the Lindamoods were living; it burned to the ground, and Lindamood pulled down the ruins and built the present house, among the largest neoclassical residences in north Mississippi. A second fire in 1919 reached only the roof and was extinguished.","The legend that walks alongside the documented fire is the arsonist's: local telling attributes the 1909 blaze to a housekeeper in love with Lindamood, turned away — a story the Convention and Visitors Bureau's driving-tour pamphlet repeats, and the newspaper's fire history does not."]},{"heading":"What the file records","paragraphs":["The haunting claim is an investigation claim: Columbus's ghost-tour coverage notes that electronic voice phenomenon recordings have been captured in the house and played for tourgoers, and a paranormal team worked there in the mid-1990s. Reader-submitted accounts add a piano that plays itself, cherry-cigar smoke, dolls that move, and a frightening basement — anecdote, filed as such.","What stands documented is a house twice-survived: built on a fire's footprint, burned again, and still commanding its circle."]}],"name":"Highland House","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house in Columbus; research record.","full_desc":"A historic house in Columbus, Mississippi, Highland House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house in Columbus; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"810 Highland Circle","city":"Columbus","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.508208,"lon":-88.407128,"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. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":705,"type":"EVP","description":"The guide recounts alleged EVP recordings. Highland House in Columbus, Mississippi is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. It's an investigation claim — the kind that convinces the people who were in the room. 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi' carries the account. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"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":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}