{"id":188,"slug":"historic-roads-hotel-atlanta-indiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Abraham Kauffman built the Roads Hotel on East Main Street in 1893 for Newton and Clara Roads — a two-story Queen Anne frame building with a jigsaw-braced two-story porch, opened into Indiana's natural-gas boom. Clara ran the hotel while Newton traveled for work; when the boom faded, the business reportedly improvised, operating in lean years — by allegation, not arrest record — as a brothel and later a speakeasy. The folklore upgrades the guest list with Capone and Dillinger, which the file keeps as garnish, not record."]},{"heading":"The documented record","paragraphs":["Three deaths in the building are on the family's own count: Clara, Newton, and their son Everett all died in the hotel, and the parents' funerals were held inside it. The hotel stopped taking travelers in the 1920s, spent decades as apartments, and entered the National Register in 1987."]},{"heading":"The second life","paragraphs":["The Roads is no longer a hotel — it is an investigation venue. Owner Crystal Couch and guide Mike Couch run public and private paranormal nights, and the proceeds fund the Lost Limbs Foundation, the charity Mike founded in 2014 to help amputee children afford medical care and prosthetics. The filed claims are the genre's standard — shadows, noises, objects that move — but the arrangement is unusual in this archive: here, the haunting pays for the preservation and the prosthetics alike."]}],"name":"Historic Roads Hotel","aliases":["Roads Hotel"],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Hotel associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Historic Roads Hotel is a hotel in Atlanta, Indiana. Hotel associated with documented cultural history. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Atlanta","county":null,"state":"Indiana","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":40.213862,"lon":-86.027018,"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":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":139,"type":"SHADOW_FIGURE","description":"Accounts mention shadows, noises and moving objects. A hotel in Atlanta, Indiana with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like '13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","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":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Accounts mention shadows, noises and moving objects. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. '13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th' carries the account. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","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":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}