{"id":1681,"slug":"hunter-arms-hotel-st-cloud-florida","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hunter Arms is the built — the 'mausoleum maker' that's the Hunter's trade, the 'Spaniflora' that's the style chose. The 'winter only' is the ran — the 'seasonal rate' that's the meals included, the '1927' that's the boom's peak. The 'Vivian' is the named — the 'cold spots' that's the ghost's mark, the 'faucets turn' that's the water's will.","The 'Maniacs filmed' is the framed — the 'Two Thousand' that's the '64 shot, the 'Waterboy' that's the later take. The 'Nona ran' is the kept — the 'widow managed' that's the years held, the '53 on' that's the after's work. Hunter Arms is the stood — the 'New York Ave' that's the street's anchor, the 'century' that's the hotel's run.","The file keeps Hunter Arms: the builder's trade, the winter rates, the named Vivian, and the filmed walls.","Hunter Arms is the archive's Florida file — the mausoleum builder's haunted hotel."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hunter Arms is the archive's Florida file — the hotel built by a man who made graves.","A hotel keeps its irony — the file's suggestion being that Hunter's hold is the doubled: the 'mausoleum trade' that's the builder's past, the 'Vivian' that's the guest stayed, and the 'Maniacs' that's the horror filmed."]}],"name":"Hunter Arms Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic hotel with a published Vivian ghost tradition.","full_desc":"Hunter Arms Hotel is a hotel in St. Cloud, Florida. Historic hotel with a published Vivian ghost tradition. Grover C. Hunter developed the hotel with architect Harlan Jones and contractor W. A. Steffle. It opened in 1927; restorations are documented in 1994 and after a 2016 sale. Local lore holds that Florida heritage writers recount a rumored spirit called Vivian, cold sensations, unexplained sounds, slamming doors and running faucets.","address":null,"city":"St. Cloud","county":null,"state":"Florida","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":28.233697,"lon":-81.280211,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1926,"year_opened":1927,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":58.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":883,"type":"UNSPECIFIED_HAUNTING","description":"Florida heritage writers recount a rumored spirit called Vivian, cold sensations, unexplained sounds, slamming doors and running faucets. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Vivian","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":"Vivian's historic identity is unverified; government publication documents circulation of the story, not supernatural events.","source":{"name":"Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud","url":"https://dos.fl.gov/historical/preservation/florida-main-street/ask-the-locals/hunter-arms-hotel-st-cloud/","publisher":"Florida Division of Historical Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Grover C. Hunter developed the hotel with architect Harlan Jones and contractor W. A. Steffle. It opened in 1927; restorations are documented in 1994 and after a 2016 sale. Hunter Arms Hotel's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud","url":"https://dos.fl.gov/historical/preservation/florida-main-street/ask-the-locals/hunter-arms-hotel-st-cloud/","publisher":"Florida Division of Historical Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Florida heritage writers recount a rumored spirit called Vivian, cold sensations, unexplained sounds, slamming doors and running faucets. A hotel in St. Cloud, Florida with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud'. 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":"Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud","url":"https://dos.fl.gov/historical/preservation/florida-main-street/ask-the-locals/hunter-arms-hotel-st-cloud/","publisher":"Florida Division of Historical Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"entities":[{"name":"Vivian","claimed_identity":"Vivian","verified":null,"summary":"Florida heritage writers recount a rumored spirit called Vivian, cold sensations, unexplained sounds, slamming doors and running faucets. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud' carries the account. The lore has a face now: Vivian.","behavior":"Florida heritage writers recount a rumored spirit called Vivian, cold sensations, unexplained sounds, slamming doors and running faucets.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud","url":"https://dos.fl.gov/historical/preservation/florida-main-street/ask-the-locals/hunter-arms-hotel-st-cloud/","publisher":"Florida Division of Historical Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"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":"Hunter Arms Hotel: St. Cloud","url":"https://dos.fl.gov/historical/preservation/florida-main-street/ask-the-locals/hunter-arms-hotel-st-cloud/","publisher":"Florida Division of Historical Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}