{"id":1418,"slug":"julia-a-pratt-hall-montgomery-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Huntingdon College's Red Lady may have moved with the school. The tradition began on the college's original Tuskegee campus, where the upper floors of the dormitories — a stretch students called Sky Alley — were said to be haunted by a female figure in red. When the college relocated to Montgomery and built the Julia A. Pratt residence hall in 1912, the legend, per the guide's telling, relocated with it to the third floor.","The legend itself is the standard college ghost: a young woman arrived from New York, remained out of place and aloof among her Southern classmates, and — shunned and depressed — is said to have taken her own life in her room."]},{"heading":"Filed as legend","paragraphs":["In the telling, the student favored red in life, and her lonely spirit still favors it — reported drifting Pratt Hall's corridors in the color she wore.","The file's caution is explicit: the suicide that anchors the story is not verified biography, and the apparition is a documented legend — a story with real longevity on campus and no confirmed person beneath it."]}],"name":"Julia A. 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Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Montgomery","county":"Montgomery County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.348503,"lon":-86.267307,"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":"Separate Montgomery building from earlier Tuskegee-campus tradition. Alleged student’s suicide is not verified biography.","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":658,"type":"APPARITION","description":"The guide recounts Huntingdon’s Red Lady apparition. Julia A. Pratt Hall in Montgomery, Alabama carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Red Lady","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The guide recounts Huntingdon’s Red Lady apparition. The reports at Julia A. Pratt Hall are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Red Lady","claimed_identity":"Red Lady","verified":null,"summary":"The guide recounts Huntingdon’s Red Lady apparition. Julia A. Pratt Hall in Montgomery, Alabama carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The report is preserved in sources like 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"The guide recounts Huntingdon’s Red Lady apparition.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"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":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}