{"id":1553,"slug":"keller-hall-newberry-college-newberry-south-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Keller Hall is the leapt — the 'John' that's the student's name, the 'steeple' that's the jump's height. The 'Madeline' is the searched — the 'lantern' that's the light's form, the 'Nov. 17' that's the return's date. The 'rope' is the caught — the 'strangled' that's the second's death, the 'broken heart' that's the doctor's call.","The '1959' is the born — the 'student paper' that's the story's source, the 'legend' that's the truth's form. The 'versions' is the doubled — the 'Union soldier' that's the other John, the 'Civil War' that's the era's shift. Keller is the kept — the 'white dress' that's the ghost's wear, the 'students dress' that's the ritual's form.","The file keeps Keller: the leapt John, the searched Madeline, the caught rope, and the kept legend.","Keller Hall is the archive's South Carolina file — the campus that wrote its own ghost."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Keller Hall is the archive's South Carolina file — the story that enrolled itself.","A hall keeps its date — the file's suggestion being that Madeline's hold is the annual: the 'Nov. 17' that's the calendar's mark, the 'lantern' that's the search's light, and the 'versions' that's the legend's life."]}],"name":"Keller Hall, Newberry College","aliases":[],"type":"UNIVERSITY_BUILDING","type_label":"University Building","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"University building associated with published local folklore.","full_desc":"A university building in Newberry, South Carolina, Keller Hall, Newberry College is filed here for what the record attaches to it. University building associated with published local folklore. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Madeline. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Newberry","county":null,"state":"South Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.27988,"lon":-81.600333,"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 record. Coordinates, earliest legend source, independent history and current visitor rules require further verification.","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":777,"type":"APPARITION","description":"SCETV recounts the white-dressed Madeline apparition. The site in Newberry, South Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Madeline","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina","url":"https://www.scetv.org/stories/2024/15-ghost-stories-south-carolina","publisher":"South Carolina ETV","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"SCETV recounts the white-dressed Madeline apparition. The site in Newberry, South Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina","url":"https://www.scetv.org/stories/2024/15-ghost-stories-south-carolina","publisher":"South Carolina ETV","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Madeline","claimed_identity":"Madeline","verified":null,"summary":"SCETV recounts the white-dressed Madeline apparition. The site in Newberry, South Carolina gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Sources including '15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina' keep the claim in circulation. The file keeps Madeline on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive.","behavior":"SCETV recounts the white-dressed Madeline apparition.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina","url":"https://www.scetv.org/stories/2024/15-ghost-stories-south-carolina","publisher":"South Carolina ETV","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"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":"15 Ghost Stories from South Carolina","url":"https://www.scetv.org/stories/2024/15-ghost-stories-south-carolina","publisher":"South Carolina ETV","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}