{"id":1379,"slug":"logan-mansion-shreveport-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Logan Mansion is the Queen Anne the beer baron built — Lafayette Robert Logan's 1897 house in Shreveport, designed by Nathaniel Sykes Allen, the ice manufacturer and beer distributor's monument. It's the grandest surviving Allen design — the Victorian that was a boarding house, a church, a radio station, and now the LeBruns' home and tour.","Theodora Hunt is the ghost — the eleven-year-old who legend says leaped from the attic window in 1904, the teacher's daughter from when the house took boarders. The sightings are the girl in the window, the footsteps, the objects that move; the LeBruns keep the log. LaSpirits has investigated; the mansion is on the haunted-Shreveport circuit with the Municipal Auditorium — the Queen Anne that kept its child.","The file keeps Logan Mansion: Logan's 1897 building, the Theodora Hunt legend, the LeBrun tours, and the documented activity log.","Logan Mansion is the archive's Shreveport file — the Victorian with the girl in the attic window."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Logan Mansion is the archive's Shreveport file — the Queen Anne that kept its ghost.","A mansion keeps its child — the file's suggestion being that Logan's hold is Theodora: the girl who fell or leaped in 1904, the window where she's still seen, and the owners who log the unexplained."]}],"name":"Logan Mansion","aliases":["Logan Mansion on Christian Street"],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house in Shreveport; research record.","full_desc":"A historic house in Shreveport, Louisiana, Logan Mansion is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house in Shreveport; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Theodora Hunt. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"725 Austin Place","city":"Shreveport","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.466879,"lon":-93.792193,"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":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":622,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Louisiana Life recounts a child apparition, closing doors and voices. The lore gives it a name — Theodora Hunt — which is what turns a report into a resident. Logan Mansion wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana? '. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Theodora Hunt","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":"Historians cite Hunt’s 1904 Hot Springs death certificate, contradicting the mansion-window death legend.","source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The Logan household occupied the home in 1897, according to the article. Logan Mansion's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. 'What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Louisiana Life recounts a child apparition, closing doors and voices. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 'What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Theodora Hunt","claimed_identity":"Theodora Hunt","verified":null,"summary":"Louisiana Life recounts a child apparition, closing doors and voices. The file calls it Theodora Hunt. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"Louisiana Life recounts a child apparition, closing doors and voices.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[{"title":"Historic Haunts of Shreveport","type":"BOOK","creator":"Cheryl H. White and Gary D. Joiner","date":null,"episode":null,"url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/"}],"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":"What’s the Truth Behind Haunted Louisiana?","url":"https://www.louisianalife.com/whats-the-truth-behind-haunted-louisiana/","publisher":"Louisiana Life","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}