{"id":2923,"slug":"longfellow-house-pascagoula-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Longfellow is the '50 — the 'raised cottage' that's the Greek Revival, the Graham that's the slave trader. The bloodstains are the legend — the 'third floor' that's the cruelty, the 'renegade priest' that's the lore. The poem is the myth — the 'Building of a Ship' that's the false, the 'Pascagoula' that's the mention.","The staircase is the feature — the 'self-supporting' that's the winding, the 'three stories' that's the height. The Ingalls is the '41 — the shipyard that's the resort, the 'Shortfellow' that's the honky-tonk. The Longfellow is the named — the legend that's the false, the 'Bellevue' that's the true.","The file keeps the Longfellow: the 1850 cottage, the Graham cruelty, the poem myth, and the Ingalls resort.","The Longfellow House is the archive's Pascagoula file — the false attribution."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Longfellow House is the archive's Pascagoula file — the named lie.","A house keeps its poem — the file's suggestion being that the Longfellow's hold is the legend: the 'slave trader' that's the true, the 'poem' that's the false, and the 'bloodstains' that's the lore."]}],"name":"Longfellow House","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING","LITERARY"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The 1849 house where \"Evangeline\" was written—allegedly.","full_desc":"A house in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Longfellow House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1849 house where \"Evangeline\" was written—allegedly. The name the accounts keep returning to is Longfellow. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Pascagoula","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.360067,"lon":-88.556327,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","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":"Historic site","research_notes":"MS batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2691,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The Longfellow connection is documented folklore—the house is real. Longfellow House wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. 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.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Longfellow","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Longfellow House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2692,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the house. Longfellow House wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Longfellow House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1849; the Longfellow connection is legend. A house in Pascagoula, Mississippi with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Longfellow House' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1849","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Longfellow House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The Longfellow connection is documented folklore—the house is real. A house with Pascagoula's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Longfellow House'. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Longfellow House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Longfellow","claimed_identity":"Longfellow","verified":null,"summary":"The Longfellow connection is documented folklore—the house is real. A house with Pascagoula's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. The account appears in 'Longfellow House'. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Longfellow.","behavior":"The Longfellow connection is documented folklore—the house is real.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Longfellow House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic house; many are private residences—verify public access 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":"Longfellow House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_House_(Pascagoula,_Mississippi)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}