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The castle is the kept — the 'museum' that's the current's use, the 'cameras' that's the proof's tool.","The file keeps the castle: the fake fort, the debunked ghost, the kept diary, and the kept museum.","Old State Capitol is the archive's Louisiana file — the castle that keeps its senator wrong."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Old State Capitol is the archive's Louisiana file — the ghost story that got fact-checked.","A capitol keeps its shadows — the file's suggestion being that the building's hold is the theatrical: the 'Couvillion' that's the legend's error, the 'Sarah Morgan' that's the ghost's face, and the 'neogothic' that's the architecture's costume."]}],"name":"Louisiana’s Old State Capitol","aliases":[],"type":"GOVERNMENT_BUILDING","type_label":"Government Building","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Government building in Baton Rouge; research record.","full_desc":"Louisiana’s Old State Capitol is a government building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Government building in Baton Rouge; research record. Its signature presence is Pierre Couvillon — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Baton Rouge","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.442174,"lon":-91.130894,"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":"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":505,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Explore Louisiana attributes a haunting legend to legislator Pierre Couvillon. Louisiana’s Old State Capitol's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Pierre Couvillon","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Louisiana’s Haunted History","url":"https://www.explorelouisiana.com/articles/haunted-louisiana-experiences","publisher":"Louisiana Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Explore Louisiana attributes a haunting legend to legislator Pierre Couvillon. The site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Louisiana’s Haunted History'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Louisiana’s Haunted History","url":"https://www.explorelouisiana.com/articles/haunted-louisiana-experiences","publisher":"Louisiana Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Pierre Couvillon","claimed_identity":"Pierre Couvillon","verified":null,"summary":"Explore Louisiana attributes a haunting legend to legislator Pierre Couvillon. Louisiana’s Old State Capitol's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Louisiana’s Haunted History' carries the account. The lore has a face now: Pierre Couvillon. 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