{"id":1587,"slug":"mcdaniel-hall-westminster-maryland","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["McDaniel Hall is the dreamt — the 'never been' that's the founders' lack, the 'coeducational' that's the daring's kind. The 'first south' is the claimed — the 'Mason-Dixon' that's the line's mark, the '1867' that's the charter's year. The 'railroad named' is the borrowed — the 'Western Maryland' that's the first's name, the '2002' that's the change's year.","The 'McDaniel' is the earned — the '65 years' that's the man's run, the 'student to trustee' that's the path's span. The 'shovel kept' is the held — the '1922' that's the groundbreaking's tool, the 'stadium '12' that's the reuse's spot. McDaniel Hall is the hill — the 'The Hill' that's the campus's name, the 'darkness light' that's the motto's aim.","The file keeps McDaniel Hall: the dreamt college, the first coed, the railroad name, and the kept shovel.","McDaniel Hall is the archive's Maryland file — the dorm of the college founded by men who never went."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["McDaniel Hall is the archive's Maryland file — the building of the coed first south of Mason-Dixon.","A hall keeps its nerve — the file's suggestion being that McDaniel's hold is the daring: the 'never been' that's the founders' gap, the 'coed' that's the '67's risk, and the '65 years' that's the name's earn."]}],"name":"McDaniel Hall","aliases":[],"type":"UNIVERSITY_RESIDENCE","type_label":"University Residence","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Residence hall named in a Maryland ghost directory.","full_desc":"McDaniel Hall is a university residence in Westminster, Maryland. Residence hall named in a Maryland ghost directory. McDaniel College documents an annual student-led campus Ghost Walk; specific hall entry is not confirmed. Reported lore and claims include: EastGhost describes a woman in period dress appearing at a window.","address":null,"city":"Westminster","county":"Carroll County","state":"Maryland","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.579154,"lon":-77.006691,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":"Residence interior access not established; campus ghost-walk tradition does not authorize entry.","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 or enrichment; earliest report and independent corroboration remain under research. Confidence measures source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":58.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":802,"type":"APPARITION","description":"EastGhost describes a woman in period dress appearing at a window. The site in Westminster, Maryland gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Nothing verifies the account; it survives as a claim, not a conclusion. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"UNVERIFIED","evidence_label":"Unverified","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.4,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"EastGhost ParaGuide: 50 Hot Haunts in Maryland","url":"https://eastghost.com/files/ParaGuide-50HotHauntsInMaryland.pdf","publisher":"EastGhost","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"McDaniel College documents an annual student-led campus Ghost Walk; specific hall entry is not confirmed. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Traditions and Culture' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Traditions and Culture","url":"https://www.mcdaniel.edu/student-life/traditions-culture","publisher":"McDaniel College","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"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":"EastGhost ParaGuide: 50 Hot Haunts in Maryland","url":"https://eastghost.com/files/ParaGuide-50HotHauntsInMaryland.pdf","publisher":"EastGhost","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4},{"name":"Traditions and Culture","url":"https://www.mcdaniel.edu/student-life/traditions-culture","publisher":"McDaniel College","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}