{"id":2595,"slug":"montpelier-orange-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Montpelier is the drafted — the 'Constitution' that's the house's work, the '76 years' that's the Madison's run. The 'grandfather poisoned' is the opened — the 'enslaved charged' that's the '32 death, the 'Pompey hanged' that's the trial's end. The 'Jefferson advised' is the designed — the 'Dinsmore Neilson' that's the builders' names, the 'portico' that's the face's add.","The 'Dolley sold' is the lost — the 'son's debts' that's the sale's cause, the 'duPont doubled' that's the '01 change. The 'restored back' is the spent — the '1816 look' that's the target's date, the 'additions stripped' that's the work's form. Montpelier is the owed — the '100 enslaved' that's the labor's count, the 'built cleared' that's the house's debt.","The file keeps Montpelier: the drafted house, the poisoned start, the advised design, and the owed labor.","Montpelier is the archive's Virginia file — the house that drafted the Constitution and buried its truth."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Montpelier is the archive's Virginia file — the Constitution's desk built by enslaved hands.","A house keeps its debt — the file's suggestion being that Montpelier's hold is the owed: the 'poisoned start' that's the family's first, the '100 enslaved' that's the labor's count, and the 'restored' that's the truth's return."]}],"name":"Montpelier","aliases":[],"type":"MANSION","type_label":"Mansion","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"Madison’s lifelong home—the Constitution’s quiet farm.","full_desc":"A mansion in Orange, Virginia, Montpelier is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Madison’s lifelong home—the Constitution’s quiet farm. The archive files it under local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Orange","county":null,"state":"Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":38.247845,"lon":-78.113187,"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 / park","research_notes":"VA battlefields 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":2109,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the house and cemetery. A house with Orange's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Montpelier","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_(Orange,_Virginia)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Madison died here 1836; the Madison family cemetery is on the grounds. Montpelier's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Montpelier' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1836","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Montpelier","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_(Orange,_Virginia)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported a presence in the house and cemetery. Montpelier in Orange, Virginia is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Montpelier","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_(Orange,_Virginia)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic mansion; check the official site for tour times.","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":"Montpelier","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montpelier_(Orange,_Virginia)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}