{"id":2728,"slug":"moses-myers-house-norfolk-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Moses Myers is the '92 — the 'first Jew' that's the Norfolk, the '5 generations' that's the family. The 'St. Eustatia' is the trade — the 'British blockade' that's the supplies, the '1784' that's the failed. The 'collector' is the '28 — the 'John Quincy Adams' that's the appointed, the 'bankruptcy' that's the before.","The 'Federal' is the style — the 'Adam' that's the interior, the 'Lafayette' that's the entertained. The 'enslaved' is the included — the 'narratives' that's the integrated, the 'urban slavery' that's the acknowledged. Moses Myers is the intact — the 'best surviving' that's the Jewish, the '1792' that's the before.","The file keeps Moses Myers: the 1792 house, the first Jewish family, the 5 generations, and the intact interior.","Moses Myers House is the archive's Norfolk file — the Jewish pioneer."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Moses Myers House is the archive's Norfolk file — the first Jewish home.","A house keeps its faith — the file's suggestion being that Myers's hold is the first: the 'first Jew' that's the Norfolk, the '5 generations' that's the intact, and the 'enslaved' that's the included."]}],"name":"Moses Myers House","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING","COLONIAL"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The 1792 Federal house of Norfolk’s first Jewish family.","full_desc":"Moses Myers House is a house in Norfolk, Virginia. The 1792 Federal house of Norfolk’s first Jewish family. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the myers. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Norfolk","county":null,"state":"Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":36.923015,"lon":-76.244641,"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":"VA2 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":2333,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the house. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The account appears in 'Moses Myers House'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Moses Myers House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Myers_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2334,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The Myers family is reportedly seen. Moses Myers House in Norfolk, Virginia is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Moses Myers House'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Myers","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Moses Myers House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Myers_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1792; the Myers family is documented. Moses Myers House's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Moses Myers House'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1792","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Moses Myers House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Myers_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The Myers family is reportedly seen. Moses Myers 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. Sources including 'Moses Myers House' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Moses Myers House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Myers_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Myers","claimed_identity":"The Myers","verified":null,"summary":"The Myers family is reportedly seen. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The Myers. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore. The report keeps its place in the record.","behavior":"The Myers family is reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Moses Myers House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Myers_House","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":"Moses Myers House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Myers_House","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}