{"id":2358,"slug":"oakleigh-mobile-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Oakleigh is the raised — the 'T-plan' that's the shape's name, the 'air under' that's the cooling's way. The 'wife died' is the built — the 'during construction' that's the loss's time, the 'child too' that's the double's weight. The 'bricks dug' is the made — the 'clay pit' that's the material's source, the 'enslaved made' that's the labor's truth.","The 'Panic took' is the lost — the '1837' that's the crash's year, the 'brother-in-law bought' that's the save's form. The 'flag flew' is the dodged — the 'British colors' that's the occupation's shield, the 'officers kept' that's the house's out. Oakleigh is the kept — the 'museum now' that's the use's form, the 'three centuries' that's the story's span.","The file keeps Oakleigh: the raised plan, the died wife, the dug bricks, and the flag's dodge.","Oakleigh is the archive's Alabama file — the house cooled by its own design."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Oakleigh is the archive's Alabama file — the T-shaped house that breathed.","A house keeps its shape — the file's suggestion being that Oakleigh's hold is the raised: the 'air under' that's the cooling's design, the 'enslaved built' that's the labor's truth, and the 'flag flew' that's the war's dodge."]}],"name":"Oakleigh","aliases":[],"type":"MANSION","type_label":"Mansion","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"Mobile’s 1833 house museum—and the city’s most-toured ghost.","full_desc":"Oakleigh is a mansion in Mobile, Alabama. Mobile’s 1833 house museum—and the city’s most-toured ghost. The archive files it under local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Mobile","county":null,"state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.668246,"lon":-88.107853,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","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":null,"research_notes":"Southern Gothic 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":1793,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a woman’s figure and a presence on the stairs. A house with Mobile'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. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The file stays open on it.","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":"Oakleigh (Mobile)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakleigh_(Mobile,_Alabama)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1833; Mobile’s official period house museum. Oakleigh's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Oakleigh (Mobile)'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1833","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Oakleigh (Mobile)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakleigh_(Mobile,_Alabama)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported a woman’s figure and a presence on the stairs. A house with Mobile's history behind it gives the reports a setting that needs no exaggeration. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Sources including 'Oakleigh (Mobile)' keep the claim in circulation. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Oakleigh (Mobile)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakleigh_(Mobile,_Alabama)","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":"Oakleigh (Mobile)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakleigh_(Mobile,_Alabama)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}