{"id":1381,"slug":"oakmont-bed-and-breakfast-eutaw-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Oakmont, at 107 Pickens Street in Eutaw, was built in 1908 as a wedding gift for Mary Elizabeth and Charles Alexander Webb — a Black Belt town house from the era when Eutaw's streets filled with the cotton money of Greene County. The house stood as a private residence for most of a century before its second life as a bed and breakfast.","The haunting file opens with that conversion. It was only once workers began restoring Oakmont for guests, the account goes, that the house began answering back."]},{"heading":"The heater, and the rest","paragraphs":["The signature story is the thermostat. Restoration workers repeatedly found the heat turned on in the empty house; they taped the control knob so it could not be switched, and reportedly found the heat on again anyway. After the restoration, the accounts broaden into the familiar register — tremendous crashes in unoccupied rooms, disembodied footsteps — collected in Terry Smith and Mark Jean's Haunted Inns of America.","Whether the enterprise outlasted its ghosts is uncertain: the guide's own note suggests the bed and breakfast had ceased trading, and the file's research notes leave its present use unconfirmed. What the archive records is narrower — a documented 1908 house, a named wedding, and a cluster of reports filed, as all such reports are filed here, as accounts rather than events."]}],"name":"Oakmont Bed and Breakfast","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_INN","type_label":"Historic Inn","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic inn in Eutaw; research record.","full_desc":"A historic inn in Eutaw, Alabama, Oakmont Bed and Breakfast is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic inn in Eutaw; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"107 Pickens Street","city":"Eutaw","county":"Greene County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":32.846247,"lon":-87.900332,"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":"Blog suggests the bed and breakfast had ceased trading; present use and access require owner confirmation.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":625,"type":"FOOTSTEPS","description":"Southern Spirit Guide recounts unexplained heating, crashes and footsteps. The site in Eutaw, Alabama 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 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part IV'. The sound is the signature — visitors listen for it whether or not they believe.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part IV","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iv/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Southern Spirit Guide recounts unexplained heating, crashes and footsteps. Oakmont Bed and Breakfast in Eutaw, Alabama carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part IV","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iv/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"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":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part IV","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iv/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}