{"id":2736,"slug":"oglebay-park-wheeling-west-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Oglebay is the willed — the 'to Wheeling' that's the '26's gift, the 'public forever' that's the condition's word. The 'experiments' is the farmed — the 'alfalfa' that's the study's crop, the '75 experts' that's the science's staff. The 'youngest' is the banked — the '28' that's the president's age, the 'Rockefeller partner' that's the rise's link.","The 'Guernsey herd' is the bred — the 'demonstration' that's the dairy's purpose, the 'Cornell' that's the experts' school. The 'zoo lights' is the grown — the 'Festival' that's the winter's draw, the '2,000 acres' that's the park's size. Oglebay is the kept — the 'mansion museum' that's the home's use, the 'first accredited' that's the state's rank.","The file keeps Oglebay: the willed farm, the alfalfa science, the youngest banker, and the grown park.","Oglebay Park is the archive's West Virginia file — the estate a banker left to a city."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Oglebay Park is the archive's West Virginia file — the farm that became public by will.","A park keeps its mansion — the file's suggestion being that Oglebay's hold is the given: the 'willed' that's the '26's gift, the 'experiments' that's the farm's science, and the 'zoo' that's the park's growth."]}],"name":"Oglebay Park","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_ESTATE","PARK"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The 1,700-acre estate the Wheeling family gave away.","full_desc":"Oglebay Park is a site in Wheeling, West Virginia. The 1,700-acre estate the Wheeling family gave away. The archive files it under parks and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Wheeling","county":null,"state":"West Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":40.073755,"lon":-80.696025,"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":"WV2 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":2346,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the mansion. Oglebay Park's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. Sources including 'Oglebay Park' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Oglebay Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglebay_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The estate and the gift are documented. 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 'Oglebay Park' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Oglebay Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglebay_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify 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":"Oglebay Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglebay_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}