{"id":228,"slug":"old-baraboo-inn-baraboo-wisconsin","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Old Baraboo is the cycled — the '1864 Bender' that's the boarding start, the 'brothel speakeasy' that's the Prohibition turn. The 'Mary bled' is the kept — the 'early 1900s' that's her death's date, the 'behind bar' that's the twice-seen spot. The '30 spirits' is the counted — the 'cowboys children' that's the cast's mix, the 'Capone's voice' that's the EVP's claim.","The 'party before' is the heard — the 'honky-tonk' that's the empty bar's sound, the 'tenant moved' that's the apartment's drive. The 'Farr kept' is the saved — the '13 years empty' that's the rot's span, the 'I know what' that's the owner's word. Old Baraboo is the topped — the 'Food Network' that's the list's rank, the 'party never ended' that's the book's title.","The file keeps Old Baraboo: the cycled uses, Mary's bleed, the thirty spirits, and the never-ended party.","Old Baraboo Inn is the archive's Wisconsin file — the brothel where the party refuses to stop."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Old Baraboo Inn is the archive's Wisconsin file — where Mary still works a bar that closed in '88.","An inn keeps its party — the file's suggestion being that Old Baraboo's hold is the continued: the 'music plays' that's the empty's sound, the 'Mary behind' that's the worker's shift, and the '30 spirits' that's the crowd's size."]}],"name":"Old Baraboo Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Old Baraboo Inn is an inn in Baraboo, Wisconsin, built in 1864. Inn associated with documented cultural history. Its signature presence is Mary — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Baraboo","county":null,"state":"Wisconsin","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":43.468072,"lon":-89.738387,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1864,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":175,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Folklore describes Mary and moving household objects. The Baraboo hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests' carries the account. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Mary","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The building dates to 1864. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. The detail is preserved in 'Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Folklore describes Mary and moving household objects. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Mary","claimed_identity":"Mary","verified":null,"summary":"Folklore describes Mary and moving household objects. A hotel in Baraboo, Wisconsin with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The file keeps Mary on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The report keeps its place in the record. The file stays open on it.","behavior":"Folklore describes Mary and moving household objects.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Haunted Wisconsin: Historic Hotels with Ghoulish Guests","url":"https://www.travelwisconsin.com/stories/haunted-wisconsin-historic-hotels-with-ghoulish-guests","publisher":"Wisconsin Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}