{"id":1508,"slug":"old-hospital-on-college-hill-williamson-west-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The hospital is the hilled — the '1928' that's the opening's year, the 'College Hill' that's the site's name. The 'nurse worked dead' is the staffed — the 'floating' that's the basement's form, the 'x-ray rooms' that's the route's path. The 'horse rode' is the lifted — the 'elevator' that's the stallion's ride, the 'fourth floor' that's the surgery's level.","The 'lights on' is the watched — the 'police' that's the responders' kind, the 'all secured' that's the finding's puzzle. The 'born there' is the bought — the 'Webb' that's the owner's name, the 'keep it' that's the motive's form. The hospital is the toured — the 'Michael Myers' that's the escape room's threat, the '98 years' that's the building's age.","The file keeps the hospital: the hilled building, the dead nurse, the lifted horse, and the bought history.","The Old Hospital on College Hill is the archive's West Virginia file — the hospital that never discharged."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Old Hospital is the archive's West Virginia file — the ward that keeps working.","A hospital keeps its halls — the file's suggestion being that College Hill's hold is the staffed: the 'nurse' that's the ghost's job, the 'horse' that's the surgery's oddity, and the 'born there' that's the owner's tie."]}],"name":"Old Hospital on College Hill","aliases":[],"type":"HOSPITAL","type_label":"Hospital","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Hospital associated with published local folklore.","full_desc":"Old Hospital on College Hill is a hospital in Williamson, West Virginia. Hospital associated with published local folklore. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access is restricted — check current rules before planning anything.","address":"728 Mullberry St","city":"Williamson","county":null,"state":"West Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":37.674102,"lon":-82.271077,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Tourism page requires reservations; confirm exact address spelling with operator.","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":"Discovery record. Coordinates, earliest legend source, independent history and current visitor rules require further verification.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":51.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":736,"type":"UNSPECIFIED_HAUNTING","description":"State tourism recounts former patients and staff allegedly lingering. The institution's reports concentrate where the confinement was worst — the building's own floor plan supplies the map. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.75,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"West Virginia Paranormal Trail","url":"https://wvtourism.com/west-virginia-paranormal-trail/","publisher":"West Virginia Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"State tourism recounts former patients and staff allegedly lingering. An institution's ghosts are arithmetic: enough years, enough misery, and the reports write themselves. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'West Virginia Paranormal Trail'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"West Virginia Paranormal Trail","url":"https://wvtourism.com/west-virginia-paranormal-trail/","publisher":"West Virginia Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access is restricted; check with the managing agency or landowner 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":"West Virginia Paranormal Trail","url":"https://wvtourism.com/west-virginia-paranormal-trail/","publisher":"West Virginia Department of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}