{"id":1707,"slug":"overland-hotel-saloon-pioche-nevada","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Overland is the smothered — the 'room 10' that's the ghost's spot, the 'ran out' that's the guest's flight. The 'Peis ran' is the early — the 'Chinese family' that's the owner's name, the 'rock houses' that's the miners' homes. The 'fire '47' is the burned — the 'third town' that's the loss's scale, the 'rebuilt same' that's the '48's copy.","The 'bowling rink' is the doubled — the 'basement' that's the fun's spot, the '8,000 feet' that's the space's size. The 'mean no harm' is the owner's word — the 'mist body' that's the sighting's form, the 'stop smoking' that's the ghost's request. Overland is the badder — the 'worse Tombstone' that's the town's rank, the 'silver' that's the mines' pull.","The file keeps Overland: the smothered guest, the Peis' run, the burned third, and the harmless ghosts.","Overland Hotel is the archive's Nevada file — the saloon where the ghosts ask you to quit smoking."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Overland Hotel is the archive's Nevada file — the hotel in a town badder than Tombstone.","A hotel keeps its rooms — the file's suggestion being that Overland's hold is the marked: the '10' that's the ghost's room, the 'smothered' that's the scare's kind, and the 'mean no harm' that's the owner's pitch."]}],"name":"Overland Hotel & Saloon","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Hotel associated with reported shadow figures.","full_desc":"A hotel in Pioche, Nevada, built in 1948, Overland Hotel & Saloon is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Hotel associated with reported shadow figures. The archive files it under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Pioche","county":null,"state":"Nevada","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":37.951972,"lon":-114.443453,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1948,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Pass 1 source-grounded discovery; independent historical verification, coordinates and current access still pending. Confidence measures attribution quality, not paranormal reality.","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":891,"type":"SHADOW_FIGURE","description":"Travel Nevada recounts accounts of shadow figures and doors slamming. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"13 Ways to Creep into Nevada’s Haunted History","url":"https://travelnevada.com/haunted-history/ways-to-get-into-nevadas-haunted-history/","publisher":"Travel Nevada","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The hotel was rebuilt after a fire in 1948. Overland Hotel & Saloon's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. '13 Ways to Creep into Nevada’s Haunted History' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"13 Ways to Creep into Nevada’s Haunted History","url":"https://travelnevada.com/haunted-history/ways-to-get-into-nevadas-haunted-history/","publisher":"Travel Nevada","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Travel Nevada recounts accounts of shadow figures and doors slamming. Overland Hotel & Saloon, a hotel in Pioche, Nevada, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in '13 Ways to Creep into Nevada’s Haunted History'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"13 Ways to Creep into Nevada’s Haunted History","url":"https://travelnevada.com/haunted-history/ways-to-get-into-nevadas-haunted-history/","publisher":"Travel Nevada","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"13 Ways to Creep into Nevada’s Haunted History","url":"https://travelnevada.com/haunted-history/ways-to-get-into-nevadas-haunted-history/","publisher":"Travel Nevada","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}