{"id":246,"slug":"periwinkle-place-manor-chelsea-iowa","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Periwinkle is the named — the 'casket found' that's the title's source, the 'body hauled' that's the coffin's past. The 'funeral first' is the served — the '1892' that's the opening's year, the 'Iowa's first' that's the claim's rank. The 'fire charred' is the kept — the 'sealed not replaced' that's the owner's choice, the 'damage shown' that's the aesthetic's form.","The 'elevator works' is the used — the 'bodies rode' that's the lift's job, the 'guests ride' that's the now's thrill. The 'blood slab' is the sat — the 'embalming spot' that's the concrete's mark, the 'murder mystery' that's the dinner's game. Periwinkle is the embraced — the 'dead-and-breakfast' that's the nickname's own, the 'stuff back' that's the guests' want.","The file keeps Periwinkle: the named casket, the funeral century, the kept char, and the working elevator.","Periwinkle Place Manor is the archive's Iowa file — the funeral home that sells murder dinners."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Periwinkle Place Manor is the archive's Iowa file — the B&B that leans into its embalming past.","A manor keeps its slab — the file's suggestion being that Periwinkle's hold is the shown: the 'casket' that's the name's source, the 'blood' that's the concrete's mark, and the 'sealed char' that's the owner's choice."]}],"name":"Periwinkle Place Manor","aliases":["Historic Hrabak Funeral Home"],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Periwinkle Place Manor is an inn in Chelsea, Iowa. Inn associated with documented cultural history. The archive files it under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Chelsea","county":null,"state":"Iowa","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.920463,"lon":-92.394447,"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":"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":188,"type":"OBJECTS_MOVING","description":"Guests reportedly encounter moving toys and unexplained humming. The Chelsea hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The account appears in 'Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations'. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations","url":"https://www.iowapbs.org/article/8600/local-legends-around-iowas-haunted-locations","publisher":"Iowa PBS","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The property formerly housed Hrabak Funeral Home. 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 'Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations","url":"https://www.iowapbs.org/article/8600/local-legends-around-iowas-haunted-locations","publisher":"Iowa PBS","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Guests reportedly encounter moving toys and unexplained humming. A hotel in Chelsea, Iowa with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The report is preserved in sources like 'Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations","url":"https://www.iowapbs.org/article/8600/local-legends-around-iowas-haunted-locations","publisher":"Iowa PBS","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","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":"Local Legends Around Iowa's Haunted Locations","url":"https://www.iowapbs.org/article/8600/local-legends-around-iowas-haunted-locations","publisher":"Iowa PBS","type":"LOCAL_JOURNALISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}