{"id":2229,"slug":"provincial-hotel-new-orleans-louisiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Provincial is the '25 — the 'Louis XV' that's the grant, the 'Bienville' that's the lieutenant. The 'military hospital' is the Civil War — the '500 building' that's the most haunted, the 'blood stains' that's the bedding. The 'Ursuline' is the nuns — the 'medicinal herb' that's the garden, the '1825' that's the townhouse.","The 'soldiers' is the seen — the 'moaning' that's the bloody, the 'disappear' that's the lights. The 'elevator' is the vision — the 'second floor' that's the hospital, the 'entirely' that's the view. Provincial is the family — the 'Dupepe' that's the '61, the '60 years' that's the owned.","The file keeps Provincial: the 1725 grant, the military hospital, the bloody soldiers, and the Dupepe family.","Provincial Hotel is the archive's New Orleans file — the hospital's ghosts."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Provincial Hotel is the archive's New Orleans file — the wounded's ward.","A hotel keeps its patients — the file's suggestion being that Provincial's hold is the hospital: the '500' that's the haunted, the 'blood stains' that's the appearing, and the 'elevator' that's the vision."]}],"name":"Provincial Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_HOTEL"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"The Quarter’s Civil War hospital—blood in the courtyard lore.","full_desc":"A hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, built in 1831, Provincial Hotel is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Quarter’s Civil War hospital—blood in the courtyard lore. The presences in its file go unnamed: confederate soldier, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"New Orleans","county":null,"state":"Louisiana","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.05342,"lon":-89.934502,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1831,"year_opened":1831,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Hotel","research_notes":"Historic haunted hotel 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":1575,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Reports center on a Confederate soldier and medical-era figures in the courtyard. The New Orleans hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Confederate soldier","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Provincial Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":1576,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Reported bloodstains appearing on floors and a presence in the hospital rooms. Provincial Hotel, a hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Provincial Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1831; served as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War. The hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana has its past on record — this entry belongs to that verified layer. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Provincial Hotel'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1831","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Provincial Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reports center on a Confederate soldier and medical-era figures in the courtyard. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Provincial Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Provincial Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Confederate soldier","claimed_identity":"Confederate soldier","verified":null,"summary":"Reports center on a Confederate soldier and medical-era figures in the courtyard. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. Sources including 'Provincial Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. The lore has a face now: Confederate soldier.","behavior":"Reports center on a Confederate soldier and medical-era figures in the courtyard.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Provincial Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","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":"Provincial Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}