{"id":2051,"slug":"punderson-manor-newbury-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Punderson is the unfinished — the Long mansion that was abandoned, the '56 opening that the state completed. The ghosts are the original — the lumberjack in the dining room, the Teddy Roosevelt who wants his chair. The ranger was the convert — the '79 cold wind and the laughter, the skeptic who became the believer.","The lake is the glacial — the 90-foot deep that the ice made, the Punderson who settled in 1808. The rooms are the haunted — the seven originals that have the sightings, the state park that embraces it. Punderson is the state's ghost — the Tudor that's the lodge, the haunted that's the draw.","The file keeps Punderson: the Karl Long mansion, the state takeover, the ghosts, and the glacial lake.","Punderson is the archive's Newbury file — the unfinished manor's spirits."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Punderson is the archive's Newbury file — the state-owned haunting.","A manor keeps its unfinished — the file's suggestion being that Punderson's hold is the abandoned: the mansion that Long left, the ghosts that moved in, and the state that made it the lodge."]}],"name":"Punderson Manor","aliases":[],"type":"LODGE","type_label":"Lodge","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_HOTEL"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"Tudor-style state-park lodge on a lake with a cold-spot legend.","full_desc":"A lodge in Newbury, Ohio, built in 1929, Punderson Manor is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Tudor-style state-park lodge on a lake with a cold-spot legend. HauntHunt files it with haunted places, historic hotels and local folklore. 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":"Newbury","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.4786,"lon":-81.1936,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1929,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1275,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Lodge lore describes a workman who died in construction and still walks the halls. Punderson Manor, a hotel in Newbury, Ohio, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Punderson Manor' keep the claim in circulation. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Punderson Manor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punderson_Manor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":1276,"type":"COLD_SPOT","description":"Guests report cold spots, voices and objects moving. The Newbury hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. 'Punderson Manor' carries the account. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Punderson Manor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punderson_Manor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built in 1929 and later incorporated into Punderson State Park as its lodge. Punderson Manor's documented history in Newbury, Ohio is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Punderson Manor' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1929","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Punderson Manor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punderson_Manor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Lodge lore describes a workman who died in construction and still walks the halls. A hotel in Newbury, Ohio 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 'Punderson Manor'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Punderson Manor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punderson_Manor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify 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":"Punderson Manor","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punderson_Manor","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}