{"id":400,"slug":"saloon-no-10-deadwood-south-dakota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Saloon No. 10 is the faked — the 'recreated' that's the building's truth, the 'original burned' that's the site's loss. The 'back to door' is the broken — the 'uneasy' that's the rule's breach, the 'McCall' that's the shooter's name. The 'aces and eights' is the dealt — the 'dead man's hand' that's the cards' name, the 'nine of diamonds' that's the kicker's form.","The 'cartoonist dreamed' is the conceived — the 'Kellogg' that's the visionary's name, the 'million bucks' that's the pitch's promise. The 'death chair' is the displayed — the 'velvet case' that's the relic's shrine, the '1948' that's the first mention's year. Saloon No. 10 is the kept — the 'sawdust' that's the floor's cover, the 'reenactment' that's the summer's show.","The file keeps the saloon: the faked original, the broken rule, the dealt hand, and the displayed chair.","Saloon No. 10 is the archive's South Dakota file — the bar that invented itself."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Saloon No. 10 is the archive's South Dakota file — the theme bar that outlived the real one.","A saloon keeps its chair — the file's suggestion being that No. 10's hold is the performed: the 'recreated' that's the building's honesty, the 'dead man's hand' that's the legend's cards, and the 'cartoonist' that's the attraction's father."]}],"name":"Saloon No. 10","aliases":[],"type":"BAR","type_label":"Bar","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Tourism recounts disembodied voices and a self-playing piano.","full_desc":"Saloon No. 10 is a bar in Deadwood, South Dakota. Tourism recounts disembodied voices and a self-playing piano. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. It still pours. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":"657 Main Street","city":"Deadwood","county":"Lawrence","state":"South Dakota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":44.387048,"lon":-103.720742,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","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":"Present-day establishment at 657 Main Street; distinct from original 1876 Saloon No. 10 footprint now associated with Wild Bill Bar at 624. Do not merge solely by saloon name.","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":300,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Tourism recounts disembodied voices and a self-playing piano. Saloon No. Saloon No. 10, a bar in Deadwood, South Dakota, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","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":"Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Tourism recounts disembodied voices and a self-playing piano. The bar's reports are the kind old establishments accumulate — footsteps after close, presences in empty rooms. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Sources including 'Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Haunted Deadwood: A Wilder West Experience","url":"https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-deadwood-wilder-west-experience","publisher":"Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}