{"id":274,"slug":"slippery-noodle-inn-indianapolis-indiana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Slippery Noodle is the oldest — Indiana's oldest bar in its original building, the 1850 Tremont House that's been a roadhouse, a German club, a brothel, a speakeasy, and a blues bar. The Dillinger gang's bullet holes are still in the basement wall.","The building was the layers — the Underground Railroad hiding spot in the basement, the brothel that ran until 1953, the beer made in the basement during Prohibition, the murder over a woman that left the knife on the bar. The names changed; the building stayed.","The Noodle is still there — the oldest commercial building in Indianapolis, the tin ceiling from 1890, the blues playing seven nights a week, the ghost 'George' in the basement in his overalls. The file keeps the layers: the 1850 roadhouse, the Dillinger bullets, and the bar that's the state's oldest.","The Slippery Noodle is the archive's bar file — Indiana's oldest, the Dillinger bullet holes, and the blues bar that's been open since 1850."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Slippery Noodle is the archive's oldest file — Indiana's oldest bar, the Underground Railroad basement, and the Dillinger gang's bullet holes.","A bar that's the state's oldest keeps its basement — the file's suggestion being that the Noodle's hold is the cellar: the fugitive hiding spot, the Dillinger bullets, and the blues bar that's been the same building since 1850."]}],"name":"Slippery Noodle Inn","aliases":[],"type":"BAR","type_label":"Bar","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Bar associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Slippery Noodle Inn is a bar in Indianapolis, Indiana. Bar associated with documented cultural history. 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. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":"372 South Meridian Street","city":"Indianapolis","county":null,"state":"Indiana","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.776664,"lon":-86.145935,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://slipperynoodle.com/","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":56.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":210,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Guests and staff report footsteps, voices and unseen touches. 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. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","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":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Guests and staff report footsteps, voices and unseen touches. 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. The report is preserved in sources like '13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Mon–Tue 11:00–00:00; Wed–Thu 11:00–01:00; Fri 11:00–02:00; Sat 12:00–02:00; Sun 16:00–23:00","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"The Slippery Noodle","url":"https://slipperynoodle.com/","publisher":"The Slippery Noodle","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th","url":"https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/","publisher":"Visit Indiana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"The Slippery Noodle","url":"https://slipperynoodle.com/","publisher":"The Slippery Noodle","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Slippery Noodle Inn","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_Noodle_Inn","desc":"Historic building and live music venue in Indianapolis, Indiana, US","extract":"The Slippery Noodle Inn is a large blues bar and restaurant with two performance stages in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It also has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating bar in the state of Indiana, having opened in 1850 as the Tremont House.\nThe Inn served as a stop on the Underground Railroad during the American Civil War.  During prohibition it was called a restaurant, although beer was still being made in the basement, and later it housed a brothel until 1953.\nThe Inn is the oldest commercial building in the city.  Its tin ceiling dates to 1890 and the oak bar is also over a century old.  The Inn has operated under its current name since 1963. It has hosted many l","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Slippery_Noodle_Inn_-_June_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg/960px-Slippery_Noodle_Inn_-_June_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":104,"lat":39.76166667,"lon":-86.15861111},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}