SLIPPERY NOODLE INN
Bar — 372 South Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/slippery-noodle-inn-indianapolis-indiana/

Bar associated with documented cultural history.

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.

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.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
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.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] haunting: 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.
  source: 13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th (https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/)

SOURCES — 2 cited
· 13 Haunted Places in Indiana to Visit on Friday the 13th — Visit Indiana
  https://visitindiana.in.gov/blog/post/13-haunted-places-in-indiana-to-visit-on-friday-the-13th/
· The Slippery Noodle — The Slippery Noodle
  https://slipperynoodle.com/

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