{"id":1204,"slug":"stone-lion-inn-guthrie-oklahoma","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Stone Lion is the mortuary — the 'Smith's Funeral Home' that's the '20s leased, the 'embalmed here' that's the bodies prepared. The 'Irene' is the question — the 'whooping cough' that's the child claimed, the 'no daughter' that's the census corrects. The 'patting face' is the felt — the 'child's hand' that's the guests awakened, the 'paper towel thrown' that's the kitchen's toss.","The 'most expensive' is the built — the '1907' that's the statehood year, the '$11,900' that's the ten times normal. The 'skeptic's alarm' is the conceded — the 'rationalize everything' that's the owner's claim, the 'except the doors' that's the one thing left. Stone Lion is the honest — the 'house has issues' that's the Luker's phrase, the 'murder mystery' that's the dinners hosted.","The file keeps Stone Lion: the mortuary years, the disputed Irene, the face-pats, and the alarm's exception.","Stone Lion Inn is the archive's Oklahoma file — the funeral home turned B&B."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Stone Lion Inn is the archive's Oklahoma file — the house that embalmed its guests' predecessors.","An inn keeps its mortuary — the file's suggestion being that Stone Lion's hold is the layered: the 'funeral home' that's the bodies processed, the 'Irene's doubt' that's the legend checked, and the 'alarm alone' that's the skeptic's crack."]}],"name":"Stone Lion Inn","aliases":[],"type":"INN","type_label":"Inn","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Inn in Guthrie; research record.","full_desc":"Stone Lion Inn is an inn in Guthrie, Oklahoma, built in 1907. Inn in Guthrie; research record. The name the accounts keep returning to is Irene Houghton. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":"1016 W Warner Ave","city":"Guthrie","county":null,"state":"Oklahoma","postal":"73044","region":"South","lat":35.876512,"lon":-97.408657,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.stonelioninn.com","phone":"405-282-0012","year_built":1907,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Inn","research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":55.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":485,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"TravelOK recounts the alleged child ghost Irene. Irene Houghton is the name the reports keep returning to. 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. 'Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma' carries the account. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Irene Houghton","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma","url":"https://www.travelok.com/articles/top-haunted-places-in-oklahoma","publisher":"Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"TravelOK describes a restored 1907 mansion with six guest rooms. Stone Lion Inn's documented history in Guthrie, Oklahoma is the record the rest of the file stands on. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. The record appears in 'Stone Lion Inn'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Stone Lion Inn","url":"https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.7271","publisher":"Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"TravelOK recounts the alleged child ghost Irene. The Guthrie hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma","url":"https://www.travelok.com/articles/top-haunted-places-in-oklahoma","publisher":"Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Irene Houghton","claimed_identity":"Irene Houghton","verified":null,"summary":"TravelOK recounts the alleged child ghost Irene. Irene Houghton is what the reports name it. Stone Lion Inn, a hotel in Guthrie, Oklahoma, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The report is preserved in sources like 'Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma'. The file keeps Irene Houghton on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive.","behavior":"TravelOK recounts the alleged child ghost Irene.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma","url":"https://www.travelok.com/articles/top-haunted-places-in-oklahoma","publisher":"Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research 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":"Most Haunted Places in Oklahoma","url":"https://www.travelok.com/articles/top-haunted-places-in-oklahoma","publisher":"Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Stone Lion Inn","url":"https://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.7271","publisher":"Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"research_notes","existing_value":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","incoming_value":"Primary/site-specific enrichment; earlier legend provenance retained separately. Murder-mystery dinner entertainment is not evidence of actual deaths or hauntings.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":2}}