{"id":1885,"slug":"stonehouse-at-reeders-alley-helena-montana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Reeder's is the sung — the 'canaries' that's the woman's flock, the 'sang goodbye' that's the funeral's sound. The 'February twice' is the timed — the 'died '33' that's the month's mark, the 'renovation same' that's the women's luck. The 'scaffold fell' is the killed — the 'chimney fix' that's the builder's job, the 'no hope' that's the doctors' word.","The 'single men' is the housed — the 'shotgun flats' that's the rooms' shape, the 'miners first' that's the tenants' kind. The 'three matrons' is the saved — the '1961' that's the rescue's year, the 'artists' colony' that's the dream's form. Reeder's is the sung — the 'Halloween' that's the timing's mark, the 'canaries still' that's the alley's sound.","The file keeps Reeder's: the sung funeral, the timed February, the fallen builder, and the saved alley.","Stonehouse at Reeder's Alley is the archive's Montana file — the flats where canaries still sing."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Stonehouse at Reeder's Alley is the archive's Montana file — the tenements saved by three women.","An alley keeps its birds — the file's suggestion being that Reeder's hold is the sung: the 'canaries' that's the woman's flock, the 'February' that's the timing's rhyme, and the 'matrons' that's the rescue's crew."]}],"name":"Stonehouse at Reeder’s Alley","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Former home linked to phantom-bird accounts.","full_desc":"Stonehouse at Reeder’s Alley is a historic house in Helena, Montana. Former home linked to phantom-bird accounts. Laura and George Duchesnay occupied the stone house; it later became a restaurant. Reported lore and claims include: Southwest Montana recounts waitress Michaela Crawford’s account of chirping and wings without visible birds.","address":null,"city":"Helena","county":null,"state":"Montana","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":46.595465,"lon":-112.018746,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","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":"Specific building at top of Reeder’s Alley, not entire district. Canonical street number and present use need operator verification; historic waitress report does not confirm current restaurant operation.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"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":975,"type":"PHANTOM_ANIMAL_SOUNDS","description":"Southwest Montana recounts waitress Michaela Crawford’s account of chirping and wings without visible birds. The figure answers to Phantom canaries in the retellings. Stonehouse at Reeder’s Alley wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It's a reported experience — real to the people who had it, unresolved for everyone else. 'Laura and her Yellow Canaries' carries the account. It's the sort of report that survives precisely because it asks you to listen, not look.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":"Phantom canaries","where":"Foyer","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Laura and her Yellow Canaries","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/ghost-stories/laura-and-her-yellow-canaries/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Laura and George Duchesnay occupied the stone house; it later became a restaurant. Stonehouse at Reeder’s Alley's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. 'Laura and her Yellow Canaries' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Laura and her Yellow Canaries","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/ghost-stories/laura-and-her-yellow-canaries/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[{"name":"Phantom canaries","claimed_identity":"Phantom canaries","verified":null,"summary":"Southwest Montana recounts waitress Michaela Crawford’s account of chirping and wings without visible birds. Phantom canaries is what the reports name it. The reports concentrate at Foyer. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"Southwest Montana recounts waitress Michaela Crawford’s account of chirping and wings without visible birds.","area":"Foyer","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Laura and her Yellow Canaries","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/ghost-stories/laura-and-her-yellow-canaries/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[{"name":"Laura Duchesnay","role":"Historic resident","birth":null,"death":null,"bio":"Kept canaries at the house; died in 1933. The dossier ties Laura Duchesnay to Stonehouse at Reeder’s Alley as historic resident. The entry is documented through 'Laura and her Yellow Canaries'. Laura Duchesnay is filed as a documented person — part of the record the place’s stories hang on."}],"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":"Laura and her Yellow Canaries","url":"https://southwestmt.com/ghosts/ghost-stories/laura-and-her-yellow-canaries/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":1,"sources":1}}