{"id":1322,"slug":"the-elm-henderson-kentucky","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Elm is the made — the 'carriage factory' that's the '04 bones, the 'Delker built' that's the wagons' birth. The 'per capita' is the packed — the 'most ghosts' that's the state's claim, the 'many housed' that's the building's count. The 'boys ask' is the updated — the 'games on phone' that's the modern's meet, the 'two eras' that's the children's split.","The 'doll moves' is the watched — the 'creepy toy' that's the room's shift, the 'waving man' that's the Prohibition's wave. The 'incubator runs' is the lived — the 'small business' that's the space's use, the 'haunted meetings' that's the irony met. The Elm is the working — the 'ghosts listed' that's the tenants' mix, the 'market open' that's the building's day.","The file keeps the Elm: the carriage bones, the packed ghosts, the modern boys, and the working haunt.","The Elm is the archive's Kentucky file — where ghost boys ask about your phone."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Elm is the archive's Kentucky file — the carriage factory where ghosts learned modern questions.","A building keeps its tenants — the file's suggestion being that the Elm's hold is the crowded: the 'per capita' that's the density's claim, the 'boys ask' that's the time's blur, and the 'incubator' that's the life's mix."]}],"name":"The Elm","aliases":[],"type":"COMMERCIAL_BUILDING","type_label":"Commercial Building","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Commercial building in Henderson; research record.","full_desc":"The Elm is a commercial building in Henderson, Kentucky, built in 1904. Commercial building in Henderson; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":"120 N Elm St","city":"Henderson","county":null,"state":"Kentucky","postal":"42420","region":"South","lat":37.838416,"lon":-87.580971,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://theelmshops.com","phone":"270-748-0005","year_built":1904,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Shops and events","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":583,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Kentucky After Dark recounts male and child apparitions and a moving doll. The reports at The Elm are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The haunting is unproven and unfired: it keeps showing up for work anyway.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Hauntings at the Elm","url":"https://kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/henderson-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The campaign identifies a 1904 extension of the George Delker carriage factory. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. The record appears in 'Hauntings at the Elm'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Hauntings at the Elm","url":"https://kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/henderson-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Kentucky After Dark recounts male and child apparitions and a moving doll. The reports at The Elm are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Hauntings at the Elm","url":"https://kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/henderson-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"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":"Hauntings at the Elm","url":"https://kentuckyafterdark.com/locations/henderson-ky","publisher":"Kentucky After Dark tourism campaign","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"The Elm","url":"https://hendersonky.org/attraction/the-elm/","publisher":"Henderson Tourist Commission","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}