{"id":2942,"slug":"tremont-house-galveston-texas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Tremont is the three — the '1839' that's the first, the '1985' that's the third. The 'Sam Houston' is the balcony — the 'April 1861' that's the last speech, the 'fire and rivers of blood' that's the warned. The 'Sherman' is the burned — the 'June '65' that's the Confederate quarters, the 'five years' that's the ruins.","The 'Clayton' is the '72 — the 'second' that's the grander, the 'Belle of the South' that's the called. The '1900' is the storm — the 'Clara Barton' that's the stayed, the '1928' that's the demolished. The 'Blum' is the bones — the '1879 dry goods' that's the third body, the 'ghosts' that's the inherited.","The file keeps Tremont House: the three hotels, the Houston warning, the 1900 storm, and the Civil War soldier's march.","Tremont House is the archive's Galveston file — the thrice-built hotel."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Tremont House is the archive's Galveston file — the balcony's warning.","A hotel keeps its ghosts — the file's suggestion being that Tremont's hold is the layered: the 'Houston' that's the warned, the 'soldier' that's the marching, and the 'three' that's the rebuilt."]}],"name":"Tremont House","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"The 1839 hotel that survived the storm—the Tremont’s ghost floor.","full_desc":"Tremont House is a hotel in Galveston, Texas. The 1839 hotel that survived the storm—the Tremont’s ghost floor. HauntHunt files it with dark history, local folklore and haunted places. Its accounts name only a collective — the fourth floor dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Galveston","county":null,"state":"Texas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":29.186328,"lon":-94.965758,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","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":"Historic site","research_notes":"TX batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2731,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The fourth floor’s ghosts are reportedly seen. The presences go by the fourth floor dead in the file. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. 'Tremont House' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The fourth floor dead","where":"4th floor","first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Tremont House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Galveston)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2732,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the hotel. A hotel in Galveston, Texas with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. 'Tremont House' carries the account. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Tremont House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Galveston)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The hotel’s 1839 founding and the storm survival are documented. Tremont House's documented history in Galveston, Texas is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Tremont House' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1839","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Tremont House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Galveston)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The fourth floor’s ghosts are reportedly seen. Tremont House, a hotel in Galveston, Texas, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. 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 'Tremont House'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Tremont House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Galveston)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The fourth floor dead","claimed_identity":"The fourth floor dead","verified":null,"summary":"The fourth floor’s ghosts are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the fourth floor dead. The reports concentrate at 4th floor. Tremont House, a hotel in Galveston, Texas, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. 'Tremont House' carries the account. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The fourth floor dead.","behavior":"The fourth floor’s ghosts are reportedly seen.","area":"4th floor","first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Tremont House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Galveston)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","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":"Tremont House","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremont_House_(Galveston)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}