{"id":2925,"slug":"walter-place-holly-springs-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Walter Place is the '60 — the 'Gothic-Greek' that's the mixed, the 'Julia Grant' that's the sheltered. The 'Van Dorn' is the raid — the 'December 20' that's the burned carriages, the 'Mrs. Govan' that's the spared. The 'yellow fever' is the '78 — the 'Walter' that's the died nursing, the 'four sons' that's the lost.","The 'octagonal' is the towers — the 'Boling' that's the designed, the 'iron' that's the cast. The 'Grant' is the irony — the 'Union wife' that's the Confederate home, the 'supply depot' that's the Holly Springs. Walter Place is the survivor — the 'most expensive' that's the 2011, the 'still standing' that's the towers.","The file keeps Walter Place: the 1860 mansion, the Julia Grant shelter, the Van Dorn raid, and the fever dead.","Walter Place is the archive's Mississippi file — the enemy's guesthouse."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Walter Place is the archive's Mississippi file — the Grant's irony.","A mansion keeps its towers — the file's suggestion being that Walter's hold is the crossed: the 'Julia' that's the sheltered, the 'yellow fever' that's the killed, and the 'spared' that's the Govan."]}],"name":"Walter Place","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","CIVIL_WAR","ANTEBELLUM"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"The mansion where Grant’s wife stayed—and the ghosts remain.","full_desc":"A house in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Walter Place is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The mansion where Grant’s wife stayed—and the ghosts remain. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the walters. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Holly Springs","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.778017,"lon":-89.445819,"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":"MS 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":2694,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The family is reportedly seen. The lore gives it a name — The Walters — which is what turns a report into a resident. Walter Place wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Walters","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Walter Place","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Place","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2695,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the house. Walter Place in Holly Springs, Mississippi is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","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":"Walter Place","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Place","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1859; the Grant connection is documented. Walter Place's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Walter Place'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1859","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Walter Place","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Place","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The family is reportedly seen. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. 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 'Walter Place'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Walter Place","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Place","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Walters","claimed_identity":"The Walters","verified":null,"summary":"The family is reportedly seen. The file calls it The Walters. Walter Place wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The Walters. The claim holds its place in the ledger. The lore keeps its witness. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","behavior":"The family is reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Walter Place","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Place","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Historic house; many are private residences—verify public access 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":"Walter Place","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Place","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}