{"id":2773,"slug":"white-hall-richmond-kentucky","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["White Hall is the '60s — the '44 rooms' that's the added, the 'Cassius Clay' that's the lion. The 'True American' is the paper — the 'abolitionist' that's the slaveholder, the 'two pistols' that's the defended press. The 'freed' is the '44 — the '$40,000' that's the loss, the 'still kept' that's the others.","The 'Russia' is the minister — the 'Lincoln' that's the friend, the 'bowie knife' that's the carried. The 'ghosts' is the three — the 'candles' that's the move, the 'piano' that's the heard. White Hall is the contradiction — the 'emancipationist' that's the enslaver, the '44 rooms' that's the 1798 core.","The file keeps White Hall: the 44-room Clay, the True American defense, the freed-and-kept, and the candle ghosts.","White Hall is the archive's Kentucky file — the lion's den."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["White Hall is the archive's Kentucky file — the abolitionist's mansion.","A house keeps its pistols — the file's suggestion being that White Hall's hold is the contradiction: the 'emancipationist' that's the enslaver, the '44 rooms' that's the grown, and the 'ghosts' that's the Clay."]}],"name":"White Hall","aliases":[],"type":"HOUSE","type_label":"House","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_ESTATE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"Cassius Clay’s Italianate castle—the Lion of White Hall.","full_desc":"A house in Richmond, Kentucky, White Hall is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Cassius Clay’s Italianate castle—the Lion of White Hall. The name the accounts keep returning to is Cassius Clay. 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":"Richmond","county":null,"state":"Kentucky","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":37.729145,"lon":-84.299364,"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 / park","research_notes":"KY 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":2402,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Clay is reportedly seen in the house. The lore gives it a name — Cassius Clay — which is what turns a report into a resident. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Cassius Clay","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"White Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_State_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2403,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the mansion. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"White Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_State_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1860s on the 1799 foundation; Clay’s history is documented. The house's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer of the site's file. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'White Hall' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"White Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_State_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Clay is reportedly seen in the house. 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. Sources including 'White Hall' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"White Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_State_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Cassius Clay","claimed_identity":"Cassius Clay","verified":null,"summary":"Clay is reportedly seen in the house. The presence goes by Cassius Clay. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The lore has a face now: Cassius Clay. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","behavior":"Clay is reportedly seen in the house.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"White Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_State_Historic_Site","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":"White Hall","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hall_State_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}