{"id":578,"slug":"windsor-county-courthouse-woodstock-vermont","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Windsor County's is the burned — the 'three fires' that's the count's toll, the 'firecracker' that's the '54's cause. The 'Young passed' is the handed — the 'Silloway 28' that's the architect's age, the 'book copied' that's the design's source. The 'year built' is the fast — the 'on budget' that's the feat's mark, the 'Italianate' that's the style's new.","The 'town hall' is the doubled — the 'first floor' that's the meeting's spot, the 'ticket window' that's the theater's left. The 'furnishings stay' is the kept — the '1855' that's the courtroom's look, the 'tin ceiling' that's the ceiling's original. Windsor County's is the sitting — the 'court still' that's the use's run, the 'fourth try' that's the building's number.","The file keeps Windsor County's: the triple burns, the handed design, the year's build, and the doubled hall.","Windsor County Courthouse is the archive's Vermont file — the courthouse that fire couldn't keep down."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Windsor County Courthouse is the archive's Vermont file — the fourth courthouse on the green.","A courthouse keeps its fire — the file's suggestion being that Windsor's hold is the rebuilt: the 'firecracker' that's the burn's cause, the '28' that's the architect's youth, and the 'ticket window' that's the theater's ghost."]}],"name":"Windsor County Courthouse","aliases":[],"type":"COURTHOUSE","type_label":"Courthouse","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Working courthouse linked to reports of moving doors and unexplained sounds.","full_desc":"Windsor County Courthouse is a courthouse in Woodstock, Vermont. Working courthouse linked to reports of moving doors and unexplained sounds. HauntHunt files it with haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":"12 The Green","city":"Woodstock","county":"Windsor","state":"Vermont","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.62344,"lon":-72.513003,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Working court: public court services under normal security procedures; no paranormal-tour permission implied.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.vtcourts.gov/court-locations/windsor-civil-division","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":443,"type":"DOORS_MOVING","description":"A ghost-tour guide’s account relayed by tourism describes courtroom doors moving and clerks hearing voices and footsteps. The reports at Windsor County Courthouse are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a reported experience — real to the people who had it, unresolved for everyone else. The report is preserved in sources like 'A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village'. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village","url":"https://www.woodstockvt.com/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales/","publisher":"WoodstockVT","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Monday–Friday 8am–4:30pm, except holidays; second Friday monthly closed 8am–noon for training.","parking":"Off site.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Windsor Civil Division","url":"https://www.vtcourts.gov/court-locations/windsor-civil-division","publisher":"Vermont Judiciary","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"A haunted history: Vampires in Woodstock village","url":"https://www.woodstockvt.com/a-haunted-history-vampires-in-woodstock-village-other-tales/","publisher":"WoodstockVT","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Windsor Civil Division","url":"https://www.vtcourts.gov/court-locations/windsor-civil-division","publisher":"Vermont Judiciary","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}