{"id":1476,"slug":"wisteria-place-columbus-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Columbus keeps an unusual density of antebellum houses, and Wisteria Place is one of the best of them — a cottage built around 1854 for William R. Cannon, six square columns under the portico, a handsome balustrade on the balcony, and its original kitchen still attached by a breezeway. Cannon was a state legislator who served as acting governor and presided over the State Democratic Convention; when he died in this house at fifty-four, Jefferson Davis is reported to have said, \"I have lost my best friend.\""]},{"heading":"The man at the kitchen window","paragraphs":["The haunting, as collected in Beth Scott and Michael Norman's Haunted America, is small and specific: current and previous owners report a figure in a white shirt hurrying past the kitchen window toward the front door. When the door is opened, no one is there. It is the whole story — no motive, no name — and the tellings do not inflate it. The house remains a private residence, documented rather than visited.","Cannon did die inside these walls, which is as close as the legend comes to identifying its resident. The file keeps the distance: a documented death, an unnamed figure, and a sighting modest enough to believe the owners saw something."]}],"name":"Wisteria Place","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_HOUSE","type_label":"Historic House","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Historic house in Columbus; research record.","full_desc":"Wisteria Place is a historic house in Columbus, Mississippi. Historic house in Columbus; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. It is private property; the dossier documents it, it does not invite you in.","address":"524 Eighth Street North","city":"Columbus","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":33.508208,"lon":-88.407128,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"PRIVATE","access_notes":"Source identifies private residence; no public entry permission documented.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":704,"type":"APPARITION","description":"The guide recounts a white-shirted figure near the kitchen. Wisteria Place wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The guide recounts a white-shirted figure near the kitchen. Wisteria Place in Columbus, Mississippi is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi'. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Private property; not open to the public. View only from public rights-of-way where legal.","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":"The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}