TLDR
The Queen Anne House in Harrison was built in 1893 by William M. Duncan, the same builder behind the famously haunted Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs. Arkansas state tourism lists it among its haunted attractions, and guests in the main house have described being touched during the night.
The Full Story
Every Sunday, Rev. D.D. Shuck climbed the stairs to the upstairs turret and wrote his sermons. The reverend has been gone a long time. The guests who sleep in the main house of the Queen Anne House Bed and Breakfast 130 years later are the ones who wake up feeling touched by someone they never see.
The house was built in 1893 by William M. Duncan, a builder and the son of a Pennsylvania congressman. He made it for his own family: a 1.5-story wood-frame Queen Anne with an octagonal cupola, wraparound porch, metal ridge cresting, tapered columns, and a turned balustrade. It is one of the few houses of its period in Harrison that has kept most of its original Queen Anne features. The National Register of Historic Places listed it in September 2005 under its older name, the Duncan House.
The Duncan name carries some weight in Arkansas haunted lore. The same William M. Duncan also built the Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, 37 miles southwest, which has one of the thickest ghost-story reputations in the state. That connection is architectural, not spectral. The stories at Basin Park stay at Basin Park. Whatever the Queen Anne House has is its own.
Arkansas's official state tourism site includes the B&B in its haunted-attractions roundup and describes it plainly: guests here have reported "being visited by those from another realm." It's a short line from a state agency, and it does more work than a paragraph of anonymous review-site chatter. Harrison is a small Ozarks city of about 13,000. The Queen Anne House isn't trying to be a tourist haunt, which makes the listing stand out.
The specific account that keeps surfacing comes from the main house. A TripAdvisor guest writing in May 2019 described another couple staying the same night calling their main-house room creepy. The woman said she felt like someone was touching her during the night. The guest who wrote the review only learned afterward that the house had a haunted reputation.
The B&B has five individually decorated guest rooms and serves a full breakfast. It sits on West Central Avenue, walking distance from the Boone County Heritage Museum. No named ghost, no dateable tragedy, no on-site death anyone can point to. Just a 130-year-old house, a reverend who wrote sermons in the turret, and a few guests over the years who felt a hand they couldn't explain.
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