Founded in 1862 following a massive placer gold strike, Bannack served as Montana’s first Territorial Capital—a high-altitude boomtown defined by extreme wealth and equally extreme violence. Today, it is preserved as a “state of arrested decay,” making it a premier site for the study of Environmental Hauntings. The town’s history is scarred by the 1864 hanging of Sheriff Henry Plummer—leader of the notorious “Innocents” outlaw gang—an event that many believe anchored a darker, oppressive energy to the site of the old jail and the Hotel Meade. The phenomena here are categorized by two distinct layers. The first is the “Blue Dress Manifestation” of Dorothy Dunn, a child who drowned in nearby Grasshopper Creek; she is frequently sighted near the schoolhouse, exhibiting a “lost” or “searching” behavioral pattern. The second layer is more aggressive: shadow figures and cold-spot anomalies within the Hotel Meade, a former courthouse where the weight of frontier justice was once meted out. Researchers note that Bannack provides a rare opportunity to document “Geographically-Bound Entities” in a setting where the 19th-century infrastructure remains almost entirely untouched.