Old Jeddah (Al-Balad)

Al-Balad is the historic district and traditional urban core of the city of Jeddah, which the supplied sources place on the Red Sea coast in the Hejaz and identify as the main port serving travelers to Mecca since 647 CE. The provided material establishes the district's significance as part of a city with deep historic and commercial importance but includes no specific information on construction dates for individual houses, ownership history of particular buildings, restoration programs, or municipal status of Al-Balad. The research notes explicitly show that none of the supplied sources document firsthand accounts, folkloric narratives, witness statements, named spirits, or investigative reports of paranormal phenomena tied to Al-Balad's ancient houses. Other archive items provided in the research bundle concern unrelated topics and occasionally mention the string "Jeddah" in a personal-name context (e.g., an individual called "Ali Jeddah" in a Jerusalem-related item); those occurrences are coincidental and are not evidence of supernatural claims in Old Jeddah. Because the sources do not present supernatural claims, this entry does not assert hauntings, entities, or explanatory theories. Further documentation of alleged "tales of spirits" in Al-Balad would require targeted folkloric, ethnographic, or local-historical sources beyond those supplied.