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Anecdotal reports in Wyoming

Wyoming keeps 18 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

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Natural
Medium

Devils Tower

Hulett, Wyoming

The bear’s lodge—the sacred monolith and the climbers.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Hotel
Medium

Irma Hotel

Cody, Wyoming

Cody hotel with guest-reported ghost stories.

3 claims · 1 legend→
Prison Museum
High confidence

Wyoming Frontier Prison

Rawlins, Wyoming

Former penitentiary interpreting incarceration and executions.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Lovell, Wyoming

The wheel on the mountain—where the stars were read.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Cody

Cody, Wyoming

Buffalo Bill’s town—where the show never ended.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Jackson Hole

Jackson, Wyoming

The valley—where the trappers held their rendezvous.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Sunlight Basin

Cody, Wyoming

The basin—where the gold and the grizzlies stay.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Pryor Mountains

Lovell, Wyoming

The mountains—where the Little People are said to live.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Paint Rock

Hyattville, Wyoming

The rock art—where the pictographs stay on the cliff.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Owl Creek Mountains

Thermopolis, Wyoming

The range—where the owl-worshipping tribe camped.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Union Pass

Dubois, Wyoming

The 1869 pass—where the Continental Divide was crossed.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Togwotee Pass

Moran, Wyoming

The 1911 pass—where the road finally came through.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Signal Mountain

Moran, Wyoming

The mountain—where the signal fires burned.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Fort Yellowstone

Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming

The 1891 fort—where the Army ran the park.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Atlantic City

Atlantic City, Wyoming

The other Atlantic City—the South Pass gold camp.

1 claim→
Town
Medium

Casper

Casper, Wyoming

The oil town—where the Sandbar and the dead are remembered.

1 claim→
Town
Medium

Thermopolis

Thermopolis, Wyoming

The world’s largest mineral hot spring—the terraces.

1 claim→
Site
Medium

Kirby / Hell’s Half Acre

Kirby, Wyoming

The badlands where the outlaws hid—and the scarp that starred in Starship Troopers.

1 claim→

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Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive