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Evidence class · 176 files

Media reported

Media reported

Carried by a newspaper, broadcast or established publication — the reporting is real; what it reports remains what it reports. 176 dossiers carry it — 5% of the archive — spread across 40 jurisdictions, heaviest in West Virginia (16), Texas (11) and Pennsylvania (10). A dossier can carry several classes and appears on every shelf it earns.

176 dossiers40 jurisdictions5% of the archive
Mountain
High confidence

Brown Mountain

Morganton, North Carolina

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

5 claims · 2 legends→
Cemetery
High confidence

Chestnut Hill Cemetery

Exeter, Rhode Island

Cemetery associated with the documented1892vampire panic surrounding Mercy Brown.

5 claims · 3 legends→
Folklore Area
High confidence

Flatwoods Wild Man report area

Flatwoods, West Virginia

Town-area setting of a reported 1919 wild-man encounter.

5 claims · 3 legends→
Ranch
High confidence

Skinwalker Ranch

Ballard, Utah

Private ranch associated with UFO and paranormal claims.

6 claims · 1 legend→
Unexplained Light Viewing Area
High confidence

Marfa Mystery Lights Viewing Area

Marfa, Texas

Unexplained light viewing area in Marfa; research record.

4 claims · 2 legends→
Historic Settlement
Medium

Koreshan Unity Settlement

Estero, Florida

Surviving members transferred settlement land to Florida in 1961.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Railroad Bridge
Medium

Pope Lick Trestle

Louisville, Kentucky

Trestle of the "Goatman" legend—where the real danger is the train.

4 claims→
Swamp
Medium

Hockomock Swamp (Bridgewater Triangle)

West Bridgewater, Massachusetts

The heart of the Bridgewater Triangle—ghost lights, pterodactyls and cult legends.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Military Site
Medium

Area 51 (Groom Lake)

Rachel, Nevada

The classified test site around which American UFO conspiracy lore orbits.

3 claims→
Plantation
Medium

Whitney Plantation

Wallace, Louisiana

The plantation museum that tells the enslaved people’s story first.

3 claims · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Mütter Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The 1858 medical museum of "disturbing specimens."

3 claims · 1 legend→
Ship
Medium

Edmund Fitzgerald wreck site

Whitefish Point, Michigan

The November 10, 1975 loss—Lake Superior’s most famous wreck.

3 claims · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Portlock

Portlock, Alaska

Former cannery settlement with Nantiinaq oral accounts.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

East St. Louis

East St. Louis, Illinois

July 2, 1917—the riot that burned the city.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Sinks Canyon

Lander, Wyoming

The river that disappears—where the Popo Agie sinks into the rock.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Historic Farm Area
Low

Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter Folklore Area

Kelly, Kentucky

Historic farm area in Kelly; research record.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Former Jail Library
Medium

Old Noxubee County Jail

Macon, Mississippi

Former jail library in Macon; research record.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Playa
Medium

Racetrack Playa

Furnace Creek, California

Moving stones with observed natural mechanisms.

2 claims→
State Park
Medium

Point Lookout State Park

Scotland, Maryland

Civil War POW camp and lighthouse peninsula called America’s most haunted park.

2 claims→
Brewery
Medium

Moon River Brewing Company

Savannah, Georgia

Savannah’s first hotel, now a brewery with a basement poltergeist.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Prison
Medium

Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola)

Angola, Louisiana

"The Farm"—the plantation-prison on the bend of the Mississippi.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Plantation
Medium

Destrehan Plantation

Destrehan, Louisiana

The 1787 plantation where the 1811 slave revolt was tried.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mission
Medium

El Santuario de Chimayó

Chimayo, New Mexico

The "Lourdes of America"—the healing-dirt chapel.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Fort Sumner

Fort Sumner, New Mexico

The fort where Billy the Kid was shot—and where he’s buried.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Silver Cliff & Rosita cemetery lights

Silver Cliff, Colorado

The cemetery "dancing lights" of the Wet Mountain Valley.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Yakima Lights

Yakima, Washington

The reservation lights studied by J. Allen Hynek.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Amusement Park
Medium

Magic Landing

El Paso, Texas

The 1984 park where a worker died on opening weekend—closed 1988.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Ship
Medium

General Slocum disaster site

New York, New York

The 1904 fire that killed 1,021—the city’s deadliest day before 9/11.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

Brandy Station Battlefield

Brandy Station, Virginia

June 9, 1863—the largest cavalry battle ever fought in America.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Appomattox Court House

Appomattox, Virginia

April 9, 1865—the village where the war ended.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Monticello

Charlottesville, Virginia

Jefferson’s mountaintop—where the contradictions still echo.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Natural
Medium

Dolly Sods

Laneville, West Virginia

The windswept barrens where WWII shells still sleep.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Berkeley Springs State Park

Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Washington’s bathtub—the colonial spa that never stopped.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Natural
Medium

Hawks Nest State Park

Ansted, West Virginia

The overlook above the New River—built on the tunnel disaster’s memory.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Hawks Nest Tunnel site

Gauley Bridge, West Virginia

The tunnel where silica killed—hundreds dead for water to a power plant.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Battlefield
Medium

Poison Spring Battlefield

Camden, Arkansas

April 18, 1864—the ambush and massacre that stained the Camden Expedition.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Rohwer Relocation Center

Rohwer, Arkansas

The camp where 8,000 Japanese Americans were held—and George Takei grew up.

2 claims · 1 legend→
District
Medium

Eureka Springs Historic District

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

The crooked-street town built on the springs—where nothing is level.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The federal reserve older than Yellowstone—the springs and the bathhouse row.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Haun’s Mill

Brea, Missouri

October 30, 1838—the Missouri massacre that drove the Mormons west.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Flight 93 National Memorial

Shanksville, Pennsylvania

September 11, 2001—the field where the passengers fought back.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

South Fork Dam ruins

St. Michael, Pennsylvania

The dam the club let rot—the break that drowned Johnstown.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Gobbler’s Knob

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

The stump where Phil sees his shadow—Groundhog Day’s ground zero.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Hatfield-McCoy feud country

Williamson, West Virginia

The Tug Fork feud—America’s most famous family war.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Chief Cornstalk monument

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

The murdered chief—killed under flag of truce, 1777.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Saltville

Saltville, Virginia

The salt capital of the Confederacy—and the massacre site.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Natural
Medium

Cumberland Falls

Corbin, Kentucky

The moonbow falls—the only one in the Western Hemisphere.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Old Washington

Maysville, Kentucky

The 1786 frontier town that time forgot—Harriet Beecher Stowe’s visit.

2 claims · 1 legend→

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