The most documented dossiers

What "most documented" means

The ranking is arithmetic, not judgment: claims filed times two, legends once, sourced facts at half weight — a proxy for how much paper a place has accumulated.Hotel Monte Vista leads the archive at 18 points; the median dossier in the whole collection scores 3.5.

Read the table as a map of attention, not authenticity. Famous haunts attract repeat claims, competing legends and decades of retelling — which is exactly what produces a thick file. A thin dossier is not a quiet place; it is usually just an unfiled one.

The mix is worth noting: sanitariums and penitentiaries sit beside a swamp, a mountainside and the White House. Concentrated suffering explains some of the paper — but so does a good story told often enough to leave copies.

Every row links its dossier, where each claim carries its evidence class and source. The record is the product here; the ghosts are incidental.