{"id":3492,"slug":"andrea-doria-wreck-nantucket-massachusetts","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Andrea Doria is the radar's failure — the '56 collision that shouldn't have been, the Stockholm that hit starboard. The rescue was the miracle — the 1,660 saved before the sink, the Ile de France that helped. The art is the lost — the floating gallery that the liner was, the Monet that's at the bottom.","The depth is the diver's — the 250 feet that's the Everest of wreck diving, the china that they bring up. The cause is the debate — the port-to-port that was misread, the blame that's still argued. The Andrea Doria is the elegant — the liner that was the pride, the fog that took it.","The file keeps the Andrea Doria: the 1956 collision, the 51 dead, the 1,660 rescued, and the wreck.","The Andrea Doria is the archive's Nantucket file — the radar's victim."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Andrea Doria is the archive's Nantucket file — the unsinkable that sank.","A liner keeps its art — the file's suggestion being that the Doria's hold is the collision: the radar that failed, the rescue that saved most, and the gallery that's the wreck."]}],"name":"Andrea Doria wreck","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","SHIPWRECK","LEGEND_SITE","MARITIME_DISASTER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"July 25, 1956—the Italian liner’s grave off Nantucket.","full_desc":"Andrea Doria wreck is a site in Nantucket, Massachusetts. July 25, 1956—the Italian liner’s grave off Nantucket. Its accounts name only a collective — the andrea doria dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. 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The reports at Andrea Doria wreck are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Andrea Doria' keep the claim in circulation. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Andrea Doria dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Doria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3793,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the wreck. The site in Nantucket, Massachusetts gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The account appears in 'Andrea Doria'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Doria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The July 25, 1956 sinking is documented. Andrea Doria wreck's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Andrea Doria' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1956-07-25","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Doria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. Andrea Doria wreck's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Andrea Doria' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Andrea Doria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Andrea Doria dead","claimed_identity":"The Andrea Doria dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Andrea Doria dead. The reports at Andrea Doria wreck are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. The lore keeps its witness. The reports keep the address on the map.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Doria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Andrea Doria","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}