{"id":3501,"slug":"andrea-gail-gloucester-massachusetts","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Andrea Gail is the Perfect Storm's — the '91 Halloween nor'easter that took the six, the swordfish that was the hold. The captain was the Billy Tyne — the 'bad vibes' that Randall felt, the Flemish Cap that was the last position. The book is the Junger — the '97 that made it famous, the film that followed.","The silence was the end — the no distress call that was the answer, the 10-day search that found nothing. The memorial is the Gloucester — the 3,000 names on the statue, the 'they that go down' that's the inscription. The Andrea Gail is the lost — the crew that's the legend, the storm that's the name.","The file keeps the Andrea Gail: the 1991 Perfect Storm, the six crew, the Junger book, and the Gloucester memorial.","The Andrea Gail is the archive's Gloucester file — the Perfect Storm's boat."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Andrea Gail is the archive's Gloucester file — the storm that named the book.","A boat keeps its crew — the file's suggestion being that the Andrea Gail's hold is the silence: the no call that was the end, the six who didn't return, and the memorial that lists them."]}],"name":"Andrea Gail","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","MARITIME_DISASTER"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"October 1991—the Perfect Storm’s lost boat.","full_desc":"A site in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Andrea Gail is filed here for what the record attaches to it. October 1991—the Perfect Storm’s lost boat. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the six. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Gloucester","county":null,"state":"Massachusetts","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.62885,"lon":-70.685875,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"SHIP batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3810,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The crew is reportedly remembered. The six is the name the reports keep returning to. The site in Gloucester, Massachusetts gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Andrea Gail' 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 six","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Gail","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gail","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3811,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. Andrea Gail in Gloucester, Massachusetts carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The report is preserved in sources like 'Andrea Gail'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Gail","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gail","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The October 1991 loss is documented. Andrea Gail's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Andrea Gail'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1991","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Gail","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gail","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The crew is reportedly remembered. The reports at Andrea Gail are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 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 Gail","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gail","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The six","claimed_identity":"The six","verified":null,"summary":"The crew is reportedly remembered. The presence goes by The six. Andrea Gail's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The six. It remains the site's standing claim. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"The crew is reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Andrea Gail","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gail","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 Gail","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Gail","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}