{"id":158,"slug":"asan-bay-overlook-asan-guam","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Asan Bay is the memorialized — the 'overlook' that's the view's frame, the 'landing beaches' that's the sight below. The 'names carved' is the counted — the '1,880' that's the American dead, the '14,721' that's the CHamoru suffered. The 'bronze' is the sculpted — the 'Daub' that's the artist's name, the 'This one's for you, Dad' that's the engraving's dedication.","The 'occupation' is the endured — the '1941' that's the seizure's year, the 'atrocities' that's the years' weight. The '50th' is the marked — the '1994' that's the memorial's year, the 'anniversary' that's the building's cause. Asan Bay is the kept — the 'wall' that's the names' home, the 'villages' that's the view's peace.","The file keeps Asan Bay: the memorialized overlook, the counted names, the sculpted bronze, and the endured occupation.","Asan Bay Overlook is the archive's Guam file — the hill that remembers the beach."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Asan Bay Overlook is the archive's Guam file — the war's ledger carved in a wall.","An overlook keeps its view — the file's suggestion being that Asan's hold is the named: the '1,880' that's the liberators' cost, the '14,721' that's the occupied's suffering, and the 'bronze' that's the memory's form."]}],"name":"Asan Bay Overlook","aliases":[],"type":"BATTLEFIELD","type_label":"Battlefield","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","MILITARY_RUINS"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"Memorial overlooking a Guam invasion beach.","full_desc":"Asan Bay Overlook is a battlefield in Asan, Guam. Memorial overlooking a Guam invasion beach. HauntHunt files it with dark history and military ruins. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Asan","county":null,"state":"Guam","postal":null,"region":"Pacific","lat":13.4747,"lon":144.7178,"coord_kind":"MANUAL","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Public park unit; check park alerts for temporary closures.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/asan-bay-overlook.htm","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass; historical, geographic, and access enrichment remain queued. Confidence describes source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":65,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"The memorial names American servicemen and CHamoru people who died or suffered wartime atrocities. Asan Bay Overlook's service record is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the garrison lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Asan Bay Overlook'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Asan Bay Overlook","url":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/asan-bay-overlook.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Park unit open 24 hours daily according to NPS page retrieved September 7, 2026.","parking":"Parking beside Route 6; memorial path begins at the lot.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Asan Bay Overlook","url":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/asan-bay-overlook.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"Asan Bay Overlook","url":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/asan-bay-overlook.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}