{"id":3192,"slug":"bath-school-site-bath-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Bath School is the deadliest — the '27 bombing that killed 45, the quarter of the town's children. The Kehoe was the board member — the electrician who planted the dynamite, the alarm clocks that timed it. The truck was the second — the suicide bomb that took the superintendent, the 'picnic' warning that he gave.","The wife was the first — the skull that he crushed, the farm that he burned. The wing was the survival — the south that didn't explode, the children who lived. The Bath School is the forgotten — the deadliest school attack that's overlooked, the Lindbergh that stole the news.","The file keeps the Bath School: the 1927 bombing, the 45 dead, the Kehoe motive, and the truck bomb.","The Bath School is the archive's Michigan file — the deadliest school attack."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Bath School is the archive's Michigan file — the first school bombing.","A school keeps its clock — the file's suggestion being that the Bath's hold is the method: the dynamite that was planted, the alarm that timed it, and the truck that was the second."]}],"name":"Bath School site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","DISASTER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"May 18, 1927—the school board member who bombed the school.","full_desc":"Bath School site is a site in Bath, Michigan. May 18, 1927—the school board member who bombed the school. Its accounts name only a collective — the bath 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. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Bath","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":42.818964,"lon":-84.454437,"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 / memorial","research_notes":"dark2 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":3197,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The children are reportedly remembered. The lore files them collectively as the Bath dead. The reports at Bath School site 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 'Bath School' keep the claim in circulation. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Bath dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Bath School","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3198,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the memorial. Bath School site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The account appears in 'Bath School'. 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":"Bath School","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The May 18, 1927 bombing is documented; 44 died. Bath School site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Bath School'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1927-05-18","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Bath School","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The children are reportedly remembered. The reports at Bath School site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Bath School' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Bath School'. 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":"Bath School","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Bath dead","claimed_identity":"The Bath dead","verified":null,"summary":"The children are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Bath dead. Bath School site in Bath, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The report is preserved in sources like 'Bath School'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"The children are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Bath School","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster","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":"Bath School","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}