{"id":2613,"slug":"blackwater-falls-davis-west-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Blackwater is the stained — the 'tannin' that's the water's color, the 'hemlock spruce' that's the needles' dye. The 'Porte Crayon' is the made — the '350 trout' that's the day's catch, the 'Harper's' that's the fame's spread. The 'clearcut' is the stripped — the '1910s' that's the logging's sweep, the 'fires' that's the soil's burn.","The 'CCC planted' is the healed — the 'Corps' that's the '30s hands, the 'recovery slow' that's the century's wait. The 'utility owned' is the gifted — the 'power company' that's the donor's name, the '1937' that's the park's start. Blackwater is the kept — the '62 feet' that's the falls' drop, the 'most photographed' that's the state's claim.","The file keeps Blackwater: the stained water, the trout's fame, the clearcut's wound, and the Corps' heal.","Blackwater Falls is the archive's West Virginia file — the falls that watched the canyon die and heal."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Blackwater Falls is the archive's West Virginia file — where the water stayed dark through ruin and rebirth.","A falls keeps its color — the file's suggestion being that Blackwater's hold is the survived: the 'tannin dark' that's the water's dye, the 'clearcut' that's the canyon's wound, and the 'planted back' that's the century's heal."]}],"name":"Blackwater Falls","aliases":[],"type":"NATURAL","type_label":"Natural","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","NATURAL_WONDER"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The amber falls where the tannin-stained water drops 57 feet.","full_desc":"A natural site in Davis, West Virginia, Blackwater Falls is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The amber falls where the tannin-stained water drops 57 feet. The archive files it under natural wonders and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Davis","county":null,"state":"West Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":39.12789,"lon":-79.460333,"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":"Park / natural site","research_notes":"WV lore 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":2138,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures near the falls overlook. A natural place in Davis, West Virginia doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. It remains the site's standing claim.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Blackwater Falls","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Falls_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The falls and park are documented; the amber color is tannin from the spruce bog. Blackwater Falls' documented past — geological and human — is the verified layer beneath the legends. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Blackwater Falls' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Blackwater Falls","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Falls_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures near the falls overlook. A natural place in Davis, West Virginia doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The report is preserved in sources like 'Blackwater Falls'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Blackwater Falls","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Falls_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Natural site; conditions vary seasonally—check the managing agency for access.","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":"Blackwater Falls","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Falls_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}