{"id":3561,"slug":"brooks-lake-dubois-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Brooks Lake Lodge is the Yellowstone stopover — the 1922 Two-Gwo-Tee Inn built in three months for the Lander-Yellowstone road, the log lodge at nine thousand feet named for Governor Bryant Brooks who found the lake in 1899. The buses bypassed it by 1926; the Diamond G dude ranch was the reinvention — the Easterners paying for the cowboy experience in the Wind River bowl.","The Carlsbergs saved it — the 1987 purchase of the lodge on jacks, the restoration that took years, the luxury resort it is now. The isolation is the point — the Continental Divide two miles away, the Pinnacles over the lake, the snow that closes the road for months. The lodge that was a stopover became the destination — the Craftsman buildings in the meadow that the forest keeps remote.","The file keeps Brooks Lake: the 1922 inn, the dude ranch era, the 1987 rescue, and the resort.","Brooks Lake is the archive's Yellowstone-road file — the lodge that became the destination."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Brooks Lake is the archive's Yellowstone-road file — the 1922 inn that survived the bypass.","A lodge keeps its isolation — the file's suggestion being that Brooks Lake's hold is the remoteness: the road that moved away, the lake in the mountain bowl, and the restoration that kept the log buildings standing."]}],"name":"Brooks Lake","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","GEOLOGY","NATURAL"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The lake—where the outlaw’s cabin stands.","full_desc":"A site in Dubois, Wyoming, Brooks Lake is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The lake—where the outlaw’s cabin stands. The presences in its file go unnamed: the outlaw, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Dubois","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":43.545964,"lon":-109.647628,"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":"MTWY 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":3932,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the lake. Brooks Lake's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Sources including 'Brooks Lake' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","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":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3933,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The outlaw is reportedly seen. Brooks Lake in Dubois, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Brooks Lake'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The outlaw","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The lake’s history is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Brooks Lake' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the lake. The site in Dubois, Wyoming gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The outlaw is reportedly seen. Brooks Lake's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed. The file stays open on it.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The outlaw","claimed_identity":"The outlaw","verified":null,"summary":"The outlaw is reportedly seen. Brooks Lake's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The file keeps The outlaw on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. The file stays open on it. The reports keep the address on the map. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","behavior":"The outlaw is reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","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":"Brooks Lake","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Lake","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}