{"id":2393,"slug":"buckland-museum-of-witchcraft-cleveland-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Buckland's is the outed — the 'media found' that's the going public's cause, the 'car burned' that's the pushback's form. The 'basement shelves' is the started — the '1966' that's the founding's year, the 'coven only' that's the first audience's size. The 'wandered' is the moved — the 'NY NH VA NOLA' that's the route's stops, the 'storage years' that's the gaps' span.","The 'helmet changed' is the claimed — the 'Rosemary wore' that's the moment's mark, the 'Wicca born' that's the craft's shift. The 'objects carry' is the believed — the 'donated pieces' that's the collection's source, the 'energy' that's the keepers' sense. Buckland's is the kept — the 'Cleveland now' that's the home's spot, the 'first museum' that's the country's kind.","The file keeps Buckland's: the outed coven, the basement start, the wandered collection, and the changed helmet.","Buckland Museum is the archive's Ohio file — the witchcraft collection that traveled with its founder."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Buckland Museum is the archive's Ohio file — the first witchcraft museum in America.","A museum keeps its wand — the file's suggestion being that Buckland's hold is the wandered: the 'outed' that's the public's push, the 'shelves' that's the start's scale, and the 'helmet' that's the ritual's mark."]}],"name":"Buckland Museum of Witchcraft","aliases":[],"type":"MUSEUM","type_label":"Museum","cats":["MUSEUM","WITCHCRAFT","OCCULT"],"groups":["institutions"],"desc":"Raymond Buckland’s 1966 collection—the first U.S. witchcraft museum.","full_desc":"A museum in Cleveland, Ohio, Buckland Museum of Witchcraft is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Raymond Buckland’s 1966 collection—the first U.S. witchcraft museum. HauntHunt files it with the occult, witchcraft and museums. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It operates as a museum.","address":null,"city":"Cleveland","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.478462,"lon":-81.679435,"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":null,"research_notes":"Occult/museum 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":1835,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The museum documents occult history, not hauntings. Buckland Museum of Witchcraft in Cleveland, Ohio curates the past professionally; the reports suggest some of the past curates back. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Buckland Museum of Witchcraft","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Buckland","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Founded 1966 by Raymond Buckland; relocated to Cleveland in 2017. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Buckland Museum of Witchcraft'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1966","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Buckland Museum of Witchcraft","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Buckland","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Museum; check the official site for current hours and admission.","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":"Buckland Museum of Witchcraft","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Buckland","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}