CAHOKIA
Site — Collinsville, Illinois
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/cahokia-collinsville-illinois/

The mound city—where the Mississippians built their capital.

Cahokia is a site in Collinsville, Illinois. The mound city—where the Mississippians built their capital. HauntHunt files it with Indigenous heritage, archaeology and local folklore. Its accounts name only a collective — the cahokia 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.

Cahokia was a city — the Mississippian metropolis near Collinsville that held tens of thousands when London was a village, the mounds being the remains of the largest settlement in pre-Columbian North America north of Mexico.
The file's documented spine is the city's scale: a place that was urban when the continent was wilderness, its mounds being the pyramids of a civilization the archive can only describe as vanished — the city's people leaving only earthworks.

THE CAHOKIA DEAD
The site's lore is documented — the file's register being the city's residue: the civilization that built the mounds reportedly still at the site, the earthworks keeping the dead of the country's biggest ancient city.
The Cahokia dead are the file's signature — a vanished city's population reportedly still at its mounds, the site's presence being the record of a metropolis that became earth.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Cahokia is the archive's metropolis file — a pre-Columbian city's mounds keeping the dead reportedly still present. The documented city is the record; the lingering population is the lore of a place that was the continent's biggest before there was a continent to be biggest in.
A city that became mounds keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that Cahokia's earthworks still hold the people who made them a metropolis.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] legend: The site’s lore is documented. The lore files them collectively as the Cahokia dead. The site in Collinsville, Illinois gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Cahokia (alt)' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.
  source: Cahokia (alt) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia_Mounds)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures at the mounds. Cahokia in Collinsville, Illinois carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The file stays open on it. The claim holds its place in the ledger.
  source: Cahokia (alt) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia_Mounds)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The site’s occupation is documented. Cahokia's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Cahokia (alt)'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Cahokia (alt) — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia_Mounds

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