{"id":3138,"slug":"calabasas-rio-rico-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Calabasas is the mission that became a ranch that became a fort — the 1756 visita where Father Pauer moved 78 O'odham from their riverside village, the church that was half-built in 1761 and burned by Apaches in 1777, the Sonora governor's hacienda and the Army post that got malaria. It's inside Tumacácori National Historical Park.","The site was the layers — the mission that lasted 30 years until the Apache raids emptied it, the stock ranch for Tumacácori, Manuel Gándara's 6,000-head hacienda in the old church, Fort Mason where 300 of 400 California Volunteers got sick. By 1878 it was a roofless shell.","The ruins are still there — the adobe walls on the bluff over the Santa Cruz, the tour-only access from Tumacácori, the layers from O'odham village to mission to ranch to fort. The file keeps the site: the 1756 mission, the Apache fires, and the ruin that's the valley's palimpsest.","Calabasas is the archive's mission file — the visita, the hacienda, the fort, and the ruin that's every layer of the borderlands."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Calabasas is the archive's mission file — the O'odham visita, the Apache-burned church, and the layers that are the Santa Cruz Valley's history.","A site that was everything keeps its walls — the file's suggestion being that Calabasas's hold is the layers: the mission church that's a ranch house that's a fort, the Apaches who emptied it twice, and the ruin that's the valley's whole story."]}],"name":"Calabasas","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MISSION","COLONIAL"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The mission and the fort—the site that moved south.","full_desc":"Calabasas is a site in Rio Rico, Arizona. The mission and the fort—the site that moved south. The archive files it under the colonial era, missions and ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Rio Rico","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":31.498168,"lon":-110.987798,"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":"AZ2 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":3102,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. Calabasas' file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Calabasas","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabasas,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The site’s history is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Calabasas' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore. It remains the site's standing claim.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Calabasas","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabasas,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"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":"Calabasas","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabasas,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Calabasas","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabasas","desc":"Topics referred to by the same term","extract":"Calabasas may refer to:\n\nCalabasas, Arizona, former populated place in what is now Rio Rico, Arizona\nCalabasas, California, city in Los Angeles County, California","img":null,"score":77},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}