CAPE PERPETUA Site — Yachats, Oregon Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/cape-perpetua-yachats-oregon/ The 800-foot headland—where the forest meets the Pacific. Cape Perpetua is a site in Yachats, Oregon. The 800-foot headland—where the forest meets the Pacific. Its accounts name only a collective — the cape dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — 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. Cape Perpetua rises 800 feet over the Oregon coast — the headland Captain Cook named in 1778, where the Siuslaw people lived for millennia before the reservation era removed them, and where the CCC built the stone overlook in the 1930s. The file's documented spine is the cape's layered history: Native homeland, named landmark, conservation camp ground. The cape's features — Thor's Well, the Devil's Churn, the spouting horns — are the file's geography: a coast where the ocean's violence is the attraction, the rock formations' names carrying the devil's own register. THE CAPE'S FIGURES The lore reports figures on the cape and the dead reportedly seen — the file's haunting being the headland's own: presences on the point where the Siuslaw lived and the coast's dead accumulate. The file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of place-lore attached to a coast that has always been storied. The cape's dead are the file's register — a headland that held a people's whole world reportedly keeping presences, the overlook's figures the coast's residue. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Cape Perpetua is the archive's named-headland file — an Oregon cape that Cook named, the Siuslaw held, and the CCC built on, keeping figures at the overlook. The documented layers are the record; the figures are the coast's lore. A cape named by Cook and loved by the Siuslaw keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that the headland's presences predate its name, the figures the oldest residents of all. FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures on the cape. Cape Perpetua's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Cape Perpetua'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. source: Cape Perpetua (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Perpetua) · [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the cape dead. Cape Perpetua's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Cape Perpetua' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job. source: Cape Perpetua (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Perpetua) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · The cape’s history is documented. Cape Perpetua's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Cape Perpetua' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. SOURCES — 1 cited · Cape Perpetua — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Perpetua — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/