{"id":514,"slug":"carrie-blast-furnaces-swissvale-rankin-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Carrie is the towered — the '92 feet' that's the furnaces stood, the '1,000 tons' that's the daily made. The 'Deer rose' is the built — the 'artists scavenged' that's the '97 sculpture, the 'hand tools' that's the wire bent. The 'meant transient' is the kept — the 'demolition slated' that's the art's intent, the 'protected' that's the owners' choice.","The 'Homestead's heart' is the worked — the '1906' that's the furnace's birth, the 'steel's peak' that's the valley's era. The 'Carrie named' is the found — the 'Clark's niece' that's the research proved, the 'women honored' that's the naming's way. Carrie is the canvas — the 'graffiti kept' that's the walls' art, the 'furnaces stand' that's the only left.","The file keeps Carrie: the towering furnaces, the built Deer, the meant-transient art, and the found namesake.","Carrie Furnaces is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the furnaces a deer saved from demolition."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Carrie Furnaces is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the rust towers that artists crowned with a deer.","A furnace keeps its crown — the file's suggestion being that Carrie's hold is the transformed: the 'Deer built' that's the Sundays' work, the 'transient kept' that's the intent reversed, and the 'only left' that's the valley's sentinel."]}],"name":"Carrie Blast Furnaces","aliases":[],"type":"INDUSTRIAL_SITE","type_label":"Industrial Site","cats":["HAUNTING","ABANDONED_INDUSTRY"],"groups":["hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"Industrial site research record.","full_desc":"Carrie Blast Furnaces is a industrial site in Swissvale / Rankin, Pennsylvania. Industrial site research record. Preserved non-operating blast furnaces 6 and 7 represent prewar ironmaking at the Homestead works. Reported lore and claims include: Tourism recounts visitors’ reports of voices, sounds and shadows.","address":"801 Carrie Furnace Boulevard","city":"Swissvale / Rankin","county":null,"state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.413364,"lon":-79.88382,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Visit through authorized tours, workshops and scheduled events.","ownership":null,"website":"https://riversofsteel.com/attractions/carrie-furnaces/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Historic Landmark","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":66.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":389,"type":"MULTIPLE_PHENOMENA","description":"Tourism recounts visitors’ reports of voices, sounds and shadows. Carrie Blast Furnaces in Swissvale / Rankin, Pennsylvania carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. The report is preserved in sources like 'Haunted Places in Pennsylvania'. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.55,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Haunted Places in Pennsylvania","url":"https://www.visitpa.com/blog/post/haunted-places-pennsylvania/","publisher":"Visit Pennsylvania","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Preserved non-operating blast furnaces 6 and 7 represent prewar ironmaking at the Homestead works. 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. Sources including 'Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark","url":"https://riversofsteel.com/attractions/carrie-furnaces/","publisher":"Rivers of Steel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","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":"Haunted Places in Pennsylvania","url":"https://www.visitpa.com/blog/post/haunted-places-pennsylvania/","publisher":"Visit Pennsylvania","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark","url":"https://riversofsteel.com/attractions/carrie-furnaces/","publisher":"Rivers of Steel","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}