{"id":1526,"slug":"carroll-a-deering-grounding-site-north-carolina","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Deering is the dinner — the 'meal prepared' that's the stove still warm, the 'eleven gone' that's the crew vanished. The 'sails set' is the drifted — the 'Diamond Shoals' that's the '21 grounded, the 'no distress' that's the signals never flown. The 'three cats' is the left — the 'half-starved' that's the only witnesses, the 'not even a dog' that's the surfmen's count.","The 'fake bottle' is the added — the 'Gray's note' that's the pirate claim forged, the 'confessed' that's the hoax admitted. The 'Hoover' is the investigated — the 'five departments' that's the federal response, the 'Bolshevik pirates' that's the theories floated. The Deering is the unsolved — the 'mutiny, pirates, Triangle' that's the explanations failed, the 'dynamited' that's the evidence destroyed.","The file keeps the Deering: the warm stove, the three cats, the fake note, and the unsolved crew.","The Deering is the archive's North Carolina file — the ghost ship that cooked dinner."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Carroll A. Deering is the archive's North Carolina file — the ship that sailed on without her crew.","A shoal keeps its mystery — the file's suggestion being that the Deering's hold is the abandoned: the 'dinner ready' that's the meal uneaten, the 'cats alone' that's the witnesses silent, and the 'dynamited' that's the answer lost."]}],"name":"Carroll A. Deering grounding site","aliases":[],"type":"SHIPWRECK_SITE","type_label":"Shipwreck Site","cats":["HISTORICAL_MYSTERY","MARITIME","UNEXPLAINED","MYSTERY"],"groups":["legends","maritime"],"desc":"Shipwreck site associated with documented regional history.","full_desc":"Carroll A. Deering grounding site is a shipwreck site in Buxton, North Carolina. Shipwreck site associated with documented regional history. HauntHunt files it with historical mysteries, the unexplained and maritime history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 2 documented facts — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Buxton","county":null,"state":"North Carolina","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.253294,"lon":-75.538313,"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":"Approximate offshore historical area; no coordinates assigned. Crew count and precise remains require government sources.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":64.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3982,"type":"UNEXPLAINED_PHENOMENON","description":"The complete disappearance of the Deering’s crew—with dinner half-cooked and no lifeboats—remains unexplained; theories range from mutiny to piracy to the Bermuda Triangle. The reports at Carroll A. Deering grounding site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The claim is disputed by the sources that preserve it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Carroll A. Deering'. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.","evidence":"DISPUTED","evidence_label":"Disputed","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":"No single theory explains the abandonment; the case is a famous unsolved maritime mystery.","source":{"name":"Carroll A. Deering","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_A._Deering","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The schooner grounded at Diamond Shoals in 1921 without its crew. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. The record appears in 'Mysterious Disappearances and Abandoned Places in NC'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mysterious Disappearances and Abandoned Places in NC","url":"https://www.visitnc.com/list/ncs-mysterious-disappearances-and-abandoned-places","publisher":"Visit North Carolina","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}},{"description":"The Carroll A. Deering was found grounded on Diamond Shoals on January 31, 1921, completely abandoned; the crew was never found. The documented date is 1921-01-31. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Carroll A. Deering' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1921-01-31","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Carroll A. 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One of the sea’s great unsolved mysteries.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"research_notes","existing_value":"Approximate offshore historical area; no coordinates assigned. Crew count and precise remains require government sources.","incoming_value":"Lore enrichment; VERIFY task auto-queued.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}