{"id":3176,"slug":"casper-casper-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Casper is the misspelled — the 'Caspar' that's the lieutenant's real, the 'clerk's error' that's the town's name. The 'Collins died' is the honored — the 'rescue ride' that's the death's cause, the 'fort renamed' that's the honor's form. The 'five refineries' is the boomed — the 'largest world' that's the Standard's rank, the 'oil capital' that's the Rockies' title.","The 'Teapot Dome' is the scandaled — the 'next door' that's the field's spot, the 'Harding rocked' that's the fallout's reach. The 'trails met' is the crossed — the 'Oregon California' that's the routes' merge, the 'Mormon ferry' that's the crossing's past. Casper is the kept — the 'oil city' that's the economy's base, the 'misspelling' that's the name's quirk.","The file keeps Casper: the misspelled name, the honored Collins, the boomed refineries, and the scandaled Teapot.","Casper is the archive's Wyoming file — the oil city named by a clerk's error."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Casper is the archive's Wyoming file — the town that kept its misspelling.","A city keeps its error — the file's suggestion being that Casper's hold is the spelled: the 'Caspar' that's the soldier's real, the 'clerk' that's the error's source, and the 'Teapot' that's the scandal's neighbor."]}],"name":"Casper","aliases":[],"type":"TOWN","type_label":"Town","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","FRONTIER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The oil town—where the Sandbar and the dead are remembered.","full_desc":"Casper is a town in Casper, Wyoming. The oil town—where the Sandbar and the dead are remembered. HauntHunt files it with the frontier, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Casper","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":42.84212,"lon":-106.321282,"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":"UW 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":3168,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the historic district. A Wyoming town's lore is municipal property; Casper keeps this account in its unofficial archive. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'Casper' carries the account. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Casper","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The city’s history is documented. Casper's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Casper'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. It remains the site's standing claim.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Casper","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public townsite; walkable areas are generally accessible year-round.","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":"Casper","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}