{"id":1725,"slug":"central-city-masonic-cemetery-central-city-colorado","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Masonic is the visited — the 'November first' that's the date's mark, the 'woman black' that's the mourner's form. The 'Cameron' is the grieved — the 'bachelor' that's the dead's state, the 'flowers left' that's the ritual's kind. The 'gold brought' is the born — the '1860s' that's the cemetery's start, the 'rush' that's the town's cause.","The 'view holds' is the kept — the 'Central below' that's the sight's scope, the 'hill top' that's the plot's place. The 'family plots' is the grouped — the 'Woodmen' that's the markers' kind, the 'unmarked' that's the lost's share. The Masonic is the returned — the 'annually' that's the visit's rate, the 'tradition' that's the story's word.","The file keeps the Masonic: the visited grave, the black-clad woman, the gold's rush, and the returned mourner.","Central City Masonic Cemetery is the archive's Colorado file — the grave visited every November first."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Central City Masonic Cemetery is the archive's Colorado file — the plot that gets flowers yearly.","A grave keeps its visitor — the file's suggestion being that the Masonic's hold is the returned: the 'November first' that's the date's keep, the 'black' that's the mourner's dress, and the 'bachelor' that's the dead's state."]}],"name":"Central City Masonic Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["cemeteries","hauntings"],"desc":"Cemetery with a woman-in-black legend.","full_desc":"A cemetery in Central City, Colorado, Central City Masonic Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Cemetery with a woman-in-black legend. Its signature presence is Woman in black — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly.","address":null,"city":"Central City","county":null,"state":"Colorado","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":39.795366,"lon":-105.508965,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Tourism source explicitly says after-dark cemetery entry is trespassing; daytime rules require verification.","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":"Pass 1 source-grounded discovery; independent historical verification, coordinates and current access still pending. Confidence measures attribution quality, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":51.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":908,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Colorado Tourism Office recounts a woman in black appearing at John Edward Cameron’s grave. The burial ground at Central City is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Woman in black","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Colorado Tourism Office recounts a woman in black appearing at John Edward Cameron’s grave. The burial ground at Central City is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Woman in black","claimed_identity":"Woman in black","verified":null,"summary":"Colorado Tourism Office recounts a woman in black appearing at John Edward Cameron’s grave. A cemetery in Central City, Colorado accumulating ghost reports is almost tautological — but this is the one the record kept. The account appears in 'Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters'. The lore has a face now: Woman in black.","behavior":"Colorado Tourism Office recounts a woman in black appearing at John Edward Cameron’s grave.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access is restricted; check with the managing agency or landowner 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":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}