CHIEF CORNSTALK MONUMENT
Site — Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/chief-cornstalk-monument-point-pleasant-west-virginia/

The murdered chief—killed under flag of truce, 1777.

Chief Cornstalk monument is a site in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The murdered chief—killed under flag of truce, 1777. Its signature presence is Chief Cornstalk — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Cornstalk is the murdered — the '77 peace mission that became hostage, the son who was killed with him. The curse is the legend — the dying words that promised revenge, the Mothman that's the fulfillment. The battle was the '74 — the Point Pleasant that's the first Revolution, the 1,100 Shawnee who fought.
The bones were the moved — the 1840 street diggers, the 1954 final rest. The monument is the four-ton — the obelisk that holds the teeth, the smaller than the white settlers'. Cornstalk is the warning — the chief who tried to make peace, the murder that was the answer.
The file keeps Cornstalk: the 1777 murder, the curse legend, the moved bones, and the monument.
Cornstalk is the archive's Point Pleasant file — the murdered chief.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Cornstalk is the archive's Point Pleasant file — the cursed peace.
A monument keeps its teeth — the file's suggestion being that Cornstalk's hold is the betrayal: the peace mission that was the trap, the curse that followed, and the Mothman that's the sign.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: Cornstalk is reportedly seen at the monument. Chief Cornstalk is the name the reports keep returning to. Chief Cornstalk monument in Point Pleasant, West Virginia carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Chief Cornstalk'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Chief Cornstalk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Cornstalk)
· [Media reported] legend: The murder is documented; the lore is the chief’s memory. The site in Point Pleasant, West Virginia gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. 'Chief Cornstalk' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.
  source: Chief Cornstalk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Cornstalk)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Cornstalk’s November 1777 murder is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Chief Cornstalk' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Chief Cornstalk — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Cornstalk

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