{"id":1821,"slug":"coloma-coloma-montana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Coloma is the mystery — the 'records missing' that's the archive's gap, the 'gold lost' that's the tailings' secret. The 'fed them' is the ruled — the 'food' that's the control's lever, the 'boardinghouses' that's the companies' grip. The '1896 active' is the boomed — the 'survey' that's the USGS's report, the 'unprofitable' that's the '16's verdict.","The 'Depression returned' is the reoccupied — the 'trash dump' that's the '30s evidence, the 'newspapers' that's the walls' insulation. The 'cannonball road' is the built — the 'four miles' that's the timber's cut, the 'Garnet' that's the neighbor's name. Coloma is the walked — the 'boulders' that's the trail's lining, the 'shafts' that's the mine's remains.","The file keeps Coloma: the mystery records, the food control, the Depression return, and the walked shafts.","Coloma is the archive's Montana file — the camp that ate its profit."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Coloma is the archive's Montana file — the gold town where the food was the chain.","A camp keeps its dump — the file's suggestion being that Coloma's hold is the fed: the 'boardinghouses' that's the coercion's form, the 'missing records' that's the mystery's core, and the 'returned' that's the Depression's reuse."]}],"name":"Coloma","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Little-documented mining camp north of Garnet.","full_desc":"A ghost town in Coloma, Montana, Coloma is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Little-documented mining camp north of Garnet. The archive files it under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. It stands abandoned — what remains is the shell and the record. It is the sort of entry the archive keeps because the ground and the telling both survive.","address":null,"city":"Coloma","county":null,"state":"Montana","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":46.8429874,"lon":-113.3806332,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"ABANDONED","access":"UNKNOWN","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":"Tourism source describes uncertain production history. Its speculation about secret gold output is not adopted as fact; mining claims and access require verification.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":61.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"The tourism record describes surviving mining remains and structures dated by 1920s–1930s newspaper insulation. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. 'Coloma - Mystery Camp of Garnet Range' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Coloma - Mystery Camp of Garnet Range","url":"https://data.visitmt.com/data/site/6725","publisher":"Visit Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research 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":"Coloma - Mystery Camp of Garnet Range","url":"https://data.visitmt.com/data/site/6725","publisher":"Visit Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}