{"id":3002,"slug":"comet-boulder-montana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Comet is the clean — the 'no saloons' that's the condition's odd, the 'no cemetery' that's the town's lack. The 'tramway flew' is the hauled — the 'rope' that's the cable's kind, the 'over pass' that's the route's climb. The 'revived died' is the twice — the '1926' that's the rebirth's year, the '1941' that's the final's end.","The 'modern mill' is the ranked — the 'second Butte' that's the state's size, the '200-ton' that's the flotation's rate. The 'war banned' is the killed — the 'nonessential' that's the label's word, the 'exhausted' that's the mine's state. Comet is the ranked — the 'third best' that's the ghost's tier, the 'one resident' that's the town's count.","The file keeps Comet: the clean town, the flown ore, the twice died, and the ranked mill.","Comet is the archive's Montana file — the ghost town forbidden its saloons."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Comet is the archive's Montana file — the mining town with no cemetery because it had no saloons.","A town keeps its mill — the file's suggestion being that Comet's hold is the conditioned: the 'no saloons' that's the buyer's rule, the 'tramway' that's the ore's route, and the 'twice' that's the death's count."]}],"name":"Comet","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MINING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The high-grade silver camp—empty since the war.","full_desc":"Comet is a ghost town in Boulder, Montana. The high-grade silver camp—empty since the war. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns, mining history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Boulder","county":null,"state":"Montana","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":46.23584,"lon":-112.119749,"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 / ghost town","research_notes":"mines2 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":2856,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the buildings. In a place where the population already left once, the remaining reports at Comet feel almost inevitable. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The account appears in 'Comet'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Comet","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The camp’s history is documented. Comet's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Comet' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Comet","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site is largely open-air; some buildings may be unsafe or on private land. Check local conditions 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":"Comet","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}