{"id":3140,"slug":"courtland-gleeson-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Courtland is the hyped — the 'newspaper' that's the boom's engine, the 'dripping praise' that's the ads' style. The 'not company' is the odd — the 'Youngs owned' that's the land's lords, the 'independent' that's the town's mark. The 'last stayed' is the died — the 'Yoakem' that's the holdout's name, the '1974' that's his death's year.","The 'water piped' is the rushed — the '5 miles' that's the mains' length, the 'Chamber's first' that's the priority's rank. The 'shallow played' is the ended — the 'few hundred feet' that's the ore's depth, the '1921' that's the exodus's year. Courtland is the 100% — the 'no residents' that's the ghost's state, the 'ranches span' that's the land's now.","The file keeps Courtland: the hyped paper, the odd independence, the stayed Yoakem, and the rushed water.","Courtland is the archive's Arizona file — the boomtown a newspaper wrote into being."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Courtland is the archive's Arizona file — the town built by hype and copper.","A town keeps its holdout — the file's suggestion being that Courtland's hold is the hyped: the 'Arizonian' that's the paper's push, the 'Yoakem' that's the last's name, and the '4 years' that's the boom's span."]}],"name":"Courtland","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MINING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The copper camp that died in the Depression.","full_desc":"Courtland is a ghost town in Gleeson, Arizona. The copper camp that died in the Depression. 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. 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":"Gleeson","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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":"AZ2 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":3107,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence in the town. In a place where the population already left once, the remaining reports at Courtland feel almost inevitable. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. Sources including 'Courtland' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Courtland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtland,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1909 camp is documented. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Courtland' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The lore keeps its witness. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1909","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Courtland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtland,_Arizona","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":"Courtland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtland,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}