{"id":1775,"slug":"eadsville-eadsville-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Eadsville occupied a mountain bench around a large spring at roughly 7,800 feet in the Casper Mountain country south of Casper — altitude and isolation being the two facts every account of it leads with. Charles W. Eads established the mining settlement in 1891; the record preserves his reputation alongside his name — remembered as a horse thief who ended in prison — making him the rare town founder whose legend begins with his criminality.","What Eads hoped to find was gold. What the mountain actually held was humbler: feldspar and asbestos, the minerals that supplied the camp's real work and left 'spar' as the locals' shorthand. A dozen cabins housed a peak population the accounts put between forty and fifty, and the gold stayed at trace levels — present enough to keep men digging, absent enough to keep them poor."]},{"heading":"Foundations and a marker","paragraphs":["The settlement faded with the first decade of the new century; what remains today are foundations and a marker amid the mountain timber, reachable by back roads.","The file files it as heritage with no haunting claim implied — the notes are explicit — and with parcel access unverified. What the archive records is the shape of a hundred Wyoming camps: a named man of doubtful character, a spring, a dozen cabins, and minerals that were real but wrong — the bonanza held in the hand turning out to be spar."]}],"name":"Eadsville","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.","full_desc":"A ghost town in Eadsville, Wyoming, Eadsville is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.","address":null,"city":"Eadsville","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"status":"UNKNOWN","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":"Pass 1 discovery. Inclusion is for ghost-town heritage; no haunting claim is implied. Parcel access and coordinates remain unverified.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.3,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Charles W. Eads established a mining settlement in 1891. 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. The record appears in '8 Wyoming Ghost Towns You Need to Explore'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"8 Wyoming Ghost Towns You Need to Explore","url":"https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/5-wyoming-ghost-towns-you-need-to-explore/","publisher":"Wyoming Office of Tourism","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":"8 Wyoming Ghost Towns You Need to Explore","url":"https://travelwyoming.com/blog/stories/post/5-wyoming-ghost-towns-you-need-to-explore/","publisher":"Wyoming Office of Tourism","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}