{"id":3119,"slug":"ehrenberg-ehrenberg-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Ehrenberg is the steamed — the 'paddle wheels' that's the boats' kind, the '300 miles' that's the river's reach. The 'Laguna killed' is the dammed — the '1907' that's the cutoff's year, the 'couldn't pass' that's the boats' end. The 'adobe melts' is the gone — the 'rain' that's the ruin's agent, the 'too late' that's the warning's date.","The 'ferry built' is the started — the 'log' that's the raft's make, the 'California side' that's the crossing's goal. The 'only woman' is the lone — the 'Summerhayes' that's the wife's name, the 'came back' that's her choice's turn. Ehrenberg is the crossed — the 'toll road' that's the link's kind, the 'Prescott' that's the route's end.","The file keeps Ehrenberg: the steamed river, the killing dam, the melting adobe, and the lone woman.","Ehrenberg is the archive's Arizona file — the steamboat port the dam beached."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Ehrenberg is the archive's Arizona file — the river town stranded when the dam rose.","A landing keeps its graves — the file's suggestion being that Ehrenberg's hold is the dammed: the 'steamboats' that's the wealth's source, the 'Laguna' that's the killer's name, and the 'adobe' that's the ruin's material."]}],"name":"Ehrenberg","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","FRONTIER"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The river port that died—where the ferry once ran.","full_desc":"A ghost town in Ehrenberg, Arizona, Ehrenberg is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The river port that died—where the ferry once ran. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns, the frontier and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Ehrenberg","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":33.614208,"lon":-114.483007,"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","research_notes":"AZ66 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":3067,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. The town has more past than present; the reports are the past refusing to stay past. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Ehrenberg' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ehrenberg","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenberg,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1863 port is documented. Ehrenberg's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Ehrenberg'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1863","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ehrenberg","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenberg,_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":"Ehrenberg","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenberg,_Arizona","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}