{"id":418,"slug":"eunice-goody-cole-memorial-stone-hampton-new-hampshire","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Eunice Cole — 'Goody' Cole — is the only person ever convicted of witchcraft in New Hampshire, tried at Hampton in 1656 and hounded by accusation for most of the rest of her life. She died around 1680, poor and alone, and the town's treatment of her did not end with the grave: the legend holds that her body was buried with a stake driven through her heart to keep it down — a detail the file files as tradition, not record.","Hampton's reconsideration took nearly three centuries. In 1938, for the town's tercentenary, residents formed a society in Goody Cole's name, gathered copies of the documents of her persecution, burned them ceremonially, and voted to restore her standing. An urn of soil from the presumed grave site was kept at the Tuck Museum."]},{"heading":"A stone for the apology","paragraphs":["The memorial stone itself came later — placed in 1963 on the Hampton town green near the Tuck Museum, marking the community's formal amendment rather than any known grave. The file's note is careful with its confidence: geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions await verification, and the evidence confidence concerns attribution, not the supernatural.","What the archive keeps is a double monument: the stone on the green, and the rarer civic act behind it — a New England town spending its own anniversary apologizing to the woman it convicted, three hundred years late."]}],"name":"Eunice Goody Cole Memorial Stone","aliases":[],"type":"MEMORIAL","type_label":"Memorial","cats":["DARK_HISTORY"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"Memorial research record.","full_desc":"Eunice Goody Cole Memorial Stone is a memorial in Hampton, New Hampshire. Memorial research record. It sits in the archive under dark history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Hampton","county":null,"state":"New Hampshire","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.943902,"lon":-70.825354,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","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":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","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":"Town-green memorial remembers Eunice Cole, convicted of witchcraft in 1656. Eunice Goody Cole Memorial Stone's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops","url":"https://www.visitnh.gov/blog/undiscovered-nh-spooky-stops","publisher":"New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development","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":"Undiscovered NH: Spooky Stops","url":"https://www.visitnh.gov/blog/undiscovered-nh-spooky-stops","publisher":"New Hampshire Division of Travel and Tourism Development","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}