{"id":1888,"slug":"evergreen-cemetery-yreka-california","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Yreka was a Gold Rush instant town. Abraham Thompson's party struck gold on the flats in March 1851, and within months the gulches held thousands of miners and the camp had become the seat of Siskiyou County — one of the roughest in the northern mines, vigilance committee included. Evergreen Cemetery, on the hill above town, took the dead that decade produced: pioneers, founding families, and men whose ends were decided without juries."]},{"heading":"What the stones hold","paragraphs":["Markers reach back to the 1850s — among the oldest documented graves in far-northern California. The stones file their own accounts: a 'Child Unknown'; miners like John Saxton, killed by a falling boulder at the Mount Vernon Mine in 1911; a matriarch whose birthdate of 1788 predates the republic's westward reach. The burial ground is exactly what the archive means by an open-air record."]},{"heading":"What's filed","paragraphs":["The dossier's claim is interpretive rather than supernatural: for Halloween 2025, Discover Siskiyou advertised a haunted-history tour of the cemetery — part of the October tradition of guided cemetery walks that treats graveyards as outdoor archives. No specific apparitions or phenomena are filed; the research note is careful on that point. The oldest thing here is not a ghost but the names."]}],"name":"Evergreen Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["cemeteries","hauntings"],"desc":"Cemetery associated with guided local ghost-story interpretation.","full_desc":"Evergreen Cemetery is a cemetery in Yreka, California. Cemetery associated with guided local ghost-story interpretation. It sits in the archive under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":"Evergreen Ln","city":"Yreka","county":"Siskiyou","state":"California","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":41.724032,"lon":-122.63157,"coord_kind":"CITY","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":"Event listing establishes folklore-tour use, not specific supernatural phenomena. 2025 date is past; no assumption of current night access.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":978,"type":"REPORTED_PRESENCE","description":"Discover Siskiyou recounts haunted-history stories advertised for its 2025 cemetery tour. The burial ground at Yreka is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. 'Spooky Halloween Cemetery Tour' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Spooky Halloween Cemetery Tour","url":"https://discoversiskiyou.com/event/spooky-halloween-cemetery-tour/","publisher":"Discover Siskiyou","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Discover Siskiyou recounts haunted-history stories advertised for its 2025 cemetery tour. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Evergreen Cemetery in Yreka, California has its version filed among them. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Spooky Halloween Cemetery Tour'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Spooky Halloween Cemetery Tour","url":"https://discoversiskiyou.com/event/spooky-halloween-cemetery-tour/","publisher":"Discover Siskiyou","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"Evergreen Cemetery Halloween tour","type":"FOLKLORE_TOUR","date_start":"2025-10-31","date_end":null,"description":"For Halloween 2025, Yreka's historic Evergreen Cemetery — burial ground of pioneers, vigilantes and the town's founding families since the 1850s — advertised a historical ghost-story tour, part of a regional tradition of October cemetery walks that treats the graveyard as open-air archive. The cemetery holds some of the oldest marked graves in far-northern California.","evidence":"FOLKLORE_TOUR","source":{"name":"Spooky Halloween Cemetery Tour","url":"https://discoversiskiyou.com/event/spooky-halloween-cemetery-tour/","publisher":"Discover Siskiyou","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Spooky Halloween Cemetery Tour","url":"https://discoversiskiyou.com/event/spooky-halloween-cemetery-tour/","publisher":"Discover Siskiyou","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}