{"id":3403,"slug":"ford-rouge-factory-dearborn-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Rouge is the largest — the 93 buildings that's the complex, the 100,000 who worked. The vertical was the total — the ore that became the car, the 49 seconds that's the rate. The Kahn was the architect — the Albert who designed it, the daylight that's the factory.","The boats were the '18 — the Eagle that were the warships, the river that was widened. The rubber was the Brazil — the plantation that he bought, the self-sufficiency that was the dream. The Rouge is the industrial — the wonder that's the world, the raw to finished that's the flow.","The file keeps the Rouge: the 1917-28 building, the 100,000 workers, the vertical integration, and the Kahn design.","Ford Rouge is the archive's Dearborn file — the largest factory."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Ford Rouge is the archive's Dearborn file — the industrial wonder.","A factory keeps its flow — the file's suggestion being that the Rouge's hold is the scale: the raw to finished, the 49 seconds, and the 100,000 who made it."]}],"name":"Ford Rouge Factory","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","INDUSTRIAL","HISTORIC"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1928 plant—where the River Rouge still runs.","full_desc":"A site in Dearborn, Michigan, Ford Rouge Factory is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1928 plant—where the River Rouge still runs. The presences in its file go unnamed: the workers, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Dearborn","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":42.313057,"lon":-83.211488,"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":"DET 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":3601,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The workers are reportedly seen. Ford Rouge Factory's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The account appears in 'Ford Rouge Factory'. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The workers","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ford Rouge Factory","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rouge_Factory","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3602,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the plant. Ford Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The lore keeps its witness.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ford Rouge Factory","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rouge_Factory","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1928 plant is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Ford Rouge Factory'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1928","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ford Rouge Factory","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rouge_Factory","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The workers are reportedly seen. The reports at Ford Rouge Factory are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Ford Rouge Factory' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Sources including 'Ford Rouge Factory' keep the claim in circulation. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Ford Rouge Factory","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rouge_Factory","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The workers","claimed_identity":"The workers","verified":null,"summary":"The workers are reportedly seen. Ford Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The lore has a face now: The workers. The file stays open on it. The file stays open on it. The lore keeps its witness. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","behavior":"The workers are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Ford Rouge Factory","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rouge_Factory","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify 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":"Ford Rouge Factory","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Rouge_Factory","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}