{"id":3551,"slug":"gebo-kirby-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Gebo was a coal company town in Wyoming's Hot Springs County — a camp raised on the mines, emptied when the coal gave out, its ruins left on the Wind River Reservation's edge. The file's documented spine is the company town's arc: built by the mine, dead with the mine, the buildings the boom's residue."]},{"heading":"The miners still there","paragraphs":["The lore reports figures in the ruins — the miners reportedly seen, the file's ghosts being the camp's workforce: the men who dug the coal reportedly still in the town the coal built and abandoned."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Gebo is the archive's company-town file — a Wyoming coal camp emptied with its mine, keeping miners reportedly still in the ruins. The documented town is the record; the workforce's lingering is the lore.","A town the coal made and unmade keeps its miners — the file's suggestion being that Gebo's payroll never fully cleared."]}],"name":"Gebo","aliases":[],"type":"TOWN","type_label":"Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","MINING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The coal town—where the company houses stand empty.","full_desc":"A town in Kirby, Wyoming, Gebo is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The coal town—where the company houses stand empty. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns, mining history and local folklore. The presences in its file go unnamed: the miners, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor.","address":null,"city":"Kirby","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":43.803284,"lon":-108.180972,"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":"MTWY 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":3912,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the ruins. The town in Kirby, Wyoming has its documented history and then it has this — the account everyone locally knows. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Gebo'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3913,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The miners are reportedly seen. Gebo in Kirby, Wyoming carries the story the way small towns do — as common knowledge no one quite verifies. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Gebo'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The miners","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The town is documented. Gebo'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 'Gebo'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The report keeps its place in the record.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the ruins. Gebo, Wyoming is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Gebo' carries the account. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The miners are reportedly seen. The town in Kirby, Wyoming has its documented history and then it has this — the account everyone locally knows. 'Gebo' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Gebo'. 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":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The miners","claimed_identity":"The miners","verified":null,"summary":"The miners are reportedly seen. Gebo, Wyoming is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. 'Gebo' carries the account. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The miners. The claim holds its place in the ledger. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","behavior":"The miners are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public townsite; walkable areas are generally accessible year-round.","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":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Gebo","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebo","desc":"Topics referred to by the same term","extract":"Gebo may refer to:\n\nGebo, Montana, a former community in Montana, United States\nGebo, Wyoming, a ghost town in Wyoming, United States\nGebo (surname), a surname\n*Gebô, a Proto-Germanic character, equivalent to the Runic Gyfu","img":null,"score":74},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}