{"id":3402,"slug":"greenfield-village-dearborn-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Greenfield Village opened in 1933 — Henry Ford's assembled America, where he transplanted the buildings that mattered: Edison's Menlo Park lab, the Wright brothers' cycle shop, Lincoln's Logan County courthouse, nearly a hundred historic structures relocated to one village. The file's documented spine is the collecting itself: a billionaire buying history by the building and moving it to Michigan.","The village's logic — a town assembled from the nation's actual places — is the file's register: real buildings with real pasts, planted together in a village that never organically existed."]},{"heading":"The moved dead","paragraphs":["The lore reports figures in the buildings — the dead reportedly seen, the file's haunting being the collection's own: the buildings' original occupants reportedly having moved with their houses, the village's dead imported with the architecture.","The village dead are the file's entity — a town of transplanted buildings reportedly holding their transplanted ghosts, the collection's presences arriving with the structures."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Greenfield Village is the archive's transplanted file — Ford's assembled America, where the buildings' dead reportedly came along with the buildings. The documented relocations are the record; the figures are the lore of houses that brought their occupants.","A village built of moved buildings keeps their ghosts — the file's suggestion being that hauntings ship with the architecture."]}],"name":"Greenfield Village","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING","MUSEUM"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1933 village—where Ford moved the buildings.","full_desc":"Greenfield Village is a site in Dearborn, Michigan. The 1933 village—where Ford moved the buildings. Its accounts name only a collective — the village dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","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":3599,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the buildings. Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","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":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3600,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the village dead. Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Greenfield Village' keep the claim in circulation. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The village dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1933 village is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Greenfield Village'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1933","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the buildings. Greenfield Village's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The report is preserved in sources like 'Greenfield Village'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Greenfield Village' keep the claim in circulation. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The village dead","claimed_identity":"The village dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the village dead. The reports at Greenfield Village are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","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":"Greenfield Village","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_Village","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"The Henry Ford","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Henry_Ford","desc":"Museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan","extract":"The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, the Rosa Parks bus, and many other historical exhibits.\nIt is the largest indoor–outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 as Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum and design","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/The_Henry_Ford_Museum_%2853623974456%29.jpg/960px-The_Henry_Ford_Museum_%2853623974456%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":64,"lat":42.30361111,"lon":-83.23416667},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}