{"id":1874,"slug":"gunslinger-gulch-anaconda-montana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The gulch is the collected — the 'building zoo' that's the town's form, the '1854' that's the oldest's date. The 'Broussard' is the scared — the 'family' that's the buyer's form, the 'scratches' that's the welcome's mark. The 'Ghost Town Terror' is the hurt — the 'demon hunt' that's the edit's twist, the 'ratings' that's the show's goal.","The 'saved' is the funded — the '$375,000' that's the balloon's size, the 'investor' that's the rescue's form. The 'murder mysteries' is the played — the 'saloon' that's the game's stage, the '1923' that's the filming's credit. The gulch is the kept — the '52 acres' that's the spread's size, the 'still open' that's the ending's form.","The file keeps the gulch: the collected buildings, the scared family, the hurt business, and the kept town.","Gunslinger Gulch is the archive's Montana file — the fake ghost town with real ghosts."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Gunslinger Gulch is the archive's Montana file — the assembled town that assembled its own haunting.","A gulch keeps its buildings — the file's suggestion being that Gunslinger's hold is the transplanted: the 'building zoo' that's the origin's form, the 'Ghost Town Terror' that's the fame's price, and the 'saved' that's the survival's luck."]}],"name":"Gunslinger Gulch","aliases":[],"type":"RELOCATED_HISTORIC_BUILDINGS","type_label":"Relocated Historic Buildings","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","historic-sites"],"desc":"Guest ranch assembled from relocated historic buildings.","full_desc":"Gunslinger Gulch is a relocated historic buildings in Anaconda, Montana. Guest ranch assembled from relocated historic buildings. A previous owner collected buildings and moved them onto the property. Reported lore and claims include: Southwest Montana recounts the resident family’s reports of voices, footsteps and apparitions.","address":null,"city":"Anaconda","county":null,"state":"Montana","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":46.094672,"lon":-113.141624,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://gunslingergulch.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Collected-building attraction, not evidence of an original settlement abandoned on this site. Tourism overview’s ghost-town label is qualified by its detailed article. TV investigation claims require independent verification.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":53.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":964,"type":"VOICES","description":"Southwest Montana recounts the resident family’s reports of voices, footsteps and apparitions. The site in Anaconda, Montana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. 'Ghost Town Terror: Gunslinger Gulch' carries the account. The sounds are the site's most consistent claim — the one detail witnesses agree on.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Town Terror: Gunslinger Gulch","url":"https://southwestmt.com/blog/ghost-town-terror-gunslinger-gulch/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"A previous owner collected buildings and moved them onto the property. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. Sources including 'Ghost Town Terror: Gunslinger Gulch' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ghost Town Terror: Gunslinger Gulch","url":"https://southwestmt.com/blog/ghost-town-terror-gunslinger-gulch/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","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":"Ghost Town Terror: Gunslinger Gulch","url":"https://southwestmt.com/blog/ghost-town-terror-gunslinger-gulch/","publisher":"Southwest Montana","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}