{"id":2643,"slug":"hampson-archeological-museum-wilson-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hampson is the doctored — the 'physician' that's the digger's job, the 'plantation' that's the site's frame. The 'son's name' is the mourned — the 'Burma killed' that's the dedication's cause, the '1946' that's the museum's year. The '40,000' is the dug — the 'pieces' that's the collection's count, the 'palisaded' that's the village's wall.","The 'mounds pyramid' is the built — the 'ceremonial' that's the complex's use, the 'chunkey field' that's the game's ground. The 'Quapaw maybe' is the linked — the 'ancestors' that's the guess's aim, the '1400-1650' that's the span's dates. Hampson is the rebuilt — the '8,580 feet' that's the new's size, the 'state took' that's the '57's gift.","The file keeps Hampson: the doctor digger, the mourned son, the dug thousands, and the rebuilt museum.","Hampson Museum is the archive's Arkansas file — the plantation doctor who excavated his backyard."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hampson Museum is the archive's Arkansas file — the Mississippian village on a plantation.","A museum keeps its map — the file's suggestion being that Hampson's hold is the dug: the 'doctor' that's the digger's job, the '40,000' that's the count's scale, and the 'Nodena' that's the village's name."]}],"name":"Hampson Archeological Museum","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","INDIGENOUS","ARCHAEOLOGY"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"Nodena—the duck-pot culture that de Soto also met.","full_desc":"A site in Wilson, Arkansas, Hampson Archeological Museum is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Nodena—the duck-pot culture that de Soto also met. The archive files it under Indigenous heritage, archaeology and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Wilson","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.565961,"lon":-90.0418,"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":"AR 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":2191,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence among the exhibits. Hampson Archeological Museum in Wilson, Arkansas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Hampson / Nodena","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampson_Archeological_Museum_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The Nodena site and the Hampson collection are documented. Hampson Archeological Museum's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Hampson / Nodena' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Hampson / Nodena","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampson_Archeological_Museum_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"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":"Hampson / Nodena","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampson_Archeological_Museum_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}