{"id":2826,"slug":"harris-neck-townsend-georgia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Harris Neck is the taken — the '42 condemnation that's the airfield, the Gullah community that was the destroyed. The 100 families were the freed — the post-Civil War that's the landowning, the 'thriving' that's the record. The '79 was the return — the POER camp that's the protest, the 15 days that's the jail.","The county was the corrupt — the '48 transfer that's the breach, the '62 refuge that's the federal. The 'verbal assurances' are the disputed — the promise that's the return, the 'never' that's the reality. Harris Neck is the fight — the Land Trust that's the ongoing, the elders who remember.","The file keeps Harris Neck: the '42 seizure, the Gullah community, the '79 protest, and the refuge.","Harris Neck is the archive's Georgia file — the stolen land."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Harris Neck is the archive's Georgia file — the displaced community.","A refuge keeps its runway — the file's suggestion being that Harris Neck's hold is the seizure: the '42 condemnation, the '48 betrayal, and the elders who still want it back."]}],"name":"Harris Neck","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","WWII"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The displaced Gullah community under the runway lights.","full_desc":"Harris Neck is a site in Townsend, Georgia. The displaced Gullah community under the runway lights. Its accounts name only a collective — the harris neck dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Townsend","county":null,"state":"Georgia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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 / park","research_notes":"GA/TN 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":2504,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The displaced community is reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Harris Neck dead. Harris Neck'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 'Harris Neck'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Harris Neck dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Harris Neck","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Neck_National_Wildlife_Refuge","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2505,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the old runways. The reports at Harris Neck are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Harris Neck","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Neck_National_Wildlife_Refuge","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The WWII displacement of the community is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Harris Neck' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Harris Neck","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Neck_National_Wildlife_Refuge","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The displaced community is reportedly remembered. The site in Townsend, Georgia gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Harris Neck","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Neck_National_Wildlife_Refuge","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Harris Neck dead","claimed_identity":"The Harris Neck dead","verified":null,"summary":"The displaced community is reportedly remembered. The presences go by the Harris Neck dead in the file. The reports at Harris Neck are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file keeps The Harris Neck dead on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. 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