{"id":2560,"slug":"jewett-city-vampire-burials-jewett-city-connecticut","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Jewett City is the burned — the 'on the spot' that's the fire's place, the 'June 8, 1854' that's the exhumation's date. The 'Horace Ray' is the first — the 'father' that's the '46's dead, the 'sons followed' that's the disease's path. The 'fourth sick' is the panicked — the 'another son' that's the trigger's case, the 'feed on living' that's the belief's core.","The 'Courier wrote' is the reported — the 'Norwich' that's the paper's home, the 'strange superstition' that's the editor's word. The 'two miles' is the near — the 'JB55' that's the neighbor's grave, the 'same belief' that's the link's proof. Jewett City is the exhumed — the 'brothers dug' that's the family's deed, the 'burned whole' that's the method's scope.","The file keeps Jewett City: the burned brothers, the first father, the sick fourth, and the near neighbor.","Jewett City is the archive's Connecticut file — the vampire panic the newspaper witnessed."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Jewett City is the archive's Connecticut file — the exhumation the Courier reported.","A cemetery keeps its Rays — the file's suggestion being that Jewett City's hold is the burned: the '1854' that's the panic's year, the 'on the spot' that's the fire's place, and the 'JB55' that's the proof's neighbor."]}],"name":"Jewett City vampire burials","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HISTORIC_CEMETERY","VAMPIRE"],"groups":["cemeteries","dark-history"],"desc":"The 1854 Ray family exhumations—New England’s vampire panic.","full_desc":"Jewett City vampire burials is a cemetery in Jewett City, Connecticut. The 1854 Ray family exhumations—New England’s vampire panic. It sits in the archive under vampire lore, historic cemeteries and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The grounds are open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Jewett City","county":null,"state":"Connecticut","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.607202,"lon":-71.979791,"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":null,"research_notes":"New England dark 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":2052,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The exhumations are documented; the vampire panic is the history. A cemetery in Jewett City, Connecticut accumulating ghost reports is almost tautological — but this is the one the record kept. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. The report is preserved in sources like 'Jewett City vampires'. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Jewett City vampires","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewett_City_vampires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1854 exhumations are documented. Jewett City vampire burials's history is documented — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the ghost stories. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Jewett City vampires' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1854","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Jewett City vampires","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewett_City_vampires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public cemetery; generally open during daylight hours. Be respectful of active burials.","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":"Jewett City vampires","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewett_City_vampires","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}