{"id":58,"slug":"katmai-village-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Katmai is the week — the 'earthquakes' that's the unusually frequent, the 'two families' that's the wise enough to leave. The 'June 6' is the noon — the '1912' that's the century's biggest eruption, the '60 hours' that's the sun disappeared. The 'Novarupta' is the vent — the 'Katmai' that's the took the name, the 'ash' that's the buried the village.","The 'four villages' is the emptied — the 'Savonoski, Kaguyak, Katmai, Kukak' that's the all fled, the 'no deaths' that's the miraculous. The '1916 flood' is the finished — the 'what ash spared' that's the water took, the 'National Geographic' that's the seven expeditions. Katmai is the Pompeii — the 'cemetery crosses' that's the poked through ash, the 'never returned' that's the residents' permanent exile.","The file keeps Katmai: the earthquake warning, the 60-hour dark, the ash burial, and the 1916 flood.","Katmai Village is the archive's Alaska file — the evacuated Pompeii."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Katmai Village is the archive's Alaska file — the village that listened to earthquakes.","A site keeps its warning — the file's suggestion being that Katmai's hold is the timely: the 'unusual quakes' that's the read correctly, the 'century's largest' that's the vindicated the flight, and the 'ash' that's the preserved what was abandoned."]}],"name":"Katmai Village","aliases":[],"type":"FORMER_VILLAGE","type_label":"Former Village","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","ABANDONED_SETTLEMENT","DISASTER_HISTORY","FORMER_VILLAGE"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis.","full_desc":"Katmai Village is a former village in King Salmon, Alaska. Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis. It sits in the archive under abandoned settlements, disaster history and dark history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. 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":"King Salmon","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":58.72572,"lon":-156.535989,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":1912,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Eruption displacement, not a reported mass-fatality site. No access or archaeological coordinates inferred.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Residents fled the Novarupta eruption; the village was not re-established. Descendants retain connections to this homeland. Katmai Village's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic…' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic Eruption in the Twentieth Century","url":"https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v11-i1-c9.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"The June 1912 Novarupta eruption buried Katmai-coast villages in ash; residents were permanently relocated. The documented date is 1912-06-06–1912-06-08. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Katmai National Park'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1912-06-06","date_end":"1912-06-08","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Katmai National Park","url":"https://www.nps.gov/katm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"Novarupta eruption","type":"ERUPTION","date_start":"1912-06-06","date_end":"1912-06-08","description":"On June 6-8, 1912, Novarupta exploded in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century — sixty hours of ash and a pyroclastic flood that filled a valley hundreds of feet deep. Katmai village was evacuated hours before burial; the eruption created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and, eventually, the national monument itself.","evidence":"ERUPTION","source":{"name":"Katmai National Park","url":"https://www.nps.gov/katm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"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":"History of Katmai","url":"https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/historyculture/history.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic Eruption in the Twentieth Century","url":"https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v11-i1-c9.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Katmai National Park","url":"https://www.nps.gov/katm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"short_description","existing_value":"Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis.","incoming_value":"The Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"full_description","existing_value":"Katmai Village is a former village in Alaska. Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis. Residents fled the Novarupta eruption; the village was not re-established. Descendants retain connections to this homeland.","incoming_value":"Katmai Village is the Alutiiq community on the Katmai coast abandoned during the 1912 Novarupta eruption—the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, which buried the region in ash.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"current_status","existing_value":"HISTORIC_SITE","incoming_value":"ACTIVE","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"research_notes","existing_value":"Eruption displacement, not a reported mass-fatality site. 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