{"id":196,"slug":"lakeview-cemetery-buhl-minnesota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Lakeview is the numbered — the 'no names' that's the markers' lack, the 'cast iron' that's the crosses' make. The 'Potter's Field' is the adjacent — the 'Shaw Hospital' that's the source's name, the 'TB mental' that's the patients' kind. The 'dregs called' is the written — the 'society's' that's the judgment's source, the '1913' that's the burials' start.","The 'best water' is the town's boast — the 'Buhl' that's the claim's spot, the 'mining' that's the economy's engine. The 'numbers rust' is the faded — the 'iron' that's the markers' rot, the 'forgotten' that's the patients' fate. Lakeview is the counted — the '1,658' that's the memorials' count, the 'photographed' that's the coverage's near.","The file keeps Lakeview: the numbered graves, the adjacent field, the written dregs, and the rusting numbers.","Lakeview Cemetery is the archive's Minnesota file — the cemetery where the poor were numbers."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Lakeview Cemetery is the archive's Minnesota file — the potter's field that denied names.","A cemetery keeps its numbers — the file's suggestion being that Lakeview's hold is the unnamed: the 'cast iron' that's the markers' make, the 'TB' that's the deaths' kind, and the 'dregs' that's the era's judgment."]}],"name":"Lakeview Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["cemeteries","hauntings"],"desc":"Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Lakeview Cemetery is a cemetery in Buhl, Minnesota, opened in 1913. Cemetery associated with documented cultural history. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"Buhl","county":null,"state":"Minnesota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":47.49859,"lon":-92.781109,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":1913,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","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":147,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Accounts mention period-dressed apparitions and footsteps. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Lakeview Cemetery in Buhl, Minnesota has its version filed among them. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Minnesota's Spookiest Sites'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Minnesota's Spookiest Sites","url":"https://www.exploreminnesota.com/seasons/fall/spookiest-places-minnesota","publisher":"Explore Minnesota","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The cemetery opened in 1913. A cemetery in Buhl, Minnesota with this much on record gives the file real ground to stand on. It enters the file through media reporting — documented coverage, not folklore. Sources including 'Minnesota's Spookiest Sites' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Minnesota's Spookiest Sites","url":"https://www.exploreminnesota.com/seasons/fall/spookiest-places-minnesota","publisher":"Explore Minnesota","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Accounts mention period-dressed apparitions and footsteps. Lakeview Cemetery's dead are the site's permanent residents; the reports are how the living say they keep noticing. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The account appears in 'Minnesota's Spookiest Sites'. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Minnesota's Spookiest Sites","url":"https://www.exploreminnesota.com/seasons/fall/spookiest-places-minnesota","publisher":"Explore Minnesota","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Minnesota's Spookiest Sites","url":"https://www.exploreminnesota.com/seasons/fall/spookiest-places-minnesota","publisher":"Explore Minnesota","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}