{"id":3306,"slug":"little-house-site-independence-kansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Independence is the replica'd — the 'original gone' that's the cabin's truth, the 'rebuilt on site' that's the museum's honest. The 'year only' is the stayed — the '1869-70' that's the family's span, the 'Indian Territory' that's the land's status. The 'Carrie born' is the marked — the 'third daughter' that's the baby's rank, the 'prairie' that's the birthplace's kind.","The 'ordered out' is the moved — the 'not theirs' that's the claim's problem, the 'Osage' that's the land's owners. The 'book made' is the stretched — the 'Little House' that's the title's name, the 'composite' that's the story's method. Independence is the visited — the 'post office' that's the moved-in piece, the 'schoolhouse' that's the set's third.","The file keeps Independence: the replica cabin, the single year, the born Carrie, and the ordered leaving.","Little House site is the archive's Kansas file — the cabin rebuilt where the real one stood."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Little House site is the archive's Kansas file — the year that became a bookshelf.","A site keeps its replica — the file's suggestion being that Independence's hold is the storied: the 'one year' that's the stay's span, the 'Osage land' that's the leaving's cause, and the 'rebuilt' that's the cabin's honesty."]}],"name":"Little House site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","FRONTIER","LITERARY"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The replica cabin—where the Ingalls family reportedly lived.","full_desc":"Little House site is a site in Independence, Kansas. The replica cabin—where the Ingalls family reportedly lived. The archive files it under literary history, the frontier and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. 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":"Independence","county":null,"state":"Kansas","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":37.233458,"lon":-95.716005,"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":"plains 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":3404,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. The reports at Little House site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. 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":"Little House site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie_(novel)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The Ingalls claim is documented; the cabin is a replica. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Little House site'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Little House site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie_(novel)","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":"Little House site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_House_on_the_Prairie_(novel)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}