{"id":3201,"slug":"ludlow-ludlow-colorado","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Ludlow is the '14 — the April 20 that's the attack, the 25 that's the dead. The 'death pit' is the 11 — the children who suffocated, the '2 women' that's the with them. The Rockefeller is the blame — the CF&I that's the company, the 'machine gun' that's the ridge.","The tents were the colony — the 1,200 that's the population, the 'kerosene' that's the torched. The Tikas was the truce — the 'shot' that's the negotiating, the '3 leaders' that's the killed. Ludlow is the blackest — the 'labor history' that's the Stegner, the '66' that's the total.","The file keeps Ludlow: the 1914 massacre, the death pit, the Rockefeller blame, and the 25 dead.","Ludlow is the archive's Colorado file — the labor's massacre."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Ludlow is the archive's Colorado file — the tent colony's end.","A pit keeps its children — the file's suggestion being that Ludlow's hold is the pit: the '11 children' that's the suffocated, the 'kerosene' that's the torched, and the 'Rockefeller' that's the blame."]}],"name":"Ludlow","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","LABOR","MASSACRE"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"April 20, 1914—the tent colony the Guard burned.","full_desc":"A site in Ludlow, Colorado, Ludlow is filed here for what the record attaches to it. April 20, 1914—the tent colony the Guard burned. The presences in its file go unnamed: the ludlow dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Ludlow","county":null,"state":"Colorado","postal":null,"region":"West","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 / memorial","research_notes":"dark2 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":3210,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Ludlow dead. The site in Ludlow, Colorado gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Ludlow'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Ludlow dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ludlow","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3211,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. The reports at Ludlow are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Ludlow","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The April 20, 1914 massacre is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Ludlow' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1914-04-20","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Ludlow","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The reports at Ludlow are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Ludlow","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Ludlow dead","claimed_identity":"The Ludlow dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Ludlow dead. Ludlow's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account appears in 'Ludlow'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The Ludlow dead.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Ludlow","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Ludlow","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}