{"id":3490,"slug":"manito-park-spokane-washington","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Manito Park was established in 1904 — Spokane's great public garden on the South Hill, where the city's Olmsted-era landscaping created the gardens, conservatory, and Mirror Pond that generations have wandered. The file's documented spine is the park's civic register: a city garden built in the boom era, kept as Spokane's green heart for over a century."]},{"heading":"The park's dead","paragraphs":["The lore reports figures in the park — the dead reportedly seen, the file's haunting being the garden's own: presences among the plantings and the pond, a century of park-goers reportedly not entirely gone.","The Manito dead are the file's entity — a public garden's accumulated visitors reportedly lingering, the park's figures the city's residual population."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Manito is the archive's garden file — a 1904 Spokane park keeping figures reportedly among its gardens. The documented park is the record; the lingering visitors are the lore of a century of strollers.","A garden that held a city's generations keeps some of them — the file's suggestion being that Manito's paths are still walked by the people who loved them."]}],"name":"Manito Park","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","PARK","GARDEN"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1904 park—where the lilacs and the ghosts bloom.","full_desc":"Manito Park is a site in Spokane, Washington. The 1904 park—where the lilacs and the ghosts bloom. Its accounts name only a collective — the manito dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — 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":"Spokane","county":null,"state":"Washington","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":47.666935,"lon":-117.433322,"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":"PNW2 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":3788,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the park. Manito Park in Spokane, Washington carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Manito Park'. 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":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3789,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Manito dead. Manito Park's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'Manito Park' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Manito dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1904 park is documented. Manito Park'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 'Manito Park' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The reports keep the address on the map.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1904","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the park. The site in Spokane, Washington gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. 'Manito Park' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Manito Park's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Manito dead","claimed_identity":"The Manito dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The presences go by the Manito dead in the file. The reports at Manito Park are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Manito Park' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","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":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Manito Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manito_Park","desc":"Historic park and gardens in Spokane, Washington, United States","extract":"Manito Park, also called Manito Park and Botanical Gardens is a 90-acre (0.36 km2) public park with arboretum, botanical gardens, and conservatory, located at 17th Ave and Grand Blvd in the Manito/Cannon Hill neighborhood of Spokane, Washington, United States. It is open daily without charge.\nManito Park is considered to be the city's primary community park, a distinction it has held for over a century. The historic nature of the park and its gardens was recognized in 2015 when it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\nAcross the park's 90 acres are six gardens dedicated to specific plants or styles, a greenhouse, two playgrounds, shaded lawns, natural areas, a baseball fiel","img":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/ManitoParkDuncanGarden.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled","score":89},"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}