{"id":163,"slug":"mauga-o-logotala-iliili-american-samoa","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The mountain is the twinned — the 'Taema and Tilafaiga' that's the deities' names, the 'sisters' that's the legend's pair. The 'Letuli' is the ruled — the 'High Chief' that's the title's rank, the 'Tualauta' that's the district's name. The 'church' is the repurposed — the 'maintenance shop' that's the WWII's use, the 'tank company' that's the unit's form.","The 'golf course' is the added — the '18 holes' that's the game's size, the 'racing canoe' that's the pride's symbol. The 'mythology' is the kept — the 'preserved' that's the mountain's role, the 'twin' that's the story's form. The mountain is the kept — the 'Iliili' that's the village's name, the 'legend' that's the stone's story.","The file keeps the mountain: the twinned deities, the ruled district, the repurposed church, and the kept legend.","Mauga o Logotala is the archive's American Samoa file — the mountain that keeps the twins."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mauga o Logotala is the archive's American Samoa file — the myth that shares space with tanks.","A mountain keeps its legend — the file's suggestion being that Logotala's hold is the sacred: the 'twins' that's the story's heart, the 'Letuli' that's the chief's line, and the 'church' that's the war's footprint."]}],"name":"Mauga o Logotala","aliases":[],"type":"MOUNTAIN","type_label":"Mountain","cats":["LOCAL_LEGEND","SACRED_TRADITION"],"groups":["legends","nature"],"desc":"Place identified by the visitors bureau with a twin-deity tradition.","full_desc":"A mountain in ʻIliʻili, American Samoa, Mauga o Logotala is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Place identified by the visitors bureau with a twin-deity tradition. The name the accounts keep returning to is Taema and Tilafaiga. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"ʻIliʻili","county":null,"state":"American Samoa","postal":null,"region":"Pacific","lat":-14.3544,"lon":-170.7456,"coord_kind":"MANUAL","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","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":null,"research_notes":"Exact mountain extent and access require community-grounded verification. Do not substitute the village golf-course coordinates.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":126,"type":"DEITY_TRADITION","description":"The visitors bureau links Mauga o Logotala to Taema and Tilafaiga; the narrative and earliest attestation are not supplied. A natural place in ʻIliʻili, American Samoa doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Iliili' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Taema and Tilafaiga","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Iliili","url":"https://www.visitamericansamoa.org/iliili","publisher":"American Samoa Visitors Bureau","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The visitors bureau links Mauga o Logotala to Taema and Tilafaiga; the narrative and earliest attestation are not supplied. The landscape at Mauga o Logotala is the claim's whole setting: American Samoa wilderness with a name for the unexplained. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The report is preserved in sources like 'Iliili'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Iliili","url":"https://www.visitamericansamoa.org/iliili","publisher":"American Samoa Visitors Bureau","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[{"name":"Taema and Tilafaiga","claimed_identity":"Taema and Tilafaiga","verified":null,"summary":"The visitors bureau links Mauga o Logotala to Taema and Tilafaiga; the narrative and earliest attestation are not supplied. Open country keeps its stories differently — Mauga o Logotala in ʻIliʻili, American Samoa files its reports in weather and distance. The account appears in 'Iliili'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Taema and Tilafaiga.","behavior":"The visitors bureau links Mauga o Logotala to Taema and Tilafaiga; the narrative and earliest attestation are not supplied.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Iliili","url":"https://www.visitamericansamoa.org/iliili","publisher":"American Samoa Visitors Bureau","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"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":"Iliili","url":"https://www.visitamericansamoa.org/iliili","publisher":"American Samoa Visitors Bureau","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}