{"id":3539,"slug":"miners-delight-atlantic-city-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Miner's Delight is the third South Pass camp — the Hamilton City that was the sister to Atlantic City and South Pass City, the 1868 strike in the Sweetwater district. The lode was Jonathan Pugh's — the Miner's Delight mine a quarter mile from the town, the gold that boomed and busted in cycles. The BLM keeps the ghost — the walking path through the ruins, the cabins in the pine grove on Peabody Ridge.","The cycles were the pattern — the 1872 bust, the Granier hydraulic revival, the Depression-era dredge, the town inhabited until 1960. The cemetery is the marker — the graves southeast of the townsite, the dead from the boom years. Miner's Delight is the Wyoming ghost — the South Pass sister that didn't get the state historic site, the BLM ruin that shows the mining cycle.","The file keeps Miner's Delight: the 1868 discovery, the Hamilton City name, the boom-bust cycles, and the BLM site.","Miner's Delight is the archive's South-Pass file — the third camp that became the ghost."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Miner's Delight is the archive's South-Pass file — the sister camp that emptied.","A camp keeps its cycles — the file's suggestion being that Miner's Delight's hold is the repetition: the booms that came and went, the hydraulic and the dredge, and the cabins that outlasted the last resident."]}],"name":"Miner’s Delight","aliases":[],"type":"TOWN","type_label":"Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","MINING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1867 gold camp—where the cabin in the gulch stands.","full_desc":"A town in Atlantic City, Wyoming, Miner’s Delight is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1867 gold camp—where the cabin in the gulch stands. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns, mining history and local folklore. The presences in its file go unnamed: the miners, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor.","address":null,"city":"Atlantic City","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":42.501195,"lon":-108.732896,"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":"MTWY 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":3886,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the ruins. The town in Atlantic City, Wyoming has its documented history and then it has this — the account everyone locally knows. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. 'Miner’s Delight' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The reports keep the address on the map.","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":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3887,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The miners are reportedly seen. Miner’s Delight, Wyoming is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'Miner’s Delight' 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 miners","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1867 camp is documented. The town's past is on record — this entry belongs to the verified layer beneath its folklore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Miner’s Delight' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1867","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the ruins. Miner’s Delight in Atlantic City, Wyoming carries the story the way small towns do — as common knowledge no one quite verifies. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Miner’s Delight'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The miners are reportedly seen. Miner’s Delight, Wyoming is a living community with a dead file — the reports are the town's other history. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Miner’s Delight' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The miners","claimed_identity":"The miners","verified":null,"summary":"The miners are reportedly seen. A Wyoming town's lore is municipal property; Miner’s Delight keeps this account in its unofficial archive. Sources including 'Miner’s Delight' keep the claim in circulation. The lore has a face now: The miners. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","behavior":"The miners are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public townsite; walkable areas are generally accessible year-round.","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":"Miner’s Delight","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_Delight","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}