{"id":2402,"slug":"mission-dolores-san-francisco-california","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mission Dolores is the oldest — the 'intact' that's the building's mark, the '1791' that's the dedication's date. The 'no nails' is the built — the 'wooden pegs' that's the joints' form, the 'rawhide' that's the lashing's stuff. The 'sorrows named' is the called — the 'creek's name' that's the Dolores's source, the 'tears' that's the creek's mean.","The '5,000 lie' is the buried — the 'Ohlone Miwok' that's the builders' names, the 'cemetery only' that's the city's keep. The 'earthquake stood' is the survived — the '1906' that's the shake's year, the 'basilica fell' that's the neighbor's fate. Mission Dolores is the used — the 'continuous' that's the church's run, the 'birthplace' that's the city's claim.","The file keeps Mission Dolores: the oldest intact, the nail-less build, the sorrow's name, and the buried builders.","Mission Dolores is the archive's California file — the building older than the city."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mission Dolores is the archive's California file — the building that watched San Francisco be born.","A mission keeps its bones — the file's suggestion being that Dolores's hold is the intact: the 'no nails' that's the build's craft, the '5,000 buried' that's the builders' keep, and the 'quake survived' that's the oldest's proof."]}],"name":"Mission Dolores","aliases":[],"type":"MISSION","type_label":"Mission","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_SITE","MISSION"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1776 mission that survived when the city around it burned.","full_desc":"Mission Dolores is a mission in San Francisco, California. The 1776 mission that survived when the city around it burned. HauntHunt files it with missions, local folklore and haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"San Francisco","county":null,"state":"California","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":37.727239,"lon":-123.032229,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","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":null,"research_notes":"Missions 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":1845,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the cemetery and a presence in the chapel. The church's centuries of ministry give the reports a long congregation to draw on. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Mission Dolores'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","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":"Mission Dolores","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Founded 1776; the oldest surviving building in San Francisco. The site's documented religious history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Mission Dolores' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1776","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mission Dolores","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the cemetery and a presence in the chapel. A church with this much history holds its dead differently — the reports are reverent where most are restless. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Mission Dolores'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Mission Dolores","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Mission Dolores","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_As%C3%ADs","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}