{"id":2950,"slug":"mount-carmel-site-waco-texas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mount Carmel is the '93 — the '51 days' that's the siege, the '76' that's the dead. The 'Koresh' is the Vernon — the 'Branch Davidians' that's the sect, the 'ATF' that's the February. The 'fire' is the April — the 'deliberately set' that's the report, the 'children' that's the shot.","The 'tear gas' is the inserted — the 'pyrotechnic' that's the denied, the '6 years' that's the admitted. The '9 escaped' is the survived — the 'compound' that's the consumed, the 'gunshot forehead' that's the Koresh. Mount Carmel is the tragedy — the 'Danforth' that's the exonerated, the 'government' that's the blamed.","The file keeps Mount Carmel: the 1993 siege, the 76 dead, the fire, and the tear gas revelation.","Mount Carmel is the archive's Waco file — the siege's end."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mount Carmel is the archive's Waco file — the compound's fire.","A compound keeps its dead — the file's suggestion being that Mount Carmel's hold is the contested: the 'deliberately set' that's the report, the 'pyrotechnic' that's the denied, and the '76' that's the dead."]}],"name":"Mount Carmel site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","RELIGIOUS"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"February-April 1993—the compound where the siege ended in fire.","full_desc":"Mount Carmel site is a site in Waco, Texas. February-April 1993—the compound where the siege ended in fire. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the davidians. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Waco","county":null,"state":"Texas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":31.557994,"lon":-97.18975,"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":"TX 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":2749,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly remembered at the site. Witnesses name it The Davidians; the name travels further than the proof. Mount Carmel site in Waco, Texas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. Sources including 'Mount Carmel' keep the claim in circulation. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"The Davidians","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mount Carmel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2750,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The siege is documented history. The reports at Mount Carmel site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. Sources including 'Mount Carmel' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Mount Carmel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1993 siege and fire are documented; 76 died. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Mount Carmel' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1993-04-19","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Mount Carmel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered at the site. Mount Carmel site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Mount Carmel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Carmel_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Davidians","claimed_identity":"The Davidians","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered at the site. The Davidians is what the reports name it. The reports at Mount Carmel site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file keeps The Davidians on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive. 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