{"id":214,"slug":"mount-unger-cemetery-blue-creek-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Mount Unger is the joined — the 'murdered wife' that's the first act, the 'hanged himself' that's the follow's form. The 'to be with' is the told — the 'reason' that's the legend's logic, the 'cemetery' that's the reunion's spot. The 'dangling seen' is the startled — the 'drivers' that's the witnesses' kind, the 'disappears' that's the apparition's exit.","The 'Hanging Man' is the named — the 'locals dubbed' that's the ghost's title, the 'night' that's the sightings' time. The 'rural quiet' is the framed — the 'Adams County' that's the setting's place, the 'small stones' that's the cemetery's scale. Mount Unger is the kept — the 'legend only' that's the record's state, the 'no names' that's the story's gap.","The file keeps Mount Unger: the joined deaths, the told reason, the dangling man, and the quiet graves.","Mount Unger Cemetery is the archive's Ohio file — the hanging seen from the road."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Mount Unger Cemetery is the archive's Ohio file — the murder-suicide that became a roadside ghost.","A cemetery keeps its tree — the file's suggestion being that Mount Unger's hold is the joined: the 'wife' that's the first death, the 'himself' that's the second, and the 'drivers' that's the sighting's frame."]}],"name":"Mount Unger Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["HAUNTING"],"groups":["cemeteries","hauntings"],"desc":"Cemetery associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"Mount Unger Cemetery is a cemetery in Blue Creek, Ohio. Cemetery associated with documented cultural history. It sits in the archive under haunting reports. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Blue Creek","county":"Adams","state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":38.78548,"lon":-83.28443,"coord_kind":"EXACT","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":"Discovery pass. Earliest attestation, primary history, precise location and current access require independent enrichment.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.5,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":164,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Directory folklore describes a deceased man appearing at night. The burial ground at Blue Creek is exactly the setting the account needs — old graves, older grief, and a story that won't settle. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The report is preserved in sources like 'Adams County Hauntings & Legends'. 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":0.45,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Adams County Hauntings & Legends","url":"https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/adamscounty/","publisher":"Ohio Exploration Society","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Directory folklore describes a deceased man appearing at night. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Mount Unger Cemetery in Blue Creek, Ohio has its version filed among them. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Adams County Hauntings & Legends","url":"https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/adamscounty/","publisher":"Ohio Exploration Society","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"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":"Adams County Hauntings & Legends","url":"https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/adamscounty/","publisher":"Ohio Exploration Society","type":"PARANORMAL_ORGANIZATION","authority":4},{"name":"Mount Unger Cemetery Map","url":"https://mapcarta.com/21383856","publisher":"Mapcarta / OpenStreetMap / GeoNames","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":2}}