{"id":2766,"slug":"natural-bridge-slade-kentucky","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Natural Bridge is the mismamed — the 'no water' that's the geology's truth, the 'arch' that's the correct term. The 'railroad found' is the built — the 'tourists' that's the timber's second, the '1896 park' that's the private's start. The 'four first' is the honored — the '1926' that's the state's year, the 'donated' that's the L&N's gift.","The 'million years' is the guessed — the 'Corbin sandstone' that's the rock's name, the '900 tons' that's the span's weight. The 'timber cut' is the healed — the '1943 harvest' that's the scar's date, the 'old growth' that's the return's climb. Natural Bridge is the ridden — the 'sky lift' that's the tenderfoot's way, the 'Original Trail' that's the 1890s' path.","The file keeps Natural Bridge: the mismamed arch, the railroad's build, the honored park, and the healed forest.","Natural Bridge is the archive's Kentucky file — the arch a railroad built a park around."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Natural Bridge is the archive's Kentucky file — the sandstone span that made a state park.","An arch keeps its trail — the file's suggestion being that the bridge's hold is the mismamed: the 'arch' that's the geology's truth, the 'railroad' that's the park's founder, and the 'million years' that's the stone's age."]}],"name":"Natural Bridge","aliases":[],"type":"NATURAL","type_label":"Natural","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","NATURAL_WONDER"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The 65-foot sandstone arch in the Red River Gorge.","full_desc":"Natural Bridge is a natural site in Slade, Kentucky. The 65-foot sandstone arch in the Red River Gorge. The archive files it under natural wonders and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Slade","county":null,"state":"Kentucky","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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 / park","research_notes":"KY 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":2390,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the arch. Natural Bridge's reports travel the way outdoor lore does — by campfire, trailhead, and local warning. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. Sources including 'Natural Bridge KY' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Natural Bridge KY","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_State_Resort_Park_(Kentucky)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The arch and the park are documented. Natural Bridge's documented past — geological and human — is the verified layer beneath the legends. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Natural Bridge KY'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Natural Bridge KY","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_State_Resort_Park_(Kentucky)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Natural site; conditions vary seasonally—check the managing agency for access.","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":"Natural Bridge KY","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge_State_Resort_Park_(Kentucky)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}