{"id":3000,"slug":"nevada-city-virginia-city-montana","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Nevada City is the gulch — the 'Alder' that's the gold's stream, the '$100 million' that's the strike's worth. The 'hanged hour' is the judged — the 'Ives' that's the murderer's name, the '2,000 watched' that's the crowd's size. The 'sister emptied' is the died — the 'Virginia kept' that's the neighbor's luck, the 'ghost' that's the Nevada's form.","The 'Bovey moved' is the saved — the 'buildings hauled' that's the collection's form, the 'museum made' that's the town's use. The 'state bought' is the kept — the '1997' that's the purchase's date, the '$6.5 million' that's the relics' cost. Nevada City is the rebuilt — the 'ghost restored' that's the tourist's draw, the 'music hall' that's the machines' home.","The file keeps Nevada City: the gulch gold, the judged hour, the emptied sister, and the saved buildings.","Nevada City is the archive's Montana file — the ghost town collected piece by piece."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Nevada City is the archive's Montana file — the town that died and was rebuilt as its own memorial.","A gulch keeps its gold — the file's suggestion being that Nevada's hold is the moved: the 'Ives hanged' that's the justice's speed, the 'buildings hauled' that's the collection's form, and the 'ghost kept' that's the museum's use."]}],"name":"Nevada City","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","MINING"],"groups":["ghost-towns","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The moved-buildings museum town across the gulch.","full_desc":"Nevada City is a ghost town in Virginia City, Montana. The moved-buildings museum town across the gulch. The archive files it under ghost towns, mining history and local folklore. 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. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Virginia City","county":null,"state":"Montana","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":45.296201,"lon":-111.936889,"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 / ghost town","research_notes":"mines2 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":2852,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the buildings. Nevada City, Montana is the kind of town where the dead outnumber the residents — the reports just make the census official. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. 'Nevada City MT' carries the account. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","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":"Nevada City MT","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_City,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The museum town is documented. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Nevada City MT' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Nevada City MT","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_City,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures in the buildings. A near-empty town in Virginia City, Montana gives every unexplained sound an address and a history to attach to. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The account appears in 'Nevada City MT'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Nevada City MT","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_City,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site is largely open-air; some buildings may be unsafe or on private land. Check local conditions 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":"Nevada City MT","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_City,_Montana","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}