{"id":3025,"slug":"nome-nome-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Nome is the promised — the 'Hardy's word' that's the gallows' vow, the 'shall return' that's the Hart's fear. The 'first hanging' is the covered — the '1902' that's the legal first, the 'nurse disguise' that's the reporter's trick. The 'welcome said' is the regretted — the 'grievous error' that's the Hart's own, the 'never returned' that's the north fled.","The 'strangest community' is the boomed — the '20,000' that's the tents sprawled, the 'no harbor' that's the beach mined. The 'Three Swedes' is the struck — the '1898' that's the find made, the 'anvil city' that's the gold's pull. Nome is the kept — the 'gold rush' that's the frenzy built, the 'ghost's promise' that's the hanged man's word.","The file keeps Nome: the hanged man's vow, the reporter's flight, the boomtown's tents, and the kept promise.","Nome is the archive's Alaska file — the town a hanged man promised to revisit."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Nome is the archive's Alaska file — where the first legal hanging produced a promise of return.","A town keeps its vow — the file's suggestion being that Nome's hold is the promised: the 'gallows word' that's the return sworn, the 'reporter fled' that's the fear kept, and the 'strangest community' that's the boom's name."]}],"name":"Nome","aliases":[],"type":"TOWN","type_label":"Town","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","UNEXPLAINED","FRONTIER"],"groups":["hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The Gold Rush town where the disappearances became a UFO legend.","full_desc":"A town in Nome, Alaska, Nome is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Gold Rush town where the disappearances became a UFO legend. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the vanished. The dossier holds 2 reported claims and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It is a living community — be a respectful visitor.","address":null,"city":"Nome","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":64.505741,"lon":-165.415287,"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 / park","research_notes":"PNW 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":2910,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The disappearance/UFO lore is documented folklore—The Fourth Kind is fiction. The figure answers to The vanished in the retellings. A Alaska town's lore is municipal property; Nome keeps this account in its unofficial archive. Internet-era retellings built most of the file; the underlying report is thin. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","evidence":"INTERNET_RUMOR","evidence_label":"Internet rumor","entity":"The vanished","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":"The film is fiction; the real disappearances are investigated deaths and weather, not abductions.","source":{"name":"Nome","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome,_Alaska","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2911,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the town. The town in Nome, Alaska has its documented history and then it has this — the account everyone locally knows. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'Nome' carries the account. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Nome","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome,_Alaska","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1898 boom is documented; the disappearances lore is documented folklore. A Alaska community's documented history gives the file real ground underneath the local lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Nome' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1898","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Nome","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome,_Alaska","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[{"name":"The vanished","claimed_identity":"The vanished","verified":null,"summary":"The disappearance/UFO lore is documented folklore—The Fourth Kind is fiction. The vanished is what the reports name it. Nome in Nome, Alaska carries the story the way small towns do — as common knowledge no one quite verifies. The report is preserved in sources like 'Nome'. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The vanished.","behavior":"The disappearance/UFO lore is documented folklore—The Fourth Kind is fiction.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Nome","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome,_Alaska","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Public townsite; walkable areas are generally accessible year-round.","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":"Nome","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nome,_Alaska","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":1,"sources":1}}