{"id":2136,"slug":"old-sacramento-the-underground-sacramento-california","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Old Sacramento is the raised — the 'jacked up' that's the buildings' lift, the 'hollow sidewalks' that's the first floors' grave. The 'flood '61' is the forced — the 'rivers met' that's the drowning's cause, the 'raise or leave' that's the choice made. The 'first floors' is the buried — the 'buried alive' that's the basements' birth, the 'property lines' that's the walls' truth.","The 'myths filled' is the told — the 'Chinese tunnels' that's the rumor's name, the 'catacombs' that's the romance's word. The 'only city' is the claimed — the 'California's one' that's the raising's rare, the '20 years' that's the project's span. Old Sacramento is the under — the 'city beneath' that's the tour's draw, the 'fires now' that's the hollow's danger.","The file keeps the Underground: the raised city, the buried floors, the myth tunnels, and the hollow walks.","Old Sacramento Underground is the archive's California file — the city buried under itself."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Old Sacramento Underground is the archive's California file — the city that jacked itself above the flood.","A city keeps its basement — the file's suggestion being that the Underground's hold is the buried: the 'first floors' that's the past kept, the 'hollow' that's the tour's name, and the 'myths filled' that's the dark's draw."]}],"name":"Old Sacramento & the Underground","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_DISTRICT","type_label":"Historic District","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RUINS","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_DISTRICT"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites","legends"],"desc":"Gold Rush district raised one story in the 1860s—its hollowed-out first floors remain below.","full_desc":"Old Sacramento & the Underground is a historic district in Sacramento, California. Gold Rush district raised one story in the 1860s—its hollowed-out first floors remain below. The archive files it under historic districts, underground ruins 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.","address":null,"city":"Sacramento","county":null,"state":"California","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":38.5828,"lon":-121.5047,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","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":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1386,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Tour guests report voices and figures in the hollowed sidewalks and tunnels. Old Sacramento & the Underground's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The account appears in 'Old Sacramento'. The pattern of small anomalies is itself the claim — none dramatic alone, persistent together.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Old Sacramento","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sacramento_State_Historic_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The district was raised 8–17 feet in the 1860s–70s after repeated floods; the abandoned first level survives below. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Old Sacramento' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1870","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Old Sacramento","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sacramento_State_Historic_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify 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":"Old Sacramento","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sacramento_State_Historic_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}