{"id":3550,"slug":"paint-rock-hyattville-wyoming","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Paint Rock is the 10,000 — the 'continuously occupied' that's the Frison, the 'Paleo-Indian' that's the Crow. The '750 feet' is the cliff — the 'hundreds' that's the petroglyphs, the '2,000 years' that's the pictographs. The 'atlatls' is the pre-bow — the '1,500' that's the introduced, the 'shield warriors' that's the bear power.","The 'Wickwire' is the '67 — the '2 years' that's the absent, the 'wife sold' that's the ranch. The 'sheet music' is the historic — the 'violin' that's the settlers, the 'vandalism' that's the newer. Paint Rock is the layered — the '10,000 years' that's the occupied, the 'Medicine Lodge' that's the named.","The file keeps Paint Rock: the 10,000-year occupation, the 750-foot cliff, the atlatls, and the Wickwire.","Paint Rock is the archive's Wyoming file — the oldest gallery."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Paint Rock is the archive's Wyoming file — the canyon's canvas.","A cliff keeps its layers — the file's suggestion being that Paint Rock's hold is the continuous: the '10,000 years' that's the occupied, the 'atlatls' that's the pre-bow, and the 'sheet music' that's the settlers."]}],"name":"Paint Rock","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","INDIGENOUS","ARCHAEOLOGICAL"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The rock art—where the pictographs stay on the cliff.","full_desc":"Paint Rock is a site in Hyattville, Wyoming. The rock art—where the pictographs stay on the cliff. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the artists. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Hyattville","county":null,"state":"Wyoming","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":44.249778,"lon":-107.614964,"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","research_notes":"MTWY 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":3910,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The site’s lore is documented. The artists is the name the reports keep returning to. Paint Rock in Hyattville, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The artists","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Paint Rock","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Rock,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3911,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the rock. Paint Rock's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Paint Rock' 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":"Paint Rock","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Rock,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The pictographs are documented. Paint Rock's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Paint Rock'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Paint Rock","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Rock,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The site’s lore is documented. Paint Rock in Hyattville, Wyoming carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Paint Rock' keep the claim in circulation. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Paint Rock","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Rock,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The artists","claimed_identity":"The artists","verified":null,"summary":"The site’s lore is documented. The artists is what the reports name it. The site in Hyattville, Wyoming gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Paint Rock' carries the account. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The artists.","behavior":"The site’s lore is documented.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Paint Rock","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Rock,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Paint Rock","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Rock,_Wyoming","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}