{"id":3277,"slug":"palawai-lanai-city-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Palawai is the gathered — the 'City of Joseph' that's the colony's name, the 'can't leave' that's the law's bind. The 'Gibson took' is the stolen — the 'deed himself' that's the transfer's fraud, the 'sold priesthoods' that's the scheme's price. The 'refused sign' is the held — the 'excommunicated' that's the church's answer, the 'kept land' that's the fraud's win.","The 'twelve apostles' is the made — the 'priestesses' that's the sold rank, the 'paid degrees' that's the honor's market. The 'dry killed' is the failed — the 'no water' that's the basin's flaw, the 'returned Oahu' that's the exodus's end. Palawai is the grown-over — the 'pines planted' that's the land's new crop, the 'foundations' that's the city's trace.","The file keeps Palawai: the gathered city, the stolen deed, the sold ranks, and the dried basin.","Palawai is the archive's Hawaii file — the Zion a con man kept."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Palawai is the archive's Hawaii file — the Mormon colony that outlasted its fraud.","A basin keeps its grid — the file's suggestion being that Palawai's hold is the gathered: the 'City of Joseph' that's the dream's name, the 'Gibson' that's the theft's author, and the 'dry' that's the failure's cause."]}],"name":"Pālāwai","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","RELIGIOUS"],"groups":["ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The Mormon colony that failed—1854-1864.","full_desc":"A ghost town in Lanai City, Hawaii, Pālāwai is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Mormon colony that failed—1854-1864. It sits in the archive under ghost towns, religious heritage and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Lanai City","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.827932,"lon":-156.914703,"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":"HI2 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":3355,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. The town has more past than present; the reports are the past refusing to stay past. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. The lore keeps its witness.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pālāwai","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawai_Basin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1854-64 colony is documented. Pālāwai's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Pālāwai'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1854","date_end":"1864","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pālāwai","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawai_Basin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"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":"Pālāwai","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawai_Basin","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}