{"id":2187,"slug":"pascagoula-abduction-site-pascagoula-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pascagoula is the taped — the 'sheriff's recorder' that's the hidden caught, the 'still scared alone' that's the sincerity proved. The 'crab claws' is the described — the 'legless floated' that's the creatures came, the 'eyeball machine' that's the exam done. The 'fainted' is the saved — the 'Parker unconscious' that's the teenager spared, the 'floated back' that's the wharf returned.","The '50 calls' is the backed — the 'other sightings' that's the night's chorus, the 'demons' that's the Parker's later belief. The 'fishing pier' is the ordinary — the 'after work' that's the cast made, the 'blue light' that's the arrest thought. Pascagoula is the credible — the 'sheriff believed' that's the officers convinced, the 'tape surfaced' that's the '73 vindicated.","The file keeps Pascagoula: the hidden tape, the crab-claw creatures, the fainted boy, and the believing sheriff.","Pascagoula is the archive's Mississippi file — the abduction the tape confirmed."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pascagoula is the archive's Mississippi file — the abduction caught on a hidden tape.","A riverbank keeps its light — the file's suggestion being that Pascagoula's hold is the corroborated: the 'sheriff's tape' that's the fear real, the 'fainted' that's the teenager spared, and the 'crab claws' that's the detail strange."]}],"name":"Pascagoula Abduction site","aliases":[],"type":"RIVERFRONT","type_label":"Riverfront","cats":["DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","UFO_LOCATION","MEDIA_REPORTED"],"groups":["historic-sites"],"desc":"The 1973 shipyard-abduction case that made national news and left a historical marker.","full_desc":"On October 11, 1973, shipyard workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported being taken aboard a craft by robotic creatures while fishing on the Pascagoula River. The case is famous for the sheriff’s secret tape—the men kept talking about the creatures when left alone, a detail investigators still cite. A historical marker stands at the site, and Parker spoke about the event until his death in 2023.","address":null,"city":"Pascagoula","county":null,"state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.3658,"lon":-88.555,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"NATURAL_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":"Cryptid/folklore wave-2 batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","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":1522,"type":"UFO_ACTIVITY","description":"Hickson and Parker described being floated aboard a craft by wrinkled, robotic creatures. The figure answers to Pascagoula creatures in the retellings. Pascagoula Abduction site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. The account appears in 'Pascagoula Abduction'. The sky above the site keeps its own file, and this is the entry that made it famous.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":"Pascagoula creatures","where":null,"first_report":"1973-10-11","approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":"The witnesses maintained the account for decades; skeptics propose hypnagogic or fabricated explanations.","source":{"name":"Pascagoula Abduction","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The October 11, 1973 report produced one of the best-documented abduction accounts; the sheriff’s office tape survives. The record dates it to 1973-10-11. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Pascagoula Abduction' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1973-10-11","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pascagoula Abduction","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[{"name":"Pascagoula creatures","claimed_identity":"Pascagoula creatures","verified":null,"summary":"Hickson and Parker described being floated aboard a craft by wrinkled, robotic creatures. The file calls it Pascagoula creatures. The account has been recorded since 1973-10-11. The site in Pascagoula, Mississippi gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account appears in 'Pascagoula Abduction'. The file keeps Pascagoula creatures on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive.","behavior":"Hickson and Parker described being floated aboard a craft by wrinkled, robotic creatures.","area":null,"first_ref":"1973-10-11","source":{"name":"Pascagoula Abduction","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction","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":"Pascagoula Abduction","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascagoula_Abduction","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":1,"sources":1}}