{"id":3070,"slug":"pecos-pecos-new-mexico","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pecos is the gate — the 'middlemen' that's the pueblo's role, the '500 warriors' that's the wall's guard. The 'guide lied' is the lured — the 'Quivira' that's the golden's fake, the 'strangled' that's the truth's price. The 'church burned' is the risen — the '1680' that's the revolt's year, the 'smaller built' that's the '17's form.","The 'labor unpaid' is the owed — the 'built free' that's the mission's cost, the 'slavery asked' that's the record's question. The 'last left' is the emptied — the '1838' that's the pueblo's end, the 'Jemez joined' that's the people's move. Pecos is the crossed — the 'Santa Fe Trail' that's the road's path, the 'Glorieta fought' that's the war's field.","The file keeps Pecos: the gate pueblo, the lying guide, the burned church, and the emptied town.","Pecos is the archive's New Mexico file — the gateway that watched empires pass."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pecos is the archive's New Mexico file — the crossroads that held for centuries then emptied.","A pueblo keeps its gate — the file's suggestion being that Pecos's hold is the crossed: the 'middlemen' that's the trade's role, the 'revolt burned' that's the church's scar, and the 'left '38' that's the end's quiet."]}],"name":"Pecos","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MISSION","INDIGENOUS"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The pueblo that died—the mission ruins on the Santa Fe Trail.","full_desc":"Pecos is a site in Pecos, New Mexico. The pueblo that died—the mission ruins on the Santa Fe Trail. It sits in the archive under Indigenous heritage, missions and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Pecos","county":null,"state":"New Mexico","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":35.575706,"lon":-105.678407,"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 / pueblo / park","research_notes":"SW 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":2992,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the ruins. The reports at Pecos are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The report keeps its place in the record.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pecos","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The pueblo’s 1838 abandonment and the battle are documented. Pecos' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Pecos'. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The lore keeps its witness.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1838","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pecos","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the ruins. The site in Pecos, New Mexico gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore. The lore keeps its witness.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Pecos","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Pecos","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_National_Historical_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}