{"id":160,"slug":"piti-guns-unit-piti-guam","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Piti is the unfired — the 'three guns' that's the battery's count, the 'never shot' that's the war's record. The 'CHamoru hauled' is the dragged — the '12,000 pounds' that's each gun's weight, the 'mahogany forest' that's the hill's cover. The 'not ready' is the timed — the 'July 21' that's the invasion's date, the 'incomplete' that's the battery's state.","The 'Vickers' is the modeled — the '140mm' that's the caliber's size, the 'ten miles' that's the range's reach. The 'original' is the rare — the 'only guns' that's the park's claim, the 'in place' that's the preservation's form. Piti is the hiked — the 'trail' that's the access's path, the 'Apra Harbor' that's the view's prize.","The file keeps Piti: the unfired guns, the hauled labor, the timed invasion, and the hiked forest.","Piti Guns is the archive's Guam file — the battery that never fired."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Piti Guns is the archive's Guam file — the war's unfinished sentence.","A battery keeps its guns — the file's suggestion being that Piti's hold is the silent: the 'never fired' that's the record's fact, the 'CHamoru' that's the labor's hands, and the 'mahogany' that's the forest's reclaim."]}],"name":"Piti Guns Unit","aliases":[],"type":"MILITARY_SITE","type_label":"Military Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","MILITARY_RUINS"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"Three coastal-defense guns preserved in their original emplacements.","full_desc":"Piti Guns Unit is a military site in Piti, Guam. Three coastal-defense guns preserved in their original emplacements. It sits in the archive under dark history and military ruins. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"Piti","county":null,"state":"Guam","postal":null,"region":"Pacific","lat":13.4606,"lon":144.6947,"coord_kind":"MANUAL","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"Public park grounds; structural entry is not implied. NPS prohibits climbing on or entering unsafe historical structures.","ownership":null,"website":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/piti-guns.htm","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass; historical, geographic, and access enrichment remain queued. Confidence describes source provenance, not supernatural reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":65,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS links the unfinished fortification project to forced CHamoru labor. No evidence establishes that the guns were ever fired. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Piti Guns Unit'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Piti Guns Unit","url":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/piti-guns.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Park unit open 24 hours daily according to NPS page retrieved September 7, 2026.","parking":"NPS identifies parking beside the Assumption of Our Lady Church social hall.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Piti Guns Unit","url":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/piti-guns.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"Piti Guns Unit","url":"https://www.nps.gov/wapa/planyourvisit/piti-guns.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}