{"id":2742,"slug":"pocahontas-exhibition-coal-mine-pocahontas-west-virginia","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Pocahontas is the shown — the 'exhibition' that's the mine's use, the 'world's first' that's the tour's rank. The 'Navy's fuel' is the burned — the 'No. 3 seam' that's the coal's fame, the 'smokeless' that's the fleet's choice. The '13 feet' is the stood — the 'seam height' that's the visitors' view, the 'original state' that's the vein's form.","The 'dump buried' is the hidden — the '400 ovens' that's the coke's count, the 'spoil piled' that's the covering's depth. The 'miners guide' is the told — the 'retired' that's the docents' trade, the 'same shafts' that's the tour's path. Pocahontas is the first — the 'boom town' that's the coalfield's start, the 'opera house' that's the wealth's spend.","The file keeps Pocahontas: the shown mine, the Navy's fuel, the buried ovens, and the miners' tour.","Pocahontas is the archive's Virginia file — the mine that became its own museum."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Pocahontas is the archive's Virginia file — the coal seam that fed the fleet.","A mine keeps its seam — the file's suggestion being that Pocahontas's hold is the shown: the 'exhibition' that's the mine's second life, the 'No. 3' that's the coal's grade, and the 'miners' that's the guides' credential."]}],"name":"Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","INDUSTRIAL","COAL_HISTORY"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The 1882 mine that made the Pocahontas coalfield famous.","full_desc":"Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine is a site in Pocahontas, West Virginia. The 1882 mine that made the Pocahontas coalfield famous. The archive files it under coal history, industry and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim 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":"Pocahontas","county":null,"state":"West Virginia","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":null,"lon":null,"coord_kind":null,"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 / park","research_notes":"WV2 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":2356,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence underground. Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Witness accounts, no evidence file: the claim is anecdotal and stays that way. The account appears in 'Pocahontas Exhibition Mine'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Pocahontas Exhibition Mine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_Exhibition_Coal_Mine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1882 mine is documented; the coalfield history is real. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Pocahontas Exhibition Mine' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1882","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Pocahontas Exhibition Mine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_Exhibition_Coal_Mine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"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":"Pocahontas Exhibition Mine","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas_Exhibition_Coal_Mine","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}