{"id":3196,"slug":"poston-poston-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Poston is the unwelcome — the 'tribe's land' that's the site's place, the 'never asked' that's the council's stance. The 'adobe taught' is the built — the 'internees made' that's the bricks' makers, the 'schools stand' that's the craft's proof. The 'strike won' is the pushed — the 'November '42' that's the protest's month, the 'concessions' that's the walkout's gain.","The 'three camps' is the split — the 'Poston I II III' that's the division's form, the 'largest' that's the complex's rank. The 'Beat movement' is the seeded — the 'Kivihara' that's the poet's name, the 'Allen read' that's the circle's link. Poston is the returned — the 'museum built' that's the memory's home, the 'pilgrimage' that's the survivors' trip.","The file keeps Poston: the unwelcome camp, the adobe schools, the won strike, and the returned pilgrims.","Poston is the archive's Arizona file — the camp the tribe didn't want."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Poston is the archive's Arizona file — internment stacked on dispossession.","A camp keeps its bricks — the file's suggestion being that Poston's hold is the layered: the 'tribe's land' that's the irony's base, the 'adobe' that's the internees' craft, and the 'strike' that's the resistance's win."]}],"name":"Poston","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","WWII"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The Colorado River camp—18,000 on the reservation.","full_desc":"Poston is a site in Poston, Arizona. The Colorado River camp—18,000 on the reservation. It sits in the archive under World War II, dark history 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. 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":"Poston","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":33.99209,"lon":-114.404454,"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 / memorial","research_notes":"dark2 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":3204,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the site. Poston in Poston, Arizona carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. 'Poston' carries the account. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Poston","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1942-45 internment is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Poston'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The account stays in the file — reported, retold, unresolved.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1942","date_end":"1945","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Poston","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center","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":"Poston","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}