PRINCESS SOPHIA
Site — Juneau, Alaska
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/princess-sophia-juneau-alaska/

October 25, 1918—the Inside Passage’s worst wreck.

A site in Juneau, Alaska, Princess Sophia is filed here for what the record attaches to it. October 25, 1918—the Inside Passage’s worst wreck. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the 343. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Princess Sophia is the '18 — the 'October 25' that's the sank, the '364' that's the all lost. The 'Vanderbilt Reef' is the struck — the 'snowstorm' that's the blind, the '11 knots' that's the speed. The 'no survivors' is the worst — the 'Pacific Coast' that's the marine, the 'Armistice' that's the buried news.
The '8 ships' is the arrived — the 'Locke' that's the refused, the 'gales' that's the waited. The 'winter' is the passengers — the 'Yukon' that's the outbound, the 'last steamer' that's the season. Princess Sophia is the forgotten — the 'Titanic of West' that's the called, the 'flu' that's the headlines.
The file keeps Princess Sophia: the 1918 wreck, the 364 dead, the Vanderbilt Reef, and the forgotten news.
Princess Sophia is the archive's Alaska file — the unknown Titanic.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Princess Sophia is the archive's Alaska file — the drowned season.
A reef keeps its ship — the file's suggestion being that Sophia's hold is the timing: the '364' that's the all, the 'Armistice' that's the buried, and the 'no survivors' that's the worst.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. The 343 is the name the reports keep returning to. Princess Sophia's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Princess Sophia'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Princess Sophia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Princess_Sophia)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence at the reef. Princess Sophia in Juneau, Alaska carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'Princess Sophia' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Princess Sophia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Princess_Sophia)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The October 25, 1918 sinking is documented. Princess Sophia's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Princess Sophia'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Princess Sophia — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Princess_Sophia

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