{"id":2698,"slug":"quecreek-mine-somerset-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Quecreek is the mapped-wrong — the '300 feet' that's the chart's lie, the 'broke through' that's the water's entry. The 'one phone' is the lifed — the 'air bubble' that's the pocket's hold, the '240 feet' that's the drill's depth. The 'all nine' is the counted — the '77 hours' that's the wait's span, the 'capsule' that's the ride's form.","The 'bit broke' is the stalled — the '18 hours' that's the delay's cost, the 'second shaft' that's the backup's start. The 'farmer's field' is the borrowed — the 'Dormel Farms' that's the staging's spot, the 'dairy pasture' that's the rescue's base. Quecreek is the visited — the 'monument' that's the site's now, the 'miracle' that's the story's frame.","The file keeps Quecreek: the wrong map, the one phone, the nine rides, and the farmer's field.","Quecreek is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the flood that maps caused and luck cured."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Quecreek is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the nine-for-nine rescue.","A mine keeps its bubble — the file's suggestion being that Quecreek's hold is the mapped: the '300 feet' that's the error's size, the 'air pocket' that's the life's hold, and the 'capsule' that's the exit's shape."]}],"name":"Quecreek Mine","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","INDUSTRIAL"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"July 2002—nine miners, 240 feet down, all alive.","full_desc":"Quecreek Mine is a site in Somerset, Pennsylvania. July 2002—nine miners, 240 feet down, all alive. It sits in the archive under industry, 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. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Somerset","county":null,"state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.00503,"lon":-79.077855,"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","research_notes":"PA 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":2284,"type":"HISTORICAL_LEGEND","description":"The rescue is documented; the lore is the miracle’s memory. Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","evidence":"MEDIA_REPORTED","evidence_label":"Media reported","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Quecreek rescue","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quecreek_Mine_rescue","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The July 2002 rescue is documented—all nine survived. 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. Sources including 'Quecreek rescue' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The report keeps its place in the record.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"2002-07","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Quecreek rescue","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quecreek_Mine_rescue","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":"Quecreek rescue","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quecreek_Mine_rescue","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}