{"id":2558,"slug":"remington-arms-bridgeport-connecticut","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Remington is the shot — the 'tower' that's the landmark's form, the 'dropped lead' that's the spheres' making. The 'both wars' is the fed — the 'Allied guns' that's the output's market, the '73 acres' that's the complex's span. The 'decades empty' is the rotted — the 'asbestos' that's the cleanup's cost, the 'fences' that's the ruin's guard.","The 'whiskey bottle' is the likened — the '1909' that's the tower's date, the 'tallest' that's the state's rank. The '16 tons' is the blown — the 'gunpowder' that's the '06's blast, the 'Long Island' that's the damage's reach. Remington is the scrapped — the 'demolition' that's the '24's work, the 'tower debated' that's the icon's fate.","The file keeps Remington: the shot tower, the fed wars, the empty decades, and the scrapped halls.","Remington Arms is the archive's Connecticut file — the arsenal that armed two wars."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Remington Arms is the archive's Connecticut file — the boomtown's heart gone quiet.","A factory keeps its tower — the file's suggestion being that Remington's hold is the emptied: the 'shot' that's the tower's craft, the 'wars' that's the plant's peak, and the 'scrap' that's the halls' end."]}],"name":"Remington Arms","aliases":[],"type":"FACTORY","type_label":"Factory","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","ABANDONED_PLACE","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns","hauntings","institutions","legends"],"desc":"The 1867 arms factory—where the workers’ dead are said to walk.","full_desc":"Remington Arms is a factory in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The 1867 arms factory—where the workers’ dead are said to walk. HauntHunt files it with abandoned places, 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":"Bridgeport","county":null,"state":"Connecticut","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.187393,"lon":-73.195757,"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":null,"research_notes":"New England dark 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":2047,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the abandoned plant before demolition. Remington Arms' 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. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Remington Arms (Bridgeport)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1867; the plant’s documented accidents and wartime production. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Remington Arms (Bridgeport)' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1867","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Remington Arms (Bridgeport)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms","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":"Remington Arms (Bridgeport)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Arms","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}