{"id":2548,"slug":"rocky-point-park-warwick-rhode-island","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Rocky Point is the Sunday's — the 'school picnics' that's the '47 start, the 'steamboat' that's the way's form. The 'Coney Island' is the called — the 'Times' that's the praise's source, the 'masses' that's the crowd's kind. The 'clambakes' is the fed — the '4,000 seats' that's the hall's size, the 'clam cakes' that's the food's mark.","The 'burned thrice' is the scarred — the '60s '83' that's the fires' years, the 'rebuilt each' that's the park's grit. The 'closed '95' is the ended — the 'bankrupt' that's the '96 file, the 'farewell ran' that's the last's grace. Rocky Point is the razed — the 'auctioned rides' that's the scatter's form, the 'Big House burned' that's the '04 end.","The file keeps Rocky Point: the Sunday start, the Coney name, the thrice-burned, and the razed end.","Rocky Point is the archive's Rhode Island file — the working-class shore that ran 148 years."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Rocky Point is the archive's Rhode Island file — the park that burned and rebuilt until it couldn't.","A point keeps its summers — the file's suggestion being that Rocky's hold is the seasonal: the 'steamboat' that's the arrival's form, the 'clambakes' that's the ritual's taste, and the 'burned thrice' that's the park's scars."]}],"name":"Rocky Point Park","aliases":[],"type":"AMUSEMENT_PARK","type_label":"Amusement Park","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","ABANDONED_PLACE","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns","hauntings","legends"],"desc":"The 1847 park whose ruins stood on Narragansett Bay until 2007.","full_desc":"Rocky Point Park is an amusement park in Warwick, Rhode Island. The 1847 park whose ruins stood on Narragansett Bay until 2007. It sits in the archive under abandoned places, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Abandoned now: the structure does the storytelling.","address":null,"city":"Warwick","county":null,"state":"Rhode Island","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":41.703085,"lon":-71.42031,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ABANDONED","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Private property; do not trespass.","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":"Abandoned parks 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":2026,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the shore. The site in Warwick, Rhode Island gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Rocky Point Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Point_Amusement_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Operated 1847-1995; ruins demolished. Rocky Point Park'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 'Rocky Point Park'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1847","date_end":"1995","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Rocky Point Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Point_Amusement_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures on the shore. The reports at Rocky Point Park are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. 'Rocky Point Park' carries the account. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Rocky Point Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Point_Amusement_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access is restricted; check with the managing agency or landowner 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":"Rocky Point Park","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Point_Amusement_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}