{"id":3219,"slug":"salem-maritime-salem-massachusetts","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Salem Maritime is the first — the '1938' that's the designation's date, the 'historic site' that's the system's rank. The 'Derby's empire' is the counted — the 'counting house' that's the trade's brain, the '282 manifests' that's the cargo's record. The 'half mile' is the reached — the '1806' that's the wharf's full length, the 'mud flats' that's the build's trick.","The 'China trade' is the sailed — the '50 wharves' that's the harbor's crowd, the 'Mindoro' that's the last tall ship. The 'Custom House' is the kept — the 'Hawthorne worked' that's the clerk's name, the 'Scarlet Letter' that's the book's seed. Salem Maritime is the chosen — the 'five buildings' that's the saved count, the 'rest razed' that's the clearing's price.","The file keeps Salem Maritime: the first site, the empire's wharf, the sailed trade, and the clerk's novel.","Salem Maritime is the archive's Massachusetts file — the waterfront that outranked the witches."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Salem Maritime is the archive's Massachusetts file — the trade that made Salem rich before the trials made it famous.","A wharf keeps its empire — the file's suggestion being that the site's hold is the sailed: the 'Derby' that's the merchant's name, the 'Custom House' that's Hawthorne's desk, and the 'first' that's the park's rank."]}],"name":"Salem Maritime","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MARITIME","COLONIAL"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The wharves where the privateers and the witches’ era meet.","full_desc":"A site in Salem, Massachusetts, Salem Maritime is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The wharves where the privateers and the witches’ era meet. The archive files it under maritime history, the colonial era and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Salem","county":null,"state":"Massachusetts","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.499248,"lon":-70.898204,"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":3248,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the wharves. Salem Maritime's 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. The account appears in 'Salem Maritime'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Salem Maritime","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Maritime_National_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The wharves and the 1938 designation are documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Salem Maritime'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1938","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Salem Maritime","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Maritime_National_Historic_Site","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":"Salem Maritime","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_Maritime_National_Historic_Site","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}