{"id":3275,"slug":"shipwreck-beach-lanai-city-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Shipwreck Beach is the '1824 — the 'Alderman Wood' that's the first, the 'London' that's the gold. The 'YOGN-42' is the concrete — the 'ferro' that's the WWII, the 'intentional' that's the beached. The '12 wrecks' is the six miles — the 'Kalohi Channel' that's the trap, the 'lee shore' that's the downwind.","The 'steamers' is the disposed — the 'Lahaina moorings' that's the drifted, the 'stripped hulks' that's the released. The 'petroglyphs' is the ancient — the 'Poaiwa' that's the settlement, the 'lava rock' that's the carved. Shipwreck Beach is the graveyard — the 'Liberty' that's the confused, the 'fuel barge' that's the truth.","The file keeps Shipwreck Beach: the 1824 first wreck, the YOGN-42 concrete, the 12 wrecks, and the petroglyphs.","Shipwreck Beach is the archive's Lanai file — the graveyard's beach."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Shipwreck Beach is the archive's Lanai file — the disposed fleet.","A shore keeps its hulks — the file's suggestion being that Shipwreck's hold is the intentional: the 'YOGN-42' that's the beached, the '12 wrecks' that's the collected, and the 'petroglyphs' that's the ancient."]}],"name":"Shipwreck Beach","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MARITIME","LEGEND_SITE"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The beach where the wrecked Navy tanker still rusts.","full_desc":"A site in Lanai City, Hawaii, Shipwreck Beach is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The beach where the wrecked Navy tanker still rusts. HauntHunt files it with maritime history, dark history and local folklore. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the wrecks. 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.","address":null,"city":"Lanai City","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":20.827932,"lon":-156.914703,"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":"HI2 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":3352,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The beach’s lore is documented. The figure answers to The wrecks in the retellings. The reports at Shipwreck Beach are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Shipwreck Beach' keep the claim in circulation. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The wrecks","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Shipwreck Beach","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Beach_(Lanai)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3353,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures on the beach. The site in Lanai City, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. Sources including 'Shipwreck Beach' keep the claim in circulation. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Shipwreck Beach","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Beach_(Lanai)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The beach’s wrecks 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. 'Shipwreck Beach' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine. The lore keeps its witness.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Shipwreck Beach","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Beach_(Lanai)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The beach’s lore is documented. The reports at Shipwreck Beach are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Shipwreck Beach' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Shipwreck Beach","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Beach_(Lanai)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The wrecks","claimed_identity":"The wrecks","verified":null,"summary":"The beach’s lore is documented. The wrecks is what the reports name it. Shipwreck Beach in Lanai City, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The report is preserved in sources like 'Shipwreck Beach'. The lore has a face now: The wrecks. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","behavior":"The beach’s lore is documented.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Shipwreck Beach","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Beach_(Lanai)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"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":"Shipwreck Beach","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipwreck_Beach_(Lanai)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}