{"id":572,"slug":"split-rock-quarry-camillus-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Split Rock is the exploded — the 'TNT plant' that's the quarry converted, the '50 killed' that's the '18 blast. The 'crusher hums' is the heard — the 'not run since' that's the engine dead, the 'revving phantom' that's the machine's ghost. The 'green glow' is the seen — the 'picric stained' that's the skin's color, the 'after-image' that's the acid's mark.","The '15 unidentified' is the buried — the 'common grave' that's the names lost, the 'memorial names' that's the spirit box match. The 'war kept' is the continued — the 'explosion didn't stop' that's the production resumed, the 'DOT shed' that's the '80s abandoned. Split Rock is the stained — the 'yellow-green' that's the workers' skin, the 'still glowing' that's the rocks' light.","The file keeps Split Rock: the TNT blast, the humming crusher, the green ghosts, and the common grave.","Split Rock is the archive's New York file — the quarry where the dead still glow."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Split Rock is the archive's New York file — the explosion whose victims still glow green.","A quarry keeps its blast — the file's suggestion being that Split Rock's hold is the marked: the 'crusher hums' that's the machine haunted, the 'picric green' that's the bodies' stain, and the 'names match' that's the spirit box confirmed."]}],"name":"Split Rock Quarry","aliases":[],"type":"INDUSTRIAL_RUINS","type_label":"Industrial Ruins","cats":["RUINS","HAUNTING","INDUSTRIAL_DISASTER"],"groups":["ghost-towns","hauntings"],"desc":"Former munitions works and quarry with a documented 1918 disaster and later phantom-machinery stories.","full_desc":"Split Rock Quarry is a industrial ruins in Camillus, New York. Former munitions works and quarry with a documented 1918 disaster and later phantom-machinery stories. The former munitions works suffered a fatal explosion in 1918; quarry and machinery remains survive. Reported lore and claims include: Tourism relays footsteps, distant voices and the sound of the dormant rock crusher apparently revving.","address":null,"city":"Camillus","county":"Onondaga","state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":43.038663,"lon":-76.309928,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ABANDONED","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"County trail access is sunrise–sunset and restricted to the marked trail; adjacent property is private. Tourism’s 24/7 and tunnel-exploration statements conflict with the county rules and are not adopted. Quarry parcel permission and boundary require verification.","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":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality. County AJAX page indexed with complete trail rules but browser open fails; base page renders shell. Tourism supplies point 43.024539, -76.242194 and Syracuse postal address; coordinate/parcel correspondence not independently checked, so map fields remain null. Confirm exact municipality and ownership boundaries with county GIS before map publication.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":69.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":434,"type":"PHANTOM_MACHINERY","description":"Tourism relays footsteps, distant voices and the sound of the dormant rock crusher apparently revving. Split Rock Quarry in Camillus, New York carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The claim rests on experience rather than evidence, and the file says so. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.65,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Split Rock Quarry","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/split-rock-quarry","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The former munitions works suffered a fatal explosion in 1918; quarry and machinery remains survive. Split Rock Quarry's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Split Rock Quarry'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Split Rock Quarry","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/split-rock-quarry","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Edgecliff public trail: sunrise–sunset; no nighttime quarry access implied.","admission_fee":"County trail has no admission charge.","public_restroom":"County trail has no restrooms or services.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Edgecliff Park/Trail rules","url":"https://onondagacountyparks.com/parks/edgecliff-parktrail/?ajax=1&m=1785776037","publisher":"Onondaga County Parks","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"Split Rock Quarry","url":"https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/split-rock-quarry","publisher":"Haunted History Trail of New York State","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},{"name":"Edgecliff Park/Trail rules","url":"https://onondagacountyparks.com/parks/edgecliff-parktrail/?ajax=1&m=1785776037","publisher":"Onondaga County Parks","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}