ST. FRANCIS DAM DISASTER SITE Dam Ruins — Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/st-francis-dam-disaster-site-california/ Dam-collapse landscape in San Francisquito Canyon. St. Francis Dam Disaster Site is a dam ruins in California. Dam-collapse landscape in San Francisquito Canyon. The dam collapsed shortly before midnight on March 12, 1928. The historical landmark text gives more than 450 deaths; modern USGS interpretation gives at least 431 and says the exact toll is unknown. The St. Francis Dam collapsed just before midnight on March 12, 1928 — a wall of water through San Francisquito Canyon that killed roughly 431 people, the second-worst disaster in California history. William Mulholland's career ended with it — the man who built the aqueduct that made Los Angeles broken by the dam that failed. The file's documented spine is the failure's completeness: a dam two years old, a midnight collapse, a flood wave that ran fifty-four miles to the sea, taking the sleeping canyon with it. THE CANYON'S VOICES Local lore describes apparitions and cries in the canyon — the file's haunting being the flood's, the dead of the water reportedly still in the ground the water scoured. The twentieth-century reports are the disaster's residue: the canyon keeping the sounds of the night it drowned. The 431 dead are the record; the cries in the canyon are the report — a disaster site whose haunting is the flood's echo in the gorge it emptied. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS The St. Francis site is the archive's engineering-disaster file — a dam that killed 431 in a night, a canyon that keeps the cries, Mulholland's broken career the record's human cost. The apparitions are the lore; the midnight collapse is the record that made them. A dam that failed at midnight, a canyon that drowned, a builder broken — the file's suggestion being that the water's dead are still in the ground it carried them through. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] haunting: Local lore describes apparitions and cries in the canyon—retold in regional ghost collections. The account has been recorded since 20th century. The reports at St. Francis Dam Disaster Site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. 'St. Francis Dam' carries the account. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations. source: St. Francis Dam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam) HISTORY — 2 documented facts · The dam collapsed shortly before midnight on March 12, 1928. The historical landmark text gives more than 450 deaths; modern USGS interpretation gives at least 431 and says the exact toll is unknown. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'St. Francis Dam Disaster Site' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine. · [1928-03-12] The dam failed just before midnight on March 12, 1928, killing ~431 people; William Mulholland’s career ended with the disaster. The documented date is 1928-03-12. St. Francis Dam Disaster Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'St. Francis Dam' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 3 cited · St. Francis Dam Disaster Site — California Office of Historic Preservation https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/listedresources/detail/919 · St Francis Dam Disaster — U.S. Geological Survey https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/st-francis-dam-disaster · St. Francis Dam — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/