{"id":3510,"slug":"steamer-portland-boston-massachusetts","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Portland is the '98 — the 'Nov 27' that's the gale, the '192' that's the all lost. The 'no list' is the unknown — the 'manifest' that's the aboard, the 'estimated' that's the 190. The 'Blanchard' is the captain — the 'outrun' that's the tried, the 'two lows' that's the collided.","The 'paddle' is the shallow — the 'Cape Ann' that's the last, the 'stopped watches' that's the found. The '400 vessels' is the storm — the '450 dead' that's the named, the 'Portland Gale' that's the after. Portland is the Titanic — the 'New England' that's the called, the 'best preserved' that's the wreck.","The file keeps Portland: the 1898 gale, the 192 all lost, the no manifest, and the two lows.","Steamer Portland is the archive's Boston file — the gale's namesake."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Steamer Portland is the archive's Boston file — the unknown count.","A ship keeps its storm — the file's suggestion being that Portland's hold is the listless: the '192' that's the estimated, the 'manifest' that's the drowned, and the 'stopped watches' that's the time."]}],"name":"Steamer Portland","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","MARITIME_DISASTER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"November 26, 1898—the gale that took them all.","full_desc":"Steamer Portland is a site in Boston, Massachusetts. November 26, 1898—the gale that took them all. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the 190. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Boston","county":null,"state":"Massachusetts","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":42.338551,"lon":-71.018253,"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":"SHIP 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":3828,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The 190 is the name the reports keep returning to. The site in Boston, Massachusetts gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Steamer Portland' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The 190","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Steamer Portland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(steamship)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3829,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the wreck. The reports at Steamer Portland are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The report is preserved in sources like 'Steamer Portland'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Steamer Portland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(steamship)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The November 26, 1898 sinking is documented. Steamer Portland'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 record appears in 'Steamer Portland'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1898-11-26","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Steamer Portland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(steamship)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. Steamer Portland's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. 'Steamer Portland' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The account appears in 'Steamer Portland'. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Steamer Portland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(steamship)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The 190","claimed_identity":"The 190","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The presence goes by The 190. The reports at Steamer Portland are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Steamer Portland'. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is The 190.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Steamer Portland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(steamship)","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":"Steamer Portland","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_(steamship)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}