SUICIDE CLIFF Cliff — Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/suicide-cliff-saipan-northern-mariana-islands/ Marpi cliff associated with wartime deaths. Suicide Cliff is a cliff in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Marpi cliff associated with wartime deaths. HauntHunt files it with dark history, hauntings and World War II. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 2 documented facts — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for. Suicide Cliff is Banzai's companion file — the second Saipan height where Japanese civilians and soldiers died by suicide in July 1944, in the battle's final days. The file's documented register is the same war, different ground: hundreds dead on the cliff's rocks, the Pacific's most documented mass suicide. The two cliffs are the island's paired memorials — Banzai and Suicide, the names themselves the record of what happened at each. THE SECOND HEIGHT Visitor accounts describe the solemn, haunted atmosphere — the file's register matching Banzai's: a documented mass-death site where the reports are the war's residue. The cliff's name is the history — the site where the civilians and soldiers chose the fall over capture. The file keeps the same care the site demands — a cliff named for its deaths, the reported atmosphere being the memory's own presence at the edge. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Suicide Cliff is the archive's second Saipan file — the paired height where the war's final days produced the documented dead. The name is the record; the reported sorrow is the register; the cliff keeps what the battle's end made of it. Two cliffs on one island, each holding the war's civilian dead — the file's suggestion being that Saipan's heights are the Pacific war's most documented mourning. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] haunting: As at Banzai Cliff, visitor accounts describe a solemn, haunted atmosphere at the documented mass-death site. Reports in the file date to 20th century. A natural place in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands doesn't need walls to hold a legend; it has geography. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations. source: Suicide Cliff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Cliff) HISTORY — 2 documented facts · MVA identifies this cliff with Japanese civilians and soldiers who died by suicide during the battle. Suicide Cliff's documented past — geological and human — is the verified layer beneath the legends. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'Historic Sites'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it. · [1944-07-01] In July 1944, hundreds died at Suicide Cliff in the battle’s final days. The documented date is 1944-07-01. The site's documented natural and human history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Battle of Saipan'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. SOURCES — 3 cited · Historic Sites — Marianas Visitors Authority https://mva.mymarianas.com/historic-sites/ · Battle of Saipan — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saipan · Suicide Cliff — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Cliff — 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/