{"id":3193,"slug":"sultana-site-marion-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Sultana is the '65 — the 'April 27' that's the 2am, the '1,800' that's the more than Titanic. The 'POWs' is the cargo — the 'Andersonville/Cahaba' that's the released, the '$5 a man' that's the paid. The 'patched' is the boiler — the 'Taylor' that's the warned, the 'Mason' that's the rushed.","The '6x' is the overloaded — the '2,100' that's the capacity 376, the 'one lifeboat' that's the had. The 'buried' is the field — the '20 feet' that's the soybeans, the 'Arkansas' that's the side. Sultana is the forgotten — the 'Lincoln' that's the shadowed, the 'Remembrance Day' that's the '19.","The file keeps Sultana: the April 27 explosion, the 1,800 POWs, the $5 greed, and the soybean burial.","Sultana is the archive's Arkansas file — the worst's forgotten."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Sultana is the archive's Arkansas file — the overloaded greed.","A field keeps its hull — the file's suggestion being that Sultana's hold is the erased: the '1,800' that's the more than Titanic, the '$5' that's the paid, and the 'soybeans' that's the buried."]}],"name":"Sultana site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MARITIME","DISASTER"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"April 27, 1865—the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.","full_desc":"A site in Marion, Arkansas, Sultana site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. April 27, 1865—the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. The presences in its file go unnamed: the sultana dead, the record says. 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":"Marion","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":35.204246,"lon":-90.206715,"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 / memorial","research_notes":"dark2 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":3199,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The presences go by the Sultana dead in the file. The reports at Sultana site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Sultana'. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Sultana dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Sultana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3200,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence on the river. The site in Marion, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. 'Sultana' carries the account. 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":"Sultana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The April 27, 1865 explosion is documented; ~1,800 died. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Sultana' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1865-04-27","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Sultana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The site in Marion, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Sultana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Sultana dead","claimed_identity":"The Sultana dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly remembered. The presences go by the Sultana dead in the file. The site in Marion, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. 'Sultana' carries the account. The lore has a face now: The Sultana dead. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Sultana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)","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":"Sultana","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}