{"id":2288,"slug":"tibbetts-point-lighthouse-cape-vincent-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Tibbetts Point is the gave — the '600 acres' that's the soldier's grant, the '3 acres' that's the light's share. The 'Fresnel works' is the kept — the '1854' that's the lens's date, the 'only original' that's the lake's claim. The 'lens stayed' is the ran — the 'automated '81' that's the keeper's end, the 'still turns' that's the glass's work.","The 'hostel housed' is the used — the 'keepers' rooms' that's the guests' beds, the '84 to '14' that's the run's span. The 'society formed' is the saved — the '88' that's the group's start, the 'Hamblen saw' that's the vision's spark. Tibbetts Point is the marked — the 'Ontario ends' that's the lake's edge, the 'St. Lawrence starts' that's the river's mouth.","The file keeps Tibbetts Point: the given land, the working lens, the housed hostel, and the saved tower.","Tibbetts Point is the archive's New York file — the lens that never stopped turning."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Tibbetts Point is the archive's New York file — the lighthouse where the lake ends and the river begins.","A lens keeps its turn — the file's suggestion being that Tibbetts's hold is the original: the '1854 glass' that's the lens's age, the 'keeperless' that's the automation's cost, and the 'hostel' that's the rooms' second life."]}],"name":"Tibbetts Point Lighthouse","aliases":[],"type":"LIGHTHOUSE","type_label":"Lighthouse","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_SITE","HAUNTED_LIGHTHOUSE"],"groups":["legends","maritime"],"desc":"Where the St. Lawrence meets Ontario—the hostel light with a keeper’s ghost.","full_desc":"Tibbetts Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Cape Vincent, New York, built in 1854. Where the St. Lawrence meets Ontario—the hostel light with a keeper’s ghost. HauntHunt files it with haunted lighthouses and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Cape Vincent","county":null,"state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":44.123197,"lon":-76.330734,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1854,"year_opened":1854,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Haunted lighthouse 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":1683,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Hostel guests report a keeper’s figure and footsteps on the stairs. Crews leave marks on vessels long after they muster out, and Tibbetts Point Lighthouse in Cape Vincent, New York had crews enough. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. 'Tibbetts Point Light' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Tibbetts Point Light","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibbetts_Point_Light","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Lit 1854; the keeper’s house is now a Hostelling International hostel. Tibbetts Point Lighthouse's history is documented — launches, crews, and losses all on record before the lore begins. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Tibbetts Point Light' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1854","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Tibbetts Point Light","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibbetts_Point_Light","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Hostel guests report a keeper’s figure and footsteps on the stairs. The vessel's reports concentrate where the work was hardest — ships and lights keep their own roll call. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. Sources including 'Tibbetts Point Light' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Tibbetts Point Light","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibbetts_Point_Light","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Lighthouse site; tower climbs, if offered, are usually seasonal and may require tickets.","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":"Tibbetts Point Light","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibbetts_Point_Light","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}