{"id":3415,"slug":"tiger-stadium-site-detroit-michigan","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Corner is the empty field — Michigan and Trumbull where Navin Field stood, the 1912 concrete that replaced the wooden Bennett Park. The dates are the symmetry — April 20, 1912, the same day as Fenway, five days after the Titanic. The expansion was the enclosure — Briggs' 1938 wrap-around, the fifty-four thousand seats, the Lions and the concerts.","The demolition was the fight — the 2008-09 teardown, the salvage rights that paid for the wrecking, the fans who wanted the dugouts saved. The field is the afterlife — the PAL headquarters and the baseball diamond, the kids who play where Kaline played. Tiger Stadium is the lost ballpark — the Corner that's a memory and a field, the site where baseball lasted a century.","The file keeps Tiger Stadium: the 1912 opening, the names, the 1999 last game, and the demolition.","Tiger Stadium is the archive's Detroit file — the ballpark that's the field."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Tiger Stadium is the archive's Detroit file — The Corner that baseball left.","A site keeps its game — the file's suggestion being that Tiger Stadium's hold is the absence: the stadium that's gone, the field that's still there, and the century of games in the ground."]}],"name":"Tiger Stadium site","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","DEMOLISHED","LEGEND_SITE","SPORTS"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The 1912 ballpark—where Cobb and Kaline played.","full_desc":"A site in Detroit, Michigan, Tiger Stadium site is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1912 ballpark—where Cobb and Kaline played. The presences in its file go unnamed: the tigers dead, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 2 legends and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Detroit","county":null,"state":"Michigan","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":42.383037,"lon":-83.102237,"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":"DET 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":3624,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the site. Tiger Stadium site in Detroit, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Tiger Stadium site'. 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":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3625,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The dead are reportedly seen. The accounts name only a collective — the Tigers dead. The reports at Tiger Stadium site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Tigers dead","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1912 stadium is documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Tiger Stadium site' carry the record. The record keeps it — history, not lore. The file stays open on it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1912","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Reported figures at the site. Tiger Stadium site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It survives as local folklore, which is to say it survives because people keep telling it. The report is preserved in sources like 'Tiger Stadium site'. Every community keeps one story like this; this is theirs.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"name":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The reports at Tiger Stadium 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. Sources including 'Tiger Stadium site' keep the claim in circulation. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Tigers dead","claimed_identity":"The Tigers dead","verified":null,"summary":"The dead are reportedly seen. The presences go by the Tigers dead in the file. Tiger Stadium site in Detroit, Michigan carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Sources including 'Tiger Stadium site' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"The dead are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","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":"Tiger Stadium site","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Stadium_(Detroit)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":2,"entities":1,"sources":1}}