{"id":2641,"slug":"toltec-mounds-scott-arkansas","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Toltec is the misnamed — the 'Plum Bayou' that's the real, the '700-1050' that's the built. The '18 mounds' is the plaza — the '49 feet' that's the tallest, the 'Arkansas' that's the largest. The 'embankment' is the mile — the '8-10 feet' that's the high, the 'oxbow' that's the lake.","The 'feasts' is the deer — the 'bones' that's the mounds, the 'ceremonial' that's the not lived. The 'Smithsonian' is the '70s — the 'Palmer' that's the Toltec, the 'wrong' that's the named. Toltec is the preserved — the 'state park' that's the '80, the 'NHL' that's the '78.","The file keeps Toltec: the Plum Bayou real, the 18 mounds, the feasts deer, and the misnamed Toltec.","Toltec Mounds is the archive's Arkansas file — the wrong name's mounds."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Toltec Mounds is the archive's Arkansas file — the feast's earthworks.","A mound keeps its misnomer — the file's suggestion being that Toltec's hold is the corrected: the 'Plum Bayou' that's the real, the '49 feet' that's the tallest, and the 'not Toltec' that's the named."]}],"name":"Toltec Mounds","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","INDIGENOUS","ARCHAEOLOGY"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"The Plum Bayou mounds—1,000-year-old earthworks older than the name suggests.","full_desc":"A site in Scott, Arkansas, Toltec Mounds is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Plum Bayou mounds—1,000-year-old earthworks older than the name suggests. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the mound builders. 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":"Scott","county":null,"state":"Arkansas","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":34.69766,"lon":-92.093932,"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":"AR 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":2187,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The mounds’ builders are remembered in local lore—the Toltec name is a documented misnomer. The mound builders is the name the reports keep returning to. The reports at Toltec Mounds 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 legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The mound builders","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Toltec Mounds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Mounds_Archeological_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2188,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence among the mounds at dusk. The reports at Toltec Mounds are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. It remains the site's standing claim.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Toltec Mounds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Mounds_Archeological_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The mounds date ~650-1050 CE; the alignments are documented. Toltec Mounds' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'Toltec Mounds'. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Toltec Mounds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Mounds_Archeological_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The mounds’ builders are remembered in local lore—the Toltec name is a documented misnomer. The site in Scott, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Toltec Mounds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Mounds_Archeological_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The mound builders","claimed_identity":"The mound builders","verified":null,"summary":"The mounds’ builders are remembered in local lore—the Toltec name is a documented misnomer. The file calls it The mound builders. The site in Scott, Arkansas gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"The mounds’ builders are remembered in local lore—the Toltec name is a documented misnomer.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Toltec Mounds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Mounds_Archeological_State_Park","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":"Toltec Mounds","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltec_Mounds_Archeological_State_Park","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}