{"id":2071,"slug":"uss-hornet-alameda-california","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Hornet is the Apollo's — the '69 recovery of the moon men, the Nixon who watched from the deck. The war was the Pacific — the 688 planes it destroyed, the Yamato that it helped sink. The ghost is the Gray — the call sign that stuck, the sailors who never left.","The museum is the Alameda — the '98 opening that saved it, the bunks that the tours sleep in. The deaths were the thousands — the crewmen who didn't return, the compartments where they're felt. The Hornet is the haunted — the most haunted ship that the tours claim, the Apollo that's the exhibit.","The file keeps the Hornet: the WWII carrier, the Apollo recovery, the '98 museum, and the ghost tours.","The USS Hornet is the archive's Alameda file — the moon men's ship."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Hornet is the archive's Alameda file — the carrier that touched the moon.","A ship keeps its astronauts — the file's suggestion being that the Hornet's hold is the recovery: the Apollo 11 that it caught, the Nixon who saw it, and the ghosts in the bunks."]}],"name":"USS Hornet","aliases":[],"type":"MUSEUM_SHIP","type_label":"Museum Ship","cats":["AVIATION_DISASTER","HAUNTED_SHIP","MILITARY_MUSEUM"],"groups":["maritime"],"desc":"Apollo 11 recovery carrier and WWII veteran with a deep ghost file.","full_desc":"A museum ship in Alameda, California, built in 1943, USS Hornet is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Apollo 11 recovery carrier and WWII veteran with a deep ghost file. It sits in the archive under haunted ships, military museums and aviation disasters. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 2 documented facts, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Alameda","county":null,"state":"California","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":37.7726,"lon":-122.3033,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1943,"year_opened":1943,"year_closed":1970,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1306,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Staff and overnight investigators report footsteps, voices and figures in the island, hangar and sick bay. Maritime lore is the oldest ghost file there is; USS Hornet in Alameda, California is a fully credentialed entry. It originates in investigator claims — compelling inside the team's log, unverifiable outside it. Nothing here would make headlines alone; together the reports make a pattern.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"USS Hornet (CV-12)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Commissioned 1943; served through the Pacific war and recovered Apollo 11 in 1969. USS Hornet's history is documented — launches, crews, and losses all on record before the lore begins. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'USS Hornet (CV-12)'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1943","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"USS Hornet (CV-12)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}},{"description":"The museum opened in 1998 and runs overnight paranormal programs. A vessel with a documented working life gives the file real substance underneath the maritime lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'USS Hornet (CV-12)' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1998","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"USS Hornet (CV-12)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"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":"USS Hornet (CV-12)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},{"name":"USS Hornet Museum — official site","url":"https://uss-hornet.org","publisher":"USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum","type":"MUSEUM","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}