USS SULTANA
Site — Marion, Arkansas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/uss-sultana-marion-arkansas/

April 27, 1865—the steamboat that killed 1,800 freedmen.

USS Sultana is a site in Marion, Arkansas. April 27, 1865—the steamboat that killed 1,800 freedmen. The presence its accounts keep returning to is the one they call the 1,800. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Sultana is the '65 — the 'April 27' that's the 2 a.m., the '1,800' that's the died. The '376' is the capacity — the '2,400' that's the crammed, the '$5 a head' that's the greed. The 'patched' is the boiler — the 'Taylor' that's the warned, the 'Mason' that's the rushed.
The 'Andersonville' is the passengers — the 'POWs' that's the survived camp, the 'home' that's the almost. The 'forgotten' is the news — the 'Lincoln' that's the buried, the 'Booth' that's the killed. Sultana is the buried — the 'soybean field' that's the 20 feet, the 'Marion marker' that's the remembers.
The file keeps Sultana: the 1865 explosion, the 1,800 dead, the patched boiler, and the soybean grave.
USS Sultana is the archive's Arkansas file — the ship itself.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
USS Sultana is the archive's Arkansas file — the greed's explosion.
A wreck keeps its toll — the file's suggestion being that Sultana's hold is the forgotten: the '1,800' that's the died, the 'patched' that's the boiler, and the 'soybeans' that's the buried.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly seen. Witnesses name it The 1,800; the name travels further than the proof. USS Sultana's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'Sultana (alt)' keep the claim in circulation. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Sultana (alt) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sultana)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence at the site. USS Sultana's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. The file stays open on it.
  source: Sultana (alt) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sultana)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The April 27, 1865 explosion is documented. USS Sultana's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Sultana (alt)' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The reports keep the address on the map.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Sultana (alt) — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sultana

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