{"id":3225,"slug":"uss-utah-honolulu-hawaii","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Utah is the '41 — the 'target ship' that's the mistaken, the '58' that's the died. The 'timbers' is the trap — the '6x12 wood' that's the practice bombs, the 'crushed' that's the rolling. The 'capsized' is the minutes — the '8:12' that's the gone, the 'Vaessen' that's the cut out.","The 'still there' is the hull — the 'Ford Island' that's the west side, the 'never salvaged' that's the tomb. The 'forgotten' is the sister — the 'Arizona' that's the famous, the 'Utah' that's the quiet. Utah is the memorial — the '1972' that's the dedicated, the 'rusting' that's the visible.","The file keeps USS Utah: the 1941 capsizing, the 58 dead, the timber trap, and the unsalvaged hull.","USS Utah is the archive's Hawaii file — the other Arizona."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["USS Utah is the archive's Hawaii file — the forgotten hull.","A wreck keeps its timbers — the file's suggestion being that Utah's hold is the crushed: the '58' that's the died, the 'target' that's the mistaken, and the 'still there' that's the tomb."]}],"name":"USS Utah","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MARITIME","WWII"],"groups":["dark-history","legends"],"desc":"The other sunken ship—still on her side at Ford Island.","full_desc":"A site in Honolulu, Hawaii, USS Utah is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The other sunken ship—still on her side at Ford Island. The presences in its file go unnamed: the utah crew, the record says. 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":"Honolulu","county":null,"state":"Hawaii","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":21.324347,"lon":-157.84764,"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 / memorial","research_notes":"HI 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":3258,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The crew are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Utah crew. USS Utah in Honolulu, Hawaii carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. 'USS Utah' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The Utah crew","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"USS Utah","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Utah_(BB-31)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3259,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported a presence at the wreck. The site in Honolulu, Hawaii gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"USS Utah","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Utah_(BB-31)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The December 7, 1941 sinking is documented; 58 died. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The record appears in 'USS Utah'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":"1941-12-07","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"USS Utah","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Utah_(BB-31)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The crew are reportedly remembered. The reports at USS Utah are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. Sources including 'USS Utah' keep the claim in circulation. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"USS Utah","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Utah_(BB-31)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The Utah crew","claimed_identity":"The Utah crew","verified":null,"summary":"The crew are reportedly remembered. The presences go by the Utah crew in the file. USS Utah's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account appears in 'USS Utah'. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is The Utah crew.","behavior":"The crew are reportedly remembered.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"USS Utah","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Utah_(BB-31)","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":"USS Utah","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Utah_(BB-31)","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}