What we have corrected
A public record of our own errors: what an entry claimed, what is true, and the source that settles it.
A site about haunted places and cryptids cannot ask for trust without showing anything. These are real corrections to entries on this site, made when we checked them against sources. Each one states what we claimed, what the documents say, and when it was fixed. The error is not deleted: it is left on the record.
Forty-three entries withdrawn
In August 2026, auditing our most recent batches of work, we found entries resting on references that led nowhere. We pulled forty-three from the site the same day. All of them have since been rebuilt from scratch against sources and republished; none remains withdrawn. We say so here because the alternative was to fix them quietly.
Corrections, newest first
473 corrections published: 4 coordinates · 310 facts · 158 sources · 1 pattern
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It said: The entry said the other ghosts attributed to the campus are reported only on ghost-tour and paranormal websites, with no corroboration from the college.
It is: The college's own news release of 1 November 2023 mentions 'Frank, the library ghost', and describes the annual Red Lady Run.
Source: Huntingdon College, 'Huntingdon Concludes Fun-Filled Fright Week', 1 November 2023.
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It said: The entry said the college bought 58 acres in 1908, moved on 24 August 1909 into Hamner Hall, and held classes at Sullins College in Virginia that year.
It is: According to the college's own history, friends of the college bought 50 acres from J. G. Thomas and donated them; on 24 August 1909 the furniture and records were moved into a rented building, which burned that night, and 'other housing arrangements were made'. The 58 acres are the area of the historic district in its 1999 National Register nomination.
Source: Huntingdon College, Huntingdon Past and Present (read 6 October 2026); National Register nomination 00000138.
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Government House (Saskatchewan)
It said: As of 2026 the museum's public website makes no claim that the house is haunted at all.
It is: On 22 September 2026 the museum's website announced Ghost Story Tours for 23 and 30 October 2026: 'Hear about all the paranormal happenings of the century-plus Government House this Halloween season.'
Source: Government House Saskatchewan, 'Ghost Story Tours', 22 September 2026
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It said: An earlier version of this entry swapped the lovers' sides, credited the siege to Cromwell and sent readers to a rock 'later dubbed Alice's Cave' where the couple supposedly sheltered.
It is: In Henry Neele's story of 1827 Alice is the niece of the Parliamentarian Colonel Birch and Clifford the nephew of the Royalist governor, Sir Henry Lingen; the siege was conducted by Colonel John Birch. No source was found for an 'Alice's Cave'.
Source: Henry Neele, The Romance of History: England, 3rd ed., 1829, vol. III, pp. 279-302; English Heritage, The Siege of Goodrich Castle.
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It said: The entry described Henry Neele, the author of the 1827 story that gives us Alice and Clifford, as Leicester-born.
It is: Neele was born in the Strand, London, on 29 January 1798.
Source: Dictionary of National Biography, 'Neele, Henry' (Wikisource, read 6 October 2026).
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The Ghost of Mae Nak Phra Khanong
It said: Silpa Wattanatham's survey of the films credits the 1999 Nang Nak with fixing the image of the arm reaching for a dropped lime.
It is: That article does not mention the lime; the stretching arm appears in its summary of the 1970 film Mae Nak Phra Nakhon.
Source: Silpa Wattanatham, 12 July 2025 (silpa-mag.com, article_36132).
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It said: Manuel Antonio Román catalogued 'cuero del agua' in 1916 and judged it a fable built out of a sea creature.
It is: The entry is in volume I of his Diccionario de chilenismos (1901-1908), and it offers two origins: sea octopuses, or loose weed tangling round the legs of bathers.
Source: M. A. Román, Diccionario de chilenismos, vol. I, 'cuero'.
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It said: Ovalle lies six hundred kilometres north (of the río Quepe / of the lake district).
It is: Ovalle is some 900 kilometres north of the río Quepe and Cholchol (great-circle distance, 926 and 902 km).
Source: Distance calculated from coordinates.
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It said: Witness John Baxter said the creature's eyes glowed like two orange marbles in his headlights.
It is: The 'two orange marbles' are Bill Bartlett's description, from his car; John Baxter was on foot and described eyes glowing faintly with no colour.
Source: Tobias Wayland, «The Dover Demon», The Singular Fortean Society, 2017; Tim Weisberg, WBSM, 2022
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It said: The witnesses were teenagers who knew each other, and news of the first sighting circulated quickly, the classic setting for a local flap.
It is: Loren Coleman, who investigated the case, said the three did not know each other well, that the sightings fell in school vacation week and that they only began to learn of one another's sightings the following week, shortly before he interviewed them.
Source: Tim Weisberg, «'Dover Demon' Still Mystifies Massachusetts 45 Years Later», WBSM, 20 April 2022 (Coleman on WBSM in 2007)
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It said: Acevedo Bernal's 1917 portrait of Nariño hangs in the President's office, alongside Bolivar and Santander.
It is: The Presidency's 2008 booklet places the Nariño portrait in the President's office; Acevedo Bernal's Santander is in the Salón Protocolario and his Bolívar gives its name to the Salón Bolívar.
Source: Presidencia de la República, La Casa de Nariño (visitor booklet), 2008
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It said: The palace opened on 20 July 1908, on Independence Day, as the Palacio de la Carrera.
It is: The palace was inaugurated in 1908; El Tiempo's 2018 history of the building gives the date as 10 July 1908.
Source: Jorge Emilio Sierra Montoya, El Tiempo, 20 July 2018
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It said: The entry said the opening-night drop curtain reproduced Horace Vernet's Napoleon at Austerlitz, named after the emperor's 1805 victory.
It is: The theatre calls the curtain Napoleon at Austerlitz, but the Library of Congress profile calls it 'Napoleon at Wagram', and its 1979 replacement was painted from a photograph of Vernet's Battle of Wagram at Versailles.
Source: Library of Congress, Local Legacies: Brown Grand Theatre; Brown Grand Theatre, History (capture of April 2008).
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It said: The Tribune article of 16 January 2000 carried, as a control, a second officer at the college who did not take the ghost stories seriously.
It is: The sceptical joke and the figure of fourteen spirits come from the same man, a Chief Superintendent on the college staff.
Source: P. Lal, 'Playing Host to Many a Ghost', The Tribune (Chandigarh), 16 January 2000.
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It said: The Ghost Club's January 1994 investigation was the only formal investigation of the site on the published record.
It is: The Society for Psychical Research's encyclopedia lists several investigations, for research and for entertainment, among them public vigils by the Hampshire Ghost Club and a Most Haunted episode recorded on 30 November 2004; the 1994 one is the one it calls serious.
Source: Melvyn Willin, «Beaulieu Abbey», Psi Encyclopedia (Society for Psychical Research), last updated 2 September 2026
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It said: For years the entry said that Herndon recorded the yacumama tradition among the people of the Ucayali.
It is: Herndon's passage, dated 29 August 1851, is set on the lower Huallaga below Yurimaguas and names no nation; the only people from the Ucayali that day are three Conibos met in a canoe.
Source: W. L. Herndon, Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part I (1853), pp. 168-169.
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It said: The largest green anaconda measured, a female of 5.21 m and 97.5 kg from Jesús Rivas's field programme of about a thousand animals, was attributed to a Guinness World Records page, together with the label 'anecdotal' for the 8.45 m Brazilian specimen.
It is: The Guinness page gives none of those figures and calls the 8.45 m specimen 'reports'. The 521 cm and 97.5 kg female comes from Rivas's 2000 doctoral thesis, which covers 780 anacondas caught between 1992 and 1998.
Source: Guinness World Records, 'Heaviest species of snake' (read 4 October 2026); J. A. Rivas, PhD thesis, University of Tennessee, 2000.
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It said: The entry said that nobody called a real snake a yacumama in print until a cryptozoologist needed a name for a satellite image in 2009.
It is: In 1862 the naturalist Antonio Raimondi listed 'el gigantesco Yacumama (Boa murina, Lin.)', the anaconda, among the snakes of Loreto, and wrote that the Indians greatly exaggerated its size.
Source: Antonio Raimondi, Apuntes sobre la provincia litoral de Loreto (Lima, 1862).
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Whaley House (San Diego, California)
It said: Attributed to San Diego Magazine (2014) the details of Yankee Jim's height and broken legs, the 1868 theatre, the $65 county lease, the 1871 removal and Violet Whaley's marriage; dated the theatre to October 1868.
It is: Those details come from the chronology SOHO published on whaleyhouse.org, now cited; it dates the Tanner theatre from 2 December 1868. The height and broken legs have no source in the file and were removed.
Source: Save Our Heritage Organisation, Whaley Chronology (whaleyhouse.org, archived 2017)
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It said: The index of Dialect Notes vol. IV sends the creature to one page only, page 3.
It is: The index gives 'wampus cat' page 3 alone, but its entry 'catawampus (or wampus) cat' points to pages 104, 225 and 409.
Source: Dialect Notes IV, index.
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It said: The Missouri Department of Conservation says that scream-like noises in the woods are a bobcat or fox.
It is: The department says that this is so 'more often than not'; the qualifier had been dropped from the quotation.
Source: Missouri Department of Conservation, 'Mountain Lion Signs'.
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It said: The entry said the anthropology professor Dave Brauner followed a noise people took for the ghost and found a cockroach, that the fourth floor is shut to the public, and that Ida Kidder lived in the dormitory because her salary would not stretch to a house.
It is: Brauner's story is of an elk skull on his office shelf that wiggled at 1 a.m. and hid a cockroach. KVAL reported in 2014 that the fourth floor was abandoned from the 1960s until a renovation in 2012. No source located gives the salary as the reason she lived there, and it has been removed.
Source: OSU Special Collections, 'Haunted Waldo?' exhibit page; KVAL, 29 October 2014.
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It said: The entry said Sanderson, having no name for the animal, borrowed 'waheela' from a Michigan record, and that no source in the Nahanni supplies the word.
It is: Sanderson uses the name ('the Wahella legend') before he mentions the Michigan record, and on his last page says 'the Amerinds ... persist in their stories of the Waheela'. The Michigan record is the only source he cites for the word, and the one Amerindian witness in his article never uses it.
Source: Ivan T. Sanderson, "The Dire Wolf", Pursuit vol. 7 no. 4 (October 1974), pp. 91-94.
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It said: The firing-squad executions at the Tower belong to the twentieth century: spies shot during the two world wars.
It is: Historic Royal Palaces counts fifteen men convicted of desertion or espionage among those executed within the walls; it does not date them all to the world wars.
Source: Historic Royal Palaces, 'Tower Hill Execution Memorial' (Wayback copy of 11 March 2026).
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It said: The entry said the word was first recorded in 1613, in Pedro de San Buenaventura's Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, and that Filipinos call being led astray by the tikbalang 'nakukulam'.
It is: The word is already in Juan de Plasencia's relation of 1589, and the 1613 entry has no traceable page. Nakukulam means bewitched by a human sorcerer; losing the way is expressed with ligaw.
Source: Plasencia (1589) in Blair & Robertson VII; Bloomfield, Tagalog Texts (1917); Scott, Barangay (1994).
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It said: A 2001 examination of the Montesiepi sword reported a composition and a blade typology consistent with the late twelfth century.
It is: The cited source says the 2001 metallographic investigation certified the weapon as twelfth-century; it does not mention blade typology or the late part of the century.
Source: Finestre sull'Arte, 'St. Galgano and the Sword in the Stone: history of the Hermitage of Montesiepi' (2023), read 4 October 2026.
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It said: No fungus has ever been documented in KV62.
It is: The brown spots on the paintings contain melanins, characteristic of fungal (and sometimes bacterial) metabolism, from microbes that are dead; no living organism has been matched to them.
Source: Harvard Gazette, 8 June 2011; Getty Conservation Institute project page.
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It said: The tomb's wall texts are Book of the Dead spells, and the 'swift wings' curse is a rewriting of a magical-brick formula about the sand.
It is: Silverman's account pairs them differently: the sand formula, on mud plaster before the Anubis shrine, became 'I will kill all of those who cross this threshold'; the 'wings of death' line was a false translation of the golden shrine, whose texts are from the Book of the Dead.
Source: Joshua J. Mark, World History Encyclopedia (2017), quoting David P. Silverman.
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It said: No source was found for the Devil turned into a coin or for the light thrown from Hell; none appears in the Irish texts read.
It is: Both Irish tellings the file cites have the coin: in 'Willie the Wisp' (1930) the Devil turns himself into a two-shilling piece, and in William Cox's telling (1935) into a half crown, and each is trapped in a purse. In 'Willie the Wisp' the Devil also hands Willie a lit wisp at the gate of Hell.
Source: National Folklore Collection, UCD (dúchas.ie): CBÉ 0089, 'Willie the Wisp', Feb. 1930; CBÉ 0107, 'Jack 'o' the Lantern', William Cox, May 1935 — continuation pages
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It said: That the canid shot near Denton in 2018 struck observers with its short legs, small feet and oversized ears.
It is: Montana FWP's wolf specialists doubted it was a purebred wolf because the canine teeth were too short, the front paws too small and the front claws too long.
Source: KRTV / Montana FWP, 18 June 2018.
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It said: Until August 2026 the entry described a headless figure crossing the great hall, explained by a floor raised in Victorian times.
It is: No source cited attaches a headless figure to Rufford, and the Victoria County History (1911) records the hall floor as flagged and 'the same level throughout'; the raised-floor mechanism belongs to the Treasurer's House in York.
Source: W. Farrer and J. Brownbill (eds), A History of the County of Lancaster, vol. 6 (1911), 'Rufford'
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It said: Janet Cameron records Jane Horder's insistence that the ghosts are friendly.
It is: That statement is on the Ghosts.org.uk page about the inn (archived December 2007), not in Cameron's 2016 adaptation.
Source: Ghosts.org.uk, 'The Ringlestone Inn', archived 10 December 2007.
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It said: That in 1886 William E. Cox replaced the copper roof of the house with slate.
It is: The copper roof he replaced was the barn's.
Source: G. W. Adams Educational Center, The Disappearance of William Cox.
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It said: That compilers of Ohio ghost lore describe a Black woman with a head injury seen in the basement rooms.
It is: No source cited by this page contains that figure; the sentence has been withdrawn.
Source: Checked against the page's references, 4 October 2026.
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It said: That the only paranormal claim the trustees make in their own voice is that footsteps in empty rooms have become commonplace.
It is: The same event page adds that "shadowy apparitions and disembodied voices have also become much more frequent".
Source: G. W. Adams Educational Center, Public Ghost Hunt event page (read 4 October 2026).
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It said: The sceptical section said OpenAlex returned 31 scholarly works on Popobawa, all of them anthropology, linguistics or African studies.
It is: On 4 October 2026 OpenAlex returned 35 works. Most are anthropology, linguistics or African studies, but they include a dental-journal editorial, a stroke-care study and two collections on monsters.
Source: OpenAlex API, full-text search for 'Popobawa', 4 October 2026
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It said: After withdrawing a mid-twentieth-century date for the legend, the entry said that date 'had nothing behind it'.
It is: The Encyclopedia of Louisville (2000), as quoted by the Parklands of Floyds Fork in 2011, says stories of encounters had abounded for more than three generations. The oldest dated public appearance is still the 1988 film.
Source: The Parklands of Floyds Fork, 'The Pope Lick Monster' (29 September 2011).
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It said: An earlier version of the entry dated the Pope Lick trestle to 1929.
It is: No source gives 1929. Bridgehunter.com, repeated by Wikidata, gives 1925 for the steel structure; the Parklands of Floyds Fork says the trestle was built in the late 1800s.
Source: Wikidata Q137217092; The Parklands of Floyds Fork, Train Trestle.
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It said: The entry said the earliest description of Olivewood's haunting was a 2005 article in the City of Houston's magazine, and that the investigator's recording of the ghost had never been published anywhere.
It is: A Houston Chronicle feature of 29 July 2001 followed the same investigator to Mary White's headstone, where she found nothing; and her own website, archived in April 2005, published three photographs of the 'entity' (it does not mention a video).
Source: Daniel J. Vargas, Houston Chronicle, 29 July 2001; Cathi Bunn, ghastlyghosthunter.com (Wayback Machine, 10 April 2005).
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It said: That the 1820 and 1830 federal censuses proved Chloe never existed; that the real victims were Clark Woodruff's pregnant wife and two children; that Mary Octavia was killed in the legend; and that the house had a 120-foot veranda.
It is: Censuses before 1850 recorded enslaved people only as numbers under the owner's name; the absence of a Chloe rests on the Woodruff property records, as reported by Troy Taylor. The pregnancy belongs to the legend, not to the real deaths, and in the legend Mary Octavia is never born. The front gallery, added by Ruffin Stirling after 1834, is 107 feet long according to Taylor.
Source: Troy Taylor, American Hauntings; National Archives, African Americans and the Federal Census, 1790-1930
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It said: The entry said the Valentine McKay sighting of September 1909 was a Cedar Lake report whose first appearance in print could not be dated, every version being from the 1970s or later.
It is: The account was printed in November 1920: McKay, 'of Grand Rapids', dates it to September 1910 and places it off Graves Point in Dawson Bay, Lake Winnipegosis, on the way to Cedar Lake. The year 1909 is in print by 1966.
Source: 'A Western Legend', North Hastings Review, November 1920; Tim Dinsdale, The Leviathans (1966)
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It said: The entry credited the Winnipeg Free Press columnist Bartley Kives (2008) with the swimming-moose explanation.
It is: Kives gives the creature as 'easily mistaken for: Lake sturgeon or river otters'; the swimming moose, with its grunts and bleats, comes from the CBC's 2018 feature.
Source: Bartley Kives, 'Moody Manitoba Monsters', Winnipeg Free Press, 29 March 2008; Darren Bernhardt, CBC News, 3 June 2018
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It said: The timeline dated Mark Matthews's public statement that the Frogman was an iguana and the story a hoax to 1999.
It is: Matthews made that statement to WCPO in August 2016, after a reported sighting at Lake Isabella. No source gives 1999.
Source: WCPO, 'Officer who shot Loveland Frogman in 1972 says story is a hoax', 5 August 2016.
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It said: In 2016 the sociologist Ginetta Candelario argued in Small Axe that the ciguapa is fakelore: an invented myth presenting itself as tradition.
It is: Only the abstract of Candelario's article was read, and it does not say that. It reads the myth as a metaphor for the contradictions of Hispanic Caribbean history and ciguapeo as a method of queer, black-identified, anti-racist and feminist movements.
Source: Abstract of G. E. B. Candelario, Small Axe 20 (3), 2016, DOI 10.1215/07990537-3726890
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It said: The sceptical section said Kilmainham was one of the few places whose owners never mention ghosts.
It is: The Office of Public Works offers no ghost tour, but the volunteer society that restored and ran the gaol from 1960 to 1986 published a booklet called Ghosts of Kilmainham in 1963.
Source: Jacqueline Van Voris, Constance de Markievicz: In the Cause of Ireland (1967), bibliography, p. 359
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It said: The entry quoted 'Andy Scott's own catalogue entry' as saying the Kelpies were inspired by the cultural heritage of the Clydesdale horses, and said Scott modelled the heads on living Clydesdales.
It is: The sentence is from Art UK's catalogue entry for the sculpture, not from the sculptor. Scottish Canals calls the Clydesdale the breed that inspired him; the modelling claim had no source in the entry and has been removed.
Source: Art UK, The Kelpies (2013), artwork record; Scottish Canals, tenth-anniversary release (2024).
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It said: The entry set Scotland's 94 water-related deaths of 2023 against the 2013-2015 baseline of 96 that the national strategy aims to halve.
It is: The baseline of 96 refers to accidental drowning deaths only. Of the 94 deaths of 2023, 47 were accidental and 39 suspected suicides.
Source: Water Safety Scotland, 'Water-based deaths at lowest since 2018' (2024), notes to editors.
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It said: Until September 2026 the entry said that belief in the creature deepened after the September 1987 floods, and that sangomas perform rituals at Howick Falls to appease it.
It is: The source that ties the inkanyamba to a disaster names the Christmas 1995 tornado and floods, not 1987; the ritual claim rests on an uncited paragraph of the English Wikipedia article on Howick Falls.
Source: P. G. Alcock, Rainbows in the Mist (South African Weather Service, 2010); Wikipedia, 'Howick Falls' (read 4 October 2026)
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It said: The entry said the earliest printed attestations of the word were from the 1980s, with Lyall Watson's Lightning Bird (1982) as the earliest popular one.
It is: Eve Palmer's Companion Guide to South Africa (1978) already glosses inKanyamba as 'tornado', A. C. Jordan's Tales from Southern Africa (1973) has a Nkanyamba 'King of the Waters', and the Gcaga storm-serpent comes from a novel first published in isiXhosa in 1940.
Source: Eve Palmer, The Companion Guide to South Africa (Collins, 1978); A. C. Jordan, Tales from Southern Africa (1973) and Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (Lovedale, 1940)
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It said: The sceptical section said no published source had proposed the African longfin eel as the origin of the inkanyamba.
It is: George Eberhart's Mysterious Creatures (2002) lists the African longfin eel, Anguilla mossambica, among the possible explanations, together with the giant mottled eel, the Nile crocodile and a hoax to promote tourism.
Source: George M. Eberhart, Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology (ABC-CLIO, 2002), entry 'Inkanyamba'
Log updated on October 06, 2026.