What we have corrected
A public record of our own errors: what an entry claimed, what is true, and the source that settles it.
Corrections, newest first
473 corrections published: 4 coordinates · 310 facts · 158 sources · 1 pattern
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It said: That the earliest datable printed record of the Craignethan haunting was the Paranormal Database entry of 2003, and that the caponier lay unseen from 1580 until 1962.
It is: Dane Love's Scottish Ghosts (1995) already prints a White Lady at the castle. HES states that the caponier 'had been accessible in the 19th century though buried under rubble'.
Source: Dane Love, Scottish Ghosts (Robert Hale, 1995), p. 123; HES Statement of Significance (2020)
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
It said: An earlier version of the entry told the plot of the twentieth-century Peking opera Tianhe pei — the Queen Mother of the West separating the lovers, the stolen clothes, a secret marriage with two children — as the ancient legend.
It is: The oldest complete narrative, transmitted as part of Yin Yun's Xiaoshuo, makes her the daughter of the Heavenly Emperor, who marries her to the Cowherd and later separates them because she stops weaving; the Queen Mother, the theft and the children arrive with the stage version that Mei Lanfang played in 1921.
Source: Yin Yun, Xiaoshuo (transmitted fragment); Wilt L. Idema, Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 9.1 (2012); Bo Songnian, China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (2007).
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It said: As a legend, Clinton Road has a precise editorial birthplace: Weird NJ issue #10, around 1998.
It is: The legend is older than the magazine: in August 1998 the Record traced six years of harassment at a house on the road to "a rumor and Internet posting", and the tenants remembered a yeti from their teens; Weird NJ collected the stories.
Source: The Record (Hackensack), reprinted in The Seattle Times, 13 August 1998
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It said: That the Chullachaqui became a cryptid through a single Spanish Wikipedia edit of March 2018, and that no book in the Internet Archive treating it is a work of cryptozoology.
It is: Debra S. Marshall's A Silent Invasion (Schiffer, 2014) had already listed it among the creatures of cryptozoology; the 2018 edit is where Spanish Wikipedia classified it.
Source: Debra S. Marshall, A Silent Invasion (Schiffer, 2014)
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It said: That the Yanjing suishi ji runs to some 24,000 characters, in which "moon" occurs 202 times.
It is: The Wikisource transcription has some 18,000 characters; the character 月 also means 'month', so its count says nothing about the moon and has been dropped. Chang'e's name still appears in none of its four written forms; the character for hare appears six times.
Source: Yanjing suishi ji, zh.wikisource.org, counted 25 September 2026
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It said: That the NoeHill page was the official designation document of the San Francisco Planning Department (1980).
It is: It is a private website on California landmarks (2009). The official documents are Ordinance 409-80 and Planning Commission Resolution 8554, now cited.
Source: San Francisco Planning, landmark file LM119
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It said: That the Claudia Chambers legend was created in the 1970s by ghost tour operators, and that the house was a private residence until 1977 (or until 2000).
It is: No source dates the origin of the legend. What is documented is that the hotelier Robert Pritikin, who bought the house as a rundown boardinghouse in 1977 and ran it as the Mansion Hotel until 2000, played up Claudia's haunting as part of the hotel's entertainment.
Source: Bill Van Niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 December 2020
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It said: That Eudora Chambers's death in 1897 was documented as a suicide following a seven-day disappearance.
It is: Her cause of death is not known. The seven-day disappearance was in May 1893 and the suicide attempt, which she survived, at the end of that year.
Source: Katie Dowd, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 October 2018
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It said: The history page of the hostel states that on 22 June 1941 the castle hosted the "Carbisdale Conference".
It is: The page says the conference took place after Germany attacked the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941; it gives no date for the conference itself.
Source: Carbisdale Castle History, carbisdale.org (Internet Archive, 29 June 2007)
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It said: From a search of Chronicling America the file concluded that before April 1980 the region 'in print' was not a haunted place.
It is: The conclusion is now limited to that corpus, which covers newspapers only up to 1963.
Source: Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
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It said: Langlois's 1978 study 'has never been digitised'.
It is: The 1978 volume of Indiana Folklore is digitised in HathiTrust, full view under CC BY 3.0.
Source: HathiTrust catalogue record 000545043, item inu.30000116555594
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It said: That the Celtic-goddess reading of Black Annis was a modern addition whose origin could not be traced, perhaps to T. C. Lethbridge (1957), and that no account described the cave.
It is: The equation of Annis with Anu is in print by 1846, in John Dudley's Naology, citing Vallancey; Billson reprinted it in 1895, Mackenzie extended it in 1917 and Lethbridge repeated it in 1957. Dudley (who was inside the cave around 1776) and William Kelly (Leicester Chronicle, 1874) both described the cave from inside.
Source: John Dudley, Naology (London, 1846), p. 249; C. J. Billson, County Folk-Lore vol. I (1895), pp. 7-8
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It said: The history said the keening woman wailed over the body and the banshee before it.
It is: Two of the file's own sources contradict that: at Laurencetown she came 'before the person dies and after they are dead', and at Lough Hacket she was heard after Pa Moran had drowned.
Source: The Schools' Collection, vol. 0055 p. 0194 (Laurencetown) and vol. 0022 p. 0625 (Lough Hacket)
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It said: The 1773 event on Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire cited the Srahmore Schools' Collection page, which does not mention it.
It is: It now cites an open encyclopaedia article, and says the two most complete versions came from Nóra Ní Shíndile and were transcribed by Éamonn de Bhál.
Source: English Wikipedia, 'Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire' (read 25 September 2026)
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It said: The chronology dated Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh to c. 1380, described it as the earliest written appearance of 'otherworld women keening the doomed', and cited the Srahmore Schools' Collection page, which does not mention it.
It is: Patricia Lysaght dates the text to about the middle of the fourteenth century; what it describes is a washing badb appearing before the Battle of Corcomroe Abbey (1317). The event now cites Lysaght.
Source: Patricia Lysaght, The Banshee: The Irish Death-Messenger (Roberts Rinehart, 1997 reissue of the 1986 study)
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It said: Five centuries with no recorded beaver in Wales at all lie between Giraldus and Lhuyd; whatever people on the Conwy meant by afanc in 1693, they cannot have meant an animal any of them had seen.
It is: The date of the beaver's extinction is disputed: Lee Raye (2015) argues for about 1300 in south Britain, Bryony Coles (2006, 2010) for survival in Britain into the eighteenth century.
Source: Lee Raye, Historical Biology 27 (8), 2015
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It said: Twelve near-life-size figures from the seventeenth century watch from the north wall; the architect lists the gargoyles among what he borrowed; owl appears three times in the nomination.
It is: The twelve figures are stained-glass panels in the upper part of the north-wall windows and span American history from a Mohawk man to Washington and Boone. The gargoyles are English ones the dedication poem asks the listener about, not part of the list of what was borrowed. Owl appears twice.
Source: Robert T. Englert, National Register nomination, 2010, sections 7-8
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Zahhak, the Serpent King Chained at Damavand
It said: The source for the Damavand climbing permit and camps was described as an independent guidebook site.
It is: damawand.de is the commercial website of Damavand Adventures, a trekking and ski-tour operator founded by mountain guide Ardeshir Soltani, which sells its own Damavand tours. The permit fee it quotes (USD 50, May 2022) is unchanged.
Source: damawand.de, home page and Tour/Permit.html.
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It said: That the 2017 National Geographic article on Daniel Taylor identified the yeti with the Himalayan brown bear.
It is: The article, by Simon Worrall, reports Daniel Taylor's conclusion that the footprints were made by an Asian black bear.
Source: Simon Worrall, 'This Man Searched for the Yeti for 60 Years—and Found It', National Geographic, 19 August 2017.
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It said: That Bryan Sykes's 2014 genetic study found a tooth from Reinhold Messner's mountain museum to be domestic dog, and that Sykes proposed an unknown bear hybrid.
It is: Sykes et al. (2014) analysed hair samples only; no tooth and no dog sample from Messner's museum appears in the paper. For the two Himalayan bear samples Sykes offered three possibilities: an unrecognised bear species, a colour variant of the polar bear or a brown bear–polar bear hybrid. The link to the paper also pointed to the Edwards and Barnett reply and has been corrected.
Source: Sykes et al., 'Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates', Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2014.
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It said: The visiting section put Bürglen four kilometres up the Schächental from Altdorf, and said the 1307 on the Tell Monument protested a decision of the federal parliament taken around 1890.
It is: The Tell-Museum in Bürglen is about 1.6 km from the monument in a straight line. The decision was the Federal Council's, in 1891, to celebrate 1291 with a festival in Schwyz; Uri's protest failed.
Source: Canton of Uri, 'Telldenkmal – ein politisches Manifest' (2018); distance calculated from OpenStreetMap coordinates on 24 September 2026
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It said: The author of 'Tell und Gessler in Sage und Geschichte' (1877) was given as Eduard Ludwig Rochholz, and the sceptical section called him Eduard Rochholz.
It is: The author is Ernst Ludwig Rochholz (1809-1892), who signs the title page as E. L. Rochholz.
Source: Title page of the 1877 Heilbronn edition and Internet Archive catalogue record, checked 24 September 2026
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It said: The visiting section said the 1973 Senate resolution was non-binding and that its prohibition on molesting the monster carried no penalty.
It is: No source cited in the file says so. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas states that "it is illegal to harm the monster inside the refuge".
Source: Conor J. Hennelly, White River Monster, Encyclopedia of Arkansas (updated 19 July 2024).
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The White Lady of Balete Drive
It said: The visiting section said the street ran 1.3 km between E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue and Nicanor Domingo Street, and that the map pin fell 1.33 km east of the street.
It is: On OpenStreetMap that section measures about 1.17 km; the 1.3 km includes the 190 m stub north of E. Rodriguez. The pin had already been moved onto Balete Drive and now lies on the street.
Source: OpenStreetMap, way 24521639 and adjoining ways
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It said: Reference 0 presented Lou Marano's 1982 Current Anthropology article.
It is: The linked document is Marano's 1981 Ph.D. thesis at the University of Florida, which makes the same argument.
Source: Internet Archive item windigopsychosis00mara (metadata: «Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1981»).
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It said: The visiting section placed the al-Mahra sinkhole about 1,300 km east of Sana'a and 33 km from the Omani border, and called Salah Babhair the head of Yemen's Geological Survey and Mineral Resources Board.
It is: In a straight line the sinkhole is about 906 km from Sana'a (the 1,300 km is AFP's figure, not a straight-line distance); no source in the file gives the 33 km. AFP identifies Babhair as director-general of al-Mahra's geological survey and mineral resources authority, a regional post.
Source: AFP, via The National, 22 June 2021; GeoNames and English Wikipedia coordinates
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It said: The temple stands about four kilometres east of the island.
It is: It stands about 1 km north-east of Ayutthaya railway station, on the east bank opposite the island, and about 1.1 km north of the Chedi Wat Sam Pluem roundabout.
Source: Fine Arts Department record; distances calculated on OpenStreetMap, 24 September 2026
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It said: Wat Kudi Dao was registered as a national ancient monument in 1935.
It is: It was registered by a Royal Gazette notice dated 8 March 2478 in the Thai calendar of the time, whose year began in April: 8 March 1936.
Source: Fine Arts Department, national ancient monument record for Wat Kudi Dao (Royal Gazette vol. 52, part 75)
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It said: Admission was $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $8 for children, under-6s free; October tickets went on sale from 18 September and were needed from age 3.
It is: The house's own page gives a single price of $17 with children under 4 free; October tickets go on sale from 15 August and are needed from age 4. Last entry in season is 16:30, not 16:45.
Source: The Witch House, 'Plan Your Visit' and 'Visiting in October', thewitchhouse.org, consulted 24 September 2026
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It said: Every event in the chronology pointed to the wrong reference, one place further down the list (for example, the 2025 sale pointed to the hotel's tours page and 1903 to Stephen King's website).
It is: Each event now points to the source that supports it; the purchase price and bankruptcy attached to John Cullen's 1995 purchase, which no source in the entry supports, have been removed.
Source: NRHP nomination (1985); StephenKing.com; Skeptical Inquirer (2009); Uncover Colorado (2025); Estes Valley Voice (2025)
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It said: Visiting block: the open-air play runs on summer Sundays for about twenty minutes, with the 2026 season as the time to plan a visit around.
It is: The play lasts 30 minutes; the 2026 season ended on 20 September and the 2027 season is planned from 16 May to 19 September.
Source: Stadt Hameln, Rattenfänger-Freilichtspiel: Story und Termine (updated 22 September 2026).
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It said: The reference to Moonshine Ink's 2018 article described it as reporting that the Tessie museum in Kings Beach had closed and been demolished.
It is: The article says only that Bob McCormick ran a Tessie gift shop in Kings Beach for about seven years; it mentions no museum, no closure and no demolition.
Source: Moonshine Ink, «Tahoe myths: Tessie and the man-eating lake bird, Ong…» (2018).
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It said: The visiting section said the reopening after the January 2023 tornado could not be dated and that the published hours were unreliable.
It is: The museum held its Barbecue on the Green on its grounds on 26 October 2023, and the Selma Times-Journal gave its hours on 11 May 2026 as Tuesday to Friday 10-4 and Saturday 10-2.
Source: The Selma Times-Journal, 31 October 2023 and 11 May 2026
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It said: St Joseph's at Kenmore survives as the Holmwood guesthouse.
It is: The Goulburn Post of 8 October 2024 gives its current name as Liminis House, owned by Maggie and Darryl Patterson.
Source: Goulburn Post, 8 Oct 2024
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It said: Nic Hume's ghost-hunt report was dated to a night on 29 July 2011.
It is: The report carries no date; it describes a winter night, and its PDF file was created on 2 February 2012.
Source: Nic Hume, St Johns Foundling Orphanage (APPI), text and PDF metadata
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It said: The council's heritage assessment believed it to be the first theatre in the world built with a fireproofed steel frame, and the first fully steel-framed reinforced concrete building in Australasia.
It is: The assessment says it is believed to be "the first theatre building to be constructed in this way", without "in the world", and calls it "one of the first" fully steel-framed reinforced concrete buildings in Australasia.
Source: Wellington City Council, Wellington Heritage Building Inventory, St James Theatre (2015).
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St Catherine's School, Germiston
It said: The visiting section called the site a primary school with around six hundred children on the premises.
It is: The school takes pupils from Grade 000 to Grade 12 and has had a senior school again since 2001; no source in the file gives its enrolment, so the figure has been removed.
Source: St Catherine's School, Germiston, website and history page (read 24 September 2026).
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It said: The Texas Parks and Wildlife brochure on the Freeport Liberty Ship Reef was dated 2023.
It is: The brochure dates from April 2002 (PWD BR V3400-423, 4/02); the visiting section now dates what it says to 2002.
Source: Texas Parks and Wildlife, Freeport Liberty Ship Reef brochure, footer
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It said: The visiting section said the 2001 diver measured the beam at 48 feet against the Queen's registered 68.2.
It is: His report compares the 48 feet with "the 60 feet expected on the MSQ" and says he cannot tell whether it confirms or denies the identification.
Source: Mike Rodriguez, Dive Report: Deep 423 (2001)
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It said: The visiting section gave the grid reference as SS 7952 9838.
It is: The Royal Commission's Coflein record gives SS 79529 79838 (easting 279529, northing 179838); the published figure had the wrong northing.
Source: RCAHMW, Coflein NPRN 19972; Cadw listing 11217.
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It said: A chronology entry and the history gave Elizabeth Williams's marriage at Llangyfelach on 9 September 1766 and four baptisms in 1768-1773, citing a blog post that contains none of those dates.
It is: No source cited in the file gives those dates. The Kenfig Society records four children and nine years of marriage, and her burial at Llansamlet on 6 January 1776 is reported by the local historians.
Source: The Kenfig Society, Sker & Sker House; hellohistoria, The Original Maid of Sker (2014).
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It said: Ross Hutchins's book is not digitised; its passage was read in a reproduction published on 3 November 2007.
It is: The book is digitised for controlled lending by the Internet Archive; the blog reproduction we read was published on 17 November 2007.
Source: Open Library, work OL6568008W; La Revue Gauche, 17 November 2007
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It said: The visiting section called the present facade the one Thackeray described in 1842 as an extremely big red house.
It is: The present building dates from about 1865, by John McCurdy; Thackeray's red house was the building it replaced, as the entry's own history section says.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, reg. no. 50100243
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It said: The visiting section said the Horseshoe Bar opened at 16:00 every day and listed the 1824 Bar as a way in for non-residents.
It is: On 24 September 2026 the hotel's pages give the Horseshoe Bar from 14:00 on Saturday and Sunday, and state that the 1824 Bar serves only in-house guests.
Source: The Shelbourne, bar pages and FAQ, theshelbourne.com
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Sidi Chamharouch: Shamharush, King of the Jinn
It said: The visiting section said that Doutte recorded the annual moussem of this shrine in the dog days of summer as far back as 1914.
It is: The moussem Doutte described in 1914 belonged to a different shrine of Sidi Chemharouj, a cave in the Goundafa country above Tagadirt el Bour, as this file's own history explains.
Source: Edmond Doutte, Missions au Maroc: en tribu (1914), pp. 89-91
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Sidi Chamharouch: Shamharush, King of the Jinn
It said: The USGS reference for the Al Haouz earthquake linked event us6000ldpg.
It is: Event us6000ldpg is a different earthquake, the M 6.3 of October 2023 near Herat, Afghanistan; the Al Haouz earthquake is USGS event us7000kufc.
Source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, event us7000kufc
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It said: The visiting section said NatureScot marks designated seal haul-out sites.
It is: Haul-out sites are designated by Scottish Ministers under section 117 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010; 194 were designated by an order in force from 30 September 2014.
Source: Scottish Government, 'Seal haul-out sites', consulted 24 September 2026
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It said: The chronology said Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea (1855) placed the Sargasso Sea in the eastern Atlantic, and cited the New York edition by Harper & Brothers.
It is: Maury's §13 places it "Midway the Atlantic, in the triangular space between the Azores, Canaries, and the Cape de Verd Islands". The linked copy is the second, enlarged edition published in London by Sampson Low, Son, & Co.; the §13 text is the same.
Source: M. F. Maury, The Physical Geography of the Sea, 2nd ed., London: Sampson Low, 1855, §13 (archive.org).
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It said: Königstraße 13 in Rosenheim is a private building in the town centre, in ordinary residential and commercial use.
It is: Königstraße 13 houses offices of the City of Rosenheim (the city treasury, procurement and municipal traffic monitoring) and is a listed monument, D-1-63-000-82.
Source: City of Rosenheim, directory of departments; Bavarian list of monuments, 15 September 2026
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It said: The Woodland Trust's Ancient Tree Inventory recorded the Major Oak's girth as 27 ft 4 in by Hayman Rooke in 1790 and 1,059 cm in 1990; Rooke named the tree and judged it close to a thousand years old.
It is: The Inventory's record gives a girth of 10.66 m. The figures for 1790 and 1990 come from an anonymous comment posted on that page in 2007, and the file's sources say nothing about the origin of the name or about Rooke's estimate of its age.
Source: Woodland Trust, Ancient Tree Inventory, tree record 1 (the Major Oak), with its comments.
Log updated on October 06, 2026.