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: Boggy Creek takes its name from the sawmill of George W. Fouke.
It is: It is the town that is named after George W. Fouke; his sawmill stood two miles south of it on Boggy Creek.
Source: Frank McFerrin, «Fouke (Miller County)», CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas
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It said: The chronology said that on 18 October 1976 the glass lid over the body at Fårevejle was replaced by an oak one, and credited this to the Odsherred local-history wiki's page on the White Lady.
It is: No lid was swapped: the body, long shown in a glass coffin, was laid in a closed oak coffin made by the National Museum's joiners, according to other pages of the same wiki. The White Lady page says nothing about it. The chronology entry now records what its cited source says: in 2019 the body lies in a closed oak coffin in a crypt under Fårevejle Church, and Museum Vestsjælland showed tiny pieces of its skin at Asnæs.
Source: Sjællandske Nyheder, «Museums-uhygge i centret: Det er små stykker af Jarlen af Bothwell» (2019); Odsherred local-history wiki, «Jarlen af Bothwell» and «Fårevejle kirke».
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It said: The visiting section said there was no museum and no plaque, and that the town had never wanted to exploit the affair; it put Dover about twenty miles south-west of Boston.
It is: In autumn 2025 the Dover Historical Society opened an exhibit on the Dover Demon at its Sawin Museum, and it had earlier sold a 'Dover Demon, do you believe?' T-shirt. The town is about 21.5 km (13.3 miles) from the State House in a straight line.
Source: CBS Boston, 30 October 2025; GBH, 29 April 2024
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It said: Myōjin-shō lies some 59 km south of Aogashima; the Coast Guard overflies it roughly monthly; after the disaster the Hydrographic Department's standing rule for the area was to stay outside two miles.
It is: By the Coast Guard's position for the reef and the island's coordinates, the distance is about 65 km (the reef lies south-south-east of Aogashima); the Coast Guard log shows eleven observations between May 2024 and April 2026, not monthly ones; and the two-mile instruction recorded by Nakagawa Hisashi was given for a 1982 survey off Takarajima, not as a standing rule for Myōjin-shō.
Source: Japan Coast Guard, Marine Volcano Database: Myōjin-shō (updated 4 September 2026); Japanese Wikipedia, «第五海洋丸の遭難»
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It said: The visiting section said not to expect a mounted dahu at MUZOO, because its published collections list 'nothing else', and gave the youth rate as ages 12 to 16.
It is: The museum owns a naturalised dahu in two versions, a skeleton and a furred one, first shown in 1995 and lent to Champlitte in 2017; its collections page simply does not list it. The youth rate covers ages 12 to 15.
Source: Le Matin, 3 January 2018; MUZOO opening hours and prices page, consulted 24 September 2026
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
It said: Reference 5 was presented as Ying Shao's Fengsu tongyi, with the magpie-bridge fragment quoted in Han E's Suihua jili.
It is: The link is the English Wikipedia article on the book, which supports only that 10 of its 30 chapters survive.
Source: English Wikipedia, 'Fengsu Tongyi'
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
It said: Reference 6 was presented as Yin Yun's Xiaoshuo fragment with the first complete narrative of the legend.
It is: The linked page is an encyclopaedia entry by Ulrich Theobald that does not quote the passage, and whose bibliography includes a 2015 study arguing that it is not a genuine Yin Yun fragment.
Source: ChinaKnowledge.de, Yin Yun xiaoshuo (2012)
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
It said: The Cowherd statue stands north of Changjiazhuang village; the Weaver Girl is sheltered by a shrine called Shipo Miao, where a large Qixi observance is held; there is no visitor centre or charge.
It is: The heritage record places the Cowherd at Changjiazhuang, east of Doumen town, in a hall built by villagers and open to visitors as a tourist site; the Weaver Girl is covered by a protective building inside the cotton mill. The record does not name a shrine or a Qixi observance.
Source: ICOMOS IICC-X, Silk Roads heritage database, Niulang Zhinü shike (updated 5 Aug 2021)
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It said: The hotel traded until 22 April 2019, when the partnership went into sequestration and every booking was cancelled.
It is: The hotel stopped trading in mid-April 2019; on 22 April the accountants announced that the partnership was applying to be declared bankrupt and asked holders of bookings to contact them. The source does not say bookings were cancelled.
Source: Johnston Carmichael, «Comlongon Castle sequestration», 22 April 2019
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It said: The bones under the orchestra pit were found on 29 March 2017, during a 14-month renovation.
It is: They were found on 29 March 2016, according to the WCPO report published on 26 April 2016; the unsourced 14-month figure has been removed.
Source: WCPO, "Human bones found under Music Hall", 26 April 2016.
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It said: Reference 2 was presented as Lafcadio Hearn, "Gossip About City Ghosts", Cincinnati Commercial, 1876, newspaper — but it linked to a Wikipedia revision.
It is: It is now described as what the link is: the Paranormal section of the Wikipedia article "Cincinnati Music Hall", which cites Hearn's article of 22 October 1876.
Source: Wikipedia, Cincinnati Music Hall, revision of 2 November 2018, note 32.
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It said: Three of the file's five sources were a New York Times article by Andrew Jacobs (2014), a China Daily article by Zhang Kai on box-office records, and a Beijing Daily report on the 2024 reopening, none of which could be found at the addresses given.
It is: They now point to the reports that do exist: Amy Qin's New York Times article of 25 September 2013, China Daily's photo report of 4 August 2014 and the Beijing Evening News report of 20 October 2024 by Zhang Xue.
Source: Internet Archive captures; chinadaily.com.cn; visitbeijing.com.cn
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It said: A hundred grams of Chang'e-5 soil went on display at the National Museum of China in 2021 and has been on display there since.
It is: The Xinhua report gives no weight for the display, only the 1,731 g total returned, and says that after Beijing the samples would go on a national tour.
Source: Xinhua, 'Lunar samples on display at China's national museum', People's Daily Online, 28 February 2021
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It said: The chronology dated George McCall Theal's verdict on Mentzel ('almost entirely ideal') to 1897 and cited his History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company.
It is: The copy we link is Theal's History of South Africa, 1691–1795 (Swan Sonnenschein, 1888), which already contains the verdict; the entry now gives 1888 and describes the book we link.
Source: Internet Archive, historysouthafr05theagoog
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It said: The visiting section said the 2007 reportage found the stone cross "only with the help of the man who lived at the wood's edge", and placed Copuzu across the Ialomița from the wood.
It is: Horia Țurcanu writes that he came upon the cross on his own on his first visit, and met the man living at the edge of the wood later. Both church sources place Copuzu on the right bank of the Ialomița, the same side as the wood.
Source: Horia Țurcanu, Formula AS 778 (2007); Ștefan Grigorescu, Bărăganul Ortodox; Ziarul Lumina (2010).
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It said: The visiting section quoted the priest of Copuzu telling Ziarul Lumina: "only one road leads to Copuzu, and it has no signpost. It is not a village you pass through, it is the end of the road."
It is: Neither Ziarul Lumina article cited in the file (22 July 2010 and 18 June 2013) contains that statement. The 2010 article places Copuzu a short distance from the Urziceni-Slobozia road, on the road that passes the gate of Balaciu Monastery.
Source: Dumitru Manolache, Ziarul Lumina, 2010 and 2013.
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It said: The relevant files are open — DEFE 24/2879 ... and DEFE 24/1535.
It is: DEFE 24/2879 is closed until 2062 under a personal-information exemption; a redacted copy, DEFE 24/2879/1, has been open since 22 June 2017. DEFE 24/1535 is open.
Source: The National Archives, Discovery catalogue (consulted 24 September 2026)
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It said: Kerri McCaffety's Etouffée, Mon Amour (2002) was attributed to University Press of Mississippi.
It is: It was published by Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, Louisiana.
Source: Open Library, edition OL3553477M
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It said: The visiting section gave dinner until 9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday and breakfast from 9 a.m. every day.
It is: The restaurant's general information page (24 September 2026) gives dinner every night from 6 to 10 p.m. and breakfast from 8 a.m. at weekends.
Source: Brennan's, General information, brennansneworleans.com/about/
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It said: The entry listed among its sources a book called Ghosthunting Arizona, by Sally Tatta (2008).
It is: No library or book catalogue records a book with that title, author and date. The reference has been removed; nothing in the entry depended on it.
Source: Open Library catalogue search, 24 September 2026 (the same search finds the other titles in the series, such as Ghosthunting Texas).
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It said: In May 1886 water flooded the Grand Central mine hoist works; the theatre had fourteen curtained boxes; the NPS documentation traced the name directly to them.
It is: On 26 May 1886 the Grand Central hoist and pumping plant burned; the museum gives twelve balcony boxes; the 1978 NPS form says the name "presumably" came from them.
Source: Bird Cage Theatre website (history page); NPS nomination form, February 1978
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It said: Reference 5 was described as a historical newspaper archive of the Tombstone Epitaph dated 1882.
It is: The link is the website of the present-day Epitaph newspaper and museum, which sells historical editions; it does not document the 1886 and 1887 events that cited it.
Source: tombstoneepitaph.com
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It said: Reference 4 cited Jeff Guinn, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (Putnam, 1998).
It is: Jeff Guinn's book on the gunfight is "The Last Gunfight" (Simon & Schuster, 2011); no book with the cited title, publisher and year has been found.
Source: Open Library
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It said: Reference 2 was attributed to Ben T. Traywick under the title "The Story of Tombstone's Bird Cage Theatre".
It is: The book with that subtitle is Roger A. Bruns's "Desert Honkytonk: The Story of Tombstone's Bird Cage Theatre" (Fulcrum, 2000).
Source: Internet Archive record of the book; Open Library
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It said: The visiting section said no official page described a marker in Somers Garden and to expect a garden rather than a monument.
It is: The Bermuda National Trust's 2025 guide records a tomb built over the site in April 1620, and says the grave itself has vanished beneath the pavement of Duke of York Street; the page's own history section already mentions the monument.
Source: Bermuda National Trust, St. George's Teacher Resource Guide (2025)
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It said: The file said that the Tinney collection, armour included, left Belcourt with the family when the house was sold in 2012, so that the armour of the ghost stories was no longer there.
It is: No source in the file supports that. The New York Times article it cited printed, in September 2013, a photograph of the ballroom with suits of armour still standing, taken nearly a year after the sale. The claim has been removed.
Source: Penelope Green, 'Ghosts Be Gone', The New York Times, 19 September 2013
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It said: The 2014 sale listing offered six further bedrooms.
It is: Country Life lists a master bedroom and five further bedrooms.
Source: Country Life, 10 Nov 2014
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It said: The modern ghost pages were said to describe a large bearded man and a phantom coach on the old road beside the wall.
It is: Those pages describe the bishop's large figure and a phantom coach on the old Glasgow–Stirling road; neither mentions a beard or places the coach beside the wall.
Source: Medievalists.net (4 Dec 2014); medieval-castle.com, Bedlay Castle page
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It said: One reference was presented as departmental tourist information from Lozère Tourisme, covering the geography of the attacks and places of memory.
It is: The page is published by L'Etoile Guest House, a guest house in La Bastide-Puylaurent. It describes where the attacks took place in Lozère and names no memorial sites.
Source: 'The Beast of Gévaudan in Lozère', etoile.fr.
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It said: That the English Dialect Dictionary records the word in eleven counties.
It is: The entry heading lists nine: Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmorland, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
Source: Joseph Wright (ed.), The English Dialect Dictionary, vol. I, 1898, s.v. BARGHEST
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It said: That Marshall's glossary printed BOGGLE two entries after BARGUEST.
It is: BARGUEST is on p. 316 and BOGGLE on p. 317, twenty-four entries later.
Source: William Marshall, The Rural Economy of Yorkshire, 1788, vol. II, pp. 316-317
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It said: That Grose (1787) derived the word from York's city gates, the Bars.
It is: Grose's entry speaks of gates or stiles in Yorkshire, "there called bars"; it does not mention the city of York or its gates.
Source: Francis Grose, A Provincial Glossary, 2nd ed., 1790, s.v. Bar-guest
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It said: That the ghost page on the hotel's website was written by Hastings Hotels, and that by 2026 the hotel itself told the story with Isabella giving birth to a daughter.
It is: The text on that page is a post by P&P from the Belfast Entries blog, published on 19 July 2021 and reprinted by the hotel. The version with the daughter comes from that post.
Source: P&P, 'Ballygally Castle Hotel and its Ghost Room', Belfast Entries, 19 July 2021.
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It said: The reference to the cave operator's page said the Fugaku wind cave stored silkworm eggs, cocoons and seeds until around 1955.
It is: The operator says the wind cave was used as a natural refrigerator for storing silkworm eggs until the early Shōwa years (the late 1920s and 1930s); it gives no year and mentions neither cocoons nor seeds.
Source: Fugaku Wind Cave / Narusawa Ice Cave, official site, wind cave page.
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It said: The Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe closed to the public in 2019, the year Lorraine Warren died, after the town ruled that a museum could not operate in a residential zone, and it had never reopened at that address.
It is: Monroe's zoning enforcement officer cited the museum in August 2016; the citation was upheld that October and tours had to stop, and in October 2017 the town issued a cease-and-desist order. Since 2025 overnight guests at the Warren house have had supervised access to the museum room.
Source: Bill Bittar, "No trespassing signs, fines used to ward off curious souls in search of Warren's Occult Museum", The Monroe Sun, 31 October 2019; NBC Connecticut, 3 September 2025.
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It said: John Henry Ingram printed the Althorp groom story in 1884.
It is: It is in the Second Series of The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, published by W. H. Allen in 1886; the 1884 volume is the First Series.
Source: J. H. Ingram, The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain, Second Series (W. H. Allen, 1886); Gibbings edition (1897)
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It said: The visiting section said there were no ghost tours at the house and that the museum's only night-time event was a Halloween evening in late October.
It is: The museum's own events calendar lists a Halloween programme on 31 October 2025 that included a "Haunted Tour" of the park grounds, and an off-site photowalk the next day billed as sharing the "haunted lore" of Blood Root Valley.
Source: Alice Austen House Museum, event listings "Victorian Shadows: A Haunted Evening at Clear Comfort" and "Photowalk Series: Blood Root Valley" (read 24 September 2026).
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It said: The hotel closed on Friday 15 December 2018, and the change-of-use application had been lodged four days earlier.
It is: The staff meeting that closed the hotel was on Friday 14 December 2018 (15 December was a Saturday); the application had been lodged on 11 December, three days earlier.
Source: The Press and Journal, 15 December 2018; The Scotsman, 1 February 2019
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It said: The visiting section said the walk up from the historic centre by the Santa Maria path takes roughly forty minutes, and that the Fonte da Sabuga is about 350 metres north of the castle.
It is: Parques de Sintra gives the Santa Maria path as 1,770 metres and one hour, starting at São Pedro de Sintra; measured from the castle's published GPS point, the fountain is about 600 metres to the north-north-east.
Source: Parques de Sintra, Castelo dos Mouros page; OpenStreetMap
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It said: The Death Worm is usually said to come from the testimony of Gobi herders collected by the palaeontologist Roy Chapman Andrews.
It is: Andrews did not collect it in the desert. He was asked about it by the Mongolian prime minister at a cabinet meeting in Urga in May 1922, while permits were being signed.
Source: Andrews’s own account of the meeting.
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It said: The entry told Iram of the Pillars and the City of Brass as a single story.
It is: They are two different tales. Iram and the camel-herd Abdullah occupy nights 276-279 of the Thousand and One Nights; “The City of Brass” is nights 566-578, with a different caliph, a different hero, a Maghribi setting and no mention of Iram at all.
Source: The Thousand and One Nights, by night number.
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It said: The Curupira is usually introduced as an ancient forest guardian with backwards feet.
It is: Its first datable appearance is a Latin letter written by the Jesuit José de Anchieta at the end of May 1560. It speaks of “certain demons” in the plural — a class of beings, not a character — and gives them no feet, no hair and no forest to protect. The backwards feet arrive three centuries later.
Source: Anchieta’s letter from São Vicente, printed in Lisbon in 1812.
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It said: The entry gave the Pope Lick trestle as 742 feet long (226 m in the Spanish version).
It is: The organisation that manages the park publishes 772 feet. The height, 90 feet, was right. The entry was contradicting itself: its own visiting section quoted the park’s figure.
Source: The Parklands of Floyds Fork, Train Trestle.
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Hessdalen Valley (Hessdalen Lights)
It said: The entry’s own text contradicted its map pin.
It is: The coordinate came from the original seed data and had never been checked against the places the entry actually names. It was corrected against the official national source.
Source: The country’s official geographic names database.
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It said: The entry gave the keel laying as 9 May 1945, named the ship’s sponsor, dated the decommissioning to 1981, described a 1971 transfer to a Navy museum in Washington, and a National Historic Landmark designation in 2015. It also cited a book by Norman Friedman and sent visitors to a metro station.
It is: The Navy’s own dictionary gives 4 July 1945 and a different sponsor; the ship was struck from the register on 12 July 1991. The museum transfer never happened, the landmark designation appears in no register, the Friedman title does not exist, and the metro station is in another town, on another line, more than 20 km away. Almost the entire historical apparatus was invented.
Source: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Naval History and Heritage Command; Naval Vessel Register.
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It said: The entry gave 52 as the size of the company, and dropped one of the two authors of its main source.
It is: Fifty-two is the number of English dead given in a letter of 27 March 1676, not the size of the company — contemporary accounts give about fifty English and twenty Indians, or sixty-three and twenty. The figure had been moved from one column to another.
Source: Letter of Noah Newman, 27 March 1676; Mather; Saltonstall.
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It said: The entry cited a learned society as the authority for its account, and had a national monuments board acting in 2020.
It is: That society does not exist — zero results, against fifty for the real regional record society — and the scholar named alongside it works on a different part of the country entirely. The monuments board could not have acted in 2020 either: its functions passed to another body under a 1983 Act.
Source: The real record society’s catalogue; the National Heritage Act 1983.
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It said: The entry said the lane links West River Drive with Little Chicago Road.
It is: It is a dead end. The road connects only to West River Drive and to two field accesses, and the local history that documents it calls it a dead-end road with no outlet. A place you can drive through and a place you cannot are not the same place.
Source: OpenStreetMap road data; Conley (2007).
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It said: A veteran bartender was quoted — “he still runs a tight ship up there” — as having told a Rapid City newspaper in the 2000s.
It is: The sentence returns zero results in full-text search and nothing on the web. Neither the bartender, nor the newspaper, nor the date is identifiable. An attribution with three unverifiable parts is not an attribution.
Source: Full-text search of the Internet Archive book corpus.
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It said: The entry said that what neighbours do report are unexplained noises, sudden disappearances and sightings of a grieving woman’s ghost.
It is: No source attributes that to neighbours, and the disappearances are denied in writing: the local police station has stated there are none. The entry was presenting a denial as a report.
Source: Statement by the Chaoyangmen police station, Dongcheng district.
Log updated on October 06, 2026.