Claimed sightingSomeone reported seeing it. The entry records the report and takes no side.
FolkloreA story carried by a community, with no single origin to point at.
Hoax, provenMade up to fool people, and exposed. The test is intent: the maker wanted it believed.
FictionMade openly as fiction. If people later believed it, the entry tells that story; the label stays.
DisputedSomething happened. What it was is still argued over by the people who've studied the record.
Religious traditionHeld as doctrine by living believers. Not ours to grade.
Provenance · shown like this
Some entries are living belief, like a rite still practised or a place people still hold sacred. A label alone can't say that, so these entries carry a provenance line wherever they appear, and their reading list starts with the community's own voice.