SpiritCircle is built on responsible investigation. These rules keep the platform useful and the people we visit safe.
Private residences are never allowed.If a person currently lives there, it doesn’t go on the map — even if the lore is well known. Submitting a private home is the fastest way to get banned.
The platform doesn’t host private addresses, and we won’t host evidence collected at one. If you’re not sure, err on the side of not submitting.
Anyone investigating a private business must obtain permission from the property owner, manager, or other authority figure before visiting. SpiritCircle displays a persistent permission notice on every private-business location so this requirement is impossible to miss. Posting evidence collected without permission is a violation.
Submissions must include at least one piece of evidence — a photo, audio recording, or video — at the moment they’re submitted. Lore-only entries without artifacts are not accepted. This gives confirmers something concrete to evaluate when deciding whether to vouch.
The evidence you upload becomes part of the location’s public record immediately, before confirmation. It’s attached to an auto-created “Submitted evidence” investigation owned by you.
New locations enter a community review queue. Three other signed-in users must vouch for the location after reviewing your evidence before hunts and resident sightings can be added to it. The submitter never counts toward the three.
Vouching means “I find this evidence credible enough to endorse the location” — it’s a personal stake on your account, not a neutral sanity check. Don’t vouch for something you wouldn’t want associated with your own credibility.
Until three vouches land, the location is visible on the map with an “Under review” badge and shown in search results so confirmers can find it. Locations that don’t attract three vouches stay in pending review indefinitely — there is no time pressure.
Any registered user can suggest edits to a confirmed location (description, history, address corrections). Coordinate edits and category changes are tracked in the revision history. Submitters and admins can delete locations that turn out to be incorrect or improperly classified.