The 2017 Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria rumor and ghost-story environment
- Date of account
- 2017–2019
- Location
- Puerto Rico, especially rural municipalities and San Juan
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017, Puerto Rico experienced widespread uncertainty, infrastructure failure and communication disruption. Rumors about missing people, contaminated supplies, government concealment and supernatural or ghostly experiences circulated alongside documented humanitarian problems. This is a useful lead for comparing disaster rumor, memorial storytelling, migration and the reactivation of island legends under conditions of institutional distrust. Researchers must distinguish recorded oral accounts from social-media claims and from later fictional treatments. The most reliable approach combines local journalism, oral-history projects and disaster ethnography.
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