Small Town Secrets

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The small town Villisca Iowa (Population 1,252) lies in the southwest of Iowa in Montgomery County. This small and sleepy place is known across the country, for one thing, it’s known as the Villisca Axe Murder House. 

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Elk Creek is an unincorporated community that is actually located in the town of Hale. A very small town with a population of 988. Other than the fishing there isn’t much to do in Elk Creek but the old Elk Creek Damn is another story.

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Of course when one starts looking into the Rendlesham Incident many go straight to it being an alien craft. But that's not the only way to look at it.

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The Rendlesham Forest UFO Conspiracy by Nick Redfern. Lisa Hagan Books ( © 2020) amazon.com/Rendlesham-Forest-UFO-Conspiracy-Government/dp/1945962283/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1615091662&sr=1-1

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Rendlesham is a small village of 3,000 located near the shore the borders Suffolk County. In between the village and the shore is a Rendlesham Forrest. In 1980 the two USAF bases located in the forest would become ground zero for one of the most intriguing if not the most intriguing UFO cases ever.

Wikipedia article about Rendlesham

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Weston is a small town in Lewis County, West Virginia. Like many other little towns in West Virginia, it holds a haunting secret. It's home to the infamous Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.

Wikipedia article about Weston, West Virginia

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Milledgeville is the county seat of Baldwin County in Georgia and much like Weston WV it too has a hospital with a haunting and infamous reputation. A place simply called Central State Hospital. 

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Rittman Ohio is a little out of the way place on the borders of Wayne and Medina counties. It has a population of 6,491. This town truly has a secret. It is the home to a ghastly train wreck with ghostly remnants. However, most people will never know because even though the tale is well known around the area many go looking in the wrong place.

Wikipedia article about Rittman, Ohio

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Statesville North Carolina began life as far back as 1753 when settlers from Pennsylvania settled there for its fertile farmland. It was dubbed States Ville in 1789 before being changed to Statesville in 1800. Much like Rittman Ohio, it became a bustling railroad town, and also like Rittman, it has its own train wreck story to share.

Wikipedia article about Statesville, North Carolina

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The sleepy town of Socorro lies 140 miles north of Las Cruces. A town that that was put on the map in 1964 when a humble police officer saw something he could not explain. 

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The town of Dayton Texas actually started out as West Liberty as it is on the west side of the Trinity River from the town of Liberty. In 1980 three residents of Dayton would witness something in the sky that would affect them, in more ways than one for the rest of their lives.

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Tilly Arkansas is a tiny unincorporated community in Pope County. Sadly this tiny town is known for just one thing, the murder of the Mueller family at the hands of Daniel Lewis Lee, and Chevie Kehoe.

Wilmington Ohio is the county seat of Clinton County with a population of 12,520. It’s located an hour from Dayton one way and Cincinnati the other. It’s known for its annual Banana Split Festival, but on February 15, 1997, a routine pullover would make Wilmington the beginning of the end of Chevie Kehoe.

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Decompress from the year and the Holidays with the Estes Method that we did at the mysterious TNT Area near Point Pleasant. It's the 2020 Holiday Special!

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Lily Dale New York is actually a Hamlet of Pomfret New York. It’s located just over the Pennsylvania border east of Cassadaga Lake. Lily Dale is a very special little place. It’s a place solely dedicated to Spiritualism.

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Scole, is a small village of 1367 located on the eastern edge of England. Unlike Lily Dale in which the whole town talks with the dead here an experiment was carried out to not only talk to the dead but to bring tangible objects back from the other side. It’s known as the Scole Experiment.

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