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Celebration Florida lives close to Disney World and with good reason. The town with a current population of 7,427 was started being developed in 1996 by The Walt Disney Company itself. It is not some Disney themed town, in fact, Disney is now mostly “hands-off”. But in 2000 and 2001 a man named calling himself John Titor started posting from this small town in Florida. John claimed to be a time traveler from the year 2036 sent back with a very important mission to save his world line.’’

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WikiPedia article about John Titor

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johntitorfoundation.com

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Who Authored the John Titor Legend?, by Mike Sauve Self Published ( © 2016). amazon.com/gp/product/1537400835/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1Conviction of a Time Traveler, by Temporal Recon (Anonymous) Self Published ( © 2010) amazon.com/Conviction-Time-Traveler-Temporal-Recon-ebook/dp/B00QZLSO0G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1598071499&sr=8-1

Ong’s Hat WAS a place set deep in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.  The 17th-century town was more of an outpost with just a few buildings.  It was known as a rowdy place.  The town got its name from a man named Jacob Ong who after a fight with a woman threw his beloved hat up in the air.  It become stuck in a tree and he never retrieved it.  But Ong’s Hat may have served a different purpose in more modern times, it may have been a place where fringe scientists and cultist gathered to travel into other dimensions.

gizmodo.com/ongs-hat-the-early-internet-conspiracy-game-that-got-t-1832229488

ia800906.us.archive.org/3/items/incunabula_originals/original.pdf

archive.org/details/incunabula_originals/page/n1/mode/2up

weirdnj.com/stories/ongs-hat/

jacobsm.com/deoxy/deoxy.org/inc.htm

Ong’s Hat: The Beginning, by Joseph Matheny Wildcard ( © 1999, 2001) amazon.com/Ongs-Hat-Beginning-Joseph-Matheny-ebook/dp/B004SHEX9K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1598071090&sr=8-1

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The small city of Patterson New Jersey was founded on November 22, 1791, as a township and then reincorporated in 1851 as a city. It’s known as the “Silk” city due to its major silk production during the industrial revolution. It would be here in the early hours of June 17, 1966, the shot rang out inside the Lafayette Grill would dip the Patterson into mystery and controversy for more than thirty years.

WikiPedia article about Paterson, New Jersey

WikiPedia article about Rubin Carter

northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2019/06/17/rubin-carter-john-artis-what-really-happened-night/1419996001/

Bay Village lays in North East right next to Lake Erie. It started out as land owned by Connecticut then Ohio became a state at that time the land was given over to Connecticut citizens as their homes had been destroyed due to the Revolutionary War. It was in this town now with a population of around 15,000 that neurosurgeon Sam Sheppard killed his wife, except he didn’t… and then they made a TV show about it.

WikiPedia article about Bay Village, Ohio

WikiPedia article about Sam Sheppard

thoughtco.com/the-sam-sheppard-murder-case-972179

allthatsinteresting.com/sam-sheppard

engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/other_suspects/

engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=other_suspects

nytimes.com/1998/03/05/us/dna-test-absolves-sam-sheppard-of-murder-lawyer-says.html

chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-08-20-9808200153-story.html

famous-trials.com/sam-sheppard/4-chronology

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arrar is a SMALL town, if you look at its wiki you won’t even find a population listed (it’s around 30). It’s actually an unincorporated township close to Maxwell Iowa. In this out of the way place on the plains of Iowa is Farrar Elementary a defunct school that for some reason has become a hotbed of paranormal activity.

WikiPedia article about Farrar, Iowa

hauntingatfarrar.com/about-farrar

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iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/terry-vanden-hull/

A Haunting at Farrar: Investigating one of the Worlds Most Haunted Schools, by Richard Estep & E.E. Bensen. Self Published ( © 2019) amazon.com/gp/product/1099061024/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Heaven (Or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics in the Process), by Corey Taylor. De Capo Press( © 2013) amazon.com/gp/product/030682292X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Ghost Stalkers. Season 1, Episode 6. November 20, 2016 imdb.com/title/tt4227762/?ref_=ttep_ep6

Kindred Spirits. Season 4, Episode 7. January 7, 2020 imdb.com/title/tt11749688/?ref_=ttep_ep5

The small town of New London was first called just London. However, upon finding out that a post office had already been established for a London in another county the town changed its name to New London in 1931. Six years later in 1937, an explosion of the New London School destroyed the lives of many. 

WikiPedia article about New London School explosion

WikiPedia article about New London, Texas

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And Hell Followed With It, by Troy Taylor & Rene Kruse. Whitechapel Press, Dark Haven Entertainment ( © 2010) amazon.com/gp/product/1892523701/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1TF8&psc=1

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Elkhorn is the quintessential small midwest town.  It lays in Wisconsin, north of Chicago and south of Milwaukee.  It’s the County seat of Walworth county.  Around 10,000 people go on with their lives in this little town.  However, in the early 1990s, something emerged from the shadows on the edge of Bray Road.

WikiPedia article about Elkhorn, Wisconsin

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The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf, Linda S. Godfrey. Self Published ( © 2003, 2015) amazon.com/gp/product/0996263055/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Monster Quest. Season 1, episode 9. January 23, 2009. imdb.com/title/tt1174445/?ref_=ttep_ep130

Gévaudan is no longer around and is actually a small region in France not a town. It was disbanded in 1790 and disovled in the Lozére Territory. Even though it gone it’s history remains as well as stoires of vicious creature that terroirized the county side from 1964 to 1767. The creature was known as the Beast Gévaudan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gévaudan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Gévaudan

blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/09/27/solving-the-mystery-of-the-18th-century-killer-beast-of-gevaudan/

publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-beast-of-gevaudan-1764-1767

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sciencetimes.com/articles/26329/20200704/chinese-villagers-hunt-mysterious-creature-hearing-dragons-growling-mountains.htm

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The town of Estes Park is a quaint place with a population of 6,352. The small town that is tucked up high on a mountain was a place for members of the Arapaho tribe to gather and spend time during the summer. It was named after early settler Joel Estes. In 1903 a road was constructed from nearby Loveland up to Estes Park. With the help of Freelan Oscar (F.O.) Stanley, Stanley Steamers the town was able to modernize very quickly. In 1909 Mr. Stanley would build the now famed Stanley Hotel. A hotel that now has the reputation of being one of the most haunted hotels in the country. Just ask Stephen King.

WikiPedia article about Estes Park, Colorado

WikiPedia article about The Stanley Hotel

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roadtrippers.com/magazine/stanley-hotel-hauntings/

stephenking.com/library/novel/shining_the_inspiration.html

tripsavvy.com/the-haunted-stanley-hotel-4108817

myhauntedlibrary.com/2017/04/29/the-haunted-stanley-hotel-a-ghostly-tour-and-a-night-in-room-418/

weekinweird.com/2015/08/19/spirits-of-the-stanley-hotel-ghost-of-lucy-photographed-at-haunted-hotel-that-inspired-the-shining/

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Located where the deserts of the west end and hte lush forest of the east begins lies Austin Texas. After Texas won its independence from Mexico it shortly became its own country. The vice president of Texas Mirabeau Lamar requested that the capital city was changed form Houston to what was then called Waterloo. Waterloo lay on a crossroads with better trade routes. Waterloo’s name was changed to Austin after the “Father of Texas” Stephen F. Austin, the Repubic’s first Secretary of State. On December 20th, 1886 cattle baron Jesse Driskill would open the Driskill Hotel in Austin. Colonel Driskill would die of a stoke in 1890, some say he never left.

WikiPedia article about Austin, Texas

WikiPedia article about Driskill Hotel

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kvue.com/article/news/history-and-hauntings-of-the-driskill-hotel/310778184

austinot.com/driskill-hotel-haunted

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Buckeye Arizona started life in 1877 as Sidney.  Settler Malie Jackson named the town after his hometown of Sidney, Ohio.   Jackson also helped to build the nearby Buckeye canal, the canal was named after Ohio state tree.  In 1888 the town was renamed Buckeye.  As of now, Buckeye boasts a population of 79,620.  The town lies in Maricopa County and is surrounded by desert and mountains.  It may also be surrounded by something else,  it may be surrounded by being from somewhere else.

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Stardust Ranch: The Incredible True Story, by John Edmonds and Bruce MacDonald.  BCI ( © 2019)  amazon.com/gp/product/0992132878/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 

North of Buckeye is the town of Sedona.  With a population of 10,335, it is a small town in the middle of the desert.  It’s most noted for its many appearances in movies and television series as a backdrop for Texas and California.  However, just like Stardust Ranch in Buckeye, the Bradshaw Ranch boast it’s own paranormal activity.

WikiPedia article about Sedona, Arizona

legends.atavist.com/revelations-from-the-bradshaw-ranch-portal-2017

openminds.tv/mystery-in-the-southwest-a-look-inside-the-infamous-bradshaw-ranch/40953

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Merging Dimensions: The Incredible Saga of the Bradshaw Ranch (Third Edition), by Tom Dongo and Linda Bradshaw.  Light Technology Publishing ( © 1995).  amazon.com/gp/product/1622330749/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

North of Buckeye is the town of Sedona.  With a population of 10,335, it is a small town in the middle of desert.  It’s most noted for its many appearances in movies and television series as a backdrop for Texas and California.  However, just like Stardust Ranch in Buckeye, the Bradshaw Ranch boast it’s own paranormal activity.

WikiPedia article about Sedona, Arizona

legends.atavist.com/revelations-from-the-bradshaw-ranch-portal-2017

youtu.be/k8FfY-03_hY

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Merging Dimensions: The Incredible Saga of the Bradshaw Ranch (Third Edition), by Tom Dongo and Linda Bradshaw.  Light Technology Publishing ( © 1995).  amazon.com/gp/product/1622330749/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/114806/belgian-man-has-been-receiving-pizzas-he-never-ordered-for-years/

dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/strange-red-flights-filmed-hovering-22142297

newcarlislenews.net/index.php/local-news/local-histor/2478-the-life-times-of-john-dillinger

nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/ohio-hovater-white-nationalist.html

nydailynews.com/news/crime/ohio-woman-attacked-husband-runs-car-article-1.2389647

dispatch.com/article/20151009/news/310099717

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The story of the Amityville house did not stop with the DeFeo’s. In December of 1975 the Lutz family moved into their dream house. Not only was it their dream home the got it and much of the DeFoe’s Belongings at a steal. Twenty-eight days later the family would flee in terror form the house never to return to it. This is where the the story goes from true crime to paranormal.

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The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson. Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books (S&S © 1977, Pocket Books © 1991) www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416507698/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Possessed: The Amityville Enigma by Matthew Hutton. Goathead Castle Productions ©2018. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1980401284/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

On March 6th, 1976 an Anchorman from Channel 5 News named Marvin Scott along with Ed and Lorian Warren proceeded to do an investigation of 112 Ocean Ave.  The investigation yielded some interesting finds.

tonyspera.com/amityville/

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The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson. Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books (S&S © 1977, Pocket Books © 1991) www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416507698/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Possessed: The Amityville Enigma by Matthew Hutton. Goathead Castle Productions ©2018. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1980401284/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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www.seacoastonline.com/news/20200506/mysterious-metal-skull-discovered-on-kittery-beach

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