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Amityville is a actually a small village that is part of Babylon New York. According to legend when the settlers wanted to establish a post office they needed a name. A meeting of the town name became heated with someone yelling out, “What this meeting needs is some amity!”. It would seem that Amityville started with a hint of bedlam, something that would carry on. Years later Ronald Defoe would murder his entire family under mysterious circumstances. However, that’s just the beginning of the Amityville Haunting.

WikiPedia article about Amityville, New York

www.zillow.com/homedetails/108-Ocean-Ave-Amityville-NY-11701/32596605_zpid/

www.biography.com/crime-figure/ronald-defeo

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Butch DeFoe’s trial began on October 14, 1975. DeFoe and his Lawyer went with an insanity defense. DeFoe originally claimed that he heard voices urging him to kill his entire family. 

www.biography.com/crime-figure/ronald-defeo

amityvillemurders.com/the-defeos/the-injustice-that-followed.html

www.amityvillefilm.com/The Seventh Body.html

www.amityvillefiles.com

WikiPedia article about Ronald DeFeo Jr.

newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/02/27/new-evidence-raises-questions-in-decades-old-amityville-horror-murders/

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www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/no-one-wants-free-haunted-21953940

www.vernonmorningstar.com/trending-now/bigfoot-footprint-near-lumby-examined/

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The town of Alamosa Colorado actually started out as a rail center established by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Over the years the rail center evolved into the town of 8,780 that is today. There is a very curious story about Alamosa. That is the story of Snippy the horse, which may have been the first “cattle” mutilation.

WikiPedia article about Alamosa, Colorado

weekinweird.com/2013/01/08/death-dunes-ufos-start-cattle-mutilation-san-luis-valley/

alamosanews.com/article/after-50-years-snippy-still-a-mystery

www.ourstrangeplanet.com/50-year-anniversary-of-the-snippy-case/

Dalby is a small hamlet on the Southwestern side of the Isle man. It’s known for view of Niarbyl Bay. However, what put Dalby on the map is not a great view of the water or it’s old WWII bunkers that litter farmer’s fields. Dalby is were a spunky talking mongoose name Gef is said to have been from.

WikiPedia article about Dalby, Isle of Man

WikiPedia article about Gef

Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose, by Christopher Josiffe. Strange Attractor Press, 2017. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1907222480/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/our-historic-railway-seven-discoveries

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/exorcists-terror-demon-rows-teeth-21804480

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Hazelhurst is a town in central Mississippi, 4,000 strong.  In the 1870s the town began to boom.  It had become a rail stop for the newly developed New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad.   Its growth was so large in fact that it became the county seat of Copiah County in 1872 which up until that point had been the town, Gallatin.  It was here that one of the most influential and mysterious Blues artists were born, Robert Johnson.

WikiPedia article about Hazlehurst, Mississippi

anomalien.com/robert-johnson-at-the-crossroads-did-he-really-sell-his-soul-to-devil/

WikiPedia article about Robert Johnson

ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads, 2019 www.imdb.com/title/tt9046574/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

In northern Iowa lies the little town of Clear Lake.  The town is named for the Clear Lake which the town surrounds on the eastern side.  It’s here that one-day tragedy would strike the Rock and Roll world, that day is known as “The Day the Music Died”

WikiPedia article about Clear Lake, Iowa

WikiPedia article about Buddy Holly

WikiPedia article about Ritchie Valens

WikiPedia article about The Big Bopper

WikiPedia article about The Day the Music Died

www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/entertainment/buddy-holly-plane-crash-reexamined/index.html

www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/02/03/buddy-holly-death-plane-crash-the-day-the-music-died-waylon-jennings-surf-ballroom/4643390002/

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On Vancouver Island in British Columbia there lies the small town of Duncan. Its current population sits at around 4,944. It’s a quiet town known for having the largest collection of Totem Poles, so many in fact that in 1985 the city was officially nicknamed “City of Totems”. However, there is another story about a man named Granger Taylor. Taylor disappeared in 1980, but even more mysterious is where he may have gone.

WikiPedia article about Duncan, British Columbia

www.vice.com/en_us/article/yvwjkv/the-man-who-went-to-space-and-disappeared-the-story-of-granger-taylor

dyingwords.net/did-aliens-really-abduct-granger-taylor/

www.timescolonist.com/islander/what-happened-to-granger-taylor-1.23621363

Snowflake Arizona makes it’s home at the southern end of the very long and skinny Navajo County.  It’s a town surrounded by desert to the north and forested Mountains to the south.  There’s not much to say about Snowflake but in 1975 the town and surrounding area became the knifepoint for one of the most famous alien abduction cases ever.   Of course, I’m talking about the Travis Walton case.

WikiPedia article about Snowflake, Arizona

www.mufon.com/travis-walton-abduction---1975.html

www.gaia.com/article/travis-walton-ufo-incident

www.travis-walton.com

alien-ufo-research.com/travis-walton-abduction/

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www.coasttocoastam.com/article/mystery-creature-baffles-new-york-town

www.coasttocoastam.com/article/bigfoot-photographed-peering-through-window-in-colorado/

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The name Circleville comes from the town’s original layout. The Center of the town was once built around a 1,100-foot Hopewell earth mound. In the 1850s the town’s layout was changed to a more familiar grid-like layout. The town is known for its annual Pumpkin Show every October. It’s is also known for a mysterious set of happenings in the late 1970s that started with strange and threatening letters and may have ended with murder. 

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WikiPedia article about Circleville, Ohio

The town of Westfield New Jersey is nestled in Union County. It boasts a population of 30,316 and is one of the wealthiest towns in the state. It’s a picturesque community, a great place to buy a house. This is exactly what the Broudduses did, only to find their new home came with its own watcher…

WikiPedia article about Westfield, New Jersey

www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haunting-of-657-boulevard-in-westfield-new-jersey.html

patch.com/new-jersey/westfield/westfield-watcher-letters-revealed-10-creepiest-excerpts

abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-stalker-watcher-sends-letter-specific-threats-nj/story?id=46480325

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wvexplorer.com/2020/02/28/bigfoot-sighting-west-virginia-new-river-gorge-wv/

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The town of Bridgeport Connecticut is an eastern seaport town that boasts a population of 144,900. P. T. Barnum founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus took up residence there and was even mayor for a year. The Frisbee Pie Company was in Bridgeport making the town the default origin of the Frisbee. Also, the first Subway opened its doors in 1965. Five dollar footlongs and gravity-defying toys were not the only firsts to come from Bridgeport Connecticut. The small town is also the birthplace of the dreaded Men In Black.

WikiPedia article about Bridgeport, Connecticut

bportlibrary.org/hc/authors/bridgeports-ufo-legacy-men-in-black-and-the-albert-k-bender-story/

WikiPedia article about Albert K. Bender

liminalroom.com/2017/07/25/you-can-call-me-al/

thepromiserevealed.com/domnick-lucchesi-meets-the-space-girl-part-1-by-raymond-keller/

They Knew too Much About Flying Saucers, Grey Barker. New Saucerian Books 2014 (reprinted from 1954 edition). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/149910507X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The tiny town of Desert Center California it a place that is literally in the middle of nowhere in the Colorado Desert. It would be here on November 20th of 1952 that the beginning of the UFO “Contactee” movement would begin. 

WikiPedia article about Desert Center, California

WikiPedia article about George Adamski

www.history.com/news/george-adamski-ufo-alien-photos

www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicadamski.html

occult-world.com/ufologist/adamski-george/

mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/05/adamski-and-the-occult/

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www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/one-in-a-million-ghost-ship-from-african-coast-washes-up-on-rocks-in-cork-982069.html

www.beaconjournal.com/news/20200211/2-ohio-men-say-they-encountered-bigfoot-like-creature-at-salt-fork-state-park

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www.cleweekend.com/werewolf-defiance-ohio-local-legend-still-haunts-town/

Chasing American Monster, Jason Offutt. Llewellyn Press 2019. www.amazon.com/Chasing-American-Monsters-Creatures-Cryptids/dp/0738759953/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28MMM1MR28QFK&keywords=chasing+american+monsters&qid=1578723351&sprefix=chasing+amer,aps,150&sr=8-1

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Old Orchard Beach is a small coastal Maine Town. It was incorporated in 1883 but records of it go as far back as 1653 when it was settled by Thomas Rogers. the name Old Orchard Beach comes from Rogers abandoned apple orchard (The family fled from the property after an attack by Native Americans. Like most towns in the country it’s a place filled with cars. There is one automobile in town that has a bad reputation, a cursed reputation. 

WikiPedia article about Old Orchard Beach, Maine

laughinggnomehollow.blogspot.com/2012/07/dazzling-razzberry-ii-another.html

jalopnik.com/meet-the-golden-eagle-the-car-claimed-to-have-killed-a-1830037928

www.wowamazing.com/trending/horror/1964-dodge-dubbed-golden-eagle/

The small town of Foss Oklahoma has a scant population of just 151 people. In its early beginnings, it wasn’t called Foss. Settlers of the nearby Wilson Post Office moved north and settled in the area in the 1890s. They wanted to call the new down Graham but found it already taken. Instead, they chose an anagram for Graham, Maharg. In 1902 a flash flood wiped pretty much all of Maharg so they resettled on higher ground and dubbed the new town Foss. Foss is just a few miles south of Foss Lake Park, home of Foss Lake or the Foss Reservoir. In 2016 two secrets would be drudged up the silt of Foss Lake.

www.news9.com/story/27322250/mysteries-at-oklahoma-lake-remain-for-families-despite-discovery-of-loved-ones

WikiPedia article about Foss, Oklahoma

boredomtherapy.com/bodies-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake/

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10324246/Oklahoma-Foss-Lake-deaths-now-a-town-whispers-murder.html

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Even though Flatwoods was incorporated in 1901 it shows up on maps dating as far back as 1873.  It’s a small place with population of just over 270.  Like Point Pleasant to the north it’s a small quiet place in West Virginia that harbors a strange tale.

WikiPedia article about Flatwoods, West Virginia

WikiPedia article about Flatwoods monster

www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2192

www.history.com/news/flatwoods-monster-west-virginia

The Flatwoods Monster: A Legacy of Fear, 2018 Small Town Monsters. www.imdb.com/title/tt8012820/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5

Chasing American Monster, Jason Offutt. Llewellyn Press 2019. www.amazon.com/Chasing-American-Monsters-Creatures-Cryptids/dp/0738759953/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28MMM1MR28QFK&keywords=chasing+american+monsters&qid=1578723351&sprefix=chasing+amer,aps,150&sr=8-1

The small city of Pascagoula Mississippi is located in Jackson County at the very southern end of the state right next to the Gulf of Mexico.  The city host a population of 22,392.  One night in 1973 two of its citizens had a very interesting fishing trip. 

www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/06/26/i-floated-inside-man-returns-site-ufo-abduction-it-gets-historical-marker/

WikiPedia article about Pascagoula, Mississippi

www.blogtalkradio.com/ufo_radio/2018/11/20/calvin-parker-the-pascagoula-ufo-incident

www.clarionledger.com/story/life/2019/07/25/pascagoula-alien-abductions-more-ufo-witnesses-calvin-parker-charles-hickson/1742514001/

Chasing American Monster, Jason Offutt. Llewellyn Press 2019. www.amazon.com/Chasing-American-Monsters-Creatures-Cryptids/dp/0738759953/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28MMM1MR28QFK&keywords=chasing+american+monsters&qid=1578723351&sprefix=chasing+amer,aps,150&sr=8-1

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7883683/Shocked-yowie-enthusiast-shared-footage-mysterious-creature-THREW-him.html

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https://nilskidoo.blackblogs.org/the-bardstown-conspiracy/

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Willow Creek is technically a Census-designated place with a population of 1,710. It’s nestled on the north-east end of Humbolt County in Northern California. Willow Creek is known as the Bigfoot Capital of the World and for good reason. Not only was the widely controversial Patterson-Gimlin film shot there but also tracks found in the early 1950’s lead to the term Bigfoot being coined.

WikiPedia article about Willow Creek, California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson–Gimlin_film

www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/079790.html

https://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/bf-oct-5-1958/

http://www.bfro.net/news/Wallace.asp

www.outsideonline.com/2095096/man-who- created-bigfoot#close

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Monster Quest: Bigfoot. www.imdb.com/title/tt1177685/?ref_=ttep_ep5

The Pacific Northwest isn’t the only place that may harbor an elusive creature. In the back wood of the Sulpher River basin of Arkansas lurks something similar but different, a leaner wiry version of bigfoot with fiery red eyes. They call it the Beast of Boggy Creek or the Fouke Monster.

The Beast of Boggy Creek, Lyle Blackburn. Anomalist Books 2012. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933665572/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

WikiPedia article about Fouke, Arkansas

www.smokeycrabtree.com/index.html

www.legendofboggycreek.com/index.htm

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www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-drones/faa-probes-clusters-of-mysterious-drones-flying-over-colorado-idUSKBN1YZ1G0?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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When you start to look at the Mothman case you very quickly start to understand that it’s not about a strange cryptid prowling around a West Virgina town at night. It’s more like a phenomenon that engrossed a whole year of high strangeness. No one probably understood this better then John Keel and Mary Hyre.

The Mothman Prophecies, Joh A. Keel. Illuminet Press. www.amazon.com/Mothman-Prophecies-True-Story/dp/0765334984/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D9RQCURFIEKH&keywords=the+mothman+prophecies+book&qid=1574304425&sprefix=the+Mothman,aps,139&sr=8-1

John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and the Ongoing Mysteries, Brent Raynes. Self Published. www.amazon.com/John-Keel-Myths-Ongoing-Mysteries/dp/1079014500/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=John+…ries&qid=1576900536&sr=8-1 

WikiPedia article about John Keel

www.johnkeel.com?p=220

themothman.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Hyre

John Keel would go on to write many Fortean books but in the end, he never found any answers other then he was pretty sure whatever the phenomenon he was researching was it wasn’t very nice.  Keel would succumb to congestive heart failure on July 3, 2009, in New York City, he was 79.  Mary Hyre tragically would pass away from an Illness which she fought for a month on February 15th, 1970.  She was only 54.  For over 27 years she worked for the Athens Messenger. 

themothman.fandom.com/wiki/Point_Correspondent_Mary_Hyre_Dies_at_54

WikiPedia article about John Keel

listverse.com/2012/08/04/top-10-explanations-for-the-mothman/

The Lake Michigan Mothman: High Strangeness in the Midwest

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www.dispatch.com/news/20191205/neighbors-given-ok-to-return-home-after-no-lsquonuclear-reactorrsquo-or-hazards-found-at-northwest-side-home

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