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Cleveland is a city and county seat of White County, Georgia. Located just 90 miles northeast of Atlanta, with its small population of just over 3,000 people. But Cleveland is home to the North Georgia Zoo and Petting Farm, as well as the famous Babyland General Hospital, the “birthplace” of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. If you grew up or happened to be part of early 1980s culture, then you know the Cabbage Patch Kids, and today, they still have a legion of loyal fans and collectors, now reaching its third generation, and For them, a visit to BabyLand General Hospital isn't an option; it's a sacred pilgrimage.

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Flatwoods is a small town in Braxton County, West Virginia, located just one mile from exit 67 off Interstate 79, with a small population of just 277 people. This town also served as the origin of West Virginia & Pittsburgh Railroad's Sutton Branch, but its not the railroads that make this small town so famous, the community became nationally known for the Flatwoods monster UFO incident, or also known as the Green Monster.

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Lake City is a city in Florence County, South Carolina. with a population of just a little over 6,000 people. but did you know? that Lake City, South Carolina also has ties to space travel and the Challenger Space Shuttle, through one of its most celebrated town heroes, Ronald Erwin McNair.
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Savannah, Georgia is considered the most haunted city in America, and rightfully so, with all of its steep history dating back to the 1600s. Making Savannah rife with stories of ghosts and haunted places, including the popular tale of the Hamilton-Tuner Inn. In the Inn's long history, there have been countless reports of paranormal activity: visitors have made claims of hearing the sounds of children laughing, and even billiard balls popping off a ghostly table before rolling across the floor and more.

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Meridian is the seventh largest city in the in Mississippi, with a population of over 40,000 people. Established in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and goods transported on them, and it became a strategic trading center. But while the city of Meridian has much history, it also holds the graves of some of it most unknown history, the graves of the King and Queen of the Gypsies.

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Louisville, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States, and the historical seat, of Jefferson County, located on the Indiana border. As it so happens, the city of Louisville has its own tale of a cryptid, that roams around an old trestle bridge, causing many deaths and injuries, the legend of the Pope Lick Monster.

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Hot Springs is a resort city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The hot spring water has been popularly believed for centuries to possess healing properties, and was a subject of legend among several Native American tribes. Following federal protection in 1832, the city developed into a successful spa town. 30 years later, a staple attraction was erected within the region of Hot Springs, The Alligator Farm. With its many alligators, the fabled Merman attraction, and an interesting connection to a baseball legend.

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Near the little mountain town of Mentone, Alabama, which is known for its unusually large number of summer camps, is a rustic chapel which appears to have suffered a close encounter with a meteorite, and according to the Gospels, it takes someone divine, to build a church on a rock and that person was Milford Howard.

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The city of Chattanooga, is at the transition, between the ridge-and-valley portion of the Appalachian Mountains and the Cumberland Plateau, with Its official nickname the "Scenic City", alluding to those surrounding mountains and ridges. and it just so happens, that one of those, scenic views, was once home to lavish swinger parties, drugs, organized crime, which even lead to murder, Billy Hull's Swingers Tiki Palace aka the Playboy Mansion of the South.

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The Natchez Trace, also known as the "Old Natchez Trace", is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly 440 miles, from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, with some segments listed on the National Register of Historic Places. One of those places, takes us all the way down to Mississippi, just south of Tupelo, where there is a sign on the Natchez Trace Parkway that reads, Witch Dance. While this site serves as a campground today, tales of danger have persisted for centuries, allegedly making it one of the most haunted places in the Magnolia State, with tales of witches, serial killers, pirates, and more.

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