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Vicksburg, is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi. Located on a high bluff on the east side of the Mississippi River, across from Louisiana. Steeped in Native American, Civil War, and French colonial its an open history book. But one home located behind the wrought iron gates at 1445 Harrison Street, has seen and endured the majority of Vicksburg's history, the notorious McRaven Home. Since being built in the late 1700s, ownership of the home has changed several times, but one thing has remained the same. It appears to be a magnet for paranormal activity, from unexplainable occurrences to malevolent spirits, the McRaven Home has definitely earned its title, of "the most haunted house in Mississippi"

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Wetumpka, is a city located in Elmore County, Alabama, and its called "The City of Natural Beauty" by some of the locals, like myself. This city is home to Alabama's greatest natural disaster. A meteorite, estimated to be 1,000 feet wide, hit the area about 83 million years ago. Creating a 5 mile wide impact crater, roughly 175,000 times greater than the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima in 1945, that blasted into the bedrock of this so called star wound.

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Located in Eureka Springs, Arkansas atop of Magnetic Mountain, overlooking Eureka Springs, a 65 feet high monumental sculpture of Jesus, known as the Christ of the Ozarks. Like many of the stylized Jesus figures across the globe, the Christ of the Ozarks has developed its own reputation, as he faces west, blessing the town of Eureka Springs, for more than forty years, but that's not all. located just below this colossal Jesus is a a Walt Disney World of American conservative Christianity, The Great Passion Play theme park.

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The old Ursuline Convent, was a series of historic convents in New Orleans, Louisiana. Which housed nuns from the Ursuline Convent of Rouen in Normandy. King Louis the 15th of France, decided that the nuns should go to New Orleans to establish a hospital for the poor sick people and to provide education for young girls of wealthy families. But while the convent has good and holsom history pertaining to the nuns, it also has a much darker story, pertaining to the French girls, who were sent thousands of miles away from their homes, and transplanted to colonial America, to be saddled with husbands and tasked with the impossible, settle the land and tame the men. Oh and did I mention, that these girls might have also been blood sucking vampires, if the legends are true, they are still lurking around on the third floor of the old Ursuline Convent building, known as the Casket Girls.

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Americus, is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia.. with a city population of a little more than 17,000 people. Its home to Georgia Southwestern State University, the Windsor Hotel, The Fuller Center for Housing's international headquarters, The Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, and many other organizations. But while Americus is rich in so much history, it is also home to the Habitat for Humanity's international headquarters.

Habitat for Humanity is a global Christian based nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 US states and over 40 countries, with its vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. I'm sure you have heard of Habitat for Humanity, most people have, but did you know that they have a six-acre village in Americus, Georgia where you can see life-size Habitat houses from countries around the world? Featuring “before and after” structures from different regions of the world the Habitat for Humanity Global Village and Discovery Center. A quasi-slum theme park, intended to give visitors a taste of how the truly impoverished live, in a third world country.

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South Carolina is one of the oldest states within the Southern United States. Its steeped in history, especially from the American Revolutionary War, that lasted from 1775 to 1783. If you didn't know, about a third of the action of the war took place in South Carolina, more than any other state at the time. As Inhabitants of the state, endured being invaded constantly by British forces. One man was determined to help win the war and reclaim South Carolina. He is widely considered a hero of the American Revolution, who not only fought against tremendous odds, but was indispensable in securing America's freedom. That man was Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, a nickname given to him by the British for his elusive tactics. The legend of the Swamp Fox has gone on to engulf the minds behind politics, state monuments, books, television, and film. Including the inspiration behind one of the best Hollywood films of the early 2000s.

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In Eureka Springs, Arkansas, lies an historic hotel at 75 Prospect Avenue, the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa. Its billed as Americas most haunted hotel, even offering ghost tours for free. 'The Grand Ol Lady of the Ozarks' as the hotel is known as, has tons of history.. Built as a resort for the rich and famous but quickly became unmanageable, and fell into disrepair. But while the hotel has all this amazing history, including how Powell and Kearns helped to create this luxury hotel and its years as a college, its the dark history of this place that intrigues the masses, and its not just the stories of the paranormal happenings. But the story of an evil grifter, who purchased the crescent property for his own personal greed, who claimed to have discovered a number of "cures" for various ailments, including cancer.

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Aurora is a small town covering just 3.7 square miles in Wise County, Texas, with a population of just 1,200 people. But this small slice of Texas, isn't famous for being a small town in the middle of nowhere. Aurora is best known for the UFO incident that occurred on April 17th, 1897 when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near town. This incident was similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident that would happen 50 years later.

As according to locals, the UFO crash that happened in 1897 resulted in the death of a pilot that was not of this world, what many would call, an alien. This is where the story goes deeper, located in the Aurora Cemetery, lies the supposed burial plot of this extraterrestrial pilot, and a stone marker that was once upon its grave, has now since been removed. Making this seem like a possible cover up or a hoax.

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Anniston, Alabama has a lot of history, from the civil war to the Woodstock Iron Company, the brave heroes of the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement, and The Anniston Army Depot, a major weapons storage and maintenance site during World War 2. What if I told you, there is more World War 2 secrets and artifacts within Anniston, that go back to spies during the war and even the most hated man in history, the dictator of Germany, who rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party becoming fuhrer in 1934, Adolf Hitler.

If that peaked your interest, the story goes even further into how two spies fell in love, moved to Anniston, Alabama, kept a low profile, until opening a museum. With the museum being dedicated to spy equipment, weapons, war booty, rare books, and more at the Berman Museum of World History.

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New Orleans, Louisiana is full of delicious food, the French quarter, bourbon street, the celebration of Mardi Gras, and tons of interesting history. But New Orleans also has a reputation for being mysterious and unusual, and within a city of wide eclectic tastes its no surprise that the area of New Orleans is known for Louisiana Voodoo, given the heritage & culture of the city. While many people don't understand Voodoo they are downright intrigued, and in one museum, located in the heart of the French quarter, has been inviting visitors to experience mysticism and the occult for almost half a century, within the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum.

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