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Another town name in Missouri with the word "knob" in it. "Knob" doesn't have the same meaning in the US as it does in the UK, but it's stil a weird name nonetheless. Knock: A village in Ireland. The name is an anglicised form of the Irish Gaelic word "Cnoc" ("Hill".) Knockemstiff
The town of Ulthar is part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, appearing in such stories as "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (1926), "The Cats of Ulthar" (1920) and "The Other Gods" (1933). Peterswood Enid Blyton: Five Find-Outers: Peterswood is a city that appears in the story "Five find outers" as the main setting in the fifteen mystery stories.
The nearby towns, at some distance from the beaches, do not have the same extremes between rich and poor. North Mammon, Pennsylvania Criminal Minds (season 2) CBS: A small town that is the hometown of FBI agent Jennifer Jareau, the team comes here when someone kidnaps three local teenage girls and locks them in a cellar. Nueva Esperanza Darna ...
It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and storyteller Jackson Sloth and his family, said to have fallen in a sinkhole that no-one can find twice. The town is rich with folktales and paranormal activity, especially around holidays.
A hypothetical continent that allegedly disappeared at the dawn of human history. Nibiru: A mythological planet described by the Babylonians. Onigashima: A mythical island of oni visited by the character MomotarÅ in Japanese folklore. Paititi: A legendary Inca lost city or utopian rich land said to lie east of the Andes. Pohjola
Driving south on Highway 71 where it meets La-527, as you come into the town of Taylortown, there sits a mysterious brick tower on the left across the railroad tracks: The Famous Taylortown Tower
St. Lucie County, Florida, named for the Spanish-era Ais town of Santa Lucea, presumed to have been named by the Spanish for Saint Lucie of Syracuse. Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, named after Sainte Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris. Santa Barbara County, California, named for Saint Barbara, patroness of fire.
Glastenbury and its neighboring township Somerset were both once moderately thriving logging and industrial towns, but began declining toward the late 19th century and are now essentially ghost towns, unincorporated by an act of the Vermont General Assembly in 1937. Robert Singley, a 27-year-old Bennington College student got lost in the area ...