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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 ...
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.
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
Svitz: a mysterious European country in Welcome to Night Vale described as, "A land of low rolling hills and off-key tones heard on the breeze" and "is perfect for the visitor with a strong constitution, and a low tendency for hallucination." Syldavia: Balkan monarchy featured in four stories of The Adventures of Tintin, neighbouring Borduria.
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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.
When it comes to naming towns, Americans aren't always the most original. Sure, some places are entirely unique. For example, the U.S. only has one Abanda, Nubieber, and Zwingle (those are in ...
A ghostly road in Nebraska where local legend suggests a farmer hanged his entire family that included seven daughters and his wife, a mysterious forest where hikers reportedly vanish without a trace, an Upstate New York farmhouse where it's claimed a demon resides, a creepy mining town in Colorado that was once called 'the wickedest town' in ...