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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.
Paramount Pictures: Small town in upstate New York. Mill Valley, Pennsylvania: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Lionsgate: Miles County, New York: Terrifier franchise: Cineverse, Bloody Disgusting, Dark Age Cinema Main setting in the Terrifier franchise of movies and it is a town where a notorious urban legend killer Art the Clown lived.
This is a list of fictional settlements, including fictional towns, villages, and cities, organized by each city's medium.This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional towns, cities, settlements and villages that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein.
Curiously not named after Sesame Street's favorite red puppet, the town of Elmo, home to only about 400 people, got its title from the first letter of the last names of the original four families ...
The first postmaster requested several names that were rejected and, tired of the constant correspondence, he finally asked that the town be given a name that wasn't "peculiar." Since he'd put ...
By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...
Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...
This is a list of urban legends.An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore.It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements.