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Shares the name of a real town Bay City in Michigan. Bay City, California Starsky & Hutch: ABC: Beacon Hills, California Teen Wolf: MTV: Beacon Hills is the fictional town in which that main character Scott McCall is turned into a werewolf it is the central hub of the television show. Bluebell, Alabama Hart of Dixie: The CW
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 realm of Louhi in Finnish mythology, literally translated its name means "North". Quivira and Cíbola: Two of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold supposed by Spanish conquistadors to have existed in the Americas. Ryūgū-jō: The undersea palace of Ryūjin, the dragon kami of the sea. Section 37: Paul Bunyan's legendary camp. So large that ...
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
While some may be more obvious than others, almost all of them tell a story about our state's history. It's nearly impossible to dive into the origins of every North Jersey town name in one ...
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.
History is aplenty in this Seneca County town located between the northern end of Seneca and Cayuga lakes. Known as the birthplace of the American women's rights movement, Seneca Falls fully ...
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