Amityville is a actually a small village that is part of Babylon New York.According to legend when the settlers wanted to establish a post office they needed a name.A meeting of the town name became heated with someone yelling out, “What this meeting needs is some amity!”.It would seem that Amityville started with a hint…

The town of Alamosa Colorado actually started out as a rail center established by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.Over the years the rail center evolved into the town of 8,780 that is today.There is a very curious story about Alamosa.That is the story of Snippy the horse, which may have been the first “cattle”…

Hazelhurst is a town in central Mississippi, 4,000 strong. In the 1870s the town began to boom. It had become a rail stop for the newly developed New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad. Its growth was so large in fact that it became the county seat of Copiah County in 1872 which up until…

On Vancouver Island in British Columbia there lies the small town of Duncan.Its current population sits at around 4,944.It’s a quiet town known for having the largest collection of Totem Poles, so many in fact that in 1985 the city was officially nicknamed “City of Totems”.However, there is another story about a man named Granger…

The name Circleville comes from the town’s original layout.The Center of the town was once built around a 1,100-foot Hopewell earth mound.In the 1850s the town’s layout was changed to a more familiar grid-like layout.The town is known for its annual Pumpkin Show every October.It’s is also known for a mysterious set of happenings in…

The town of Bridgeport Connecticut is an eastern seaport town that boasts a population of 144,900.P. T. Barnum founder of the Barnum and Bailey Circus took up residence there and was even mayor for a year.The Frisbee Pie Company was in Bridgeport making the town the default origin of the Frisbee.Also, the first Subway opened…

Old Orchard Beach is a small coastal Maine Town. It was incorporated in 1883 but records of it go as far back as 1653 when it was settled by Thomas Rogers.the name Old Orchard Beach comes from Rogers abandoned apple orchard (The family fled from the property after an attack by Native Americans.Like most towns…

Even though Flatwoods was incorporated in 1901 it shows up on maps dating as far back as 1873. It’s a small place with population of just over 270. Like Point Pleasant to the north it’s a small quiet place in West Virginia that harbors a strange tale. WikiPedia article about Flatwoods, West Virginia WikiPedia article…

Willow Creek is technically a Census-designated place with a population of 1,710.It’s nestled on the north-east end of Humbolt County in Northern California.Willow Creek is known as the Bigfoot Capital of the World and for good reason.Not only was the widely controversial Patterson-Gimlin film shot there but also tracks found in the early 1950’s lead…

When you start to look at the Mothman case you very quickly start to understand that it’s not about a strange cryptid prowling around a West Virgina town at night.It’s more like a phenomenon that engrossed a whole year of high strangeness.No one probably understood this better then John Keel and Mary Hyre. The Mothman…