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Recently went urbexing with some friends at an abandoned hotel

#urbanexploration #urbex #urban exploring #vacant ventures #tellico plains #tellico round house

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Sometimes it is the living and not the undead that you truly have to fear…

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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Founded in the 19th century, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church can be found in the earthly paradise known as Key West, Florida. First built in 1838, the church was destroyed by a hurricane after only eight years of active service. Tragically, this trend would continue, as subsequent hurricanes and floods damaged the church in the 1880s, 1900s, and beyond. 

Despite this history, most of the church’s ghosts can be found in St. Paul’s Cemetery, not the church itself. Common folklore claims that the church’s most famous ghost is John Fleming, its benefactor. According to reports, Fleming’s ghost is often accompanied by a thin, white vapor. 

It’s believed that he’s there because his headstone is now part of the church’s walls, which flies in the face of his final request that his grave not be disturbed. More disquieting than an angry ghost is the belief that the church is also haunted by the restless spirits of the churchyard’s former inhabitants. In 1928, a massive hurricane tore through the churchyard and scattered the once-buried bones everywhere. 

Some of the bones wound up in nearby trees, while still more were left to rot on the ground ahead of a cement paving operation. On top of that, an examination of the ruined graveyard revealed that the site was much older than previously believed. Specifically, the churchyard sat on top of an older Seminole burying ground. Supposedly, their ghosts have joined with the ghosts of Spanish and American settlers in order to haunt the areas surrounding the church grounds.

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In volume 2, number 2, of the International Society of Cryptozoology newsletter, the term “Cryptid” first appeared. John E. Wall of Manitoba wrote into the newsletter in 1983 and introduced the term that he invented to refer to animals that cryptozoologists study. It began to appear in dictionaries in the late 1990s, such as in the British & World English Dictionary where it is defined as: “An animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the yeti.”  

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I would be terrified

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Police removing bodies from the Amityville house.

On November 14, 1974 Ronald DeFeo killed his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters in their home.

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The Evil Dead (1981)

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Cryptozoology Aesthetics: The Jersey Devil

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Vermilion City Construction Project

Remember that old man on the construction site in Vermilion City? He and his faithful Machop were flattening ground for some ambiguous construction project. They had apparently been at it for years.

There’s more to the story.

The story begins in Lavender Town. The Lavender Town chapter of Pokemon Red and Blue was short but left a profound impact on the player. Team Rocket was at it again, stealing the skulls of the Cubones of the tower. Local celebrity Mr. Fuji attempted to stop them but was easily subdued and taken hostage. You, the valiant hero, rescued Mr. Fuji and put an end to Team Rocket’s nefarious plot.

The story was juvenile, but there seemed to be so much more to it. Perhaps it is the music that played - it sounds, quite simply, like fear. It lent an ambiance and an intensity not present elsewhere in the game. No wonder it is recalled with such vividness by those who grew up playing the game.

But isn’t it curious that, for a town so dedicated to preserving the resting place of Pokemon, a mere three years later the tower had been replaced with a radio tower? Lavender Town had obviously changed the first time you traveled there in Gold and Silver. Aside from the aesthetic changes, the music was now lighthearted and whimsical, entirely different in mood than the previous generation. But beneath the cheerful arrangement of the music was the same haunting melody. Things were not as they appeared.

You see, there was more to Team Rocket’s involvement than you had imagined.

Lavender Town, during the time of Red and Blue, was struggling. It was a town without a draw - it lacked a Pokemon Gym and anything else to attract tourists. Fuchsia has a Safari Zone, Pewter has a museum, Cinnabar has a famous laboratory, etc., but all Lavender Town had was essentially a massive graveyard that was free to visit. Its feeble Poke-Mart paled in comparison to the huge Celadon department store, which was easily accessible through the underground path to the west. Lavender Town was easily the poorest town of Kanto.

One day, a business man approached the mayor of Lavender Town with a proposition. Radio was a fad that had taken the nearby Johto region by storm. He proposed a demolition of the Pokemon Tower and construction of a radio tower in its place. It would be entirely funded by the business man’s company, built at no cost to Lavender Town.

The mayor realized that this would greatly upset the residents. He also realized that this was an opportunity for prosperity. The town was desperate. He accepted, even with the condition of the business man’s plan.

Cubones were indigenous to Lavender Tower. Their skulls were extremely valuable on the black market. The business man’s condition was that his organization would be allowed to hunt the Cubones. The profits from the skulls would fund the construction of the radio tower.

Who was the business man? Giovanni. The mayor of Lavender Town? Mr. Fuji.

Red was simply a pawn in this plot. He “rescued” Mr. Fuji in order to deflect the growing suspicion of his involvement with Team Rocket. And as he left the town and continued his journey, Team Rocket quickly resumed the extermination of Cubones.

The plan appears to be unconcerned with the souls of the resting Pokemon. It was anything but Giovanni was a very superstitious man. The takeover of the Silph Company was done so that Team Rocket would be able to mass produce Silph Scopes, which would then be distributed to grunts involved with the Lavender Project. He also believed demolishing the tower would disrupt the spirits of the Pokemon inside, so he planned to construct a new tower. The bodies would be moved there before the demolition of the tower would take place.

He knew of a place that would be perfect for this new tower - an empty hill in Vermilion.

Giovanni hired a small independent construction company to build this tower, so that people would not suspect Team Rocket’s involvement. The old man’s company used a Pokemon labor force - Machops.

The construction was problematic. It suffered through a string of increasingly bizarre disasters. The funds originally allocated to the company were lost in a bank robbery. There were inexplicable machine failures, as well as the deaths of several Machops. Months passed, and the project still stalled, making seemingly no progress. The citizens of Vermilion, who had no idea what the construction was intended for, joked about how it was cursed. This would explain the continuing tragedy that befell the Machops, whose attacks could not affect ghosts.

Nonetheless, Giovanni refused to begin the construction of the radio tower until the bodies could be transferred to a new resting place. His greatest fear was disturbing the spirits. Some of his followers came to view him as delusional. He seemed to believe that the ghosts were trying to communicate with him, that he had in fact disturbed the spirits already, causing their activity in Vermilion. His defeat at the hands of Red, a ten year old boy, validated his apprehensions that he could no longer lead an organization that expected him to carry out his plan, that he now feared the consequences of. He relinquished his power and then disappeared.

The new leaders of Team Rocket shared few of his superstitions and apprehensions - the tower was demolished the next day. Strangely, the old man that owned the Vermilion construction company died that same day.

The construction site upon that hill remains in Vermilion City today. It is abandoned, a flat patch of earth, barren except for a few tombstones under which the deceased Machops lay, the only feature that resembles the planned Pokemon Tower that never was. People that visit feel an uneasiness. Some claim to hear a faint, very sad melody.

Most avoid this place. But occasionally, a traveler from Johto will unknowingly stumble upon it. They claim to see an old man and a Machop, continuously stomping the ground flat for an important construction project

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Welcome To HorrorLand•

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One of my biggest fears is the ocean

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Got Alien Mail?

Have You ever wanted to write a letter to your BAF (best Alien Friend) but didn’t know his address or even know how to mail it? Well all your worries are over, just drop it off at this mailbox marked Aliens.

On a desolate stretch of Nevada’s State Route 375 — also known as Extraterrestrial Highway — is a white mailbox. Well, two mailboxes, actually — one atop the other. The top one is labeled STEVE MEDLIN. The bottom one is labeled ALIEN.

Steve Medlin is a real person. He and his wife Glenda moved to a 900-square-mile cattle ranch in Tikaboo Valley in 1973. That was 16 years before Bob Lazar appeared on television claiming that the Air Force base near the ranch, known unofficially as Area 51, was hiding alien spacecraft that crashed in the desert.

Lazar, who says he worked at Area 51 as a scientist and engineer in 1989, has never been able to provide proof of the facility’s alleged extraterrestrial connections. But he did ignite a frenzy among UFO hunters, who continue to visit this remote part of Nevada with the hope of spotting alien craft.

This is where the mailboxes come in. Given they’re the only landmark for 40 miles along the 375, they provide a handy meeting spot for UFO enthusiasts scanning the skies at night. Originally there was just one mailbox — Medlin’s — and it was black. Following Lazar’s extraordinary claims, people began to fill the box with messages addressed to aliens. A few of the more audacious visitors stole the Medlins’ mail in the belief it might contain clues about Area 51. When someone took it even further and shot holes into the mailbox, Medlin swapped it out for a white, bulletproof version and added the Alien box beneath.

The pair of mailboxes, located 12 miles from Area 51, is still known as the Black Mailbox. The landmark is an essential stop for Nevada UFO roadtrippers, along with the Little A’Le’Inn restaurant and the (sternly patrolled) perimeter of Area 51.

Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/04/04/the_black_mailbox_of_area_51_in_nevada_is_used_to_communicate_with_aliens.html

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