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Acworth, Georgia
On October 5, 1864, roughly 3,200 Confederate troops under General Samuel French attacked the Union garrison holding the Western and…
Lincoln, Nebraska
Antelope Park is one of Lincoln's oldest and largest city parks, running along Antelope Creek south of downtown. Nebraska haunted-places…
Leesburg, Virginia
The Battle of Ball's Bluff, fought October 21, 1861, was a Union defeat in which many soldiers drowned trying to escape down the bluff into…
Fremont, Nebraska
Barnard Park in Fremont was once a cemetery and an overland camp on the Mormon Trail route. The city later turned the burial ground into a…
Rye, Colorado
In the late summer of 1779, New Mexico's Spanish governor, Juan Bautista de Anza, led roughly 600 soldiers south from Santa Fe, joined…
Preston, Idaho
On January 29, 1863, California Volunteer troops under Colonel Patrick Connor attacked a Northwestern Shoshone winter village along the…
East Liverpool, Ohio
Beaver Creek State Park in Columbiana County preserves stone locks and towpath from the Sandy and Beaver Canal, built in the 1830s.…
Four Oaks, North Carolina
Bentonville Battlefield was the site of the largest battle fought in North Carolina, March 19 to 21, 1865, in the last months of the Civil…
Antioch, California
Five coal-mining towns stood on this ground from the 1860s, and Sarah Norton was midwife to them. A Canadian immigrant, widowed and then…
Meriden, Connecticut
The legend has an unusually clear origin for a piece of regional folklore: in the winter of 1898, The Connecticut Quarterly published a…
Shiloh, Tennessee
The Battle of Shiloh, fought April 6–7, 1862, left more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers killed, wounded or missing. Bloody Pond,…
Stratford, Connecticut
Brothers David Beach Boothe and Stephen Nichols Boothe spent decades building an eccentric 34-acre homestead on land their family had…
Morganton, North Carolina
The Brown Mountain Lights are mysterious glowing orbs and streaks reported over Brown Mountain and the Linville Gorge in Burke County for…
Kennesaw, Georgia
Hikers near the Illinois Monument at Cheatham Hill report hearing marching orders called out and the sound of footsteps from a large body…
Denver, Colorado
Visitors to Cheesman Park describe a heavier, more troubled feeling walking certain paths, and sunken depressions in the grass where old…
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 18-20, 1863, was the second-bloodiest battle of the Civil War after Gettysburg, with nearly…
Gilroy, California
Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park preserves the site of Chitactac, a Mutsun Ohlone village whose name is thought to mean "big dance…
Madison, Indiana
At Clifty Falls State Park, visitors report moaning coming from a tree beside the walkway leading down into the falls. Madison residents…
Cochise, Arizona
For roughly fifteen years, this rugged pass in the Dragoon Mountains — a natural fortress of granite domes and sheer cliffs — served as…
Bristol, Rhode Island
Colt State Park in Bristol was the Colt family's Poppasquash Farm before the state bought it in the 1960s and opened a shoreline park of…
Corbin, Kentucky
Cumberland Falls drops about 68 feet along the Cumberland River and is known for the moonbow, a rainbow of moonlight that appears in the…
East Haddam, Connecticut
This 1,000-acre state park along the Eightmile River takes its name from a colonial hop farm once worked nearby, but it's known today for…
Tallapoosa, Georgia
Devil's Kitchen, a secluded creek canyon near Key's Castle off Old Ridgeway Road, takes its name either from the moonshine once called "the…
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Gerard Schaefer, a Martin County sheriff's deputy later linked to dozens of killings across the region, murdered two teenage girls, Susan…