COOL THINGS ABOUT YOUR HOMETOWN

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I grew nostalgic for my town and was showing my friend about its strange architecture it had scattered among its land, and started to tell him about my town's crazy urban legends.
Back then, I didn't have enough effort to actually investigate these legends, because I thought they were silly.
Thick forests, abandoned brick homes within them--even I could invent a story that perhaps Satanists performed their rituals in there.
But those stories always made my night-time walks much more exciting.

Then I found this:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19710712&id=FMslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-fMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=925,56264

Supposedly, the kid, Patrick Newell, had two of his friends help him out on performing a strange sacrificial ritual that led him to his death.
Supposedly, he had his connections to a wealthier subgroup of ex-LaVey occultists that disagreed with LaVey's stance that the spirit (along with Satan) didn't exist, so they broke off and decided to develop a proto-version of Temple of Set and migrate to my lovely town in the 70s.

Reminds me of Rosemary's Baby  

It's all very interesting to more I read about it, but I can't help that this is partly influenced by moral panic they've had back in the 80s with Satanic Ritual Abuse~

Here's more!
This is from Jim Maddox, a kid that discovered Newell's body:
Think hard, real hard. How persuasive do you think you could be? How much influence do you have with your closest friends? Could you get them to believe something supernatural? Could you convince them that another world exists, and that they could help you get to that world?
Think hard.
Think really hard.
The newspapers are hitting the pavement.

It was hard to believe the truth, but there it was. A 20 year old young man was dead, and I had found his body floating in a lake in an abandoned sand quarry.
This young man was murdered, but not murdered.
It was a sort of suicide, but with a little help from some friends.
I couldn't believe what the newspapers were saying.
This guy from Vineland had convinced his two teenage friends to tie him up and throw him into a lake so he could die a violent death. He needed to die violently, he told them, so he could serve Satan and command a legion of demons.

1970


Also some filthy puerto rican murdered some kid tried to make a powder out of his skull for a potion lol

weird because my town is rural and deeply uninteresting surrounded by thick forests and farms 

[don't let's]

Great tasting tap water. Never underestimate that. Though you don't really ever appreciate that until you go to a town that has horrible tasting water.

[Samus Aran]

uh

giant fish statue

no actually that's really uncool

[YPrrrr]

Well as far as I know we were the only part of the North to surrender to the South during the Civil War

History is cool right?

[strongbad]

NOTHING
My hometown is a lame suburb of Seattle, basically.

Though we do have a Fry's Electronics which is one of the coolest stores

[Hiro]

I was looking at the cast of The Master last week and turns out the daughter is from my hometown (Cottonwood, AZ)
Not hometown but I heard in some Hillary Duff movie her hometown is where I live now (Flagstaff)

NOTHING
My hometown is a lame suburb of Seattle, basically.

Though we do have a Fry's Electronics which is one of the coolest stores

fry's electronics rules

[ME##]

We have one of each 'minority' to make this the most 'diverse' town in the Midwest.   

[Snowy]

It's full of old rich people.

[Socks]

everything is cool about this town. i can walk down the same streets that ben franklin used to, and i too can experience how rude the people of philadelphia are, just like he did.

[Snowy]

everything is cool about this town. i can walk down the same streets that ben franklin used to, and i too can experience how rude the people of philadelphia are, just like he did.

Philly blows. I don't get why people love it. It only has a couple cool places.

[YPrrrr]

Philly blows. I don't get why people love it. It only has a couple cool places.

What places/cities do you like?

[Snowy]

What places/cities do you like?

In Philly I think that china town and the reading terminal are pretty neat. But in terms of cities I like, I like New York far more.

[Travis]

a lot of "as seen on tv" products originate from my town

[snoorkel]

i dont live there anymore

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

pigs shit in the water supply effectively rendering lots of the townsfolk stupid as fuck