Once dubbed “the wickedest town in the West”, Jerome, Arizona is a mountainside ghost town clinging to the side of Cleopatra Hill. What was once a roaring mining boomtown is now a mix of art galleries, ruins, and deeply unsettling legends—Jerome is both scenic and cursed. This isn’t a kitschy tourist trap. Underneath the cobblestone …
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Jul 09
The Dumping Ground – John Wayne Gacy’s Remote Sites
Long before GPS and cell towers stitched America together, the backroads of the Midwest hid more than grain silos and farmhouses. Along the Mississippi River’s quieter bends—between Illinois and Iowa—lies a stretch of country roads, ravines, and drainage ditches that may still be holding secrets tied to one of America’s most prolific serial killers: John …