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During the Civil War, the area that would become Scary, West Virginia was the site of the first Confederate victory in Kanawha Valley on July 17, 1861. [2] [3] This is commemorated by two distinct plaques, very near to each other, in the town today.
In the mid-20th century, Barrera began to collect dolls and hang them around the small island. The island gained notoriety in 1943 when Mexican director Emilio Fernández used it as the location of the film María Candelaria. [2] After Barrera's death in 2001, his family opened the island to the public as a tourist attraction.
Scariest Places on Earth is an American paranormal reality television series that originally aired from October 23, 2000, to October 29, 2006, on Fox Family, and later ABC Family. The show was hosted by Linda Blair , with narration by Zelda Rubinstein .
Randonautica (a portmanteau of "random" + "nautica") is an app launched on February 22, 2020 founded by Auburn Salcedo and Joshua Lengfelder (/ l æ n ɡ f æ l d ɛ r /).It randomly generates coordinates that enable the user to explore their local area and report on their findings.
In November 2016, Google opened "Google Shop", a store-within-a-store where Google displays its hardware products. The Google Shops, available at select Best Buy locations in Canada, gives Google a retail presence that's "been key to building a premium mobile device customer base that’s sizable and loyal, and it’s not something Google has really had with its previous Nexus program".
The legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine centers around the Superstition Mountains. According to the legend, a German immigrant named Jacob Waltz discovered a mother lode of gold in the Superstition Wilderness and revealed its location on his deathbed in Phoenix in 1891 to Julia Thomas, a boarding-house owner who had taken care of him for many years.
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where, according to an urban legend, [citation needed] a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
On January 7, 2022, YouTuber and VFX artist Kane Parsons (known online as Kane Pixels) uploaded a short horror film The Backrooms (Found Footage), which follows a cameraman who records his experience in the Backrooms after accidentally falling in. [17] [18] Since then, it has garnered acclaim from the viewers, with over 57 million views as of February 2024.