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Resource: 66 Scary Placenames

11 Years Ago


Here is a fun list I found of cities and towns with fairly fucked up nomenclature. I'm definitely going to use these names in my fics; some of them are just too damned good to pass up.

1.   Bad Axe, Michigan 
2.   Bat Cave, North Carolina 
3.   Black Cat, Arkansas 
4.   Blood, New Hampshire 
5.   Bloody Corners, Ohio 
6.   Bloody Springs, Mississippi 
7.   Boos, Illinois 
8.   Casper, Wyoming 
9.   Cricket Corner, New Hampshire 
10. Cricket Hill, Georgia 
11. Cut Off, Louisiana 
12. Dead Mans Crossing, Indiana 
13. Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma 
14. Deadman Crossing, Ohio 
15. Deadman Landing, Florida 
16. Deadmans Corner, Maine (there’s also one in Wyoming) 
17. Deadwood, Oregon 
18. Death Valley, California
19. Devil Town, Ohio
20. Devils Backbone, Connecticut
21. Devils Corner, Michigan (there’s also one in Wisconsin)
22. Devils Den, Wyoming (there’s also one in California)
23. Devils Elbow, California (there’s also one in Michigan and Missouri)
24. Devils Gap, Nebraska
25. Devils Ladder, Idaho
26. Devils Lake, Michigan (there’s also one in North Dakota)
27. Devils Slide, Utah
28. Devils Tower, Wyoming
29. Erie, Pennsylvania
30. Frankenstein, Missouri
31. Goblintown, Virginia
32. Half Hell, North Carolina
33. Hell, Michigan 
34. Hell For Certain, Kentucky
35. Ghost Town, Texas
36. Ghost Creek, Texas
37. Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
38. Looneyville, Minnesota (there’s also one in New York, Texas and West Virginia.)
39. Monster, The Netherlands 
40. Pumpkintown, South Carolina
41. Red Devil, Alaska
42. Satan’s Kingdom, Massachusetts (there’s also one in Vermont)
43. Scary, West Virginia
44. Screamer, Alabama
45. Screamersville, Virginia
46. Seven Devils, North Carolina
47. Shadow Hills, California
48. Skullbone, Tennessee
49. Skullhead, Georgia
50. Skull Creek, Wyoming
51. Skull Run, West Virginia
52. Skull Valley, Arizona
53. Slaughter, Delware (there’s also one in Louisiana and Tennessee)
54. Slaughter Beach, Delaware
55. Slaughter Creek, Georgia
56. Slaughter Landing, Alabama
57. Slaughterville, Oklahoma
58. Sleepy Hollow, New York
59. Spiderweb, South Carolina
60. Spook City, Colorado
61. Spook Hill, Maryland
62. Strange Creek, West Virginia
63. Tombstone, Arizona
64. Transylvania, Louisiana
65. Witch Lake, Michigan
66. Witch Hazel, Oregon