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Pere Cheney: The Town that Disappeared

Pere Cheney: The Town that Disappeared

Astonishing Legends vor 9 Jahren

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BACKGROUND:

The logging town of Pere Cheney, Michigan once showed a lot of
promise as a place where hardworking men and women of the late
19th century could raise a family — that is until two epidemics
of diphtheria and devastating fires reduced it to a ghost town.
And if you believe the accounts of some visitors to the nearby
cemetery, Pere Cheney's tragic fate doomed it to be an actual
town of ghosts; the playful ghosts of the children who fell
victim to the disease. But who's to blame for the sad ending of
this once thriving village? Surely something, or someone, must be
the cause of the town's bad luck, and if you believe the local
legends, that someone was a witch who cursed it right before she
was hanged and buried in that very cemetery. Or maybe she was
burned? Or maybe it wasn't a witch at all, but a banished unwed
mother who cursed the lot of it just the same? Whatever legend
you choose to believe, whether the cemetery of Pere Cheney is a
playground of the damned or no more spooky than your average
graveyard, those that have felt its chill can tell you that it
only takes a little bit of haunting to put the fear in you.

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