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Boy Scout Lane

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Boy Scout Lane
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Boy Scout Lane, sometimes written “Boyscout Lane”, is an isolated road located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The road, a dead-end with no outlet, was reportedly named because of a tragic incident that resulted in the deaths of a troop of Boy Scouts. There are a number of urban legends associated with the road, and many anomalous phenomena have been reported there. The area has been the subject of several paranormal investigations, and has been a ‘haunt’ for youths hoping to experience a paranormal event. The land surrounding Boy Scout Lane is now privately owned and is off limits to the general public.

Borley Rectory

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Borley Rectory
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Borley Rectory was a Victorian era mansion located in the village of Borley, Essex, England. It was constructed in 1863, on the site of a previous rectory, and destroyed by fire in 1939.

The house gained a reputation for being haunted after a series of residents reported unsettling phenomena. In 1929, the story of Borley was heavily covered by the Daily Mirror. Notably, it was investigated by paranormal investigator Harry Price in 1937, who described it as ‘The Most Haunted House in England’, a phrase which caught the imagination of the press. Price wrote two books on the subject, both of which sold well.

Bomere Pool

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Bomere Pool is a large mere lying between the villages of Bayston Hill and Condover in the county of Shropshire, England, 4.7 miles (7.5 kilometres) south of the county town of Shrewsbury.

Once open to the public, Bomere Pool and the surrounding woodlands are now privately owned and a centre of towed water sports throughout the year. There is a small resident population housed in a number of flats.

Blue Bell Hill

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Blue Bell Hill (sometimes, incorrectly, Bluebell Hill) is a chalk hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. It overlooks the River Medway and is part of the North Downs. Settlements on the hill include Walderslade; and Blue Bell Hill and Kit’s Coty villages. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries much of the hill was quarried for chalk.

Big Bay Point Light

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The Big Bay Point Light is a lighthouse which stands on a tall bluff over rocky point[4] halfway between Marquette and the Keweenaw Portage Entry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Today it is the only operational lighthouse with a bed and breakfast. It is reputed to be haunted, and the novel and movie Anatomy of a Murder were inspired by a murder at the lighthouse.

Ben Macdui

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Ben Macdui, also spelled Ben Macdhui and Ben MacDui (Gaelic: Beinn Mac Duibh) is the highest mountain in the Cairngorms of Scotland, and the second highest in the United Kingdom after Ben Nevis. It lies on the southern edge of the Cairn Gorm plateau, on the boundary between Aberdeenshire and Moray.

Ballechin House

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Ballechin House was a Georgian estate home near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland. It was built in 1806, on the site of an old manor house which had been owned by the Stuart family since the 15th century. The Stuart family are an illegitimate branch of the royal house of Stewart, descending from a son of King James II.

Balete Drive

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Balete Drive is a street located in New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines. It is known for apparitions of a white lady and haunted houses which were built during the Spanish Era (1800s). New Manila has an abundance of balete trees, which, according to legend, is a favorite spot of wandering spirits and other paranormal beings.

Andrew Bayne Memorial Library

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Established May 1914
Location 34 N Balph Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15202

The Andrew Bayne Memorial Library is a public library in Bellevue, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States. The library sits on a four-acre (1.6 ha) parcel of land donated to Bellevue borough in 1912 by the daughters of Allegheny County sheriff Andrew Bayne, and houses approximately 14,000 print volumes.

American Shakespeare Theatre

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The American Shakespeare Theatre was a theater company based in Stratford, Connecticut, United States. It was formed in 1955 by Lawrence Langner, Lincoln Kirstein, and Joseph Verner Reed. Plays were produced at the Festival Theatre in Stratford from 1955 until the company ceased operations in the mid-1980s. The company focused on American interpretations of William Shakespeare’s plays, but occasionally produced plays by other playwrights. It was the home of the American Shakespeare Festival.

Alcatraz Island

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The first Spaniard to discover the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, who charted San Francisco Bay and named the island “La Isla de los Alcatraces,” which translates as “The Island of the Pelicans,” from the archaic Spanish alcatraz, “pelican”, a word which was borrowed originally from Arabic: القطرس al-qaṭrās, meaning sea eagle.

A616 road

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The A616 is a road which links Newark-on-Trent to the M1 motorway at Junction 30, then reappears at Junction 35A, then goes onto Huddersfield.