Wasn't going to upload this till tonight but we're too excited to share this new series idea with you all! Hope you all enjoy, please let us know below what towns you'd like us to cover (by towns we mean locations, towns of terror just sounds good!) 👻
hey bruv, hope youll also do a series about ancient terror brought to life again.. maybe start with the mongols and their brutal invasions.. i think it would be a fresh approach to something from centuries ago to talk about their terror as if it only happened yesterday
I have been living in Arkansas for the last 8 years and feel there is something special to this state. I can’t seem to leave this place, despite of all the job offers from other states. I feel I am in love with this natural state and especially its trees!
As an Arkansan born and raised, I was so excited to see this video! Arkansas is often overlooked and it was so great to see all the great stories and info this video had to offer. Can't wait to share this video with all my friends and family.
Does anyone else ever randomly walk into a cemetery and walk arund looking at all the headstones like i do I'm just fascinated by old headstones and the sort of lives the people buried under them lived prior to their deaths
@@chibi_rabbit There's an old cemetery where I live, it's in walking distance. I go there from time to time and sit in the shade by this gorgeous water fountain. It truly is peaceful there!
The Memphis 3 is such a tragic story. Not only for the three boys that were murdered, but for the three boys that lost their innocence and had their lives taken from them because of the music they listened too and the clothes they wore. The young man the prosecutor and police tricked into confessing had multiple learning disabilities which the courts failed to recognize. The killer, in my opinion, was a step dad to one of the boys. In an interview, the stepdad had spoke of information relating to the three deaths that hadn’t been released and wasn’t public knowledge. The interview with the stepdad is super creepy as he himself is a creepy individual. The things he says in the interview were later seen as inadmissible when the defense wanted to put him on the stand for questioning. You can hear in the stepdads voice, he almost seems excited about talking about what happened to the three boys. So fucked how the courts won’t even entertain the idea of finding out who the real killer is cause they don’t want to admit that they fucked up.
I believe that’s true.. they saw something they were not suppose to see. This was still the late 80s, in those days Escobar was still ruling the drug trafficking. I believe strongly that bill Clinton was present during the killings on a drug trade taken then. It’s also mention that they were near a airfield before they’re bodies were removed when they got shot.
I love the idea of "Towns of Terror." Might I suggest Kansas City Kansas? There's a place called Sauer Castle here built in 1871, It's very creepy & everyone says it's haunted. There's a lot more to Kansas than people think! We also have 4 serial killers, Dennis Radar, Stephen Richards, John E Robinson & Scott Roeder.. I would greatly appreciate your consideration to see what Kansas has to offer. Love your video's. ❣
As an Arkansan who knows my state is an oft-ignored flyover state, I cannot tell you how touched I am that you focused on our little state 🥰 Edit: Aside from a couple of them, these stories were new to me! Always glad to learn more about my home state, even if the things learned are devastating.
@@mallarysangel It's a quiet, sleepy little state. Which is very nice in some ways but a lotta times that goes hand-in-hand with being several decades behind the times. But it's the Natural State for a reason, so it's a lovely place to visit (NOT in the summer)!
I really enjoyed this new format! I've visited Little Rock and had the opportunity to explore the country outside of town. I didn't experience anything scary or supernatural. However, the woods were totally creepy.
I’m an Arkansas native living in northern MS and I work in West Memphis. I work a short distance from where the 3 boys were murdered. I’ve seen the area every workday for over 16 years. I’m amazed at when I have spoken with co-workers who have lived in the area all their lives about the subject, how divided they are about what really happened and who killed the boys. I’ve also stayed at the Crescent Hotel several times and only felt a presence once while staying there. It’s fun to stay there as Eureka Springs is a beautiful area. Also passed through Fouke once on my way to Dallas, the Legend of Boggy Creek movie scared the hell out of me as a kid when I saw it in the 70’s. Pretty isolated area and who knows what’s really out there. Devil’s Den in northwest Arkansas is beautiful and it is supposed to be haunted and hikers have died in the woods there. Really enjoyed this video about my home state.
I have SOOO MANY images from all over the Crescent Hotel. A pair of orbs came down the main staircase and disappeared into the elevator. The reflections in the windows show whispy apparitions of people in fancy dinner dress (+ one priest, which I found terrifying when I viewed the pics later on!) Also, my son and I were the only ones in this hallway with a mirror at the end.... I was walking towards him and he was walking away from the mirror- halfway down the hallway it looked like someone was walking in his shadow and swinging its arms wildly. I'm so glad the current owners rescued the antique Calliope (musical instrument), if not, they wouldn't have fallen in love with and restored/reopened the hotel. ❤
Eureka Springs, AR is one of my favorite cities!!! I have been to the Crescent Hotel, and can't wait to go back and spend the night so I can take the ghost tour!!!
One of the worst ones that I've heard come out of Arkansas was a woman from Missouri was looking for a job and a woman approached her on Facebook going to help her and the woman ended up kidnapping her and cutting her baby out and this just happened last year on Halloween
My dad, who was born and raised in southwest Arkansas, told me about how he went hunting with an uncle near Boggy Creek once. He’s always been straight laced, not superstitious, doesn’t believe in ghosts or the paranormal. I remember him telling me that, once he stepped out of the truck, he got this gut feeling that he wasn’t supposed to be there, like there was something watching him. He explained it as the woods were way too quiet, and something in the woods was just watching every move he made. After a few seconds of standing outside the truck, he said that he immediately told my uncle, and the both got in the truck in left. I asked him if he thought it was a monster staring at him that day, and he told me, “Whatever it was, there’s no way in hell I was gonna stay and find out.”
Hey, I live in Arkansas. Nice to see a video about the spooky stuff in the state. Nice to see you cover the boys on the tracks, a lot of people don't know about it.
Amazing video! The time and effort you all put into this channel is second to none! Seeing this channel grow I think I subbed when you had 1.3k subs is unreal keep it coming!
super excited for this new series!!!! :D would love to see you cover some places in South Africa, if possible - the incredibly diverse cultural backgrounds of the country have led to some fascinating stories and myths
HEY starting off a series with my homestate! we're never included in shit like this despite having a TON of scary and/or fucked up happenings in the state. aside from all the gross legal injustice shit, i'm excited to see the howler included in this. my fav local cryptid doesn't get enough airtime. sadly the photos look a lot like a fun take on the creature using taxidermy from a gray fox as a base.
Just when I thought I couldnt l9ve his channel anymore than I already do...now Towns of Terror!!! You guys just keep getting better & better. No matter how many views & subscribers you inevitably get I will always believe you deserve so many MORE!!❤
Enjoyed the video! I live in Arkansas, literally one town over from West Memphis. Those murders divided the county and left a lot of questions unanswered. Police botched the investigation and ruined crime scene, a man covered in blood walked into a fast food restaurant not far from crime scene around the time the boys were missing and it was never looked into properly (based on hearsay). I worked with one of the victims fathers for a short time and he was totally convinced Echols did it, others suspected one of the stepfathers of the boys did it, and some thought a traveler passing through may have done it. Investigation was a mess and sad the families never got answers they deserved
I was born and raised in northwest Arkansas. There are a lot of paranormal type stories associated with the state that I have not only experienced but would also like to experience. I have stayed in the Crescent Hotel and it is very creepy but also beautiful. There is a really good docu-film done by a dearly departed friend of mine named Phillip W. Steele that you should check out called the Haunted Hills of the Ozarks. He was a very prominent figure in Springdale, Arkansas (where I lived) and a very nice man and great friend. Please check it out.
I find Don & Kevin’s really intriguing as I know for a fact I’ve gotten stoned enough to do some really REALLY stupid stuff yet not once has it crossed my mind that train tracks might be a good place to chill. Like even for shits and giggles for a couple of minutes… nope.
@@dhaltonmiller1215 if you live around the area it's best not to speak of out in open, but Google it there are books and movies made about it and the last couple had two of Hollywood's current leading men!
Yeah, for sure. Weed isn't the kind of drug where you wouldn't feel the rumble of an approaching train if you were laying directly on the tracks, either. This one is DEFINITELY fishy.
I can not wait for the next one !!!!! This was an amazing video, and I hated when I was at the end of it. I love this new series so much, and while I love many other series you make this series is going to be my favorite I am sure. I really hope you can get in a chance to do one for San Antonio, Texas where I am from and Birmingham, Alabama. where I currently live. Thank you for another great series.
Had my laptop stolen by a TSA agent while going thru the Arkansas airport security check point. One agent distracted me while his partner took the laptop. I was in uniform and on my way back home from a military training course. I told them I'm not getting on the plane until my laptop is recovered and that they were going to pay for my hotel, food and extra travel costs if I missed my flight and then the Govt would investigate why I was delayed, as I would still be getting paid by them. After that and telling them I was a military policeman, the agent was dragging his feet telling me there supervisor hadn't had time to check the security footage, and an hour later when he did, I was told the footage (from there million dollar security system) was to blurry to make out what happened and who took it, and asked me to get on my flight. I said no, that I want to see the security footage. They never allowed me to view it, saying it would violate privacy laws of other passengers. Then the agent came up to me later and admitted that the other agent was hired by his Uncle, the supervisor, because he couldn't find or hold a job and was fired for stealing at his last job. I got the feeling the supervisor had no clue what was going on. He then told me they found the laptop but would have to mail it to me as it was being processed as evidence. At this point I was beyond aggravated and just decided to leave the whole state behind me. They eventually called me and said I would have to set up the delivery pickup and pay for it myself. I called FedEx but told them that it would be paid for by the TSA when picked up. Which they did pay for. When it arrived, it was in good and working condition, but had a paper they wanted me to sign and return that had a statement relieving them of any responsibility for what happened and that I would not take any future action against them. I chuckled to myself and filed the paper for future laughs. After hearing of all the other corruption in Arkansas, I wasn't surprised at all. I bought that Wal-mart display laptop back in 2005 on sale from 600 to 250 (the display model) as a gift to myself for making it back from a 2 year tour in Iraq. Still have that old Acer today and it still works! God help the people of Arkansas and any weary travelers who pass thru it.
You forgot to mention about The West Memphis 3 case that Jesse Misskelly was intellectually slow and one of the fathers of the victims who swore at the time that Echols, Baldwin and Misskelly were the murderers, has changed his opinion and he now thinks it’s one of the boys’ step fathers.
Petit in Petit Jean (and just the word in general actually) is pronounced "petty"! Important because her nickname was masculine and "petite" is the feminine version of "petit". I just wanted to point it out :) Love the video regardless though. I live in Arkansas and hadn't heard of the creepy stories so that was cool! Totally trying to convince my husband to take a trip to stay at the Crescent Hotel lol I'd love to see you guys cover Tennessee. That's my home state and we have a *ton* of creepy stuff, such as the Bell witch
I am a born here and will die here Arkansan 🤘 Born in FortSmith (where Isaac "the hangin judge) Parker presided...and was raised in Crawford County and Van Buren was our regular shopping trip. The King Opera House IS A FORCE! My mother and I decided to walk downtown Van Buren which is very historical and quite beautiful if you want to park your car and walk one side and up the other to window shop and what not. It's great during Christmas or any festive season because the shop owners really do get and it's just a great place. The king opera house was being renovated one time when my mother and I decided to go walk the strip. You can hear saws and everything going on the inside. And the door had something propping it open for once which in the less than 20 years I had been on Earth I had ever seen that before so it was strange because it had been closed the entire time I had been alive so far but had always heard the stories. So with my teenage bravery I looked at my mom and she knew instantly I was going to open that door up and I did. I opened it far enough to see the foyer and a beautiful staircase but all of a sudden the music didn't sound like rock and roll anymore and I swear when I looked inside that place the music changed. It wasn't construction type music anymore and it literally sounded like there was a play going on inside and you could feel THAT feeling, which anybody who has ever been to a small theater performance with a great acoustic sound will know exactly what I mean, of the SOUND AND FEEL of an orchestra box and a theater full of people!! As brave as I had been the 32nds before I heard that music... Instantly I felt immediate respect, awareness, sadness and consideration and whatever braveness I did have absolutely went away because I didn't even step foot over that threshold. I told my mom "okay let's go". She asked well don't you want to speak? Go in and look a little see what we can see? I said nope that's okay. I don't know what it was or what it meant or if I felt what I was supposed to feel but whatever was guarding the door that day made me instantly believe that the king Opera House it's not something to be taken for granted or lightly. Something malicious would have let me go in there and then freaked me out.. so I figured maybe it was just somebody or somewhat of something showing me the gravity of what I was taking for granted. Arkansas was a major boundary for the civil war and has been kind of in the dark ages as far as rights and being open to people so there are a lot of things around here that could absolutely make a person second-guess themselves we just have to decide whether or not we deserve to be put in our place or is it something else?
I live in Kentucky but most of my mother’s family is in ARK. I LOVE Mt. Holly cemetery! It’s incredibly beautiful! We have a distant cousin buried there. His wife and daughter also. He was a poet. John Gould Fletcher was his name. Apparently, we were some of the first to help settle the city of Little Rock and have roads named for some of our family members. That’s what I’ve been told anyways. I’ve been wanting to delve more into the genealogy more. It’s fascinating and I have seen some of it but not very far back. Mt. Petit Jean was one of my favorite places growing up when we would go to visit family. My grandparents had their honeymoon there and I was always fascinated by the story of Petit Jean.
Hello from Mountain View, AR! Let me tell everyone, this barely scratches the surface of some of the stories I've heard. Yes, you have to take all the stories with a HUGE grain of salt. But, I've had quite a few encounters that I can't properly explain, myself. Oh, and Monticello is pronounced with a soft "e" (like "sell-oh"). Also, "Petit" is pronounced "petty" by locals.
I've been to Petit Jean Mountain many times. Fished, Camped, Hiked,Swam. Took my Fam up there many many times. We lived just a few miles away. But I've never seen anything strange or weird. I've walked under that arch. AR is a Very Beautiful place to visit.
Very well done and glad to see the state I was born in Little Rock and raised in Bryant Arkansas, Barbara Ives, Kevin's mom is a neighbor still. I'm around 15yrs younger than her boy!!!
Also, I gotta say, in spite of how haunted Mt Holly is, its a lovely and comforting place to visit. My mom used to go eat her lunch there sometimes when she still worked downtown. Also, the high school I went to, Parkview, does (or did for many years) a thing for Halloween every year where, for two weeks in October, the drama students read monologues about historical figures in the cemetary while standing at their grave plots and wearing period-appropriate clothing. It starts at sundown and theres luminaries on the sidewalks - it's very pretty and just creepy enough to be fun. It was always a wonderful time and I highly encourage my fellow Arkansans to check it out if they still do that ❤️
Great start to a new series! Definitely looking forward to the next! One thing I found a bit “off” I guess you could say is the first story of John Markle. While not always the case, embezzlement of money is usually carried out by at least 2 or more people. It’s very hard to hide embezzlement, and I think someone else was involved and didn’t want to be found out once John was charged and could potentially be named to the police. The fact John was found to be shot twice in the head by two different guns (although possible the first shot didn’t kill him so he used another) it seems more likely that whoever this 2nd mystery person is, most likely set it all up to look like a murder/suicide. He really had no reason to kill his whole family. I am thinking this 2nd person, in fear of being named, went to John’s house, killed his family, (so there were no witnesses) made him rewrite his will, write the suicide note, call the lawyer, then shot John twice to make sure he was dead. Just a theory of mine. Something about the case didn’t seem right to me, and as I stated, you usually have someone watching over you and the money coming and going in a company business, so I feel someone else was involved and didn’t want to be found out. The fact he was shot twice in the head with 2 guns was what really got my attention, but writing his family out of his will and killing them when they had nothing to do with his business dealings also stood out to me. I can very possibly be wrong, but I feel there is more to this story and the police should have looked at the people who he named in the will and co-workers he had a close and private relationship with.
Lived in Arkansas my whole life. In 1968 when I was 8yr old me and my Aunt saw bigfoot, it was late and it walked up in the yard. We had gone to bed and the lights were off, so we could see really clear outside through the window. The moon was bright and the porch Light was on. I watched it, it was real. It upset the animals. True I swear.
Forrest Galante actually investigates and found out what the Ozark Howler is it’s a critically extinct kind of wolf if I remember correctly, the episode is on RU-vid it’s a good watch!
I recommend everybody look into The West Memphis 3, this only scratched the surface of the case and left out a lot of details that show the corruption of the police department and those involved in the case.
I imagine it was just a joke, but if you do actually stay in Eureka Springs, it's a lovely place ^^ Though I find it funny that the story of the Crossett lights is also told about the railroad track a little northwest in Norphlet :P Granted it was told by kids who might've confused the tracks that run through this town with the one in Crossett
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! This series is gonna be AWESOME!!!!! I can't want for you cover New Jersey (Especially South Jersey.... where the Pine Barrens are... and not all those smelly, garbage filled cities LOL)
My family and I stayed in Michael’s room at the Crescent Hotel. We only experienced a little. My brother’s pillow was yanked from under his head and thrown across the room, and I felt like someone slapped the bottom of my foot in the middle of the night. My mom got lightheaded when we went to the basement/morgue, and we found out later she’d become lightheaded when she sat down next to the wall of the freezer they had stored bodies in. Once she moved away from the wall she was fine. Honestly the scariest part was how uncomfortable my bed was, but even so I hope to go again in the future.
Hey Dude, um... Content Provider, When are you going to make some more of these videos about hauntings and true crime in other towns/cities? You say at the beginning of this video that you would be making more but I cannot find any? Have you made any or was there not enough interest shown from people wanting to see more of these videos? Please continue to create these videos as I thought that this one was really good? Thank you. All the best, Dude.
As an Arkansan, this is NOT what I expected to see as I scrolled thru my subs feed but very happy to see it!! Excited and thank you for the representation Top5s!:)
Excellent start, really enjoyed this and definitely looking forward to future episodes! Maine has always struck me as a spooky place, would love to see that featured at some point!
My sister and her family live in Northwest Arkansas, Pea Ridge, and I visit there often. I loooove Arkansas. Also, I’ve visited the crescent motel and as soon as I walked in I had goosebumps that wouldn’t go away until after I left. Strange feeling.
