03-12-2016, 09:09 PM | #11 |
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Re: [Horror/Monster Hunters] American Small Town Mystery
I'd personally avoid a res being the primary location. Now, one being nearby is a possibility, especially out west, but also in several southern states.
The PNW is a very good location and like others have said, easy to get isolated in. But I think that I would personally choose a section of southern Utah. Say Hanksville, Blanding, Bluff, Mexican Hat, Oljeto, or Monticello. Most especially if they have to travel around from one to the other to interview people. One of the most fascinating and creepy areas in the world I've ever been in was the area just nw of Lake Powell/Colorado river along 276 and the area south of there down to southish of Lake Powell/San Juan river. This is the area where Louis L'Amour set one of his best books. You've got small towns, reservations, National Parks and Monuments, isolated ranches, many small mining outfits, creepy haunted campgrounds, isolated undiscovered cliff dwellings, lost tourists, drug smuggling, amateur fossil hunters, etc. Now I may have to come up with something set there. |
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03-12-2016, 09:24 PM | #14 |
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I just returned from a week in Tuba City and its environs, which is "close by" Lake Powell and the Page area, in terms of civilization. This is the second year in a row I've been out there for a week. The Navajo Res is very remote, and it's sometimes a drive of an hour or two out into the desert to find one person's home in some hidden slot canyon. The roads there are all unimproved once you leave the highway, just tracks, mostly. And most of these people living out in the "deep res" have no electricity or even running water. They haul water in. Lots of alcoholism, meth, and desperate people of all types. It's a hide out for all kinds, really. And you can find plenty of traditional beliefs there, including the use of curses, and local swap meets at open air markets where you can freely buy magical ingredients for all kinds of fiendish activities. Add to that the language barrier, with English, Spanish, and of course Navajo used in one conversation. Outsiders will have a hard time gaining the trust of the people, but the police there are very professional -- most of them are trained to US federal standards (some are actually agents of the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and have the requisite Area Knowledge and Cultural Familiarity, too. Check out the Tony Hillerman novels if you want to get a good feel for the area.
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03-13-2016, 08:23 AM | #16 |
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Re: [Horror/Monster Hunters] American Small Town Mystery
The deep south may get you hostile locals, but it's unlikely to get you isolation. So I would also recommend somewhere west.
If you're really set on the south and want isolation then you're left with extreme cases like gulla country, or bayous. OTOH pick almost any town in Idaho or Nevada. Poof! Anti-guvmint locals and isolation. Most of Utah is like that, too, as well as western Washington and Oregon and a good bit of Montana and Wyoming. Colorado not so much but it could be done. Far north Maine isn't a bad idea, either. There you will get very insular locals, which may be what you're going for. You can live your whole life on Nantucket, for example, but if you weren't born there they'll still call you a coof.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan,_Kentucky It has a history of labor unrest that resulted in violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_County,_USA It's also pretty isolated, in the Appalachian Mountains, with the closest interstate highways at least an hour away.
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I respectfully submit Pinebox, Texas. I doubt conversion will require much effort.
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