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Superstition Mountains

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The legends and lore of the Superstition Mountains can be experienced at the Superstition Mountain Museum on the Apache Trail where artifacts of the Lost Dutchman are on display.   Location: East of Phoenix, Arizona.  (image source: wikipedia )   As per the legend in 1800s, a German immigrant named Jacob Walts discovered a gold mine inside the mountains but did not discuss the whereabouts of that mine with anyone, until his deathbed, upon which he may or may not have told a single person the secret. Although the mine has never been found, despite many expeditions. It is believed that the spirits of people who've lost their lives in these expeditions, still haunt the mountains. It is also believed that the mine is protected by creatures called Tuar-Tums ("Little People") that live below the mountains in caves and tunnels. Some Apaches believed that the entrance to hell is located in the mountains. The legends and lore of the Superstition Mountains can ...

ELM STREET NIGHTMARE (1984)

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Premise: A supernatural killer stalks his prey while they dream during deep sleep. Real-Life Inspiration: Wes Craven based A Nightmare on Elm Street on a series of newspaper articles from the Los Angeles Times about a strange phenomenon where young Asian refugees would mysteriously die in their sleep. It was reported that many would refuse to sleep, citing terrifying nightmares that they feared would lead to death. According to Craven, the paper "never correlated [the three articles], never said, ‘Hey, we’ve had another story like this'": The third one was the son of a physician. He was about twenty-one; I’ve subsequently found out this is a phenomenon in Laos, Cambodia. Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines: "You must sleep." He said, "No, you don’t understand; I’ve had nightmares before—this is different." He was given sleeping pills and told to take them and supposedly did, but he stayed up. I forget what the tot...