Haunted Underground Church Traditional Cache
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Haunted Underground Church
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In the small town of Utopia there is supposedly a haunted
underground church. It is really the basement of an old church that
some people got traped in during a huge flood. There is a fence
around the outside of it so you cant go in, but its still really
neat to see. There is a little convenient store right next to it
for parking. This should be an easy find.
Congrats Draino-0 on First to Find!
Utopia was founded by Charles Fourier, a French guy who was a
member of a religious sect which believed that the world was about
to enter a 35,000-year period of peace, and that people would be
organized into "phalanxes"--something like the communes hippies
like to live in. He also believed that the oceans would turn into
lemonade. I am not making this up. Phalanxes were about three
square miles in size and would include their own farmland,
libraries, schools, and stables. In 1844 he convinced more than a
dozen families to join him at his phalanx in southern Ohio for a
rent of $25.00 a year. Each family got a wooden house. There was a
dining hall for everyone located on the river bank. Later on a
thirty-room brick house was built higher up. When the oceans failed
to turn into lemonade, Fourier`s followers became disillusioned and
disbanded in 1846. After that the land with all the phalanx
buildings was sold to John O. Wattles, the leader of a group of
spiritualists. Against the warnings of locals, Wattles had the main
building moved, brick by brick, down to the water`s edge. It was
completed by December of 1847, just in time for one of the biggest
floods of the nineteenth century. On December 12 the Ohio had
overflowed to the point where people had to be ferried to the main
house by boat, but people were still seeking shelter there. There
was a party on the evening of December 13, but the dancing was
interrupted when the bricks gave way and all but a few of the
spiritualists were washed out to drown or freeze in the icy Ohio
River.
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