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Town with a Dark Secret

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Town with a Dark Secret	comment	Everybody in a small town is in on a secret. A terrible secret that nobody outside the town must know. The visiting protagonist slowly begins to suspect that something is wrong. Such towns are often located in Lovecraft Country. If the terrible secret is covered up with a sweet veneer, see Stepford Suburbia and Uncanny Village. If it's big enough â€” say, a country or more â€” then you have yourself an Empire with a Dark Secret. Also note that the secret doesn't have to be supernatural; it can be something as mundane as a murder coverup. A Wrong Genre Savvy character may take it for a Close-Knit Community, or vice versa, while a Subverted Sitcom set in a small town might do the same for the audience. Sister Trope of Small Town, Big Hell, which is this trope but Played for Drama instead of for Horror. See also Small-Town Tyrant, A FÃªte Worse than Death, Supernatural Hotspot Town and Crapsaccharine World. Contrast Arcadia. As can be expected from a trope like this, spoilers may be unmarked. (And that is far more warning than most visitors to these towns get.) Examples
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1015579b	comment	The first episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo has the gang enter a town where everyone turns into a werewolf at night as a result of a curse put on them by the demons of the chest. They try to get the gang to leave to keep them from finding out about it, then try to keep them from leaving once they find out. Luckily, Flim-Flam manages to cure everyone.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_105c5b34	comment	Strange Behavior: Galesburg, Illinois is a seemingly typical middle American town where the youth are secretly being brainwashed into committing bloody murders.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_105c804b	comment	Happy Town tried very hard to be this to the point that they ended up making it fit the title while advertising heavily to be certain absolutely everyone knew it was a Sarcastic Title.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_10e9182d	comment	In Tales from the Crypt, Stueksville (pronounced "Sticksville"), where the episode "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" takes place, is this... for the outsiders who are here, as residents with the place seem to know well enough about how the rules and regulations work to stay out of trouble, whereas the outsiders who end up here (and stuck here) find themselves in a Fate Worse than Death, having to work in a court system that is rigged against defendants over and over.note That's assuming the place is a real town in the first place...
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1262dd97	comment	In Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return, the citizens of former Ghost Town Gatlin act normally, but gradually drop it until it's time for the final prophecy.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_13bb4300	comment	In The Wicker Man, the dark secret is a pagan cult that practices Human Sacrifice, at least according to the police officer protagonist. It turns out they weren't, as last year was the first year they even sacrificed an animal and luring a Fool (in this case, a virginal cop) to be sacrificed is a first for the islanders, who are desperate to cure a blight on their crops via magic.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_13ff1e76	comment	The Cars That Ate Paris. Paris is a small rural Australian town with winding roads where a lot of car accidents occur. The Reveal is that the townsfolk cause the accidents deliberately, then plunder the cars and personal belongings of the victims.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_141a7410	comment	In Over the Garden Wall, the pumpkin-headed citizens of the village of Pottsfield turn out to be dead people reanimated as skeletons. Fitting, as a potter's field was a popular colloquialism for a mass grave of unknown, unclaimed, and/or indigent people.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_144ddb59	comment	Memoria They all wear masks and it's run by a Creepy Child — it gets worse.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): The humble little island of Cephalonia is in reality Circe's private fiefdom. Few who try to share this with outsiders live for long.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_170487d5	comment	ParaNorman: The small town of Blithe Hollow (which is based on Salem) is infamous for being founded by a puritan community that killed an evil witch 300 years prior the events of the movie, who in retaliation seemingly cursed the city by raising the dead on her deathâ€™s anniversary. However, it turns out that this is an over-exaggeration of the true story: itâ€™s revealed that â€œthe evil witchâ€� was actually an 11 years old girl, named Agatha Prenderghast, who was taken away from her mother, put on a trial, and finally executed by hanging for the sole crime of having the ability to interact with the dead (much like her distant descendants Norman and his uncle) by 6 frightened puritans. Furthermore, we learn that she didnâ€™t curse the town, but only her killers by turning them into zombies so they would be subjected to discrimination by the townsfolk as punishment.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_17d59b39	comment	Even crossovers that feature Layton aren't exempt; Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney features the quaint little town of Labyrinthia, which turns out to be a government project to test a hypnotic solution that brainwashes its denizens to think magic and witches exist. It's practically tradition by now for this trope to be applied to the Layton franchise.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_187d570b	comment	Devil May Cry 5: Red Grave City seems to be a normal town, until Mission 12 where you find a rather large statue and shrine to Sparda, complete with blood fountains that had to have been built before the demon invasion. The implication seems to be that the city's primary or hidden religion was demon worship with Sparda as a patron deity.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1920f95f	comment	Mt. Absalom, Ohio, from HartLife NFP's Unwell Podcast. Besides the whole atmosphere of the place, there's an old man living in the woods with his two monster-dogs, an abandoned observatory built on top of another buried building, a few deceased citizens who have come back healthy, a 24-hour diner that appears out of nowhere with no health code compliance to speak of, and a horribly skewed local history pageant.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1a02758e	comment	Cragwich from Lesbian Vampire Killers where the villagers ensure a continuing steam of sacrifices for the lesbian vampires in exchange for sparing their lives.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1a7918e3	comment	Around the start of Chapter 3 in Terranigma, you go to Louran, a nice little desert town with nice people and a lot of ambitions. Until you find out that Louran's been destroyed for quite a few years now and all its inhabitants are actually zombies. The nice town you saw was an illusion by a girl who used to live there. All of the zombies themselves are also illusions by the girl (who can somehow hurt and even kill you) that disappear forever once you find her, and nobody actually lives there at all. There's also Crysta, which is a copy of Storkholm in the Light World complete with copies of its original inhabitants. Near the end of the game, the villagers and chickens turn into spirits and attack you if you talk to them (doing no damage). You can kill them by throwing things at them, but they regenerate. They also drop massive amounts of gold which is completely useless by this point of the game, as there's nobody to buy anything from (Crysta's shopkeepers aren't exactly eager to help).
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1b0097a1	comment	American Horror Story: Double Feature: It's implied that everyone who lives in Provincetown is aware of what people on the Muse get up to, namely killing people to feed on their blood, and look the other way as long as no one native to town is targeted. "Winter Kills" confirms that the town council, at least, is completely informed of the situation and not just allow it to happen but cover the extent of things up so that the town can profit from the reputation of being an artists' retreat.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1bb5d5f4	comment	The musical Brigadoon (first produced in 1947). Although Brigadoon is more of a Lotus-Eater Machine that happens to be real, depending on how one looks at it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1beda93b	comment	Podunkton from the Sluggy Freelance arc "Phoenix Rising" is secretive to the point of parody about its past as a mafia controlled town, or the current state of its vigilante based peacekeeping.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1df8f66b	comment	The town of Maiden Creek in the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries episode "Death on the Vine" has a secret regarding the death of a German farmer at the end of World War I. Phyrne Fisher steps into the middle of the secret when the farmer's son calls her in to investigate, only for her to find that he has been murdered by the time she arrives. Owes a great deal to Bad Day at Black Rock.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1ea0d4f4	comment	Shock Treatment: The fancy health spa in town keeps its rich clientele young by injecting them with the liquefied organs of its Portuguese waitstaff. The carcasses of the murdered workers are then tossed into the sea. All the regular clients of the spa know this, as do some of the townsfolk, including the fisherman (he's the one who disposes of the mangled bodies) and the police inspector (he's a client of the spa and is part of the conspiracy).
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1ed66ab2	comment	Taveye in the webnovel DO NOT TAKE THE SHELLS has a sign on the beach with the eponymous phrase on it. Ask one of the residents why, and they'll just say you really shouldn't take the shells. And that's not even getting into the strange weather, or the mysterious disappearance that took place there in the past.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_1f0fe64e	comment	In Monster one of the towns mentioned was used for child psychological experiments.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_206e8270	comment	In Headless Horseman, Wormwood Ridge is populated entirely by the descendants of a child-murdering Satan worshipper. Every seven years they lure in sacrifices for the Headless Horseman to keep the bargain with Hell intact.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_20e955d2	comment	Leviathan: The Tempest: A Leviathan's Cult will sometimes form one of these, grouping together to form a community in which almost everyone is a part of the Cult. Exact degrees of isolation from the outside world can vary, all the way from an isolated island in the middle of the ocean which hasn't seen vistors since the 1800s to a couple of blocks in a suburban neighborhood in which every house holds a cultist family and there are a few extra elements at the neighborhood potluck.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_21810fae	comment	RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: The town of Oaton, in The Hero of Oaton, initially seems like a small, isolated little village that just happens to have been left off the map. Eventually, Trixie, Raindrops and Cheerilee learn that it's isolated because the founders were Tirek worshippers, and there's a shrine to him in the nearby forest.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_21e321da	comment	Dragon Quest VII has present-day Labres: the town features a monument boasting about the heroic villagers protecting one of their own from some terrible travelers who tried to slay the transformed man. But this version of events is a complete lie — the truth is that they lynched the poor man, and threw a child and the travelers who tried to stop them to the real monsters. The monument was originally meant to remind them of their greatest failure, but corrupted and turned into a feel-good lie to drum up tourism. Ultimately, you discover the real monument, only for the mayor to destroy it — but not before their children all get a chance to read the true version of events and swear to spread that version instead, even against their parents' wishes.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck: The suburbs in "Chuck vs. the Suburbs". It turns out that everyone in their cul-de-sac is an agent of Fulcrum, a criminal organization.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_224ed8b0	comment	Enigmatis: The eponymous Maple Creek of The Ghosts of Maple Creek. Some people who visited previously said it was nice, but the locals tended to act rather strangely. Of course, it's more the local preacher you have to watch out for... The Detective visits Maple Creek again in the third installment... and finds out that the town has been completely abandoned by the residents in the meantime, with them having burned down the church before leaving for good measure. One of them even carved "BURN IN HELL, PREACHER" into the doorframe.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_226f6b3f	comment	Haven, Maine: A small town that hosts various cursed individuals. The mysterious 'Troubles' have recently returned, causing the deadly powers of some citizens to reactivate with horrible consequences. Loosely based on (well, uses some names from) a novella by Stephen King. Subverted in the first few seasons, however, since everyone believes the Troubles are tall tales, and the citizens' brusque and insular nature is lampshaded as them being New Englanders, who are naturaly wary of outsiders and slow to accept them. It fits the trope straight by season five, however, when evidence of the Troubles has grown beyond Haven PD's capacity to contain it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_227431b6	comment	According to Runaways, the reason that the Los Angeles of the Marvel Universe isn't crawling with supervillains in the same manner as New York City is because for years all the criminal activity in L.A. was controlled by the Pride, who were so evil and vicious that no sane criminal or supervillain dared to cross them.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_22f240e4	comment	Cannon: In "Fool's Gold", Cannon tracks a pair of armored car robbers to a small town in New Mexico. Cannon is greeted with suspicion and harassment from the moment he arrives. It turns out the robbers have used the loot from the heist to effectively buy the town to give them a place to hole up while they recuperate.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_24c013a0	comment	Atlantis: Milo's Return has an effectively creepy and chilling version of this which could come straight out of Lovecraft Country: the first tale in the arc consists of a constantly foggy, frigid Norwegian town where all the townsfolk seem to be hypnotized, brainwashed, or under a spell. If the constantly bulging eyes, monotonous voices, and deathly pale skin doesn't scare you enough, the so-called leader of the town is secretly in league with a Kraken, linked to it through some form of telepathic connection which grants him eternal life and power, as long as he continues to sacrifice hapless travelers to his master/slave. (The...relationship is never quite pinned down as to who really controls whom.) And in what may be a clear homage to, or at least an echo, of Shadow over Innsmouth, after the villain and the Kraken are eliminated and peace, sunshine, and happiness return to the townsfolk, a deleted alternate ending shows the innkeeper with her baby...which extends a Chthulu-like tentacle out of its blanket to caress her cheek, while she lovingly coos and starts talking about it 'growing up big and strong'. Whether this implies Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong or simple Body Horror is up to the viewer to decide.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_27777760	comment	This is the essential plot of Eureka, where the eponymous town is the site of a top-secret government research facility. The tagline for the first season was "Small town. Big Secrets." (Though it's portrayed as more of a Quirky Town despite the Death Ray, runaway Nanomachines and other Phlebotinum Overload that happens on a regular basis.)
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_2a4482ad	comment	The Secret of Monkey Island. The island seems pretty peaceful (even the cannibals eventually bargain with you). That is, until you discover the hellish labyrinth beneath the giant monkey head.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_2a786b7f	comment	In Darklands, the events take place in medieval Germany. The protagonists begin the main quest by finding out, which of the many villages has a Dark Secret of being populated by devil worshippers. Attending the mass there is particularly creepy... That and as has been pointed out in reviews. Just when you think you can recuperate from your injuries in a small village you might well wake up in the middle of the night to find them trying to sacrifice you to demons.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph: Sugar Rush has one dark secret that is so dark and secret that nobody even remembers it because King Candy/Turbo locked everyone's memories away.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League has Seaboard City, a town in an Alternate Universe that serves as an Affectionate Parody of The Golden Age of Comic Books. It's later revealed that the whole thing is secretly under the control of a tyrannical, reality-warping child named Ray Thompson. After a nuclear war devastated their planet, Ray went mad and used his powers to recreate Seaboard City as he remembered it, forcing the remaining survivors to play along with the illusion or be killed.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_2e61ed0d	comment	The town of Newbury in Hidden Side has been haunted for centuries thanks to Lady Evelina a.k.a. "Lady E", who steals the souls of the townsfolk in order to obtain eternal youth.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_2e833eb	comment	Fallout: Equestria: Arbu advertises itself as the "friendliest town in the wasteland". Many of the ponies have strange brands on their flanks, which they get for eating their first hearts. Since the town's economy revolves around hunting, this does not seem unusual. Those hearts they eat are pony hearts—the town is a nest of cannibals.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_3038d769	comment	Nevesk, the town you first arrive in in Diablo IV, seems at first to be your average town fallen on hard times in the desolation that Sanctuary has become. Up until you clear out a ruin for them and they celebrate by throwing you a small party during which you're drugged and hauled off to be sacrificed. As it turns out, these townsfolk are demon cultists who worship Lilith, the Big Bad, and you're only saved when one of the people they slated for sacrifice kills the guy who tries to sacrifice you, and you have to kill the rest of the town when they show up en masse to finish you off. Tristram this ain't. Needless to say, this immediately sets a much darker tone for the game in general in comparison to previous Diablo fare.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_3055fc61	comment	Golden Sun: Vale, the heroes' hometown, seems to be one of these to outsiders in the first game due to The Masquerade about Psynergy. This apparently gets dropped between The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, when Vale's destruction causes its people to move to Kalay and word gets out about Psynergy.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_31aedabc	comment	In R.S Belcher's King of the Road, everyone in Valentine's Trailer Park knows to never go to the train car graveyard and to stay away from the southeast of the park because "that's where all the drug dealers and... Calvin live". The inhabitants know that the park has a long history of murders by clowns and other weird happenings, with local urban legends like "Emmett the ghost clown" based on these. The reality is worse, the trailer park was started by alchemist Nicholas Flammel as a hunting ground for his "Harlequin" cult of serial killing clowns (with the train graveyard as one of their bases) and the friendly hippie manager of the park is actually an almost 2000 year old Roman alchemist. Calvin is a sorcerer-priest for the cult of Hastur.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_33af2ef6	comment	Discussed in The Events at Poroth Farm, where the main character Jeremy, who is a PhD student in literature, brings up the trope in his first-person narration and lays out why he considers it it a hackneyed, unrealistic clichÃ©:
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_341a1fd2	comment	Crystal Cove in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. The town hides a dark secret to which is connected to the Planespheric Disks. To which the old Mystery Inc would kill over for.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_3e4a348a	comment	The eponymous Town of Salem has members of the mafia, psychotic serial killers, werewolves, vampires, witches, and the incarnation of one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse hidden among its population.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Assassination Classroom has Fukuma Island, a tropical paradise home to several gorgeous beach resorts. The lone hotel on its mountaintop is a luxurious getaway for influential mafias, businessmen, politicians, and assassins who are after Koro-sensei and the students of Class 3-E.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_3f493700	comment	The 1955 film Bad Day at Black Rock is one of the codifiers of this trope. It concerns a veteran of World War II heading to the town of Black Rock to pay a visit to Komoko, the father of a Japanese war buddy who died trying to save his life, only to find that the entire town has something to hide — namely, that Komoko was murdered by Reno Smith, the most powerful man in town, a racist landowner who tried to cheat Komoko by selling him some arid farmland with no water only for Komoko to make the farm prosperous by digging a sixty-foot-deep well. Soon after Pearl Harbor went down, Smith got drunk with a handful of others, harassed Komoko, burned his farmstead down and shot him.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_405243c7	comment	The 100 has three: Mount Weather initially seems like the safest, friendliest, and most luxurious community on post-apocalyptic Earth, but Clarke can't help feeling like they're hiding something from her. Then she discovers where their medical "treatments" are coming from ... Sanctum appears like a mountaintop community with a pagan/medieval vibe, with a radiation dome forcefield that protects the residents from the carnivorous swarms of alien insects. This time around, the characters don't fall for it as easily, but are traumatized refugees desperate enough to not initially ask too much about "The Primes". Wonkru's bunker also qualifies, as the members of Wonkru do not talk about the Dark Year.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_406b9c00	comment	Sucker for Love: Sacramen-Cho, the hometown of the protagonist of Date To Die For, is hit by a plague of people going missing. It's soon revealed that they've either been getting sacrificed by the ruthless cultists controlling the town, or getting consumed by the cursed woods surrounding it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_41c887f7	comment	The Truman Show. In this case, everyone's in on the secret except one of the residents... Truman is, unbeknownst to himself, the star of a reality tv show and has been since his birth and the show's producer has no intent of every letting him leave the set or tell him the truth. All of the other people in town are actually actors.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation SCP-599 ("Uncharted City"). Exactly what the Dark Secret is is never directly stated, but it's implied that the town is a malevolent Genius Loci that lures people in, then kills them and integrates them into itself as citizens. SCP-1948 ("Weather Bird"). SCP-1948 is a bird that creates nice weather to keep itself comfortable. The town sacrificed people to it whenever the weather got worse, not realizing that it was responding to El NiÃ±o and would return to normal once the system had passed.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_43576f5	comment	Pretty much every small town the Winchesters visit in Supernatural. For some reason, it seems that you can't become a person of respect in your town without having committed some horrific act in the past.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_43f52aa9	comment	In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there's the minor town of Hackdirt, where you have to visit after a merchant's daughter disappears there. The Church has a book dedicated to "the Deep Ones", and people say things like "the Brethren don't take kindly to strangers. I'd leave before they find out you're here." If you spend the night in the inn after asking questions, you wake up in the middle of the night to find yourself under attack by some cultist, then can find your way into the underground to discover that the shopkeeper's daughter is about to be sacrificed for an unknown reason. Not even unknown daedric reasons - the "Deep Ones" are something else entirely.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4419d8b5	comment	Copland is the nickname for Garrison, New Jersey, where a number of Dirty Cops live as a safe haven from investigations by Internal Affairs police. As it turns out, the cops are also in league with The Mafia. Freddy Heflin, the deaf sheriff of the town, has tended to look the other way when it comes to what's going on, and the film is partly about how he slowly decides to take a stand against the corrupt cops in the town.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4456bd7b	comment	The eponymous town in Riverdale is described has having "shadows underneath" its innocent facade. The maple syrup business that the town is founded upon is a front for a drug ring, the authorities are secretly crooked, the powerful Blossom family is connected to a history of familicide and incest, and frequent attacks and murders occur throughout the town. Unraveling the town's dark secrets is the premise of the show and is what kickstarts the plot of the first season.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4522fd1	comment	In the Whateley Universe, Whateley Academy is literally in Lovecraft Country, since the closest town is the Dunwich. Only maybe half of Dunwich is in on the dark secrets, since the town has been gentrified.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_455e3038	comment	In an episode of King of the Hill, it's revealed that Arlen, Texas was originally a watering hole on the Chisholm Trail. A group of eleven enterprising women invested in a tent and a cot, and the site eventually formed into a town-wide brothel dubbed Harlottown until the prostitutes decided to make the brothel into a prospering town and start their own legitimate businesses and even get involved in politics. The name of the town used to be called "Harlen" in the past, which came from the even further back name "Harlottown", which Peggy discovers from old newspapers. Apparently "People were in such a hurry to get to Harlottown that they didn't have enough time to call it such." The many visitors to Harlen included President Garfield, the Terry's Texas Rangers, the 1884 University of Notre Dame football team, and Mark Twain. Hank, being a closed-minded conservative, thinks it's this trope since he doesn't like the idea that his hometown started out as a brothel. However, he soon learns to respect the town's "founding mothers" since they eventually became legitimate, honest people.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_459c7d42	comment	The Lost Boys: Santa Carla, California, where the local bullies sleep all day, party all night, never grow old, and never die. The wonderful final line of the film, supplied by Grandpa:
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4668ebe	comment	Beautifully subverted in the movie Big Fish with the mysterious town of Specter: the idyllic small town exuding a weird feeling of wrongness appears to be a textbook version of this trope (complete with hints that no one ever leaves, a woman with a Stepford Smiler-esque grin, and all its residents inexplicably going barefoot all the time), but The Reveal never comes; it's simply a Quirky Town. It's never explicitly stated, but Specter is supposed to be heaven. No-one leaves, everything is perfect, and there's the talk and surprise of people stumbling in before their time. There's also the fact that the version of Specter we see in the film isn't quite the real thing- Ed Bloom is exaggerating the story. It's more likely he found a very nice, idyllic town as a young man, but simply felt like he didn't fit in, or that he deserved more challenge in his life so he left. Everyone being barefoot and that business about expecting his arrival might've been minor occurrences he blew out of the water or simply made up entirely. No Reveal was made about the town's secret because there wasn't one.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: Dominula, Windmill Village. At first glance, a small farming town celebrating a festival. Then, you might notice the lack of non-celebrants, find the spirit desperately pleading for someone not to skin him, aggro the celebrants and get their drops of bloodstained dresses and weapons made of human bone, and figure out that something is very, very wrong here. The references to flaying and the presence of a Godskin Apostle field boss nearby hints that the Dominulans are Godskin Cultists and use their festival to flay demigods and men alike to turn into clothing for the Godskin Apostles and Nobles.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_47ba573b	comment	The John Carpenter film In the Mouth of Madness features the surreal, warped town of Hobb's End, which may or may not be the fictional creation of horror writer Sutter Cane. Features of the town change and rearrange themselves, the residents are monsters in disguise, and the Only Sane Man ends up taking shelter in a movie theater where the events of the film are playing out on the screen, as the world burns down around him.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_48177077	comment	Jerusalem's Lot from 'Salem's Lot. It's had a family of gangsters that worshiped demons and consorted with vampires. One of these vampires comes to town and then it really has a dark secret. By the end, the whole town is undead except for the protagonists, who burn the town down and leave. A couple of later short stories by King reveal that burning the Lot down only temporarily halted the vampires. And it's hinted throughout both the novel and the prequel story that we still don't know the worst of its secrets.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_487743ee	comment	Charby the Vampirate: Subverted with the human city of Kellwood which has a magically enhanced Weirdness Censor and a city-wide Glamour to prevent the humans from noticing anything off with their monster infested city which rests on the edge of an Enchanted Forest that is much, much Bigger on the Inside and filled with kingdoms of demons and The Fair Folk. It doesn't work on everyone and seeing something shocking enough can break the glamour for an individual permanently. The city's Animal Control is actually a city funded Creature-Hunter Organization.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII's Nibelheim. After the town burned to the ground as a result of the Super-Soldier Sephiroth going off the deep end, Shinra, Inc. had the whole place rebuilt and populated by hired actors in an effort to hide the fact that the entire incident ever happened.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has Eulmore, one of the two remaining major city-states in the world of The First. From the start, not all seems right with Eulmore, as its citizenry consists of nobles idling away their time while The End of the World as We Know It looms, and their ruler, King Vauthry, is highly invested in making sure no one even tries to save the world. The full magnitude of Eulmore's dangers become apparent later on when it is revealed that "Meol", the mysteriously addictive foodstuff that Eulmore's elite feed themselves and the people of the surrounding ghettos, is made from sin eters. Worse still, Lord Vauthry is not only a sin eater himself, but a Lightwarden, one of the most powerful sin eaters in existence. The Meol he feeds to his people allow him to exert his will over them and force them to do his bidding. Also given his culture of ascending Bonded who can no longer serve for some reason into Sin Eaters, he's effectively made indirect cannibals of every Eulmore citizen.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: The town of Pyrewood is home to Alliance-friendly NPCs during the day, who turn into bloodthirsty Worgen that attack anyone on sight at night. Silverbrook in Northrend: The town inhabitants are actually Worgen who act friendly towards you, in hopes of turning you into one too, but you get better, and they get hostile. After this every trapper settlement is hostile to player.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4a3a41cc	comment	James A. Moore, writer of The Blasted Lands Series, wrote the horror trilogy of Serenity Falls. An old man Simon MacGruder used to live in the dying town and he's gone back to research and write its history before the town fades into obscurity. Turns out Serenity Falls had been cursed 300 years ago by the husband of a woman who was wrongly accused of being a witch and then burnt. After the curse many horrible events, supernatural and mundane happen to doom the town over time.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: Golden Sun: Vale, the heroes' hometown, seems to be one of these to outsiders in the first game due to The Masquerade about Psynergy. This apparently gets dropped between The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, when Vale's destruction causes its people to move to Kalay and word gets out about Psynergy. Golden Sun: The Lost Age has Garoh, though the secret itself is not as dark as the reason they keep it secret. This one's also presumably moot as of Dark Dawn thanks to the rise of the beastmen.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4caf9a3	comment	Evolution (2015) is set on an unnamed island village whose population, strangely, consists only of adult women and their young sons, with no signs of any young girls or adult men. It turns out that the "women" are some kind of mutant sea-life who are using the boys as surrogate mothers against their will, a process that they don't always survive.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4cc06582	comment	In the movie Hot Fuzz, all the members of the town of Sandford's Neighborhood Watch secretly murder everyone in the town that is "unpleasant", so that nothing stands in their way of winning "Village of the Year". All murders are disguised (sometimes poorly) as accidents.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4d1e1340	comment	In Crimestrikers, this is the subject of the episode seed "A Friendly Little Town". Outrage (an international crime syndicate) takes over the rural village of Pleasant Valley because it's the only source of a material they need. They maintain a facade of normality for people who are passing through, but most of the residents live in fear of their conquerorsâ€”at least until two Crimestrikers show up to help the local resistance.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4d8e5ec	comment	Jon Stewart on The Daily Show mocked the "this town holds a Dark Secret" advertising for Wolf Lake by saying "Let's ask the werewolves! Maybe they know what the Dark Secret is."
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): Tim discovers that a quiet now almost empty town in the Appalachian Mountains is trying to hide the fact that they unknowingly survived off on human meat for an untold period of time while a Humanoid Abomination they thought was human was running a survivalist compound in town.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5075737a	comment	Golden Sun: The Lost Age has Garoh, though the secret itself is not as dark as the reason they keep it secret. This one's also presumably moot as of Dark Dawn thanks to the rise of the beastmen.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_50a4bc11	comment	The town of Doolin in Folklore is known as a place "where the living can meet the dead." This is only kind of true, but in the course of trying to get to the bottom of what really does go on in Doolin, protagonists Ellen and Keats uncover a few other nasty secrets revolving around a series of deaths and disappearances which took place seventeen years previously on the night of Samhain.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_51a7df31	comment	High Plains Drifter. Clint Eastwood's character is a gunslinger who's promised anything he wants as long as he defends the town from some ex-cons who are coming for revenge. Turns out the ex-cons were hired by the townspeople to kill the last sheriff, then framed to put them in prison. Turns out Clint has his own agenda, and may even be the ghost of the sheriff they killed.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5223dd16	comment	Grim Dawn has the town of Barrowholm in Act 5. The town looks a lot nicer than the surrounding Ugdenbog and seems incongruously prosperous and well-maintained. Explore the town a bit and you might find some interesting things; a cellar with a locked door and strange noises coming out, a cookbook that uses some alarming turns of phrase, an altar of bones and dark wood tucked away in a corner of the village ... The inhabitants are wendigoes that have managed to stay sane and appear human. They're also cultists of the Ravager, a spirit of predation and cannibalism influencing the area
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5251e609	comment	The board game Arkham Horror takes place in Lovecraft Country and each board represents a different town from the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_52b67f7	comment	In Satan's Cheerleaders, everybody in the town of Nether is a member of a Satanic cult led by the Sheriff.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Beacon", Dr. Dennis Barrows stumbles into a small town called Mellweather which is protected by an enigmatic lighthouse that demands a Human Sacrifice for its services.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_54647720	comment	The eponymous town in the Spooksville series is actually called Springville but earned the nickname due to being a hotbed for all kinds of weird/supernatural occurrences. It's strongly hinted that the killing of local witch Madeline Templeton hundreds of years ago is when it all started.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_553c6141	comment	In Aussie slasher Dying Breed, the townsfolk are the inbred Cannibal Clan descendants of 1820s Serial Killer Alexander Pearce.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_55f4b47d	comment	Inverted in In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium, Nobody Beats G.I. Joe! - when G.I. Joe's Earth is transported to the Warhammer 40,000 universe, it needs to hide the fact that it isn't a fascist, racist, fanatical dystopia from the rest of the Imperium.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_567e37ec	comment	Ludlow has the secret of the real Pet Sematary, the Wendigo, and what lies beyond the deadfall...
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5769ae78	comment	Winter's Bone: Everyone is connected in some way with the meth business, and just about everyone knows who killed the main character's father.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_584447e6	comment	The unnamed town in the horror anthology film Terror Tract is an example of this. Consisting of nothing but strange deaths, and bizarre incidents that a realtor tries to hide from a couple who wants to buy a house in the area....except he can't keep the secret and tells the buyers about each house's sordid grisly background.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry has Hinamizawa. A dark secret? Try about a dozen. The Curse of the Cotton Drifting Festival is only the first we learn about.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5908ee91	comment	Meanwhile, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has the hold of Markarth, which has not one, but two dark secrets: A good number of people in town are Forsworn infiltrators and most of the rest are cannibals who worship the Daedric Prince Namira. Since many of the citizens who fall into the second secret are people with whom you can have perfectly normal interactions outside of this quest chain, it makes the whole town seem even creepier once you know. Not to mention the haunted house with a shrine to Molag Bal in the basement. Which given the scale and amount of beds and food seems to have been a pretty sizable cult in the past.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_59a835fb	comment	Sonic Adventure 2: the Space Colony ARK was an advanced orbital research facility created by the government for scientific and technological development. Little did most people know, it was also the birthplace of Shadow, who was originally created as part of Professor Gerald Robotnik's efforts to find a cure to a deadly disease afflicting his granddaughter Maria. As part of this research, Professor Gerald made contact with a race of aliens known as the Black Arms to provide genetic material for Shadow's creation in exchange for the Chaos Emeralds. Fearing that the Black Arms would be a danger to Earth, Gerald then created the Eclipse Cannon as a countermeasure against them (which would later be used by his grandson Ivo Robotnik, AKA: Eggman, in a plot for world conquest). The development of a weapon of mass destruction led to the government raiding the ARK and shutting it down, killing Maria in the process and driving Gerald to plot revenge against mankind. Even after the colony was shut down, a dangerous Flawed Prototype of Shadow still lingered in the colony's core...
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has the Ultra-Luxe Casino, one of the swankiest casinos in New Vegas run by the high-class White Glove Society. ...who also happen to be a group of reformed cannibals. If the Courier so chooses, they can convince the White Glove Society to serve their patrons again.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5ac8ee68	comment	Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy: In the movie Hot Fuzz, all the members of the town of Sandford's Neighborhood Watch secretly murder everyone in the town that is "unpleasant", so that nothing stands in their way of winning "Village of the Year". All murders are disguised (sometimes poorly) as accidents. In The World's End, all of Newton Haven has been replaced by robots that aren't robots.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5c120125	comment	In Lovecraft Is Missing, Tough Luck, Oklahoma is revealed to have its own Cthulhu cult that meets secretly in an old barn.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_5fb8ce6a	comment	The Howling (1977): At first glance, Drago appears to be a normal Californian mountain town, if not a bit creepy and rundown. However, there have been a lot of mysterious disappearances and deaths in the area (and that's just the ones people know about), with Karyn coming to believe there's a supernatural explanation. It's eventually revealed the inhabitants of Drago are actually werewolves who have been terrorising the area for generations.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6053d9f9	comment	Silent Hill, a small town founded by cultists and harboring a very twisted Dark World. Silent Hill: Homecoming introduces another TWADS, Shepherd's Glen, this time with extra child sacrifices.Ironically, Silent Hill in the film adaptation is inspired by the Real Life small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, whose citizens accidentally set a coal seam on fire by burning trash and never bothered to tell anyone about it until a child nearly fell through the ground and into the fires below. It's nothing more than a smoldering Ghost Town now.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse series: In Stargate SG-1 episode "Nightwalkers", the team arrives in a mysterious town to investigate the disappearance of a scientist. The townspeople are alternatively friendly and hostile towards the protagonists and it is revealed that the whole town was taken as a host by Goa'uld symbiotes, including the scientist who had originally given the alarm. However, the townspeople themselves were not aware of this as the symbiotes take control only at night. Stargate Atlantis does this trope when the Genii is first introduced. Seems like a simple farming community, right? And they want to trade food for C-4 with the expedition to make it easier for them to clear their fields, right? Not really: they have a Cold War-level underground city powered by geothermal energy and want the C-4 in their nuclear program.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_629cd094	comment	Haven in Dragon Age: Origins is a little mountain town where the locals are suspiciously tight-lipped and uunwelcoming of outsiders, and the main characters are greeted by a Creepy Child reciting an ambiguously ominous nursery rhyme. Everyone who lives in Haven is a member of the Disciples of Andraste, a cult which has turned to worshiping a dragon and practicing a form of blood magic.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_65509467	comment	Spooky Month is set in an unnamed small town somewhere in the United States, which (despite looking like an average suburban city) isn't really a normal or pleasant place to live in. In addition to the surprisingly high level of crime (for such a small town) with robbers, kidnappers, and murderers running around at night, it's also a Weirdness Magnet for occult and supernatural activity; with various monsters suddenly appearing with little or no explanation (like the dancing zombies in the hospital morgue), along with being the home base of a mysterious evil cult that worships an Eldritch Abomination lurking under the town's surface, plotting sinister schemes for their unknown agenda in the background.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_667f6509	comment	In The Council of Hanwell, the town of Hanwell is home to many monsters designated as "anomalies". It turns out that many of the creatures were either created by or captured by the Council for the supposed purpose of furthering mankind, but it's really so the Doctor can create an army and give himself powers.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_68237790	comment	In Pathfinder, Illmarsh is pretty much Innsmouth with worse relations between humans and monsters. A colony of skum live at the bottom of the nearby lake and force the town to give them its women to reproduce.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: The Arkansas town of Dudley from the episode "Our Town" is entirely made up of cannibals who kidnap, kill and eat human beings in order to maintain their youth. They accidentally eat a victim who has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and become infected with that syndrome.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6969f7d3	comment	In survival horror title Camp Sunshine, whatever town is nearest the titular camp seems to hide fairly well the fact that there was a violent mass murder committed in the camp that used to be where Camp Sunshine now stands, even though this incident only happened a couple of years before the game begins. There is no hint that the protagonist, or anyone else he meets over the course of the game, was remotely aware of this.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_69de2e4d	comment	In No Rest for the Wicked, the protagonists come upon an unnamed village where the villagers believe that there is a witch in the forest who has abducted and murdered huge numbers of their children. They're right, but the thing is that the children weren't entranced into the forest by the witch's magic, the villagers have been abandoning their children in the forest to die (in some cases) or they've intentionally not done anything to prevent their children going in of their own volition. Once November, Perrault and Red kill the witch and bring the only living children back, they leave the villagers with their guilt.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons horror-themed campaign setting Ravenloft is full of these, naturally. The quevari appear as normal, pacifistic human beings most of the time, seemingly untouched by the evil that surrounds them. Until the three nights of the full moon that is, when every man, woman and child turns into a bloodthirsty killer. They've learned to block out what they do when they change, and never speak of it (even to travelers). The Folk Horror realm of Tepest is a classic version of this, with a seemingly-idyllic countryside community practicing strange rites in service of "Mother", a nature godess who is actually a powerful hag. In the Hungry Jungle realm of Valachan, the village of Oselo appears as a friendly, laid-back little settlement. Until nightfall, that is, when the townsfolk reveal themselves to be werepanthers.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 has Andale, the nicest little town in America, complete with Mom's apple pie and swearing allegience to the flag. The residents even dress and act like the Great War didn't happen. There's a reason for why even Raiders steer clear of the "town", which is really just two families. They're part of an incestous Cannibal Clan who descended from an original surviving group of four families after the War, who survived through inbreeding and cannibalism. The basement of one house and the backyard shed of the other is stuffed to the ceiling with human flesh.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6c1d09b4	comment	The town of Covenant in Fallout 4 will set off alarm bells in player's head almost immediately, whether it's due to the concrete walls and guard towers on the outside or the clean pre-war houses and overly friendly people on the inside. They're actually a bunch of paranoid psychos who have been kidnapping random passers-by and performing gruesome torture experiments on them to see if they're synths. You can travel into the tunnels under the town and bring their cruel and insane operation to a close, but it will piss off everyone living in the town so you'll have to clear it out by force to resettle it, and as a final twist, if the girl you rescue from their clutches, Amelia Stockton, dies, you find a synth component on her body. There is a Railroad runner named Old Man Stockton, but whether Amelia is an innocent synth who was freed and adopted as his daughter, or an Institute plant to get information on the Railroad, is left ambiguous. Inverted by the Institute. For their shadowy and sinister reputation, it certainly doesn't prepare the Sole Survivor to see a sleek, shiny Star Trek-esque utopia on the other side of the teleporter. Though this becomes ZigZagged when you see the shocking slave-like conditions the Synths live under plus the scientists' mental gymnastics to convince themselves that their creations aren't sentient when the Synths are based on your son's DNA. And then there's the fact that they're the ones creating all the Super Mutants roaming around on the surface...
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6c6852ca	comment	A large part of Yakuza 6's plot is centered on the Secret of Onomichi and why the Yomei Alliance is going so far to protect it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6d01949d	comment	In the Roswell episode "Harvest" (2nd season) the main characters travel to the suspicious town of Copper Summit, Arizona — which turns out to be filled with their alien enemies.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6d1e3c97	comment	In John Landis's An American Werewolf in London, the small English town of East Proctor's Dark Secret is, unsurprisingly, a werewolf.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6d7abbbd	comment	In the film In Broad Daylight the fictional town of Darby, Missouri becomes this after one or more individuals murder town bully Len Rowan, and those who did see the shooters tell cops they didn't see anything. The movie was loosely based on the real life murder of Ken McElroy and the town of Skidmore, Missouri (see below).
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6e4a5f96	comment	Played with in The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #33-34. Indy travels to a village on one the remote Orkney Islands, and is greeted by the locals who give him an extremely cold shoulder. The longer he stays there, the less subtle the attempts to get him to leave become; eventually escalating to outright threats and physical violence. Indy thinks the whole town is in league with an Evil Sorcerer he is chasing (who is the local lighthouse keeper). However, it turns out that the villagers know nothing about the keeper's evil schemes. They believe that the treasure of a Viking king is buried somewhere on the island and are tying to locate it, and are scared that an archaeologist like Indy will beat them to it, and whisk the treasure off to a museum.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6e82f5f4	comment	Wildstorm's comic book sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake reveals that the residents of the town are completely aware of Leatherface and his family's murderous and cannibalistic tendencies, but don't do anything out of fear of retribution. At one point, after the heroine escapes from the Hewitt family lair and makes it into a bar in town, the patrons stop her from calling for help and bring her to the pursuing Leatherface.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_6f734712	comment	Smallville. The charming little town is plagued by a million and one various threats, but the wave of psychotic meteor freaks brought about by the first meteor shower is closest to this trope. Most people know that there is something wrong with the meteor rocks and many witnessed its effects on people, but a lot of them seem to live in denial or blame it on the LuthorCorp experiments. However, the biggest secret of the town is actually quite benevolent: There is basically a Physical God in the form of local teenager Clark, who is doing his damnedest to protect the town from the other secrets overrunning it. He stays incognito, because, well, he's really insecure. In the episode "Harvest", Clark and Lois find themselves in a small farming town when their car breaks down. It turns out that the townspeople owe their unnaturally good health to deposits of blue Kryptonite in their ground water, and plan to sacrifice Lois to insure a bountiful harvest.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_70814599	comment	In Stargate SG-1 episode "Nightwalkers", the team arrives in a mysterious town to investigate the disappearance of a scientist. The townspeople are alternatively friendly and hostile towards the protagonists and it is revealed that the whole town was taken as a host by Goa'uld symbiotes, including the scientist who had originally given the alarm. However, the townspeople themselves were not aware of this as the symbiotes take control only at night.
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Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_70814599
Town with a Dark Secret / int_70da6e51	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_70da6e51	comment	The Goosebumps series: The protagonist in Welcome to Dead House discovers that her family has just moved into the "Dead House" in a community of vampire-like monsters. Every year, the undead townsfolk invite a new family to the house to consume the newcomers' blood and assimilate them into the populace. A dark secret is also afoot in My Hairiest Adventure, which you might remember as "the one where it turns out they're all dogs or something" if you've read Blogger Beware. Throughout a good chunk of the book, the fear of a conspiracy actually plays second fiddle to the Body Horror of the narrator Larry sprouting monstrous hair everywhere. This trope eventually comes into play when Larry's friends start disappearing and the local adults act as if those kids never existed. The secret turns out to be less dark than one might expect, but it's still pretty damn weird. The local paediatrician Dr Murkin is a mad scientist who employs the other adults in town. All the kids are actually dogs; Murkin turned them human, and his workers adopted them as part of the experiment. The injections that Murkin gives Larry twice a month? All the kids get those injections to keep them human. Larry's friends went missing because the treatment stopped working — which is happening to poor Larry too, hence all that hair. Yes, really.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_711b0fe1	comment	Hallowed Ground is about a small farming town who kills visiting families and tries to make one visitor give birth to their messiah.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_713fa68e	comment	Silent Hill: Promise having inherited the setting from Silent Hill proper.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_71a2d83d	comment	The Vampire Diaries: The lovely Virginian town of Mystic Falls is a wonderful place to live, with frequent town festivals and friendly locals. The only danger is the frequent "animal attacks", which certainly aren't excuses contrived by its Council and the town's founding families to conceal its recurring vampire problem.
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The Vampire Diaries	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_71a2d83d
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: "There is no war in Ba Sing Se." If the Earth Kingdom is the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of China, then Ba Sing Se, the capital, is more like the modern PROC or North Korea. It's a perfectly safe city, full of culture, divided into separate districts, where the guides smile all the time. Oh, and the poor and undesirable are walled in, people are forced to deny there's a one-hundred-year old war going on, and anyone who starts asking too many sensitive questions gets disappeared and brainwashed. Jet's treetop village. "Oh, cool, a settlement of teenage rebels! Maybe they can help us fight the Fire Nation!" The only problem is that these Well Intentioned Extremists often take their rebellions a little too far...like, oh, I don't know, when they beat and robbed a harmless Fire Nation civilian, or when they destroyed an entire Earth Kingdom town just because it was occupied by the Fire Nation army.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_723f3af4	comment	In Dogs in the Vineyard, the PCs are sent by an Expy of the 19th-century Mormon church to visit a series of towns. They have some simple duties, like healing people and delivering the mail, but the interesting ones (i.e. the ones you actually have game sessions for) are either headed for this trope or already there, and the PCs have to fix it by any means necessary before it falls into full-blown demon-fueled Hate and Murder.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_73b4d4c1	comment	Call of Cthulhu supplement Dreamlands, adventure "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream". Everyone in the small Vermont town of Bensamin is a Cthulhu Mythos cultist. After the PC Investigators are lured there, they're captured by the townsfolk and kept as future Human Sacrifices.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_74d5a453	comment	Played with in Dark Elf Historia, where Terma Village's deep, dark secret isn't that they're sacrificing young women - they're completely open about that. The actual secret is that the town elders are, in fact, gang-raping the young women, and the "sacrifices" are just an excuse to kill them afterwards so that they don't talk.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_76686539	comment	Zhu's Hope in Mass Effect. The colonists are all mind-controlled by the ancient plant creature that lives beneath the city.
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Mass Effect (Video Game)	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_76686539
Town with a Dark Secret / int_7668653a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2 Samara mentions another example of this trope in her backstory: a small asari colony that had been seduced by an Ardat-Yakshi, an asari with a rare genetic mutation that causes her to kill anybody she has sex with, who feature prominently in their mythology as evil gods and anti-heroes. She had convinced the entire colony to worship her as a goddess, and sacrifice their young Maidens to her, and when Samara came the entire colony save for the youngest children threw themselves at her to give the Ardat-Yakshi a chance to escape.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 has Sanctuary. Supposedly, it's one of the last safe places in the galaxy in the face of the Reaper invasion. In reality, it's a Cerberus facility, run by Miranda Lawson's evil psychotic dad. All the hapless refugees are getting experimented on. And then the Reapers show up... Also from Mass Effect 3 is Mahavid, an asteroid that plays a part in the Leviathan DLC. The entire population is under Leviathan's mind control, and have been for a decade. The Creepy Monotone and multiple people saying "you should leave" or "you don't belong here" give it away.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_77bf5a0e	comment	Eat the Rich (2021): Crestfall Bluffs is a pretty seaside town full of wealthy people who also ritualistically murder and eat their staff. Everyone knows it except for Joey, who wasn't told beforehand.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_77d5daf2	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_77d5daf2	comment	In The Hidden Almanac, weird things can happen anywhere, but all the really weird things happen in Echo Harbor, which seems to be a hotbed of cult activity and ritual sacrifice. Many evil things are underground there.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_78fc0025	comment	Twin Peaks: The titular town is a quaint and charming town with an outsized number of dark secrets including an international drug and prostitution ring involving the town's high schoolers, a series of suspicious deaths, some extremely shady plots among the town's business leaders, and, best of all, in the the forest outside of town, a portal to Another Dimension occupied by demons who possess people.
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Twin Peaks	hasFeature	Town with a Dark Secret / int_78fc0025
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: Zhu's Hope in Mass Effect. The colonists are all mind-controlled by the ancient plant creature that lives beneath the city. In Mass Effect 2 Samara mentions another example of this trope in her backstory: a small asari colony that had been seduced by an Ardat-Yakshi, an asari with a rare genetic mutation that causes her to kill anybody she has sex with, who feature prominently in their mythology as evil gods and anti-heroes. She had convinced the entire colony to worship her as a goddess, and sacrifice their young Maidens to her, and when Samara came the entire colony save for the youngest children threw themselves at her to give the Ardat-Yakshi a chance to escape. Mass Effect 3 has Sanctuary. Supposedly, it's one of the last safe places in the galaxy in the face of the Reaper invasion. In reality, it's a Cerberus facility, run by Miranda Lawson's evil psychotic dad. All the hapless refugees are getting experimented on. And then the Reapers show up... Also from Mass Effect 3 is Mahavid, an asteroid that plays a part in the Leviathan DLC. The entire population is under Leviathan's mind control, and have been for a decade. The Creepy Monotone and multiple people saying "you should leave" or "you don't belong here" give it away.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_7c253305	comment	Not a town exactly, but the Chateau de l'Hiver from Fleuret Blanc qualifies. It's the seemingly-normal headquarters of the protagonist's employers, but it's full of weird stuff that doesn't seem to add up. The employers are also very cagey about their true goals and how they got the castle. Other inhabitants who aren't in on the secret (or are they?) harbor many suspicions and theories about their employers. It turns out the FOIL judges swindled the castle from its former owners, but more pressingly, they're using it to store the prized possessions of the FOIL members — who are murdered when their tenure is up.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_7c486e2f	comment	In The New Adventures of Speed Racer, the group finds themselves in Pleasantville where they eventually discover that robots have kidnapped and impersonated the locals.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_7df9324b	comment	Zebra Girl: Both subverted and played with: just like with Sunnydale, most people seem to ignore that their town became a monster den. However, some humans (or, rather, some former humans in the case of Mike, who is now a vampire) are aware of the situation and of the return of Sandra.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_81183c72	comment	Wild Cards (2024): Played with in "Howl to Get Away with Murder", where Cole and Max see various occult paraphernalia around Sanford and find a trio of animal hearts in Lucas Mays' trailer and assume that his death had something to do with the occult. This is false; Sanford actually does have a dark secret, but it's much more mundane - the local wine merchant, Harlan Sanford, has been passing off cheap wines as "lost" vintages in order to charge higher prices, and when Lucas Mays accidentally found out about the fraud, he murdered Mays to cover it up.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8132b616	comment	KurÃ´zu-cho from Uzumaki seems normal enough... for about five minutes. Then people start going insane, turning into giant snails, whirlpools start sinking any boats that come near... you know, all the normal risks of building your town on top of some kind of crazy Cosmic Horror Story spiral shrine that is both alive and seems to just really, really hate people. All people. A lot.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_829f69b4	comment	Riverdale is revealed to have one in Afterlife with Archie. In order to save the town during World War 2 the three original founding families made a deal with the witches of Greendale to protect the town and everyone in it. This however was in exchange for a child from each of the founding families over the next three generations.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_82d5c9d9	comment	Wellington Wells, the fictional English town which is the setting for We Happy Few. Whatever the Very Bad Thing was that happened during World War II in this world's timeline, it was so awful everyone tried to forget it through a combination of Orwellian tyranny and censorship and abuse of a Fantastic Drug called Joy to keep up everyone's spirits. Unfortunately, now Wellington Wells has two dark secrets: the Very Bad Thing, and the fact that their seemingly-perfect civilization is on the verge of collapse. If you're curious, the Very Bad Thing was the Germans coercing the people of Wellington Wells into giving up every child over the age of 13 in exchange for their safety. And to make matters worse, Arthur's storyline reveals the tanks Wellington Wells was threatened with weren't even real.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8674eacf	comment	In addition to the town of Twin Peaks (which carries over from the show), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me also has Deer Meadows, where the policemen are secretly in league with drug dealers and the local trailer park contains a portal to Another Dimension that people keep disappearing to.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_86814cd2	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_86814cd2	comment	Early in Final Fantasy IX, the characters enter the town of Dali, where they're secretly making Black Mage constructs for Queen Brahne that bear a strong resemblance to one of your characters.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Sturmhalten. Everyone may not be in on it, but except for the ruling family, and apparently a few nobles, the town's entire population is made up of revenants. And the Prince is trying to resurrect the Big Bad. By abducting every female Spark he can get his hands on to try to give her a new body. Including his own daughter. Who has her own plans to wrest control of said revenants and the Big Bad's other minions. It may be easier to just list the things that weren't Dark and Secret about the place: it's a town, it's in a mountain pass. Mechanicsburg; Not only is it populated entirely by minions waiting for their masters to return, but it's a Genius Loci built on top of a holy spring known for causing insanity and death.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_86dffbc1	comment	Malevolent gives us the quiet town of Leerie, which conceals a cult devoted to The King In Yellow, operating out of a vast underground city hidden beneath an abandoned hotel. Later in season 3 we arrive in the (former) mining town of Addison, which is the home of an invisible Eldritch Abomination who controls the townsfolk, as well as some sort of cult compound underneath the Larson estate.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8886a671	comment	The first Shadow Hearts: The first town you come to is mostly abandoned except for demons and tormented souls. The town fits this trope all the better considering that they, you know, are the bitter souls of abused domestic animals who want to eat you. That certainly puts a damper on things. Funny thing: Yuri and Alice know this going in, but they don't care, because they knows they can deal with it. Bistritz is another one — but the secret isn't the vampire up in the castle (he's a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire), it's the experiments being conducted by the mayor, which are waking up monsters.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8c371d03	comment	In The World's End, all of Newton Haven has been replaced by robots that aren't robots.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8e82c366	comment	In one episode of The Real Ghostbusters, the heroes were unlucky enough to encounter a town called Lupusville, which had three dark secrets. The first one was, the inhabitants were vampires. The second one was, the vampires inhabiting the town were feuding with another clan of vampires (not that the other clan was any better, mind you). The third secret was, both clans of vampires had taken over the town from the original residents, who were werewolves, and imprisoned them under the town. After the heroes released the werewolves who were dead set on taking their town back, the heroes were smart enough to high-tail it out of there.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8f4b526b	comment	Echo Rose: Nettlebrook may just be a small town, but Echo realizes that something is wrong as soon as she moves there, and decides to start an investigation. She's almost immediately proven right, with the town's rash of bullying and paranormal activity as just the tip of the iceberg.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_8f7d629f	comment	Black Saddle: In "Client: Starkey", Clay discovers that no one in Latigo will talk when he starts asking questions about Ben Starkey. When he attempts to dig deeper, he finds two months worth of papers missing from the newspaper morgue. And then he and Scott find a body in an unmarked grave in Boot Hill...
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_907b45dd	comment	One of the central themes/plot lines of Bates Motel is how the town of White Pines Bay is full of people with secrets. For starters, the town's economy is based on illegal marijuana farming, and the shady business of that means no one looks for other things, like prostitution and gun running. It makes the Bates' activities easy to fly under the radar.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time, Mat and the Band run across the town Hinderstap, where the people are kind-of either zombies and/or save-scumming loopers who go apeshit every night, precede to kill each other and then wake up safely in their beds the next morning, regardless. However, two things set them apart from most of the other entries on this list:- The townsfolk don't actually know what is going on, exactly. Nor did any of them instigate this state of affairs: it's perhaps one of the creepiest "bubbles of evil" on record. They know they all seem to black out at the same time every night, then experience horrific nightmares, then wake up in their beds. When going out their doors, they then have to fix whatever damage has been done to the town (although not all of it sticks, so it's very weird). This happens regardless of whether they leave the town, commit suicide or die by accident trying to e.g. fix a roof or whatever. They always, always wake up in their beds the next day; and, anyone who stays the night in the town (or dies there) will suffer the same fate (and, will have to find accommodation to wake in every day). The villagers do have a fairly good idea of what is going on, but don't exactly know all of the details. They simply try to soldier on as best they can. The villagers actively try to prevent the fate from happening to anyone else by keeping people from staying in the town's limits overnight. They are not remotely malicious, just basically trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, and bitter about it. Funnily enough, they wind up using their indestructability against the Dark One's forces in the Final Battle as the ultimate Zerg Rush. Ha: way to use what he basically did to you to screw him over, Hinderstap. Kudos.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_916157ac	comment	Haven, which is near Derry, in The Tommyknockers. It starts off as a normal town, but becomes this trope when the alien spaceship is first unearthed and slowly makes everyone crazy and obsessed with it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_929af1ac	comment	In We Are Still Here, The town must sacrifice a family to the ancient evil hidden underground every 30 years or be destroyed.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_934f7972	comment	Master Detective Archives: Rain Code has Kanai Ward, where the titular Master Detectives were apparently sent there to investigate "Kanai Ward's Ultimate Secret". There technically is one, that being that the city is a population of defective homunculi that need human flesh to survive and become uncontrollable predators in the sunlight, but that's not the actual reason they were brought there.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_94aa987d	comment	In Sunless Sea, given that you run into multiple islands with secret cannibal cults on them and at least two involved in a plan by a faction within the London government to take over the entire Neath with an artificial star-god, it's honestly kind of a relief to arrive at places like the Isle of Cats or Kingeater's Castle where stuff is at least sinister when you get there.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_994bf218	comment	Jakub Wędrowycz stories feature a secluded village inhabited entirely by Neanderthals whose progeny has somehow survived until modern times. To the outside world, they seem just to be a bunch of very ugly humans who hate strangers and don't pay much attention at the church (assuming that there is currently a priest there after the previous one has died in mysterious circumstances). In reality, they're half-animalistic, still worship their pagan deities and indulge into cannibalism, eating their dead.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_9acdda28	comment	In Watership Down, the bucks arrive at a warren where everything seems abundant, though the residents act rather strange (for instance, there's a strong taboo against asking where anyone is). Later they discover that the warren is, in fact, a free-range rabbit farm, and it's common and widely accepted knowledge that rabbits are dying in snares. (The reason for this quiet acceptance is the tradeoff: free vegetables and complete immunity from all of Rabbitdom's non-human enemies, enforced at the end of a gun barrel.)
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, there's the minor town of Hackdirt, where you have to visit after a merchant's daughter disappears there. The Church has a book dedicated to "the Deep Ones", and people say things like "the Brethren don't take kindly to strangers. I'd leave before they find out you're here." If you spend the night in the inn after asking questions, you wake up in the middle of the night to find yourself under attack by some cultist, then can find your way into the underground to discover that the shopkeeper's daughter is about to be sacrificed for an unknown reason. Not even unknown daedric reasons - the "Deep Ones" are something else entirely. Meanwhile, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has the hold of Markarth, which has not one, but two dark secrets: A good number of people in town are Forsworn infiltrators and most of the rest are cannibals who worship the Daedric Prince Namira. Since many of the citizens who fall into the second secret are people with whom you can have perfectly normal interactions outside of this quest chain, it makes the whole town seem even creepier once you know. Not to mention the haunted house with a shrine to Molag Bal in the basement. Which given the scale and amount of beds and food seems to have been a pretty sizable cult in the past.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_9dd34381	comment	Dark (2017): The town of Winden is home to a nuclear power plant, but it has a big secret: there is a wormhole in the underground caves that allows one to travel in time. Various characters try to keep mysterious disappearances, murders and strange events secret to avoid people interfering with the timeline and sabotaging the universe.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Whiskey Peak is the definition of this trope - cheerful and welcoming at first sight, it turns out to be a giant trap for pirates, entirely populated by bounty hunters. Oh, and those giant cacti hills near the town - actually they're regular hills, covered in gravestones, which appear as needles from afar. One Piece's sixth movie has an island with a dark secret. We also have Water 7, though that's a very minor case. On the surface, it seems like a happy, Venice-like city where its premier ship-building company makes ships for people all over the world, and they have a railroad that runs on the ocean. We later learn that the island it's on is sinking, not helped by a Giant Wall of Watery Doom that hits once a year. Oh, and the president of said ship-builders holds the blueprints for a world-destroying battleship, currently being set up for an assassination from the Government. But, by the arc's end, one of those problems has been resolved, and the other is in the process of being resolved. Even Luffy's home island has this; the Goa Kingdom seems like a perfect and beautiful place...but only because the kingdoms rulers throw everything that would make it look bad, people included, into a giant landfill that has become a district unto itself. And when some World Nobles are scheduled to visit, the rulers decide to have everything, people included, burned to the ground. In the Dressrosa arc, the port town of Acacia appears to be peaceful and pleasant, despite being ruled by Doflamingo; a place where people and toys live together, and gladiators fight in the Colosseum. But the Straw Hats soon find out that the numerous living toys on the island are actually humans changed by a Devil Fruit user, and all memories of the transformed humans are erased aside from those of the toys themselves. Those who lose in the Colosseum are fated to become toys...some of which are prisoners for rebelling against the Donquixote family. Oh, and also, Doflamingo is only in charge because he framed the last ruling family and won the public's heart with Engineered Heroics.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_9e876c22	comment	Inverted in Good Omens. Lower Tadfield has a secret, but it's hardly dark. Superficially it's a quaint little Quirky Town complete with pristine cottages, white picket fences and apple trees, but it hasn't changed for ten years: Urban development bypasses it completely, the weather is always perfect (and it always snows on Christmas), and the area is rich in ley lines. This is because it's the home of the ten-year-old Anti-Anti-Christ, whose latent Reality Warper powers are preserving it for his perfectly normal childhood amusement.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_9f993912	comment	In Masterminds, it's increasingly obvious that Serenity is this. Everyone has a place to work and live, the kids always get whatever they ask for, and there's no crime, violence, or even dishonesty—but over time things just don't add up, and the kids catch their parents in lies. The secret turns out to be that Eli and 10 other kids are clones of notorious criminals, raised in a safe environment to determine what made someone bad.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a0309a8a	comment	Wolves: Lupine Ridge is secretly run by werewolves. Naturally. Oh, and the head werewolf is Ax-Crazy.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a0ae470	comment	In Toy Story 3, Woody and the gang wind up in a day care that looks like paradise. The toys (led by a fluffy stuffed animal named Lotso Huggin Bear) are all friendly, there are always lots of kids to play with them so that none of the toys ever get outgrown, and there's a repair ward that keeps the playthings in tiptop shape. However, their dark secret is that, in order to stay in the older kids' playroom, the ruling toys regularly sacrifice new toys to the toddler's playroom, where too-young children bash and beat toys until they are destroyed and thrown out.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a1737300	comment	In Mississippi Burning, two FBI agents come to a small town in Deep South in order to investigate the murder of three civil rights activists. Turns out half the townspeople were involved in the killing.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a2dc1180	comment	Shadowgirls: The original Innsmouth, an early example of this trope, was a decaying hovel of mutants and secret cults. In Shadowgirls, however, its modern-day incarnation appears to be a perfectly ordinary coastal town. But don't let appearances fool you: the Esoteric Order of Dagon still controls most of the government and Deep Ones lurk off the coast.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a37617bc	comment	Scarfolk Council is about the town of Scarfolk in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. In Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science, hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a52286a5	comment	The town of Omelas, from "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin, must always keep a mentally handicapped child locked in a dark basement, given only the barest amount of food to survive, without any kindness or affection given to that child for any reason whatsoever, for the moment anyone gives that child any sort of comfort at all, their entire "Utopian" society will collapse in that instant. The story is unclear whether the child was born handicapped or has just broken from malnutrition, fear, and only a few moments of cruel human contact a day. The Trope is ultimately played with in a meta context because the narrator, who had been singing the praises of Omelas as a utopia so far, is Genre Savvy enough to know that the reader is so used to this trope that they cannot believe Omelas can be so perfect without a catch, so he drops the description of the child and the unspeakable atrocities that are done to it, and thus the reason why the titular people walk away (they are the ones who cannot stomach such a horrible thing being done for the sake of the town being perfect, and prefer to take their chances finding happiness elsewhere) with a "here you go, the trope you were waiting for! A horrible flaw in the system! Are you happy now!? do you believe this town to be 'realistic' enough now?" flair, and leaving it unclear whether the tortured child even actually exists or was made up by the narrator to just appease the audience's expectation for Omelas to have something wrong with it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a78cc92f	comment	The Jack Chick Crusaders comic Broken Cross features a town dominated by Hollywood Satanism.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a7ff76a4	comment	In Freddy vs. Jason, many adults in Springwood know of Freddy's dream-killings, but have conspired to conceal this from the town's youth to starve him of the fear that gives him power over dreams. Jason comes to Elm Street at Freddy's instigation, so his killings will revive old stories about the Springwood Slasher and restore Freddy's powers.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VII's Nibelheim. After the town burned to the ground as a result of the Super-Soldier Sephiroth going off the deep end, Shinra, Inc. had the whole place rebuilt and populated by hired actors in an effort to hide the fact that the entire incident ever happened. Early in Final Fantasy IX, the characters enter the town of Dali, where they're secretly making Black Mage constructs for Queen Brahne that bear a strong resemblance to one of your characters. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers has Eulmore, one of the two remaining major city-states in the world of The First. From the start, not all seems right with Eulmore, as its citizenry consists of nobles idling away their time while The End of the World as We Know It looms, and their ruler, King Vauthry, is highly invested in making sure no one even tries to save the world. The full magnitude of Eulmore's dangers become apparent later on when it is revealed that "Meol", the mysteriously addictive foodstuff that Eulmore's elite feed themselves and the people of the surrounding ghettos, is made from sin eters. Worse still, Lord Vauthry is not only a sin eater himself, but a Lightwarden, one of the most powerful sin eaters in existence. The Meol he feeds to his people allow him to exert his will over them and force them to do his bidding. Also given his culture of ascending Bonded who can no longer serve for some reason into Sin Eaters, he's effectively made indirect cannibals of every Eulmore citizen.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_a825da3e	comment	Naktamun from Magic: The Gathering is a city-sized version of this. It at first appears to be a bright, sunny, and peaceful Egypt-like city... that just so happens to be ruled by Nicol Bolas. Every single man, woman, and child is expected to eventually throw themselves into the Trials, dying by the hundreds to presumably prove themselves worthy of a good afterlife. As the storyline continued, it was eventually revealed that Bolas mind raped the gods of Amonkhet into doing his bidding, and all of the people who succeeded in the Trials were meant to be brought back as Bolas's zombie army.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_aa48b0d5	comment	In Eye of the Devil David Niven (as a French count) must return to his home to be sacrificed for a better crop or something. The entire town are Satanists posing as Catholics, including their priest.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_abb70593	comment	The Magician: In "Lightning on a Dry Day", Blake visits the small town of Elm Ridge, North Carolina after meeting a young man who was rendered catatonic by something he saw near there. The locals make various attempts to run him out of town before he eventually discovers that the town matriarch is manufacturing illegal rejuvenation drugs, and the young man witnessed a Treasury agent who got too close to the truth being burned alive.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ac7fd385	comment	Hatoful Boyfriend: The Holiday Star seems like a lovely dream of a fairytale land with a little town where everyone's friendly and accommodating. ...but it wouldn't be on this page if that was all there was to it. It's ruled by a spirit who traps visitors there, forcing dreamers to starve to death and be absorbed into him, then sort of puppet them around to greet and talk to the newest batch of visitors. St Pigeonation's itself is a school with a dark secret: if you're invited to the school, rather than applying, then you have some kind of physical oddity which the Hawk Party is planning to use as a weapon to wipe out humanity. The school was the centre of a biological weapons program whose main test subject burnt himself to death in an effort to shut it down. If the sole human student dies on-campus, then twelve hours later, the war between humans and birds will begin again.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ae0356e0	comment	Courage the Cowardly Dog lives in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas, a rural Midwestern town that's infested with all kinds of criminals, villains, monsters, and general paranormal weirdness that tends to be drawn towards the isolated farmhouse of Courage's owners, Muriel and Eustace Bagge. According to the (uncertainly canon) crossover movie Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! meets Courage the Cowardly Dog, the source of all this supernatural strangeness affecting Nowhere comes from a magical meteorite that crashed millions of years ago in what's now the site of the Bagge farm, which seems to have reality-bending powers that just suddenly makes abnormal events happen.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_af6a4464	comment	In The Secret World there is an entire three-part zone that is basically a huge Lovecraft Shout-Out (complete with the Ur-Draug, a Cthulhu Ersatz as a dungeon boss). One of the zone parts is Kingsmouth - a small, cozy town that's currently under a zombie and draug attack. There are lots of quests that let you dive into the town's history - and while there is apparently not one, huge secret, there has been a LOT of creepy things going on through the years. This is also lampshaded by several NPCs.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_b0666b59	comment	It looks like Charwood is one of these in Neverwinter Nights. It's actually only the noblemen who have the secret, and the townspeople have just been screwed over by it. And then you find out that the nobles themselves were screwed over by Belial. Essentially, the demon tricked one of the brothers into a massacre, the latter tricking his sibling into luring and actually killing the children involved, before figuring it out and tossing his brother's phylactery into a shrine to Lysander, who just stuck the whole place into a "Groundhog Day" Loop until a third party could come by and sort everything out. It did a number on everyone's minds.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_b19b206b	comment	Peyton Place. Basically, the entire novel is author Grace Metalious's way of saying that every idyllic American small town has at least one dark secret hidden in its depths.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_b91151d6	comment	Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent: Scoggins, MN, seems like an ordinary small town in the Great Lakes area, but Agent Tethers quickly discovers a deeper (and weirder) mystery behind the mysterious closure of the local eraser factory. Across both games Tethers gets involved in a string of unsolved missing person cases, a mysterious local fraternal order who worship the cryptic "Hidden People", and a government cover-up involving murderous astronauts and a lunar-powered insanity-inducing ray gun.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 favors the Planet With A Dark Secret approach instead, with roughly even odds of Chaos, Eldar, Genestealers, and/or Necrons being said secret. Since we're talking about planets here, there's plenty of room for multiple dark secrets to be hiding out, all of them unaware of one another.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_bee4e765	comment	"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, though the dark secret isn't kept secret from anyone in the story, only from the reader. Indeed, the story even mentions that there are other towns with their own lotteries.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_bfe2dc5a	comment	Scooby Apocalypse has the Mystery Gang stumble on the town of Halcyon, Montana, which is somehow completely unaffected by the nanite plague and the monsters, which naturally raises a few red flags. It eventually turns out that the town is actually empty except for one little girl who became a powerful psychic capable of creating lifelike illusions.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_bfef9cdb	comment	Welcome to Night Vale: Night Vale is an Eldritch Location where time doesn't work properly and members of a shadowy, all-powerful government routinely practice their public speaking skills by denying the existence of things like cars and eggs, so as to more easily deny the existence of things like three-headed graffitist dog packs, the illegal use of public funds to raise the ghost of Syd Barrett for a private Pink Floyd concert, and angels. However, every citizen seems to be cheerily aware of these facts, so maybe it's not so secret after all. This trope may apply more to the neighboring town of Desert Bluffs, which is even more horrific than Night Vale, but the radio host there speaks so cheerily that we'd never know about the pulsing meat walls, smears of blood and handfuls of teeth that decorate his studio. Both Towns seem to have Dark Open Secrets. Everything is expected to work like usual, except stated otherwise, by the audience, but... is it their usual our our usual?
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_c3219e28	comment	The sleepy English village of Little Stempington from Suburban Shootout seems unbelievably clean, genteel and old-fashioned- until you find out that it stays that way because of gun-toting housewives threatening anyone who affronts their middle class values.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Cutie Map", the gang finds a strange town in the middle of nowhere, where all the ponies have an "=" as their cutie mark, everyone acts disturbingly happy, and everyone has The Un-Smile. Pinkie Pie is noticeably creeped out. Turns out she had a reason to be, because the Big Bad of the episode had literally stolen everypony's cutie marks and magic (and hence personalities). Season 7 finale "Shadow Play" introduces an abandoned town called Hollow Shades, built on top of an ancient worship temple called the Well of Shade. In that place, over a thousand years ago, the Big Bad found an Eldritch Abomination and made a Deal with the Devil in exchange for power.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The Beast Below", the Doctor realizes Starship UK is this when he sees a girl sitting on a bench silently crying but none of the adults passing by are stopping to console her, suggesting that they know why she's crying and don't want to acknowledge the cause.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_c61253f6	comment	The secluded suburb where Get Out (2017) takes place, where a number of young African American people have gone missing. The locals are members of the Coaguala, with the Armitage family as their leaders. The Armitage's run a secret business where they will kidnap a young African American person, scoop out most of their brain, and implant the brain of an old white person.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_c6d3f9a6	comment	Tower Valley in Magnus is revealed to be the testing ground for the Mark of the Beast.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_c9788a4b	comment	In Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising, New Naveah's elders have hid the secret of the Barrow's Blessing, a phenomenom where periodically a child is born with blue hair and the ability to use magic without a Lens, only to die at a young age. The heroes are shocked on learning the truth as Isha herself has the Blessing.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_cbbb2270	comment	In Tears to Tiara 2, a level takes place in the unnamed village. The village priest's description of it sounds like Benedictine Monasticism. Turns out the priest is a Giant Spider, the village full of monsters, the inhabitants are brainwashed and forced to pray to Watos, and it's all a test for a bigger project by the Holy Empire.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Matt Murdock finds himself run afoul of one of these in Daredevil: Reborn — there's an old quarry filled with corpses, and he almost gets added to the pile after the sheriff discovers who he is.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_d5c851d8	comment	In 1975's Race with the Devil two vacationing couples discover the hard way that apparently everyone in rural Texas is a murderous Satanist worshipping the Aztec gods.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_d616724d	comment	Ionia from League of Legends. An idyllic land of art and nature, a borderline paradise. But Ionia has many a dark secret. Such as their ruling council setting crazed Serial Killer Jhin on the loose, and their secret imprisonment of a Darkin.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_d9876abc	comment	The town of Golgotha, from The Golgotha Series has many, many dark secrets, from the vampire in the unmarked grave to the head in a jar upstairs of the general store. And that's leaving aside the Cosmic Horror from beyond time and space buried in the old silver mine.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_dd5c5eed	comment	One episode of The Rockford Files features the town of Pastoria, which traps wealthy travelers in the town, frames them for an absurd number of crimes, then convinces them to plea bargain and pay a large fine to the city instead of going to jail.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_dda32f4c	comment	Kill, Baby, Kill!: Karmingam is a small gloomy village, somewhere in the Carpathians, which is terrorised by a Creepy Child ghost. It turns out that twenty years ago during a drunken festival, little Melissa Graps was trampled by horses, and though there were many witnesses, nobody helped her as she bled to death. Now her angry mother uses her spirit to exact revenge on the villagers, forcing them to commit suicide.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_de6659ec	comment	Storybrooke in Once Upon a Time, in which nearly everyone is a Fairy Tale character brought into our world through a magic curse, though none of them remember. Though most of the inhabitants are decent people, the mayor is the Evil Queen from "Snow White" who frequently abuses her power through both mundane and magical means. Even after the curse is lifted, everyone gets their memories back, and the Queen is deposed, Storybrooke still fits the trope as the citizens work together to keep outsiders from finding out who they are.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_df277244	comment	Lakeside in American Gods, which also seems to be Lake Wobegon with the Serial Numbers Filed Off. Though the only living resident who knows the secret is one old man (Hinzelman) who's actually a Germanic tribal deity who made a deal with the town's founders. In exchange for ensuring Laketown's prosperity he kills one child every winter. The other residents weren't told by their ancestors who made the pact and chalk the disappearances up to runaways or custodial disputes. It turns out the Hinzelman kills anyone who figures it out, including one of the father of one of the residents. When the chief of police figures it out, he is horrified and promptly kills Hinzelman to stop the cycle.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e0fcfdea	comment	The Avengers (1960s): In the episode "Murdersville", an entire town conspires to offer outsiders the opportunity to stage a murder. The townsfolk will serve as alibis and help dispose of the remains afterwards, in return for a sizable sum of money. (The villagers who refuse to participate are kept locked up in ancient torture devices in the town museum.)
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e1260837	comment	The Village (2004): The film is seemingly set in the 19th century, but then it turns out that it's actually set in the present; the rich founders created an isolated community where they could live in peace and away from the troubles of the modern world. Their descendants are kept in line by tales of monsters that supposedly inhabit the surrounding woods.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e199d649	comment	In the Inheritance Cycle, the townsfolk of Dras-Leona worship man-eating monsters known as the Ra'zac and Lethrblaka, honouring them through self-mutilation and Human Sacrifice. Their High Priest(ess?) has undergone such extensive ritual disfigurement that they're missing all four limbs and a chunk of tongue.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Subverted with Sunnydale. It's a sizable city instead of a small town. Instead of everyone being in on the dark secrets (the portal to Hell, the various demons and vampires that treat the place like a buffet and the buried [sometimes magical] treasures hidden in the right mausoleum), most of Sunnydale's citizens are hilariously oblivious/in denial about the many, many mysterious deaths that occur there. The only humans in on it are various characters who tap into the dark powers of the place for their own ends, such as the Big Bad of Season Three. The secret government lab under the college is the least exciting secret there was.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e29b19ea	comment	Borrasca: The town of Drisking, Missouri, which has an abnormally high rate of people disappearing, along with anyone who starts trying to figure out why. There's also a mysterious noise coming from the mountains every now and then. The majority of the towns population is sterile due to iron ore from the mines leaking into the town's water table after they were blown up about sixty years earlier. To survive, the men of the Prescott family began kidnapping women and girls and turn them into baby factories in the old mines, and then either gave them out to the infertile townspeople or sold them to human traffickers. Once the women become infertile, they're disposed of in an old ore refinery, which is the noise coming from the mountains. This has been going on for decades by the time the story begins.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis does this trope when the Genii is first introduced. Seems like a simple farming community, right? And they want to trade food for C-4 with the expedition to make it easier for them to clear their fields, right? Not really: they have a Cold War-level underground city powered by geothermal energy and want the C-4 in their nuclear program.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e5dc17d8	comment	Rift has Lakeside, a low level town in Freemarch that serves as one big Shout-Out to The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with Abyssal cultists instead of the Cult of Dagon. Same difference.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e6275a02	comment	The citizen's of Richard's village in Looking for Group are all ravenous undead capable of slaughtering common mortals with ease. Even the little girls can rip out a man's heart.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e6b693d8	comment	His best known peculiar little towns are Derry (IT) and Castle Rock (good number of stories), both in Maine, which tend to redline the weird-shit-o-meter on a regular basis. In the end, Derry is destroyed, which is probably for the best. Castle Rock is destroyed by a visiting evil that took advantage of the secrets and flaws of many of the townspeople so that it could take their souls.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_e7e37776	comment	In the Firefly fanfic Forward, the unnamed village in the "Charity" story is being attacked by mercenaries/slavers for unspecified reasons. As the story progresses, things become a lot clearer. The village had been infiltrated by an "Inducer" psychic, who could control people's emotions. Being a product of the Academy, she is less than stable. The Blue Sun corporation tracked her down after she murdered an entire Blue Sun facility using mind-controlled villagers, and sent the mercenaries to recapture her.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ea7a369b	comment	In Cannibal Girls, Farnhamville is a seemingly ordinary Ontario town that is in fact completely under the thumb of a Sinister Minister and his cannibal cult.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ea965032	comment	In Herschell Gordon Lewis' splatter epic Two Thousand Maniacs!, the inhabitants of the mysterious Southern town turn out to be the ghosts of civilians who were slaughtered by corrupt Union soldiers during the Civil War. The town reappears every one-hundred years so that the residents of it can take their revenge on any Yanks who stumble upon it.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_eacdd4fd	comment	Heart of Darkness features a native tribe in Darkest Africa, ruled by a European ivory trader turned depraved cult leader.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_eb51f364	comment	Johnny Reno: The town of Stone Junction is very keen to see that nobody looks too deeply into the death of Ed Sitting Bear.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_eb59224d	comment	In case you were wondering about LazyTown, it has a dark secret of its own. In the old days before the active warriors came, LazyTown was lazy. No fitness, no healthy things, NO NOTHING. Every mayor until the active warriors came were part of the family of the "evil dude" (who was the last of his family to be mayor of LazyTown) before the warriors put him in a prison & buried him deep underground.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ebffc81f	comment	The Boston Unveiled supplement for Mage: The Awakening has the fishing community of Howard's End (probably inspired by or in homage to H.P. Lovecraft, though the name comes from a non-horror novel by E.M. Forster), where all of the residents are cannibals who are members of the Red Word cult, a group who worship an alternate history so abhorrent that it was aborted from reality into the Abyss, where it became sentient. A wharf along the coast of the town contains a portal into the Spirit World, wherein lies the cult's sacred temple, which the cult devours people in for the purpose of wiping them from history.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ec157f37	comment	Story of the Blanks starts out as a seemingly bright and cheerful My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic flash game where Applebloom wanders off into the Everfree Forest and finds a small village called Sunny Town. Then, after talking to the ponies who live there, she goes into a strange house away from the rest of the town and finds a corpse in the fireplace. As it turns out, the ponies in that town think Cutie Marks are a curse rather than a representation of whatever's unique about the pony they belong to, and kill anypony who finds their special talent. Poor Applebloom ends up fleeing a cursed village while its undead inhabitants chase her down.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ed0acf3a	comment	In The Silver Codex the town of Centerville has a lot of dark secrets going on.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ed2900b6	comment	A dark secret is also afoot in My Hairiest Adventure, which you might remember as "the one where it turns out they're all dogs or something" if you've read Blogger Beware. Throughout a good chunk of the book, the fear of a conspiracy actually plays second fiddle to the Body Horror of the narrator Larry sprouting monstrous hair everywhere. This trope eventually comes into play when Larry's friends start disappearing and the local adults act as if those kids never existed. The secret turns out to be less dark than one might expect, but it's still pretty damn weird. The local paediatrician Dr Murkin is a mad scientist who employs the other adults in town. All the kids are actually dogs; Murkin turned them human, and his workers adopted them as part of the experiment. The injections that Murkin gives Larry twice a month? All the kids get those injections to keep them human. Larry's friends went missing because the treatment stopped working — which is happening to poor Larry too, hence all that hair. Yes, really.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online has the game Alfheim Online, which was released during the time that thousands of players were trapped in SAO. The game quickly proved popular for being a VRMMO that was not dangerous to the players. Little do the players know, the game is actually being used to conduct illegal experiments in how to use VR to rewrite memories.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ed5ba9c5	comment	Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, the prequel to Pet Sematary (2019), expands on Ludlow as one of these, as it's revealed that the descendants of the town founders have always known what the old burial grounds are capable of, and have worked for generations to both keep that secret and kill anything that gets brought back before they can rampage.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ef7b3325	comment	The Fantastic Four, at the beginning of their superhero career defeated a group of Skrull spies. Reed Richards brainwashed them into becoming cows and retaining that form for life. The milk from these cows affected a small dairy town named King's Crossing, causing the inhabitants to develop shapeshifting powers and become paranoid and insular. The Fantastic Four, via a girl Johnny Storm was dating, ended up investigating the town and neutralizing the threat.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_eff0ece4	comment	The Excavation of Hob's Barrow takes place in the idyllic, rustic village of Bewlay, deep in the British moors. Of course, Bewlay is also home to the titular landmark, which is shrouded in mystery and the locals really don't like to talk about it, as they consider it to be a cursed place.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness: The core rulebook features a story about a town where every year, several people die without any explanation, and they encourage the new-in-town priest to quietly accept it. He doesn't get the hint until Death himself shows up to tell him to shut up and sit down. However, it is implied that it's actually a vampire using Dominate. The way he looks and how he manages to "freeze" the poor priest in place does look like something a vampire could do... The Boston Unveiled supplement for Mage: The Awakening has the fishing community of Howard's End (probably inspired by or in homage to H.P. Lovecraft, though the name comes from a non-horror novel by E.M. Forster), where all of the residents are cannibals who are members of the Red Word cult, a group who worship an alternate history so abhorrent that it was aborted from reality into the Abyss, where it became sentient. A wharf along the coast of the town contains a portal into the Spirit World, wherein lies the cult's sacred temple, which the cult devours people in for the purpose of wiping them from history. Leviathan: The Tempest: A Leviathan's Cult will sometimes form one of these, grouping together to form a community in which almost everyone is a part of the Cult. Exact degrees of isolation from the outside world can vary, all the way from an isolated island in the middle of the ocean which hasn't seen vistors since the 1800s to a couple of blocks in a suburban neighborhood in which every house holds a cultist family and there are a few extra elements at the neighborhood potluck.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f17c3b1d	comment	Dead Rising introduces us to the cozy mountainous small town of Willamette, Colorado, with a population of 53,594, which at first appears to be entirely innocent in its recent involvement in a zombie outbreak possibly induced by violent Mexican-American terrorist Carlito Keyes, but seems to be more related to the incident than before upon closer investigation. It is revealed that the town was only founded recently after the massacre of a small Mexican village left over from the Mexican-American Wars, which was wrongly accused of being involved with drug cartels, and was experimented on by violent bio-weapon wasps born out of a failed illegal livestock research, which were in turn released on the city later by said violent Mexican-American terrorist, a survivor of the genocide.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f30eed3c	comment	Fatal Frame II. Minakami Village is quiet village by the mountains that was considered old-fashioned even by the standards of the 19th century. It's built on top of a gateway to Hell, and human sacrifices must be offered to it in order to prevent its darkness from spilling out.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f3cbb86a	comment	The sleepy village of /x/ in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm is more like a pile of dark secrets with a town hastily thrown on top. Without exception, every home in /x/ is hiding some kind of Nightmare Fuel, totally unrelated to whatever nightmares the neighbors are hiding in their own homes. Examples include an inn run by trapped ghosts, a school where students frequently go missing, an empty house with corpses behind the walls, and a basement that twists itself into a mind-screwing labyrinth once you enter. And naturally, many of these are just sidequests and Easter Eggs that go fully untouched by the main plot.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f4a827bb	comment	Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon features a quaint little New England town called Cornwall Coombe that celebrates a harvest festival involving fun activities that will insure the life of the corn crop. Attending this particular festival uninvited carries a pretty steep penalty.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f53fe2fa	comment	The Mission: Impossible episode "The Town" features a town full of Soviet spies.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f6bb880b	comment	Professor Layton: Saint MystÃ¨re has a secret, though it isn't dark - nearly all the inhabitants are robots, and the village itself is designed to keep Baron Reinhold's daughter Flora safe until a suitable caretaker appears for her. The second game has a town with a secret too: the village of Folsense (and maybe the townspeople) is one giant hallucination. The trend continues into the third game: Future London isn't London from the future at all, it's a city in the present located underground the actual London. Even crossovers that feature Layton aren't exempt; Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney features the quaint little town of Labyrinthia, which turns out to be a government project to test a hypnotic solution that brainwashes its denizens to think magic and witches exist. It's practically tradition by now for this trope to be applied to the Layton franchise.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_f7c8e36e	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler has several of these among the many towns of Orsterra: Sunshade: A city in the Sunlands known as the "city of a thousand pleasures", is home to a famous tavern run by Helgenish, a secretly abusive man who goes so far as to treat the dancers working for him like Sex Slaves. Stillsnow: A small mountain village just north of Flamesgrace, where the Order of the Sacred Flame was founded, is home to a brothel of Sex Slaves run by assassins and is frequented by at least one corrupt member of the Order of the Sacred Flame. Northreach: The northernmost city in the game is being run by a gang of thieves who have either killed or corrupted the guards to their side. Noblecourt: A Flatlands city which was once a place of high ideals and moral men and is a base for one of the leaders of the Obsidians. They have corrupted the guards, and crime is rampant now. Wispermill: Despite looking like an ordinary farming town at first glance, its inhabitants are under the thrall of an evil, Galdera-worshipping cult and are hostile to members of the Order of the Sacred Flame.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fa9d142c	comment	In Crossed Claws, it turns out that before moving above ground, the Hollow's government was responsible for a lot of shady dealings, including cruel experiments performed on its prisoners. Even now with the government no longer holding influence, some are hell bent on making sure its history remains buried forever.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fba5d368	comment	The Heart, She Holler: All the weird things that happen can be traced back to Meemaw, because the Secret is that she can't die. But the real Secret is that she can die, but only from ...
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fc2a404e	comment	Choices: Stories You Play has Westchester, the primary setting of one of its stories titled It Lives In The Woods. It has a history of cults, witch trials, massacres, and unexplained coma cases attributed to a local supernatural entity named Redfield.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fcfec4b6	comment	The town that Kirika wanders into in Noir was founded for the sole purpose of guarding the entrance to Altena's manor, and the villagers will kill anyone who interferes with their instructions.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fd0e5cef	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_fd0e5cef	comment	Inverted in Purgatory. All the townsfolk of Refuge are Famed In-Story dead outlaws, murderers, or prostitutes who must live virtuously - no violence despite abundant weapons, little swearing, no theft despite the well-stocked general store, no drinking despite the saloon - for ten years before they can go to Heaven; one wrong move and they're taken right to Hell. Living people can sometimes reach the town, so all of its residents take a Meaningful Rename and perform a Masquerade of simplicity and normalcy for them, hoping to be left alone to serve their sentences. It's a dark secret for them, because they believe they have to either let themselves be killed or go to Hell if they fight visitors, but harmless enough to keep - they're even willing to let someone more peaceable who finds out leave.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fd8ca1b3	comment	The New Avengers has "The Eagle's Nest", in which a remote Scottish island harbours a dark secret: the island had been secretly taken over by Nazis at the end of World War II, and the monastery is being used to house the cryogenically frozen body of Adolf Hitler until such time as they can revive him.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_fdbace96	comment	The town of Gravity Falls, Oregon is home to everything from magical creatures to government conspiracies, which are slowly uncovered with the help of a journal the main characters found in the woods. It turns out there was a secret society erasing people's minds of the wonders they encountered, but with it gone, some of these secrets may come into the light sooner. On the other hand, Mayor Cutebiker passes the "Never Mind About All That" act after Weirdmageddon, which prevents anyone from talking about the events of Bill's reign over the town, so the town's citizens have begun self-censoring the weirder things of the town.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_feca6fc3	comment	In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #3, Maypole looks like an alien version of Everytown, America, but we're immediately told by Ruthye's narration that this description will be baffling to anyone who's heard of it since their visit. Supergirl quickly realises people are lying to her, and there's some evidence the blue-skinned natives have Fantastic Racism against "purples", but then again, there aren't any purples. She eventually discovers that when a bunch of sadistic raiders held the town for ransom, the townsfolk managed to negotiate a discount by deliberately sacrificing the Fantastic Ghetto of Purpletown.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ffbcb90e	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Town with a Dark Secret / int_ffbcb90e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom features a Princedom with a Dark Secret tucked away in a remote corner of The Raj. The secret in question is that a Religion of Evil has bewitched the local rulers and enslaved children from a nearby village to mine for the film's MacGuffin.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ffc6de9b	comment	The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn introduces the town of Witch Lake whose only pride is a strange little island in the middle of the lake that resembles a witchâ€™s hat. Said island is also the death site of a girl named Madeleine Hepburn who suddenly shed her mortal coil while out camping with her dad, Ken. And it's not just her that still walks among the living as countless other, more mindless ghosts appear at night. The local authorities have suppressed the story involving Maddy and the sheriff is well-aware of the supernatural activity going on over there.
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Town with a Dark Secret / int_ffcb0a17	comment	In The Halfblood Chronicles, the treatment of humans by the elves that run things generally ranges from chattel to cattle. The third book, Elvenborn, introduces the estates of House Prastaran... which handles things in a manner far closer to unusually egalitarian/idealized English squiresnote (most human slaves capable of contemplating running away have to defeat enspelled collars and flee into the wilds; here they need merely give notice and their lordships will smuggle them out) and have to put considerable effort into stage-managing the visits of outsiders.
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Ã†on Flux / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
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Purgatory / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
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Cthulhu Mythos (Franchise) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing (Lets Play) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Gosick / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
High School D×D / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
A Curse Dark as Gold / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
A Kind of Spark / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
A Place So Wicked / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Abandoned by Disney / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
American Gods / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ancestral Vices / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ancient Images / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Another / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Awaken Online / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Baccano! / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Beneath Nightmare Castle / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Borrasca / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Brothers of the Snake / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Children of Memory / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Comes the Blind Fury / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dark Harvest / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Demon Road / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dragonlance: The New Adventures / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dreamsnake / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
11/22/63 / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fallocaust / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Father Figure / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
From the New World / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ghost Hunt / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Gosick / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Harvest Home / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
High School DÃ—D / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Horus Heresy / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
It / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Jack Reacher / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Jackelian Series / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Jedi Apprentice / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Jerusalem's Lot / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
KOA Campfire Stories / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Kino's Journey / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Knifepoint Horror / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Man Eaters of Zamboula / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Masterminds / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Miss Marple / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mortis	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
Motherland / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Night of a Thousand Cats / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Night Shift (1978) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Nightmares & Dreamscapes / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Pet Sematary / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Red Harvest / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Return of the Living / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Rot & Ruin / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
'Salem's Lot / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Spellsinger / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sunday Without God / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sword of the Samurai / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Angaran Chronicles / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Caster Chronicles / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Chaos Cycle / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Creeping Charlies / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Dark Tower / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Events at Poroth Farm / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Hardy Boys / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Howling (1977) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Island Of The Immortals / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Lottery / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Midnight Meat Train / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Okay Witch / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Passage / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Power of Five / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Rats in the Walls / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Scarecrow Murders (Grand_Theft_Motto) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Scarecrow Murders (HoodQuest) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Shadow Over Innsmouth / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Shining / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Stepford Wives / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Thing In The Woods / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Tommyknockers / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Twilight Saga / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Witches of Thistle Grove / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Tsun-Tsun TzimTzum / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Watership Down / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Welcome to Dead House / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
When We Were Animals / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
White Fire / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wizard and Glass / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
AbandonedByDisney	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
Creepypasta / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
MyNameIsBruce	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
PeytonPlace	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
Ptitleupg47ww5	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
SuburbanShootout	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
TheCove	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
TheTerribleSecretOfAnimalCrossing	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
TheWhiteRibbon	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
TownwithaDarkSecret	sameAs	Town with a Dark Secret
UnsightlyOCT	seeAlso	Town with a Dark Secret
And Yet the Town Moves (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Assassination Classroom (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Billy Bat (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Bizenghast (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fairy Tail Gaiden (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fragments of Horror (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Gannibal (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Interspecies Reviewers (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Kasane (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Kyuusen no Shima (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Resident Evil: Heavenly Island (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
7 Seeds (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shadows House (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Suicide Island (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Uzumaki (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Yuureitou (Manga) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dorothy of Oz (Manhwa) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
WoodenToaster (Music) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ain't Slayed Nobody (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ede Valley (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Friends at the Table (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Malevolent (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Old Gods of Appalachia (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Peculiar Objects (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Byron Chronicles (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Unwell Podcast (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wolverine (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Y'all of Cthulhu (Podcast) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Cardians S.E.A: Pacific (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Misty Valley (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Oripian Trail (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shadows Of Sandfield (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shadows over the South (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Snake River Run (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf? (Roleplay) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Adam Adamant Lives! / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
American Gothic (1995) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
American Horror Story: Double Feature / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Bates Motel / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Big Time Rush / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Black Saddle / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Black Snow (2022) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Cannon / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Castle Rock / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Century Falls / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Chernobyl / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Chucky / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dead of Summer / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Defiance / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Diagnosis: Murder / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Eureka / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Eye of the Storm / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fear Itself / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Freakish / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Friday the 13th: The Series / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fringe / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Isabel / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Jack Taylor / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
K-9 and Company / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Maigret (2016) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mission: Impossible / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Murder In Small Town X / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Night Visions / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Once Upon a Time in Saengchori / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Pretty Little Liars / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ragnarok (2020) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ravenswood / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Reacher / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Remington Steele / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Renegade / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ripping Yarns / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Riverdale / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Robin of Sherwood / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
So Weird / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Tale of the Nine Tailed / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Terra Nova / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Avengers (1960s) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Day of the Triffids (2009) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The League of Gentlemen / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Leftovers / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Magician / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The New Avengers / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Shannara Chronicles / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Tidelands (Netflix) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Twin Peaks / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Under the Dome / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wild Cards (2024) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wiseguy / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wonder Woman (1975) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Worst Jobs In History / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Arkham Horror (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Arkham Horror: The Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dark Heresy (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Delta Green (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dogs in the Vineyard (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Last Night on Earth (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Trail of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Brigadoon (Theatre) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Halloween Horror Nights (Theatre) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Tanz der Vampire (Theatre) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Alan Wake (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Alundra (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
An Untitled Story (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Apex Legends (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Avernum (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Baten Kaitos Origins (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Billy Went To A Carnival (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Breath of Fire II (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Camp Sunshine (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dark Elf Historia (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dark Nights (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dark Souls (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Darkwood (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Desert Nightmare (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Devil May Cry 5 (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Diablo IV (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dragon Quest VI (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dragon Quest VII (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Draugen (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dread X Collection (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dream Of Gluttony (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fatal Frame II (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fatal Frame IV (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Forest of Drizzling Rain (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Girls' Frontline: Neural Cloud (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Grim Dawn (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Harvester (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Hollow Cocoon (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Identity V (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Kathy Rain (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Little Town Hero (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mother 3 (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2 (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mystery Trackers (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
NieR (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Night in the Woods (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Octopath Traveler (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Oxenfree (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Paradise Destroyed (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Persona 5 Strikers (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Professor Layton (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Ragnarok II: Legend of the Second (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sanitarium (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Scratches (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Settlemoon (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shadow of the Comet (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shin Megami Tensei IV (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Silent Hill: Downpour (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Silver Falls: Undertakers (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Siren (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Siren Games (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Story of the Blanks (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sunless Skies (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Bard's Tale Trilogy (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Black Mirror (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Council of Hanwell (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Last Door (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Secret World (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Sinking City (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Valheim (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Voice of Cards (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wild Season (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
WildStar (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Anchorhead (Video Game) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Deadly Premonition / Videogame / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Fleuret Blanc (Visual Novel) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
It Lives (Visual Novel) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sucker for Love (Visual Novel) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Divine Speaker (Visual Novel) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Autodale (Web Animation) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
hololive ERROR (Web Animation) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Puffin Forest (Web Animation) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Spooky Month (Web Animation) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Starters (Web Animation) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Memoria / Web Comic / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
BuzzFeed Unsolved (Web Video) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Escape the Night (Web Video) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Hatchetfield (Web Video) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
O Segredo Na Floresta (Web Video) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shady Oaks SMP (Web Video) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wayward Guide for the Untrained Eye (Web Video) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Basic Instructions (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Bobbinsverse (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Broodhollow (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
City of Reality (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Dear Children (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Family Man (Dylan Meconis) (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Looking for Group (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Memoria (2010) (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
No Rest for the Wicked (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Paranatural (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Red Oak Rising (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Shadowgirls (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Silent Hill: Promise (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Team Fortress 2 (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Bikini Bottom Horror (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Valewood Tales (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wilde Life (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Zebra Girl (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Castlevania (2017) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Glenn Martin, DDS / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Monster Force / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Moral Orel / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
NIMONA (2023) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Over the Garden Wall / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
ParaNorman / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Praise Petey / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Seis Manos / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Tales from the Cryptkeeper / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Mighty Ducks / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The New Adventures of Speed Racer / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
The Secret Saturdays / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Toy Story 3 / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Wreck-It Ralph / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
R.O.D the TV / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Star Driver / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers / Fan Fic / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Stan Helsing / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Baccano! / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Sunday Without God / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
Charby the Vampirate (Webcomic) / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret

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