[For previous entries, click the "Most Gothic Place Names" label under Features in the right sidebar.]
This week we head far north in the Macabre Republic, to uncover names such as Mort (a place synonymous with death), Legionville (where demons have moved in en masse), Hasty (home of misguided zeal), Warroad (your every step here will be contested), Swift Falls (from precipitous heights?), Mound (the bodies pile up quickly in this community), Bigfork (the better to prod you ahead of the angry mob), Kilkenny (Kenny best
emigrate while he can), and Slayton (a town that never shies away from homicide). Nonetheless, the most Gothic place name in Minnesota belongs to...
Castle Danger. The name evokes images of an anachronistic stone fortress casting its shadow over an entire settlement. It connotes a place of evil medievalism, where the pitfalls are plentiful and there's no shortage of dark, imprisoning rooms. A welcome sign posted at the town limits here would read more like a warning.
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