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Oklahoma offers up such darkly musical names as Strawberry Spring (beware fog-cloaked serial killers), Hitchcock (this place is for The Birds), Shrewder (the inhabitants are always looking to outfox you), Hester (a scarlet letter on every varsity sweater), Ketchum (a real Jacktown), Tenkiller (gives new meaning to "shooting a supermodel"), and Mound Grove (a glorified graveyard). No sooner did I spy the following, though, than I knew it constituted Oklahoma's most Gothic place name:
Dead Women Crossing. The name suggests a site of misogynistic massacre. Or some shunned town where female ghouls are on the prowl. A locale where life and death intersect, and ghosts eternally search for the correct path to the beyond.
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