As a bird flies overhead we reached the end of a winding and decayed old road that ends at our destination today
we are visiting a strange little place tucked out of the way and lost between unused scraps of land and our modern highway systems a
Source of many local urban legends this bit of land hosts a fairy village a weird and overgrown complex of stone doll houses
That are the home of the little people
We made an odd discovery here that has thrown a bizarre slant on what I thought we'd be sharing with you today
but first onto the story
According to the tales around a hundred years ago a married couple were living in town and the wife who may have been a witch
Began to see fairies in the woods. She forced her husband to build houses for them to live within and over time
They became isolated
insane and eventually died leaving the site to become a ruin a
Second version of the tale similarly tells that a man living in a stone house heard fairy voices in the woods
Which made him build the tiny village of houses?
He then committed suicide
Having been driven mad by the creatures and leaving the village to its abandoned state
The village is now cursed and if you stay and wander too long
You can hear the voices of the little people just before you go ultimately mad yourself
Scrambling up the small steps that wind up the hillside one can first see a newer house that is encroached on the area
Remnants of stone terraces are visible here
On all sides are roads that cut this patch of woods off from the nearby world around it
Blow us at the Stonehouse that story you say the reclusive man lived in
Scrambling down the embankment reveals a sunken track and concrete platform
The small stone house is very stylized with a corrugated metal roof that rusts in hanging strips
As one walks further into the woods bids of remaining little people houses stick from the leafy forest cover
This ivy-covered Stonewall is dotted with tiny homes peeking from half-buried obscurity
On a path above sits the most preserved house
These were once very intricate before decades of damage and we're
Little rooms inside hinted the work these took to create
Each house, in fact was so detailed as to have a manicured lawn and garden and other small features
Which we are going to reveal to you by cleaning away some of the accumulated cover
Features like this chimney keep one guessing as to what was here. I
Have yet to find any photos of this place from more than a few decades back?
Which if you're familiar with our explorations is quite abnormal
Along this stonewall are even more small houses in
various states of destruction, I
Forgot how much stuff is actually here
At the end of the wall is the most interesting feature had wanted to show you all today
It's just a very special thing the strangely haunting fairy throne
This oddly carved reddish seat sits amidst tangled vines in the back of the village
The local legends say that if you sit on the throne, you will live no more than seven years longer
Personally, I only have three years left to go
It's all vaguely Arthurian romance Celtic and Art Nouveau, I've never seen anything like it to date
The truth of these stories are related to the geography of this weird place over the years
I have heard a number of explanations of why this location exists trying to rationalize and demystifies this tiny village
the main thrust has been that the small building below you was not in fact the house of a crazed man who heard voices but
Was in fact a small shop
related to a fairy attraction a trolley line ran through the area as part of an amusement park in the
1920s to 1940s
Passengers would stop here and look at the small buildings and buy souvenirs
When the trolley stopped running the site fell into obscurity and became overgrown
spawning stories about its origin the children told
Oddly there is a second more believable and detailed historic interpretation of the site on the local town Historic Society
page in the 1920s one William linen opened a gas station in
1928 the state bypassed the curved Road at leyon by creating a street section of road
Connecting the two main state routes that had laid on
Due to this it was mostly cut off from traffic as people took the faster route and the business began to die
Williams started to build little houses a mini lighthouse and other structures as a roadside attraction called a toy town
in 1936
He married and in
1939 World War two struck and his own and the public's priorities changed dooming many roadside attractions
the small shop and toy village was sold in 1958 and
later again in the 1960s over the years vandalism began to Mar the small houses and as
generations of people visited stories began to develop as to its real origins and
here we stand today at its ruin but that's not the end of this odd little story as
We double back through the area
We found something completely unexpected that I had noted earlier when we arrived and it only got weirder from there
Under what would have been either a trolley platform or the gas pumps is a small crawlspace
Somebody seems to be living there
We decide to crawl in and see what is inside it
a
Hat hangs on the wall a light from the ceiling and there's a burner batteries and other personal belongings
on
Going back through the footage. I then saw it later on
The wall is some kind of weird script a long chain of symbols with below that a sentence
Spelled out in a language. I can't understand I
Have made many efforts to figure out what this says and have come up empty-handed
They seem more like runes and might just be some kind of incantation or a code
Clearly somebody's been living under here seemingly
Sadly homeless and maybe this writing means nothing but it was important enough for them to spend some effort
Carefully adding it to the wall below the house
Having come here to solve the mystery of the little people for you instead
We left with new questions who's living under here. And what does the writing actually mean?
Whatever you feel about the little peoples village in the end
This lost place is not only filled today with sadly ruined tiny houses
Buried in leaves and the local stories of the fairies
But it also houses the small sad story of a man who failed in life due to changing times and the arbitrary
decisions of his state government
Perhaps the homeless man living below
The platform is a victim as well of mental illness much like the man driven insane by the little people of legend in
Our last exploration we covered one of the many now empty asylums to disgorge their patients on the streets to fend for themselves
Perhaps like them
Is the writing a curse a spell or just simply nonsense scribblings?
It's odd to find a true hermit here in the very space
The madman was supposed to live a secluded life speaking to the fairies
But perhaps there's a larger lesson or message about our world today to be divined from all of it
If you have any thoughts or information on what the runes and the writing mean, please let us know in the video comments
To end the day we're headed to an equally strange place that there is very little information on in the past decade or so
These rocking horses have begun to appear gather and multiply in a local field in a circle that keeps expanding
Nobody really seems to know their true story
I've heard that the local landowner has said that one day some of them showed up and they multiplied as others noticed them and
Decided to add their own
This is a very plausible explanation
But I'd like the horses to speak for themselves. They hold the real stories of this place
This one can still nae
As
I examined these forgotten horses in the field one by one it became clear
They all once belonged to individuals who cared about them in the community
To me. This is sort of a rocking horse graveyard
Once they outgrew the toy it still held meeting as a part of their childhood and to honor that attachment
They have been left here instead of being tossed
Each has its own face and character and style
Goodbye horses
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