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Dead Children’s Playground – Huntsville, AL

Drost Park is located smack in the middle of an old cemetery in the small town of Huntsville, Alabama. Locals call it Dead Children's playground due to the fact that, of course, dead children haunting the grounds. In the 1960s, the town faced an episode of kidnappings. Many of the children were found dead and buried in shallow, unmarked graves at the cemetery. The disembodied sound of children's voices can be heard throughout the playground.

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