 Every town has its own set of folklore and history. In fact, I'm sure the town that you grew up in had tales of haunted locations or crazy neighbors who were perhaps witches. Shoot, as we've discussed here in Atlanta, we had the folklore of a vampire at one of our music locations and down in South Georgia, they even have the legend of a werewolf. One town in particular here in America is famous for one of its urban legends, an urban legend involving the Boy Scouts. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button and give us a like. If you would like to help support the channel, we do have links to our Patreon down below. And I also would love for you to go check out one of our producers, Tiffany Monroe. Tiffany Monroe is a master Reiki practitioner. Her email address is located down below if you would like to use her services. Welcome to SOTaric Atlanta, my name is Bryce, and today we're going to be talking about Boy Scout Lane. You probably noticed that our set looks a little bit different today. That's because I am still in Nekomas, Florida. Please don't forget that I will be back with David Zublik on Tuesday on his channel on thedarkoutpost.com. And then hopefully by the time we get back into Atlanta, I will have more videos for you for the rest of the week. Boy Scout Lane is an abandoned road in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. For those who are not from the United States, Wisconsin is in the northern part of the United States. It is pretty much considered to be in the heart of America. The Good Old Midwest. You see in 1838, a man by the name of George Stevens moved to this area of Wisconsin to be a lumberman. George was from New York State. And you see, George was pretty clever because he picked this point along the Wisconsin River to open up an outpost or grocery store. And this was because all these men were coming into Wisconsin to try to work the lumber. And they were using the Wisconsin River as a bit of a highway. Again, we've talked about that a lot in our stories down here at Georgia, the importance of rivers. And so this outpost that was created by George Stevens ended up growing the town of Stevens Point, hence where we get the name. In 1858, 20 years after George Stevens created his outpost, the town of Stevens Point was actually incorporated. To presence, the total population is around 27,000 people. So this is a pretty good average size, what we would consider all American town. The town of Stevens Point has about 20 parks and a 26 mile long jogging and biking path. This is a fantastic town to raise a family. Definitely a town, in my opinion, that seems like a place where people probably leave their doors unlocked. Stevens Point is also semi famous for its world's largest trivia competition. You see, it pulls in about 12,000 people alone just for this one trivia competition. That means there's about 400 teams that come to Stevens Point to compete. And for the young people watching, or parents of young people watching, Stevens Point is also the location for season three of the Disney show Live in Maddie. I'm not familiar with this show because I don't watch Disney nor do I have young children in my house, but I'm sure for some families that might ring a bell. Now Boy Scout Lane is a 2,500 foot lane in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Now many people say it's the name Boy Scout Lane because apparently the Boy Scouts did own some property around the lane at some time. Now the Boy Scouts of America were founded in the year 1910. Most people are familiar with the Boy Scouts. The Boy Scouts mission has been a mission to teach young men self-reliance. In fact, they say to prepare young men to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetime by instilling in them values of scout oath and law. They also teach a lot of self-development through many outdoor activities, including camping. You have to earn badges. We also know the Girl Scouts have an organization as well. However, we're not going to focus on the Girl Scouts because this story is about the Boy Scouts. I listen to the Girl Scouts or the brownies for like a week. I'm just really not into camping. But anyway, Boy Scout Lane might have been owned by the Boy Scouts. That could very well be where the name comes from. However, legend states that in the 1950s, a group of Boy Scouts went camping in this area. It was one of their adventures where they could earn their badge or whatever it is that the Boy Scouts do. Well, anyway, the story does not end well because apparently something happened to all the Boy Scouts and they died that night, leaving this area, this Boy Scout Lane, to be incredibly haunted. And of course, as most legends go, there are lots of different alternative stories that explain the hauntings. The first story is that it was the bus driver himself that drove the boys out to this desolate road for camping and went crazy and murdered them all. Another story is that perhaps it was the Scout Master himself. I guess the Scout Master is the grown-up in charge of the boys that went a little berserk and murdered all the boys. Although there's a whole other story that says that the boys woke up in the middle of the night and took their lanterns and decided to go explore the grounds. And one dropped his lantern and the whole forest ruptured into a fire, killing all of the little boys. Now it was definitely hard to find evidence to support any of these stories. In fact, it seems more logical that the road got its name Boy Scout Lane because the Boy Scouts probably owned this property. I couldn't find anything to indicate whether there was an actual catastrophe that happened in the 1950s to cause all these young children to die. However, that doesn't mean that there isn't something there. In fact, many people who have been on this property claim that they feel like somebody is watching them. They also claim that they can see little lights everywhere at night, like they're the boys holding their lanterns roaming around through the forest. People also claim that when they get back to their cars, they have little kid handprints all over their cars. Now today in 2020, the land has been bought and is privately owned, so please don't try to go to the land to see for yourself because it is private property and it's not worth getting arrested for. But you let me know, do you think that there's some validity to this story that perhaps there was a huge catastrophe in the 1950s that led to this land being haunted or do you think this is just an urban legend? Like a snowball growing and growing and growing until all of a sudden there is no truth left to the tale. But that's the case. What about all the people that have experienced paranormal phenomenon on the property? Alright guys, once again, I'll be on with David Zublik tomorrow on his channel on thedarkoutpost.com. We are going to be talking about vampirism and its supposed origins in the Bible. I've got some really exciting topics that we're going to go through on his channel in these coming weeks that I'm super stoked about. And then once again, as the week goes on, you'll have more videos again on this channel as well. Thank you so much to Josh McCabe for doing our music. If you would like to purchase our opening song, that link is also in the description box below. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you to Todd Roderick for helping me produce and edit this video. Please go and give his band the Flying Mystics a like and a subscribe as well. Alright guys, thank you again so much for sitting through this story. Hopefully it was a really good distraction or a fun distraction from all the craziness that is going on in our world right now. I hope you guys are all staying safe and taking care of yourselves. And I will talk to you soon. Bye.