 Last week on Mystery Monday, we spoke about the man from the United Kingdom of Torrid. We started to touch on the idea of parallel universes or a multiverse. Well, this week, we're not going to talk about a country that may or may not exist in a parallel universe. We're going to talk about a town. A town here in the United States that some claim exists. Another say doesn't exist. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button and give us a like. If you want to help support the channel, we do have a Patreon listed down below. Welcome to Esso Tariq Atlanta. My name is Bryce, and today we're going to talk about Earth Hammer, Iowa. Pre-surrounding Earth Hammer, Iowa started in 2015. The possibility of it being a vanishing town or a town from a parallel universe was found on Colin Hudson's website called Strange State. It was brought forth to the public as the town that vanished in 1928. Now when I say vanished, I don't mean it just became a ghost town. It's inhabitants left. I mean it actually vanished, completely disappeared. However, some people say it's still there. Now for those who are not from the United States, Iowa is a state in our Midwest. It's a very important state. It's not a big state, but it's one of farming. It's where we get a lot of our produce. Now I will say that during the Great Depression, when the stock market crashed, it did affect, well, it affected everybody, but it especially affected the farmers. This will actually come up in next week's video as well. And so the initial vanishing of Earth Hammer happened around this time of huge financial crisis. You see Earth Hammer in Iowa was a small town. Let's be honest, we've said in multiple videos, the heart of America is small towns. And all through the early 1900s, up into the 1920s, many people spoke about traveling through Earth Hammer. The only thing is, when they talked about traveling through Earth Hammer, they talked about the residents of Earth Hammer being very pale and almost muted. Like they didn't really speak. But regardless of how odd the residents of the town appear to be, it didn't stop people from having transactions with the locals, stopping up at the shops or getting gas as they made their way through the Midwest. Well, the first rather strange oddity happened again in 1928. This is the first marker we have of the town vanishing. You see at this point they were going up and taking aerial shots of different states. We still do this today for our Google Maps. So this is like prehistoric Google Maps in 1928. Well, when they went up and they were taking photos of Earth Hammer, all they saw were empty fields. The pictures, once they were developed, were of empty fields. This obviously confused the pilot and the photographer and the people of Iowa. There's a town there. It should not have been empty fields. We should have seen the streets and the buildings. Where did it all go? But nonetheless, time went on and people continued to do business and live and work within Earth Hammer. That 1928 photo had just a fluke, right? A few years later a man was driving through Earth Hammer and he stopped at the Earth Hammer SO gas station two miles outside of the city, limits to top off and get gas. He proceeded to go in and pay for his gas and fill his car up. When he got back in the car and started to drive off, it didn't take him long to realize that his gas was still at empty. Well, son of a bitch, he'd been ripped off. So he turned his car around and started driving back to Earth Hammer to confront the gas station attendant and get his money back. While on his way back, he could see the city skyline in the distance. However, his car did run out of gas and so he had to abandon his car and continue to walk back into town. Well over time, over this walk, the city skyline was like a mirage in the distance. It kept getting further and further and further away from him. At this point, a motorcyclist on the road went past the man and pulled over to see if he could be of assistance. The man explained to the motorcyclist that he went to Earth Hammer's gas station to fill up, but those men, they took his money and he didn't get his gas and now his car is abandoned because it's empty and he just wants to get back into Earth Hammer so he can get his gas and get his money back and he'd be on his way. Well, the motorcyclist who was from the area told him that no town called Earth Hammer existed. The man, of course, became hysterical and confused. He was sure he had had that experience that he had actually stopped at a gas station and he gave money. The money in his wallet was not in his wallet anymore. Where do the gas station go? Where do the town go? Well, the motorcyclist, being a good Samaritan and a good part of our humanity, got the man some gas and got him back to his car to make sure that he could go on his way safely. Well, the man was so distraught over what had happened that he ended up checking himself into a sanitarium or a mental institution. Shortly after, a local newspaper called the Davenport newspaper did a story on both these weird phenomenon around this mysterious town called Earth Hammer. The article asked people, what's going on? Does this town exist? Or does it not? And it seems to be the consensus of the newspaper that this town never existed to begin with. However, after they published that article, they got a response from a woman named Fatima Moringa. It appears that she was a school teacher in the town of Earth Hammer and had also been a resident of Earth Hammer for most of her life. How can you say this town doesn't exist when I live in the town and also teach the children of the town? And then yet another incident happened a little later on. There were a group of boys who were camping outside of Earth Hammer. One of the boys had been, or young men rather, had been given the task of going into the town to buy food. The boy had all the money given to him by his friends and as he proceeded to get to the convenience store, he went to step up on to the first step leading into the store and his foot went through the step, almost like the store was not solid. He kept trying to climb up the stairs to get into the store. He could see the lights on inside the store. He could see people in the store, but yet he could not physically get through the entrance. It was as if the building were made of smoke and his body just kept going through it. The young man or the boy turned around in frustration and went back to his friends and he was so flustered and telling his friends what had happened. He gave them their money back but then the boys, the young men, decided that they were going to go to the police station and report this strange phenomenon. Well when they got to the police station they went to knock on their door and their hands went through the door of the police station. Although they could see it right there, they could see again the lights were on, there were people inside. But it was as if the police station itself was made up of smoke. Now regardless of whether the story is true or not, I happen to believe it is true. How freaky would that be if your town all of a sudden became a town of urban legend? If the aerial shots they were taken showed that there was nothing there. No buildings, no roads, no houses, just empty fields. How freaky would it be to have a job in a town and then all of a sudden see an article about how your town doesn't actually exist? But yet you live there and you teach there, you work there. And how upsetting and freaky would it be if you went to go walk into your local grocery store only to not be able to get into it because your body goes through the stairs or your hands reach through the door? In my opinion, this is yet another example of a parallel universe. Not only is it a parallel universe, but we're seeing how people are coming in and out of two different dementias without even knowing it. How many of us go through our lives slipping in and out of different realities without having any clue of what's going on? What are the mysteries of the universe? And what is reality really? All right, thank you so much for sitting through another mystery Monday. Let me know your opinions in the comments below. Are you from Iowa? Have you heard of Erkhammer? Have you been there? Let me know down below. All right, guys, I hope you have a wonderful day. Once again, thank you to Josh McKay for doing our music and to Todd Broderick for helping me produce this video. God bless you all and I'll talk to you later. Bye.