Paranormal tourism is booming

[Magical Realist]

https://www.kipsu.com/blog/a-deep-dive-i...m-industry

"The Grand Canyon. Pike Place Market. Mount Rushmore. New Orleans’s French Quarter. Waverly Hills Sanatorium. The Golden Gate Bridge. This list includes some of the top-visited attractions in the United States. Yet, if you look closely, one of these destinations is not like the others. A visit to a haunted Sanatorium may not seem like a great place to get some R&R, but this is a trend of destinations that people are dying to visit. Make sure to pack your security blanket for this trip because, well, it’ll haunt you if you don’t.

The term “paranormal” describes something that science cannot explain. The booming paranormal tourism industry covers lots of ground. Ghosts, extraterrestrials, witchcraft, demons, sites of macabre significance, and clairvoyance are popular features. Why are we drawn to these scary topics? And why is the curiosity growing at a chilling rate? What’s the motivation for owning a piece of creepy history? (And actually admitting “something ain’t right”).

Paranormal tourism isn’t a modern concept. Since the beginning of time, people flocked to sites of supernatural happenings. Even the Ancient Greeks would cross dangerous oceans and terrain to visit the Temple of Apollo, where the Oracle of Delphi, a fortune teller, resided.

Today, loads of people go to great lengths to experience the paranormal. These adventurists drive hundreds of miles into remote corners of the English countryside and America’s heartland in hopes of getting a glimpse of a cropcircle. An estimated 50 million people have boarded and toured the infamously haunted ship, the Queen Mary, harbored in the port of Long Beach, CA."

[C C]

Why not, especially with respect to smaller communities that need the income? Roswell has been making a killing on the reputation virtually handed to it for free by various books, TV shows, films, etc since the 1970s.

[Magical Realist]

The rural town of McMinnville Oregon had a ufo sighting with a really great pair of photos back in 1950 and now every March they have a UFO Festival celebrating all things extraterrestrial. I actually attended it one year and heard several ufologist lectures in the local auditorium. It's a great place to scout out any aliens in disguise besides being just a good excuse for people to gather together and drink beer.

"The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon, United States, in 1950. The photos were reprinted in Life magazine and in newspapers across the nation, and are often considered to be among the most famous ever taken of a UFO."----
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMinnvill...hotographs

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[Zinjanthropos]

I’m sure there’s a few of these scattered about the globe. I believe Canada has at least one, I think in Alberta province. MR, this article also has the French term for UFO, maybe you already know it but perhaps it may expand your knowledge.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ovni...anding-pad

Tourist attraction(s)?