You probably heard of Flameville from the tragic event of those two preteen girls. They were found murdered on the road near it. Rumor had it that they were found right at the foot of the "Jesus Rock". The FBI performed an investigation, which was a pretty big deal for all the small towns around. They eventually found the killer, who apparently had no connection to Flameville. It was never explicitly said, but I bet he dropped the bodies there because of the stories that circled that place, hoping Flameville would get the blame of those killings & everyone would be thrown off his trail. Some people even still believe the community (it is way too small to be called a town) of Flameville still had something to do with it. Can't blame them too much, with all the whispers of Satanist cults, ritualist sacrifice, ghosts, & inbred cannibals. I'm sticking with my theory on those poor girls, though that's not to say those things aren't there in Flameville. I've been out there myself back when I was in high school & I'll tell you what I experienced. It wasn't much in the ways of supernatural, but it was still odd, none the least.
The deep woods are always a good birthing place of creepy urban legends. All small towns have at least one local urban legend that the kids use as a test of courage. Flameville was shared among several. Henryetta, Wetumka, Weleetka, Okemah, to name a few. There were two levels to the Flameville dare. The first level for the brave was to spray paint on the "Jesus Rock". To perform this, you didn't even have to actually set foot in Flamesville. You only had to go to the landmark of the entrance. This was a huge boulder next to the road with the painted message "Welcome to Flameville, On Christ the Solid Rock We Stand." Sprayed painted over that message in the biggest font on the rock is "JESUS" thus dubbing it the "Jesus Rock". The woods are so thick out there that the rock is the only distinguishing landmark to assure yourself that you're on the right path to Flameville. The second level of the dare was for the braver. This one required you to actually enter Flameville & ring the bell of the church. This was the part Edwin wanted to do.
We had heard all the buzz about it, so many different stories of what was out there & different origins of the place. The most popular rumor was that the church was a Satanist church, that's why it was out in the middle of nowhere because none of the surrounding towns would allow a Satanist church to be established in them. Also, it being out of any town limits would make it easier to perform their rituals & sacrifices. With this story, the challenge of the rock or bell was kind of like a Venus Flytrap for teenagers, maybe even secretly put forth by Flameville itself. If you succeeded, you would have bragging rights. If you got caught, you would be the next sacrifice.
Another popular tale was that it was a ghost town, with an emphasis on the ghost. They said that the land was cursed from some tragic event that held onto the souls of the people who died there. The tragic event would often vary with sometimes elements of the other story bleeding into this one. Usually, it was a fire that burned the church & everyone in it. The cause of the fire was sometimes attributed to lightning striking the front of the building, thus blocking the only exit. The other origin of the fire was more sinister than nature. This part went one of two ways. It was either a Satanist locked everyone in the Christian church & burned them alive; or the local Christians & townsfolk of the surrounding communities came together & either burned, hung, or even just shot the Satanist in their place of worship. The church being there now was excused in two different ways to go along with these two flipped scenarios. When it was the Christians burnt alive, the church was rebuilt in memoriam for them. When it was the Satanist that were murdered, their place of worship being anything from just a gathering around a fire to an altar or even a church building of their own, was completely destroyed & cleansed with fire then a Christian church was built on top of their gruesome graves in order to cleanse the land further. Ringing the bell in these versions of the legend would summon the ghost of the victims.
