Episode 62…This Town is Myth

Sometimes a single message and a one time meeting can open a can of worms you can’t walk away from.


With the research for the new This Town is Myth beginning, Christopher Balzano takes to the air to introduce and try to explain the spark and the inspiration for the new project. He’ll also talk about some of the odder things he’s already discovered and the direction the story might take.

Other Pemberton Ferry Stories:

Pemberton Ferry’s Lost Ghost Train

Where is Emmie’s Headstone?

Iron Bridge and the Deadly Withlacoochee

Love and Headstones

Episode 62…This Town is Myth

Episode 101…Which Witch is Witch

Episode 86…They Only Say the Stewarts Aren’t Ghosts

Episode 85…Boogeyman: There Is No Fact or Fiction

You can check out the This Town is Myth page at: https://www.facebook.com/This-Town-is-Myth-106533630840134/

Follow all social media at #ThisTownIsMyth.

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

Check out Christopher Balzano’s books, including the newly released Haunted Ocala National Forest

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

Follow us at:

www.facebook.com/trippingonlegends

Twitter: @SpookyBalzano

Instagram: @SpookyTripping

13 responses to “Episode 62…This Town is Myth”

  1. […] totally in character of Pemberton Ferry, there is just a shrug of the […]

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  2. […] long known to insure romantic connection.  Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery in what used to be known as Pemberton Ferry has been known by the locals, even if some have forgotten, as the place to take someone if you’re […]

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  3. […] It’s one part Leesburg, a town with a rich history and a rich paranormal center, and one part The Villages, the relatively new community at the heart of controversies being played out in the small towns […]

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  4. […] Creek is now only known to people who know their history.  Situated just north of Pemberton Ferry along the track to Floral City, it is fed by the deadly Withlacoochee River.  Now it is nothing […]

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  5. […] they know die, and this continues as you ask people from the surrounding towns.  Ask someone in Webster or St Catherine and the trend is the same.  No one knows how many people have actually drowned in the river there, […]

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  6. […] to Sumter County, Florida, home of This Town is Myth and a place where ghostly legends go to die.  They forget the train, they forget the vespers, but […]

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  7. […] This Town is Myth will look to do the same thing with the story of Pemberton Ferry.  To understand the full story, each part must be drawn out and examined and then placed back into context.  This is the story of a boom town and a haunted river, a nearby town nearly infamous for its embracing of racism and another one conspiring to hide it.  There is a patch of the Withlacoochee River which may be the most murderous place in Florida and locations of massacres which molded the face of modern Florida.  There are lost town names like Croom and Fitzgerald and Dragem and Massacre and Abraham and lost villains and heroes.  Then there’s the friendly company promising a golden age filled with all of your dreams which is slowly and methodically digging into and washing away the foundation of what used to be, mortgaging the past of the locals for the dreams of the outsiders. […]

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Check out Christopher Balzano’s books, including the newly released Haunted Southwest Florida.

Feel free to call our new phone number during our live shows to get involved, share a legend you’ve heard, or to just ask a question at (813) 418-6822.

Follow us at: 

www.facebook.com/trippingonlegends
Instagram: @SpookyTripping

You can contact us with questions, comments, and your favorite legend or tidbit of folklore at spookytripping@gmail.com.

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