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Jun 16, 2021 · A mysterious town that allegedly vanished in the 1930s, or a hoax email from 2015? Explore the history, sources, and theories of Urkhammer, Iowa, a possible urban legend or a piece of fiction.
Aug 31, 2022 · Urkhammer, Iowa, located along Route #41, was a fairly unassuming small town in America’s Midwest. There was little to make it stand out from the other small towns that were dotted across the flat plains of Iowa until suddenly it was gone.
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Urkhammer, Iowa was a small mid-western town which is said to have vanished without a trace in 1928.
The story of Urkhammer first appeared online in 2015, when Cullan Hudson, author of the website Strange State, shared what appeared to be a historical overview of the town that his mother had received as an email;
•An urban legend.
In the first presentation of the story, Cullan states he believes the story is fictional, perhaps an email forwardable legend. However the story was quickly repeated on Mysterious Universe and other sites without mentioning this detail. Garth Haslam, author of Anomaly Info, notes that "the newspaper mentioned in the account above, the Davenport Clarion-Sun-Telegraph, never existed. So all evidence points to this tale being a pure Internet Legend, introduced by a website and repeated in a shorter form by other websites interested in a good story more than facts."The story is similar to other internet legends of vanished towns in the US, such as Doveland, Wisconsin, Ashley, Kansas and Langville, Montana, and older legends of Roanoke and the abandoned Inuit village in Alaska.
Jodi Sue Huisentruit (/ ˈ h uː z ɪ n ˌ t r uː t /; born June 5, 1968 – c. June 27, 1995) was an American news anchor for KIMT in Mason City, Iowa. She disappeared in the early morning hours of June 27, 1995, soon after telling a colleague that she had overslept and was running late for work.
According to legend, however, one small town in Iowa suffered a much stranger fate. It's unknown when Urkhammer, Iowa, was established. It was a standard small town that attracted no real attention previous to an 1929 article published in the Clarion-Sun-Telegraph , newspaper of Davenport, Iowa.
Nov 13, 2023 · One of the most puzzling cases of missing cities and towns is that of Urkhammer, a rural town in the state of Iowa, United States. In 1928, the town was suddenly abandoned and aerial photographs showed empty streets and overgrown crops on local farms.
Iowa is the 26th largest in total area and the 31st most populous of the 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3,190,369, according to the 2020 census. The state's capital, most populous city, and largest metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines.
