Tamowitch, Washington

Tamowitch, Washington is an unincorporated community and a census designated place in Okanogan County, Washington. It was once an incorporated town with a peak of 1,245 people. It is approximately two and a half miles north of Mazama, Washington. Tamowitch lies near a forest pond, and has a rundown paved road to access the community.
== History ==
In 1871, Skahatsa Tamowitch settled in this area, a forested pond, along with the rest of his native tribe. After the tribe survived torrential rainstorms, mysterious fires, and aggressive animal attacks. Tamowitch declared this land to be "unholy land." The land was rediscovered when Gary Aulich found the area and said he found peace there, unlike any other. He named the community "Tamowitch," after seeing a tablet with "Skahatsa Tamowitch" written at the top, along with words in a native language. He invited over people he knew from his native town of Chehalis, Washington to build the community. Audie Winters, Laura Red, Paul Reedman, Sam O'Brien, and Benjamin Callam were among them. They invited more people from Chehalis themselves, and advertised the community as well. They built wooden houses and cleared out some of the trees. More people came in as well, and they built more houses, as well as a post office. They built a wide path to access Tamowitch as well, allowing even more to come in. Because of this, Tamowitch reached its peak of 1,245 people, which was more than the population of Chehalis. Gary Aulich started to fall in love with Audie Winters by 1874. He planned so much with her, but it all fell through when on February 28th, 1875, a fire ravaged the town with no known cause. It started at a restaurant, which was closed for the day due to religious reasons, as it was a Sunday. Most of the main town was burned down, and everyone was in panic, trying to leave the town as fast as they can. Gary ran out of his house to find Audie's body was lying on the main path, dead. She was one out of only two known casualties, the other being Samuel Aikens of Wenatchee. Gary cried out on the street as it started snowing, and it was reported that he took a hunting rifle from his house and shot himself with it, after feeling her lifeless body one last time.
The town population dropped down to 344 people, and kept going down. The town was haunted by the deaths of Winters, Aikens, and Aulich. Sam O'Brien went off for a cliffside hike in August 1875, and was found dead below the cliff years later, suspected to be a suicide, Laura Red hung herself in her own home, Paul Reedman starved to death, and Benjamin Callam shot himself with a rifle, like Aulich. Most other people either left the town or died mysteriously. The town was overgrown over multiple decades, and currently, even the paved road is full of plants in every crack, and little pine trees and ferns on every side. In 1974, 37-year-old, Kim Hattison, decided to walk across Washington through the mountains. His progress was recorded almost everywhere he went, but reports say that as soon as he made it to Tamowitch, he disappeared. In 1978, a ten-year-old boy fascinated with history, who was visiting Tamowitch with his family, reported seeing the ghost of Audie Winters when he went into the forest, along with a ring of deer antlers. He ran back, telling his family about the sighting. 
In 1979, Elena Borchevsky was visiting the Pacific Northwest. She was born in Kyiv, in the USSR, and her family ran off to New York. She started her trip off in Washington, planning to go to Oregon and Northern California too. Stopping over in Tamowitch, she reported seeing the ghosts of Audie Winters and Gary Aulich. "They kissed, stared at me, and told me 'leave'." She made it safely through the rest of the Pacific Northwest, but she said it was hard getting out of Tamowitch. Elena Borchevsky is named "the unluckiest community-seeker alive" by some. "I wanted to see the unknown. I wanted to see for myself. Sometimes, it bites you back." She also visited Carter Ridge, Idaho, and Hatfield, Montana, seeing weird activities in each. In 1982, a group of hikers from Portland, Oregon, disappeared after taking a hike around Tamowitch's general area. In 1983, the same happened to two hikers from Twin Falls, Idaho.
In June 2016, George Seymour of Tamowitch, meth addict, called himself Napoleon Seymour Bonaparte, and the "new Napoleon". He drove over to Chehalis and hung signs out of his car reading "Chehalis is rightfully Tamowitch land." He attempted to run over a resident, Tammy Pamela, who was shopping in little stores downtown. She complained about this, and George got out of this car saying "die, you non-French scum!" Tammy ran away and George attempted to drive back to Tamowitch, crashing into a pine tree and receiving serious, almost life threatening, injuries. Later, in September 2019, after managing to recover from his injuries, George would gather a group of 16 other people from Tamowitch and go to Chehalis again, attacking two local shops and a bar, burning down the bar and smashing the windows and aisles of the shops before being driven out by the local police, with four of the men being captured. He would again return to Chehalis in December, running over six people with his car and driving into a home before making a quick escape out of the area. On his way back, his car ran at 65 mph (105 km/h) into a telephone pole, causing a power outage, and his ultimate death.The majority of this was thought up by Hiuyju
On March 11th, 2021, a man attempted to investigate Tamowitch as part of a string of mysterious communities. One man and two women approached him saying he was not welcome in "this mission". They had to "purge something" without him "messing it up".
== Credits ==
Category:Series: The Unexplainable