Douglas

Douglas is a small southcentral town located in Dufferin County in the US state of Oklahoma, positioned about 80 miles west outside of Oklahoma City. It had an estimated population of 10,000 to 15,000.
== History ==
Prior to 1983, Douglas was a largely quiet and uneventful town. The last person to be reported missing was in the summer of 1935, the last person murdered was in the spring of 1958 and the last suicide was in the fall of 1970. The only major incident was a small protest outside the city hall in 1979, where Eli Miller and Dylan Denbrough protested against the idea that their favorite ice cream shop would be closed in favor of an expanding planned local mall.
The greatest point of interest was the secretive Douglas National Laboratory, one of the several national laboratories which grew out of the scientific endeavors of the Cold War. Unbeknownst to the residents of the town, the lab hosted experiments for the expensive program known was "Quantum Rosenberg". These experiments yielded several failed attempts to open up a rift to parallel universes since the late 1960s. The first prototype for this "rift opener" was constructed and completed in 1971.
In March 1983, during experiments at the laboratory, the third Director of Operations, Donald Rosenberg, had accidentally created a rift to a parallel dimension known as Zombie Hell; and predatory humanoid creatures poured into Douglas through the rift, who began to invade human homes in search for brains. Among homes invaded were Eli Miller's residence, in which the young boy encountered a zombie, running to his house and emerging back out with his friends and mother, only for the zombie to have disappeared mysteriously. Though the opening of the rift was seen initially as a major explosion (as claimed by the government), the gravity of the situation was much worse.
Eli and Dylan, in order to counter the zombie invasion, founded a business named Zombie Hunters, which consisted of trapping the zombies with nets and keeping them in a storage facility. Initially, business was slow, but due to the rapid increase in undead activity, Eli and Dylan rose to nationwide fame, turning Douglas into a major center of attention. In April, the first major shopping center named Uptown Mall officially opened on April 16.
During that night, Maddy Walsh, a young teenage student at Douglas Middle School was kidnapped by an army of zombies headed by a significantly smarter zombie than the rest, being able to communicate with both humans and zombies. After hearing the news, Rosenberg approached the Zombie Hunters the very next day to discuss potential ways to rescue Maddy. After forming a deal, the now allied Douglas National Laboratory and the Zombie Hunters approached the building, where, across the rift and into Zombie Hell, Maddy was being sacrificed by the zombies to initiate their invasion upon Douglas, and that way, take over Earth.
In order to rescue Maddy, the group discussed and formulated a plan to rescue Maddy, involving their chauffeur Steve Thomas driving from the labs back to the Maple Street Park, where a firework pit had been built beforehand while Rosenberg shut the rift and as the zombies poured in, pull Maddy out of zombie hell. As Steve rushed through the outskirts of the town, the Douglas Thunderstorm had formed in major strength as he entered the town. Due to major lightning striking, the storm snapped the "zipline of safety" twice. However, Eli managed to bring the zombies into the firework pit and Rosenberg shut the lab successfully.
== Residents ==
=== Known families ===
* Denbrough Family
** Richard Denbrough
** Eileen Denbrough
** Dylan Denbrough
* Miller Family
** Marshall Miller
** Carole Miller
** Eli Miller
* Austin Family
** Buck Austin
** Larisa Austin
** Taylor Austin
* Cohen Family
** Ted Cohen
** Andy Cohen
** Mike Cohen
* Rosenberg Family
** James Rosenberg † (1901-1973)
** Emily Rosenberg
** Donald Rosenberg
== Included and Nearby Locations ==
* Douglas National Laboratory
* Douglas Middle School
* Zombie Hell
* Zombie Containment Building
* Maple Street Park
* Douglas Memorial Park
=== Downtown ===
* Uptown Mall
* Douglas Film Theatre
* RadioShack