Wakusa, Michigan

Wakusa is a community located in Chippewa County, Michigan. It is approximately 38 miles southwest from Sault Ste. Marie, which spans both Ontario, Canada, and Michigan.
== History ==
=== Founding ===
Wakusa was founded in 1885 by Thomas Tippleton of Marquette, Michigan. He simply named the town "Tippleton." He built humble wooden buildings for others to come in and move to a rural forest in Michigan.
After being founded, an unknown group called "The Control" took over Wakusa in 1898. They renamed it to "Ingelfielgondite," and replaced the buildings with cleaner, stone-cut ones, as opposed to the older wooden ones. [WIP] Ingelfielgondite was short-lived, however, and was disestablished in late 1899, when the leader of the Control died. 
They backed away, and soon, a white supremacist named Daniel Rich, found the town. Rich called it "Paradise Village," and made it a white's only place. He attempted to keep the legacy of the stone buildings and make more, shipping in expensive marble. His house was the largest, a mansion in the middle of the forest, but after the town ran out of stone, he proceeded to finish it with wood. In 1902, a fire erupted inside of the mansion, claiming the life of Daniel Rich himself. It was just one week after a black man named Roddy Carver moved into the town, so the residents, taught by Rich, naturally turned on Carver and thought he started the fire. Carver was reportedly a quiet man, and he tried to avoid residents whenever he could. Of course, doing so made them more suspicious. Roddy Carver was killed by a gunshot in his own household by Jon Karmel. His wife, Bettie Karmel, was hiding inside Rich's house due to a violent fight she had with Jon, and she witnessed the entire scene. Talking to bookwriter Bob Morissette, who was visiting from Cheyenne, Wyoming, she said the following:
"My husband and I had a fight before the murder. He wanted this, I wanted that, I don't remember what. But he turned and slapped me, right on this cheek right here, and wouldn't stop! Started punching me! I ran out of the house, pushing residents. 'Out of my damn way,' y'know? I wanted to hide, so I went into that Carver's little home. He said 'come on in, I have tea,' and I said 'no time for tea,' and just ran. I hid. I hid under his rickety floorboards and saw my husband come in. Roddy started sobbin' and yelled 'I didn't do it! I didn't do it!' and my husband shot him. I'm gonna run away. Start a new life. Move back to Tennessee. Anywhere but Paradise Village."
After this incident, the town started growing. More residents moved in that despised Daniel Rich, and eventually, they became the majority. Paradise Village was renamed to Wakusa. In the Wakusa days, however, by 1905, residents started to notice cracked and crumbling walls on their stone-cut homes. All buildings except Daniel Rich's former mansion had damage forming on the inside and outside. While the town was about to crumble, the mansion was damaged no further, still kept in the far end of town. The first house fell on October 20th, 1905. The others then went down throughout October-December, the last being on December 9th. Only one stone house was left, medium-sized and particularly unspecial, except for the fact that it is supposed to be haunted.
=== Aftermath of Wakusa's Fall ===
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On March 14th, 1993, Jeremy Bentmilton, 63 at the time, reportedly drank several bottles of whiskey in his Kalamazoo home. He fell into a deep sleep and was said to have woken up all the way in the Upper Peninsula, where Wakusa is. One of the last residents saw him running and screaming as other residents beat the man up. He was then spotted on the same street, asleep, waking up and appearing to observe the stone sign reading "Wakusa, Michigan - Home of Heart." Witness Jocina Evans then followed that the town went "unusually bright," and the man, screaming in agony, then fell to his death.Hiuyju. This incident became Wakusa's largest controversy, and the Michigan State Police even got briefly involved, being threatened by residents to "not tell a single soul of it, or terrible things would happen." A paper was found outside of a library in Lansing detailing the incident in September 1993, and Caderbury Cevins, book author of Hatfield, Montana, wrote a book about the incident in December 2005. Both of the people involved disappeared not too long after. In January 2022, a mysterious page was also written about the incident, but the unknown author has yet to disappear.
=== Modern Investigations and the Community Meeting ===
On March 27th, 2021, a man by the name of Ronald Marquine was found dead by a resident in the forests of Wakusa with several books by his side. These books detailed the investigations he's planned across all mysterious communities. It revealed he arrived in Wakusa by March 20th. The only communities he didn't end up investigating were Shankton, Missouri and Yamotoma, California. Yamotoma was particularly sought after, both by the man and other parties. It received unwanted attention compared to every other community, especially since it was very likely tied to the events at previous communities. The sudden dark effects on residents of Wallenby, Oregon, increased activity with Pasha Morissette in Carter Ridge, Idaho, who hadn't been sighted since 2005, encounters with unfriendly people in Tamowitch, Washington, and several locations in Hatfield, Montana being trashed and vandalized. The resident who found Marquine, Emma Riler, proposed the idea of sending representatives from each community, except Yamotoma as it seemed to have no people anymore, to meet in Wakusa to confer about these sudden events. The meeting was held on April 15th.
* Wallenby - Matilda Hopkins
** Wallenby had no response from legitimate residents. Matilda Hopkins appeared as a friend of one of them who says the residents are either still sick or completely dead. She lived in Ashland, Oregon instead of the community itself.
* Carter Ridge - Leopold Cardiff
** Leopold Cardiff is the son of Steven Cardiff, who knew Koosah Kuttham and John Willikers during their toxic marriage. Leopold also often talked to Pasha Morissette.
* Tamowitch - Ruth Knowles
** Her grandmother was the sister of Audie Winters, who died in the Tamowitch fire of 1875. She reports that she's seen many ominous events throughout her life in Tamowitch.
* Hatfield - Emily Parkinson
** Her grandfather was one of the teachers at the Hatfield schoolhouse, who taught before Andrew Schoener's disappearance and the school allowing female teachers, though she moved out of Hatfield five years before the meeting and moved to Bozeman, Montana.
* Shankton - Orem Fernley
** Orem says he's trying to connect and investigate the mysterious murders in his town. He says he witnessed one of the murders but won't specify when or who it was.
* Wakusa - Emma Riler
** Lead and proposed the entire meeting. Found the body of important investigator Ronald Marquine.
The first matter of the meeting was figuring out how to stop the negative investigative crews from making things worse in their communities. [WIP]
===Aftermath of the Meeting===
After this meeting, investigative crews visited Wallenby on the afternoon of April 23rd. Four people were sent. One disappeared in the forest and another was killed by darkness escaping a sick resident. Matilda Hopkins happened to set up a new home in Wallenby and observed these events as two investigators confronted her. They tried to break into the homes of the remaining, yet terribly sick residents of Wallenby, attempting to kill them to "solve the issues". Matilda screamed, constantly saying they weren't the problem. One resident was being beaten, coughing up black substance, and Matilda eventually attacked the man who was harming this resident. The two investigators stopped what they were doing and took Matilda deep in the woods. One stabbed her to death, and the other tried to drag her body away, but eventually, a male black-tailed deer attacked the two under an unknown influence. This deer chased the investigators out of Wallenby. The deer also appeared to have dark marks on his body and his eyes were pale. That night, however, all of the huts and buildings in Wallenby suffered a fire. One resident recovered from the sickness by this time and recorded that someone was lighting it up. They hid their notes, which survived the fire under the precarious protection of a hidden box. After this fire though, nothing was heard of from the residents of Wallenby again. The town was gone and so were the residents, all 17 of them, and Matilda Hopkins too.
On the night of May 2nd, Ruth Knowles drove her car to Carter Ridge from Tamowitch to talk to Leopold Cardiff. She saw a tiny white box in his hands during the meeting in Wakusa, which she believed was part of something larger she saw home in Tamowitch. They started talking in the forest about this box. Engaging very seriously into conversation, Ruth sternly asked him for the box. Leopold denied, saying she had to be crazy if something like this was part of a larger object all the way in Washington. Ruth said it was almost perfect and could help the communities along, and that denying the deal would be worse than accepting and letting everything go the way it is. Suddenly, the two hid behind large pine trees when they heard voices out in the distance. They came over. It was one man, one woman, and the ghost of Pasha Morissette. Ruth spectated the entire time while trying her hardest to hide Leopold. Pasha sat on top of a parked truck, engaging in a conversation with the two. Ruth recorded most of this on a tape recorder.
*Pasha - "You're mistaken. Everything about you is!" 
*Male Investigator - "There's a reason why your parents tried to kill you, you know what you've done." 
*Pasha - "You're blaming the actions of a six-year-old girl for the troubles this town is under. All I did then was hunt animals." 
*Male Investigator - "You killed your own mom and dad. Do you think they'd be proud of you now? Strutting with pride against your actions?" 
*Pasha - "BECAUSE THEY TRIED TO MURDER ME FIRST FROM UNUSUAL THINGS I DID WITH ANIMALS!" in a piercing scream. 
*Male Investigator - "And your brother, I suppose he tried to murder you then?" 
*Pasha - "I would have never taken his innocent soul. I miss him, Kalama. Very much. My sister Koosah too." 
*Male Investigator - "Your sister that you 'miss very much' ran away because you killed your brother." 
*Female Investigator - "Zarchus, let me take it from here. I'm sure your story compels so many people. But unfortunately for you, it doesn't compel me." Ruth says she pulls out a mysterious golden ring at this very moment. "I found perhaps my claim to power." 
*Pasha - "What are you going to do to me?" 
*Female Investigator - "You'll see." Ruth says Pasha was filled with intense shock in her eyes, but also uncertainty. The two try and inch closer to Pasha. She flies towards them at high speed and yells at them. 
*Pasha - "Don't move closer to me or I'll do my worst. What you know me for." 
*Male Investigator - "Pathetic, are you trying to threaten us?" 
*Pasha - "Well, how smart. It was a threat, but also a fact. You don't want to mess with the wrong people." 
*Female Investigator - "Silly girl, I can mess with whoever I want to." She points the hand with the ring at her, and suddenly, Pasha is struggling to move away. She's screaming horrified. 
*Male Investigator - "Looks like you're receiving your own actions." Pasha then let out multiple screams, all at once, as if ten voices were inside of her. She mumbled frequently and no one, not even the investigators, could understand what she was saying. 
*Female Investigator - "What are you saying... WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!? LET IT OUT, PARANORMAL FREAK!" 
*Pasha - "Even if I die again, you'll get what's coming for you. Both of you." The male investigator then pulled out a ring as well and pointed his hand at Pasha. A sudden beam of light appeared towards Pasha. The world went quiet, then it disappeared. Where Pasha Morissette once was became ash and burnt paper. One slip of paper landed where Ruth was. It had the symbol for Carter Ridge and little words that she couldn't read before the paper burned out. All she could read was "not over".
== Credits ==
Category:Series: The Unexplainable