I have a great idea.

Get 100+ members of this forum to march up that house at the same time.

Let's see how Satanic THAT gets >_>

Seriously. If you want to investigate, do so IN the daytime, WITH alot of people.

Even 20+ is better than 4.

When I have the money I will get a bunch of people and march up there.

^^^psh, good luck with that. You better get some born out of state Washingtonians to help you on your little quest, cause true emerald city natives like myself aren’t gonna support ya J/K

~ADHD~

I live 20 minutes away from Chadds Ford PA, where cossart road is. I'm not sure if all the rumors are actually true, but driving down the road at night is certainly creepy. I've yet to find the cult house itself still, because some people say you have to get out of your car and walk a ways to see it, and some people say you can see it from your car. I'm reluctant because of all the supposed police that travel the road. The trees are seriously freaky, and it makes for a fun night with your friends. A few cars actually did follow us, right on our asses, and it was pretty scary. I figure it's just local teenagers just trying to scare the sh** out of us. Anyone else live in the burbs of philly?

i live right by this place. my screen name is thursdayrequiem im me for directions or information.

i went to cossart road yesterday night and today during the afternoon
last night me and three friends were driving through the road and we saw the skull tree and the trees bent away from the road. We got to the part of the road where it branches off and you can turn around. So we turned around and were on our way home when we saw a white truck at the bridge before the house and we passed the truck. As we turned out of the road we see the truck speeding to catch up to us at maybe 50 or 60 mph on that windy road. So me and my friends are freekin out and speedy in the night thru this crazy road which is very windey and dark. The truck was maybe 6 feet behind us at all times and at points it had its lights off and was flashing a highpowered light at us. The truck followed us all the way to concord pike where it turned around at went back towards cossart road. The rumor about not seein their face is completly false, i saw their faces one was a 40 year old man and there was a thirty year old woman? and a young girl. Me and my friends were freaked out and sped home. We went back the next day on foot and went up the drive way to the guard house. We didnt have the balls to go next to it so we went around it and thought we would be able to see the cult house but we didnt we just got lost in the woods and saw an abandoned barn but i got a few pics so check them out
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count me in i'll bring my club sword I'll even bring my black hockey mask.

this is indeed a strange site i'll try to google earth it I just need the address.

i say we send in john rambo to take them all out, and then ask questions

I did a google search but I only found some post by some teeange kids who were staking out the place and were scared by a truck too!!!

SOUNDS FAKE.....

The house is probably cult house to some crazy people out there BUT the whole ghost truck thing, I dont think so. It might be an alternative road for truckers on the road so they probably have a little fun by chasing and scarying young teenage kids of the road...




I AGREE

well...has any one tried interviewing the owner of the place, whoever lives there, a few dollars wouldn't hurt...

no there was definitly a truck trust me it followed me for 2 miles and it was like 4 of 5 feet behind us the whole time

haha, you said your grandma is a mean old woman, that cracked me up.

seriously though, give the guy his privacy. if it was my property and people kept doing crap like this, i'd be greeting them with my mossberg.

I have been reading this for a few days now and went to google earth to find it, what a mission.

Anyhow here is the image of the place, it is there for real.

I have taken an image zoomed out a bit so you can see the surrounding topographical features.

I hope the attachment loads ok.

just because you found it on google doesn't mean that you can trespass on private property.

i stand by my statement, leave the old guy alone.

Dude, I wasn't advocating that, yeah let the old coot suck his gums in peace, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some hookey goings on in the past, but from reading this post from go to whoa it seems that the spooky goings on have moved to a new location and this place is now left to rack and ruin.

I noticed on the map that there was a lso a large hall nearby that was some Du Pont commenorative Center or something as well. So they did figure quite large in this area.

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I have been reading this for a few days now and went to google earth to find it, what a mission.

Anyhow here is the image of the place, it is there for real.

I have taken an image zoomed out a bit so you can see the surrounding topographical features.

I hope the attachment loads ok.
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I’ve been lurking this post for a wile now. The Picture you have posted is not near the house on Corsset Road. See the Pic below. The pic I have posted is the house that everyone is posting about. I have been on Coresset road many times and the last time I was on Corsset road was YESTERDAY. Yes, the trees do bend away from the road. That’s because the power company has cut the trees so that they do not interfere with the power lines. Yes, the scull tree does exist. Although the holes have been filled in with cement. Yes, there are trucks that will follow you if you are on the road too long. That’s because the property owners on Coresset Road are unwelcome to all mischief and vandalism that has taken place by teens over the years.

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Also, I think that some posters have been confusing "The Hell House" with Granoge. (see Pic Below) Granoge is the home of the eldest living duPont. I have been to and in Granoge several times. It is a wonderful home with spectacular views of the Delaware valley. Granoge also has an original Maxfield Parrish panting in the organ well wall located in the living room.

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Thanks very, very much for finally clearing this up hellinde--as a fellow traveller of the road, I can verify what you say, and thanks for throwing some actual sense into this.

Thanks for the link. I'll read more about this when I have time later.

More "Cult House"

Hey there, yep fair enough, I guess I got a bit misdirected, I was working off the directions and such that were posted earlier on. So yup I stand corrected.

I want to second the last post. I grew up 5 minutes from the road and have been to Granoge many times (Thanksgiving there is incredible) as I am part of the family through marriage. It has [nothing] to do with Cossart Rd. Period.

Cossart itself is creepy as all hell (pun intended), but probably because of all the stories and 'psyching' oneself up. I've driven down the road 30 to 40 times, usually to get to the veg. stand at the end. Most likely nothing inbred, satanic, or gene modifying is happening down there.

All of this being said, some weird (though probably explainable) stuff has happened to myself and friends.

The classic being chased scenario has happened to me once (once was more than enough) and a very close friend twice. All three times it was a black Bronco. The time it happened to me, I was being a smarta$$ and pulled into the "Cult House" driveway. Perhaps it triggered a security sensor or something along those lines. Same case with my friend. The chase went for about a mile and then the Bronco pulled off onto a side road which is not very visable at night (or even during the day for that matter). Thus we have the whole "dissappearing" truck.

In the vein of 'psyching' oneself out, I did also think I saw a face looking out from behind a tree. Possibly my mind playing tricks on me, possibly one of the local kids playing around.

In reading the forum, I have heard all of the variations other than the Lexus'... That to me sounds like utter BS.

One final variation I would like to add to this UL concerns the KKK. In HS we always said that it was a KKK headquarters, or sight, whether it was currently or in the past was up for grabs. To me, that is far more believable (if you know Del. especially down state).

All in all, the road itself is more creepy than most. Add in the trio of murders in the 1970s, UL about a prominent family, a few trees growing away from the light (which really is kinda strange bust explainable I'm sure), and overactive imaginations, Cossart Rd becomes an evil and scary place.

Marty could please tell us more about this trio of murders this is the first time I have heard of any actual murder being linked with the cult house at all.
Also I still can't understand why anyone would believe if anything paranormal was going on at that house it would be still active think about how many people from our site alone have gone up there since this thread has started now consider how many sites about paranormal activity are probably have this story that alone would make a poor location for cult or genetic experiement theories.

This has been a very intriguing thread.

I know the house is on private property and would never advocate trespassing, but a picture of the said house would be an interesting addition.

I can understand the locals getting a bit fed up of sightseers though.

There's a house in my town where someone got shot and apparantley the traffic that followed the incident was quite bad, although this was on a side street, not a main route.

I've thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread.

OK, here's the deal about the murders. This information was taken from a recent Knight Rider Article, talking to my dad (who lived about 3 miles from Cossart when the murders took place), and my personal conversation with the Chester County DA who helped with prosecution (I'm a Pre-Law student at a local University, he came in to lecture recently).

In 1978, three boys (18-20 yrs old) were killed in the fields surrounding the "cult house". They were buried in a mass grave, one on top of each other. There was a fourth boy shot, but the body was not recovered. They had been part of the Johnston Gang (originating out of Tennessee, but had moved to Chester Co. in the 1960s) but other gang members felt they might 'rat' them out. One of the boys killed had been served with a subpoena to testify before a grandjury. Apparently the gang had stolen millions of dollars which have yet to be recovered.

Add to this mix the rape of Bruce Jr. 15 yr old girlfriend (Robin Miller) by his step Father. (it's pretty complicated, I'll post the link to the story if its very important to know exactly how this played out).

In August of 1978, when returning from Hershey Park, Bruce Jr. and Robin Miller were shot (while still in the car) so many times "the car rocked". Bruce Jr. was hit 8 times, but did not die. Robin Miller was hit once and killed on the spot.

Long story short, they ended up getting caught and the bodies were found on New Years Eve, 1978.

SO, that's the story of the murders.

Here's the link to the Knight Rider story:

Johnston Murders

So, if the place is actually haunted, it could very easily be the three boys, or the fourth who wasn't found, or all of them. Though this takes a very direct turn away from the "Cult House" and more in the direction of a haunted woods, etc. Which to my belief is much much more probable. It would also explain the cars on the road, chasing visitors away from the burial site etc. Lets see where the theories go with this now.

wow, that *gangster* stuff really reminded me of the Krays.

Good link, thanks

Marty have there been any murders done in a cult style in the area or any teenagers that said they were going up to the house didn't come back anything like that you know about.

There are some semi-random stories, nothing as concrete as the Johnston Murders...

One relates to a KKK style murder, some people say that police found a black man hung from the skull tree, but I asked around extensively (and looked for trial records on West Law and Lexis Nexus) and came up with nothing concrete at all.

One story has been around since before my time about two teenagers who supposedly went to Cossart and disappeared... This is said to have happened in the 1980s. Once again, nothing concrete further than standard UL type things.

Regardless, I've been working on a theory (in my head) for Cossart ever since I "uncovered" the Johnston story.

I think what probably is happening is this:

First, you have a very eccentric family (the du Ponts), who are well know for strange things and odd family secrets. Being the most wealthy family in the area, rumors like these are easily understood. But, as with most rumors, they are false.

Second, the Johnston Murders. If there is a source for ligitimate hauntings or paranormal activity, this will be the source. We have three murdered bodies found, with a fourth never uncovered... Presumably still in that area. Very plausible that the murders would still be playing out in repetition etc. This would explain the trucks chasing people away etc. This is something which needs to be explored more deeply.

Third, Cossart itself is just creepy. Weird tree growth and very high embankments. It's disorienting to drive down even during the day and gets far worse at night. Plus, to the best of my knowledge, none of the car chasings happen during the day.

Fourth, it got fed in to the UL mill and that's where we get all of the mutations of the story today. I first heard about Cossart in high school and almost everyone from the area knows the story in one form or another.

Fifth, once the road was shut down to through traffic, it just fanned the fires as far as the UL goes...

So, now that this is such a big discussion topic, I'll start talking to friends of mine from the area and try to compile a list of all the variations. They will probably repeat many of the stories found here, but it would be nice to have it all in one place.

Post any questions you have and I will do my best to either answer them or research it so I can answer.

Marty

Marty thank you for the information. This is one of the most fascinating urban legends I have ever heard.

I have been reading this thread and a few others for a couple of days. Totally Fascinating. What I would love to know is if anyone has any more information on the eccentricities of the DuPont Family, particularly those which would have fueled all these legends.


All I could come up with was old European family connections from France with an ancestor who married into the family who might of come from an old bloodline of some secret society.

But what I am more interested in is what this family did to make them so infamous

Licata I entered Dupont "secret society" and according to sites brought up they were one of 13 power families in Illuminati and by being a member they would be satan worshipers. I don't believe in this secret society junk but it's easy to see were the cult house could get started also something to keep in mind all old money families in the U.S. according to these conspiracist are part of the american branch of the Illuminati .

The main deal with the du Pont's is they are a very influential family within Delaware. There are some (unfounded) stories of inbreeding, but I believe they are just the target of normal UL type things. Many of the older family members became rather eccentric in later years, reclusive and what not.

The source of these rumors is most likely found in stories attacking them since they were so full in the public perspective.

In other words, I cannot find any base or factual story (aside from the John du Pont murder of the wrestler, which was in the 1990s) which agrees with the rumors. Thus, they have no merit in reality.

As I have previously stated, I am connected quite closely to the family through marriage, and they have *NOTHING* to do with Cult House or Cossart Rd (with regard to this topic). Granoge was mistaken as the Cult House by two or three members responding to this thread a while back. In fact, the cult house on Cossart itself has no factual basis (to the best of my knowledge) for being anything other than a ficticious focal point for the Urban Legend.

Thanks Truth Seeker. I will check that out.
I would like to find some anecdotes, however fanciful they may be.
Something along the lines of the Dupont who never dies is really St.Germain and still lives in the House of the Unholy making Diabolical Sculptures or something

Hey there truth seeker... didn't see your post before I wrote mine (thus I overlapped some of your argument, sorry about that.) I can say with %99.99 accuracy that the du Ponts are not 'illuminati', thus you are correct in your assumption. They aren't even Masons.

Marty although the inbreeding UL probably does have a grain of truth it probably started because the old money families for long while didn't want to marry outside of old money and acouple of incidents where 4th or 5th cousins marry and next thing you know the legend is out there only it's about bother and sister unholy incest satanic marriage.

That makes a lot of sense.

Btw, I just was on Cossart about 35 minutes ago. They have removed all of the road signs for the Road... Plus a lot of the graffiti (sp?) has been cleaned up as well. In addition, I believe the 'skull' tree has been removed as well... I could have missed it (I was going about 35 mph), but I don't know.

One wierd thing happened while I was driving with my friend in the passenger seat. As I was driving I caught for a split second 3 spinning orb things about 4 feet in front of the car. Or, more likely, it was just sunlight through the leaves playing tricks with my eyes. Regardless, just a small update.

Let me know what you think.

Marty your probably right about the light just playing tricks with you that's the most common cause of orbs. You don't have dozens of people going missing in your area every do you?

No more than any other area, that I am aware of.

While it would be a very intense find to prove the existence of "Cult House", I really really doubt anything is actually going on there at this time. This is not to say that in the past things weren't happening, but as it stands now, I just doubt it.

Alright, little update, apparently the Department of State in PA is aquiring land around this specific area. The following is the excerpt from the wwwsite (which I'm putting at the bottom of this post).

"Pennsbury Land Trust, $190,000, to acquire a conservation easement on approximately 76 acres off Cossart Road in Pennsbury Township for open space and natural areas preservation;"

http://www.dep.state.pa.us/newsletter/defa...6427&SubjectID=

Just some more info on the area.

I doubted people were going missing in large numbers in your area it's just helpful to have someone who lives around there state that for the believers in the cult house. This brings me to my point about the security trucks there obvisuosly no trying to catch people because if they were there would be either a rather large number of incidents of it reported or large number of missing persons.

Yes.

It really is probably other teenagers (everyone drives a truck around here, especially out in the country) or the security patrol.

I know it's no fun to debunk a UL, but this one is looking more and more shaky each day. I dunno.

Shakey or not this has been gripping from the very first post, great stuff.

Cheers Jester.

[/quote] In this reader submission, a Delaware man offers his own spine-tingling sequel to House of the Unholy, about a peculiar, well-guarded mansion in the rural part of his home state. Submitted July 2001.

By Al Conner

OK, here it goes. First of all, I am very familiar with the road and the house talked about in the story "House of the Unholy." I have lived in Delaware my entire life, and the house has become something of a Delaware Valley local supernatural treasure: a weird house on the top of a hill out in the middle of nowhere.

Everything that the writer of that story said was true. The house had an inverted cross design in the windows; the trees grew away from the road that wound around the base of the house. The skull tree resided on an outcroppng of rock that juts out that causes the road to make a sharp left, and at the base of the road that leads up to the house resided a "guardhouse" that had a fleet of trucks that would respond to any car that lingered around the area a little too long.

In my sophomore and junior years of high school (I am 27 now) my friends and I used to go up there and drive around, and in the rare instance drop off a few passengers to walk down the road and wait for the driver to pick them up. I was dropped off on this road more than once, and let me tell you, it is a freaky thing. It would be you and a another person all alone on this road barely big enough for two cars to pass, in the pitch black with this giant, menacing house looming in the distance.

(To anyone who has ever read " Salem's Lot" by Stephen King this house's presence loomed over this road much like the Marsten House did over the town of in that book.) The scariest part of that walk was you had to pass by this large drainpipe that looked like it led up to the house. Every time you passed by it you swore you could hear noises emanating from it.

Another thing was that if you saw headlights coming up the road you had to jump in the underbrush because you didn't want those trucks to see you. I remember one time a friend and I were hiding in the bushes when a red truck came by driving very slowly with a mounted spotlight on the side of the truck. We were lucky it was shining on the opposite side of the road.

Anyway, it was the summer of my junior year of high school, and several of my friends had taken to hanging out with a few girls from my neighborhood. We told them about the house, and naturally they thought we were full of it. So one night we decided to take them up there, but we were planning to stage a little theatrical show. One carload of us was to go up to the road early, find a parking place and wait in hiding for the other car with the girls to show up. When they drove by, one of us, clad in a Jason-like hockey mask and black trench coat, was to run out and jump on the hood of the car.

At the end of the road was a little turnoff where you could turn back around and head out to the main road. It was one of those things a teenage guy did to try and impress a girl while trying to scare the s--- out of her.

Anyway, the guy who agreed to wear the mask didn't want to jump on any car, so he told two of us to go about 100 feet up the road, wait in the bushes, and when we saw the car pass, flash a high powered flashlight on the trees above. This was the signal to know it was the right car. My friend Joe and I were chosen to be the lookouts.

We took a flashlight and left the safety-in-numbers group at the end of the road. When we walked about 100 feet or so, we climbed up a small embankment on the house side of the road not far from that skull tree, and there we sat and waited. Now if you have never been out in the woods in complete darkness you can't even begin to appreciate how acute your senses become in such a short amount of time.

After about 2 minutes you can see quite well, after about 5 you start to hear everything, every tree swaying, every wind gust, every branch or underbrush moving as a result of a small animal. Joe and I were sitting there 2 feet above the road, 100 feet from our friends, when we began to hear steady movement behind us, coming from the general direction of the house. We dismissed it as a deer or some other animal moving through the woods.

We began to talk about the upcoming hockey season when we heard a series of loud cracks coming from branches being stepped on. At first we thought it was our mind playing tricks on us but after about 5 minutes of me saying, “Did you hear that?” or him saying, "Shut up and listen!" we began to notice it as being more heavy footed, more deliberate. And it was getting closer. All conversation between us ceased as we strained to listen to this "thing" coming to us. We were scared.

Three more minutes passed, and it was even closer. It was at this point that we began to realize we could be in a lot of trouble. We started to whisper to each other, "Let’s get the f--- out of here," when I noticed something that will be imprinted on my mind until the day I die. About 10 feet behind us was a large tree.

We could just make out the difference in lighting textures between it and the background. Suddenly, as I was looking at it, I noticed a good deal of movement from behind it. Then we saw the silhouette of what appeared to be a person’s head peeking out from behind the tree. It then moved to the other side of the tree to get a better look at us. I whispered to Joe we were running on the count of three. He agreed.

I said the words "One ... two ..." and then the figure behind us in a singsong, droning, deep voice said, " Three!"

At that moment the figure made a frenzied move towards us, moving what seemed to be 5 feet in one leap. Joe and I screamed and headed for the road. What we forgot was the fact that we were actually two feet above the road. We both came out of the wooded area full tilt, hovered in mid-air for a second, and fell to the ground, him landing on top of my head. My head hit the blacktop, and I nearly blacked out. Joe was screaming in my ear to get up. He helped me up and we ran as fast as we could back to the car and our friends.

We got back to the car, told our two friends that someone was out there. The driver dismissed it as bulls--- and started to drive back to where we were. He came back to the area we were at, (this was evident by the large, gaping hole we left in the foliage as we ran out) rolled down his window, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "C'mon, you motherf-----, there are four of us here!!"

At this point the figure came to the edge of the embankment and looked down. This was enough for my friend as he squealed off quickly. As he drove off, the person jumped down the embankment and started to run after the car. We left him in the dust and proceeded out to the main road. We drove on the main road for about 5 minutes, when we saw the other car with our other friends and the girls in it. We flagged them down and told them to turn around and not go up there.

Like the writer of "House of the Unholy" said, this house in unlike any other around. Since that time I've heard a number of rumors about the house, ranging from it being a satanic cult house, to it being a mental hospital for various genetically deformed members of the DuPont family.

I don't know what exactly it is, but I do know every word of what I wrote was true, and if any readers are ever in the northern Delaware area, I'll be happy to meet with them over a pint of Sam Adams, go into more detail on my exploits in regards to this house, and maybe take you up to see the damned thing. I'll also show you the scar I still have on my head from when I landed head first on the most terrifying road in the Delaware Valley [quote]

That is so weird... Why would a house be made just as a mental hospital for one family, or a place to clone animals ect?.

It's not. pure and simple. I know most (if not all) of the du Pont family quite well. There is no connection between them and the House of the Unholy. Period. This is a complete fabrication with literally no evidence to even base such a claim upon, other than a highly standard practice of keeping money in the family by marrying 3rd or 4th cousins. Every wealthy family did this up until recently (and it may continue in some families).

Either the guy who wrote that was drunk or high, he made it up, OR someone else was screwing with them the same way that they were trying to screw with the girls (this has been a standing theory on this thread for quite some time).

There is nothing *currently* in that house, whether it be satanic, a mental house, or an animal cloning lab. (I cannot speak to whether it used to be something wierd).

I personally have spent a great deal of time in the woods at night. It's true that your senses become hyper acute, but it also makes you far more likely to misconstrue just about everything (a rabbit breaking a twig becomes a bobcat chasing you, etc etc).

Add to this hyper sensitivity a deep amount of knowledge (and apparently belief) of the myths concerning a place and *everything* will be a satanist chasing you through the woods.

Scared teenagers are not a very creditable source. But that's just me.

Marty the thing I don't get is why you would want to investagate this if do truely believe in the UL you would either be wrong or end up dead.

I'm pretty sure I have said repeatedly that I don't believe the UL. I think there may be some other things going on there (hauntings from the Boys killed in 78). But I don't believe that the "House of the Unholy" is real, or honestly ever has been.

Yes, there is a house there, but come on. No neighbors have reported anything (which if there was something THAT big going on, I have to assume someone would have said SOMETHING), no one has disappeared there recently (not that it is in any internet database or that the Chester Co. DA knew of, whether he would tell me or not is up for grabs).

What I am trying to do, primarily, is figure out two things.

First, what started the rumors. I think we have come pretty close to achieving that.

Second, to see if anything is going on there which is truly paranormal (aka, not related to the house) in the form of a ligit haunting. As it stands now, I highly doubt that there is, but it's hard to tell, especially when one has to wade through generations of UL to get there.

I'm not afraid of being killed in a satanic ritual. I've been up and down that road my whole life and my uncle lived on Cossart when I was a little boy.

So, that's why I am investigating.

Marty first off I'm sorry I realize that you probably misunderstood my last post let me try and clarify . I also know you don't believe in UL of the cult house niether do I just thought that with your closeness with the Dupont family you may have encountered some these people who try to hunt out secret societies and as such maybe got some idea as to what would drive someone chase something that even if it did exist these individual couldn't succed in exposing. So I was wondering more about your own experience with people who were trying find this cult/secret society it's not that believe it I'm just wondering about who's hunting for it.

OH, cool, sorry we had a miscommunication. Actually, I haven't run into any of the conspiracy nuts concerning the family. First off, it's very hard to get in contact with any of the du Pont's without a legit connection. Second, I just don't think many conspiracy folks take the time to actually try and talk to the target of their conspiracy... I've never heard any of the family discussing it, but, then again, it's not the topic for black tie dinners, lol.

I've been watching this thread for a while- very interesting! I have been on this road a few times, as I live in the area, and most of it is picturesque. As a fan of the Wyeth's I used to drive around and check out some of the sights from their paintings, such as Ring Road. It seems like the legend of Cossart Road sort of damages the reputation of the area and attracts some thrill-seekers. Sure, I'd love to see the truth exposed, but after that, what I'd really like to see is one of the land trusts get these buildings and restore them for their offices or something. There's only one thing scarier than the legend of Cossart Road- the possibility of whole area being covered with developments.

damn!! i read something about this house on Thursday!! and ive lost the link.... ill look some more....

Thanks for trying to help Marty I just thought considering how many out of towners make the trip you might heard or saw something in town over the years I had heard the town was pretty small. I mean we have links to reports on this site from people who traveled from pretty far away, far enough that probably stayed for a few days in the area.