Satans Kingdom

And more silliness during my son's visit.  On one beautiful day we decided to finally track down the elusive town of Satans Kingdom, Vermont.  If you pull out the Vermont Gazetteer - or check out the GPS on your phone - or just do a Google search, you will come up with the town of Satans Kingdom (interestingly, plural - as in many Satans - and not possessive; although, to be fair, that's a fairly common transition on road signs).  However, trying to locate Satans Kingdom, at least geographically, is much more challenging.  Gary's mother and I went searching for it years ago, but could never track it down.  If you head south on Vermont 7 and pass through Middlebury (and past, at least temporarily, the A&W Restaurant, but that's another post) you'll come to state road 53.  Take a left - go east - on 53 and you'll wind past beautiful Lake Dunmore and before you come to Fern Lake, the GPS will let you know that you're passing Satans Kingdom (although there are no signs - if there were ever signs I'm sure Middlebury University students swiped them eons ago).  There is a private driveway which we carefully (that is, quietly and timidly - we are talking about Satans Kingdom) wandered down, and then walked into the woods.  Apparently a large rock is Satans Kingdom - or, to make a better story, is sitting on top of Satans Kingdom - or, even better, is sealing/securing Satans Kingdom.  On the way out we ran into the local postman making rounds, and Gary, being my son, went up and asked him to clarify the exact location of Satans Kingdom.  The guy, who was unfailingly pleasant, rolled his eyes and said he's heard that so many times, but that it didn't exist now nor had it, in his opinion, ever existed.  Gary thanked him, but then leaned over to me and let me know that the guy was obviously a member of the local coven and was in on the conspiracy.  And that should have been the beginning of a very bad horror movie.  Instead we just drove off and went swimming and doubled back to A&W for cheese curds.  Clearly, more investigation is in order.

According to the GPS this rock is Satans Kingdom.  I challenged Gary to write up a screenplay to send to the SyFy Channel based on Satans Kingdom.  Finally, I'm sure most scripts for SyFy movies must take at least two hours to write, so I'm expecting to see something soon.