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The roads around Five Points don't like strangers after dark. Locals swear that if you slip your car into neutral beneath the old bridge on the diagonal road, something will push it forward — said to be the ghost-children killed in a crash there. Honk three times on the Amy Boyle Road tracks and a phantom train reportedly screams out of nowhere toward your hood. Drowned witches are said to drift these crossroads, a ghostly car plays chicken with late-night drivers, and in legend, corpses once hung over the roads themselves.

Five Points is a rural convergence of roads in Trumbull County, Ohio — the kind of intersection that earns a name from a surveyor and then a legend from everyone else. Trumbull County was organized in 1800 from the Connecticut Western Reserve and first settled around 1804, with New Englanders planting farms across the glacial plain. Five Points itself appears in the record as little more than a crossroads — which, as any folklorist will note, is precisely the sort of place where the official record stops and the stories begin.