I always get a weird feeling when I go through that town. Something really creepy about it. I think most of the people may be zombies.
It draws a certain sort and always has, it’s just that the past few decades have seen a large influx of garden variety leftists, hippies and occult oriented people of various stripes. The city itself had quite a boom just prior to the Great Depression with many very elaborate Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings, which survived largely intact because the city went bust and a lot of the downtown just sort of sat there, unmolested, until the debts were finally cleared in the late seventies. It was a summer resort for people of means, even very prominent people, authors, musicians, political figures and old money families. A lot of the weirdness appears to center upon their old homes and hangouts. That’s what they’re picking up and like it. That’s what you’re picking up and don’t. It’s a nice enough old town, I don’t mind hippies so long as politics can be avoided. But, that vibe is there.