Last year I found myself wandering around this beautiful little town called Slippery Rock Pennsylvania.

Slippery Rock is such a great town.

Hanging out with Bob McCaffordy and his wife Jody

at the brewery they run, called North Country Brewing Company.

When people come to visit our pub, we have trail maps. There's a couple loop trails.

Slippery Rock, it's known for the hiking, the biking trails, just the nature.

George Washington used that trail, came right through here on his way to Fort Leboof.

It's a cute picturesque little town. It's got antique shops and university, but North Country Brewing is not quite an ordinary brewery.

Our building location was the county morgue for a bit.

It served funerals from 1850 to 1972.

And actually, slippery rock isn't quite an ordinary town.

Because every year just outside of town is a massive, massive battle.

To fans of medieval history, it is known as the Pensick War, like as in Pennsylvania. It is the largest

medieval battle anywhere on the planet. I'm Doolan Thuris and this is Atlas Obscira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

This episode was produced in partnership with Go USA TV

based on the TV show we do with them, called Small Town Big Story, where I go to various towns and find out

the strange interesting amazing things happening there. It's on YouTube, check it out.

It's pretty fun. It's good. Anyway, today we're headed to Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.

It's located just 50 miles north of Pittsburgh and just a stones throw from the interstate.

The town has only 3,000 residents, but don't let its little

size fool you. Because this town is very valuable territory.

Waging an enormous medieval battle over.

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