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This week we're veering slightly northward on our cross-country tour to the state of Oklahoma,

more specifically to Beaver Dunes Park in the Oklahoma Panhandle, the skinny northwestern section of the state.

Beaver Dunes is a popular place for outdoor activities like hiking, fishing, camping, and off-roading,

but there are much stranger happenings in the park that have earned it the nickname Oklahoma's Bermuda

Triangle. It's a reputation that took seed long before the invention of the

ATV, even before someone decided roughing it outdoors was something we should do for fun rather than just survival.

In the mid-1500s, Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

traveled north from Mexico into what's now the southern United States.

His mission?

Locate the fabled seven cities of Cibola,

rumored to house unimaginable riches of silver and gold.

The usual things that motivated Spanish imperialism.

After breaking off from the larger expedition in northern Texas, Coronado led a group of

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