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Across the middle of the. Island lies a section of ancient. Forest known as the greenbelt. Bordering this forest is a. Boy scout camp and an old. Tuberculosis ward. As kids we used to roam around. These grounds trying to scare. Each other with stories about. Cropsey.

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Across the middle of the. Island lies a section of ancient. Forest known as the greenbelt. Bordering this forest is a. Boy scout camp and an old. Tuberculosis ward. As kids we used to roam around. These grounds trying to scare. Each other with stories about. Cropsey.

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Play Across the middle of the. Island lies a section of ancient. Forest known as the greenbelt. Bordering this forest is a. Boy scout camp and an old. Tuberculosis ward. As kids we used to roam around. These grounds trying to scare. Each other with stories about. Cropsey.

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Later as teenagers we. Assumed cropsey was just an. Urban legend a cautionary tale. Used to keep us out of those. Buildings to stop us from. Doing all those things that. Teenagers like to do. But all that changed the summer. Little Jennifer disappeared. That was the summer all the kids. From staten island discovered. That their urban legend. Was real.

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Later as teenagers we. Assumed cropsey was just an. Urban legend a cautionary tale. Used to keep us out of those. Buildings to stop us from. Doing all those things that. Teenagers like to do. But all that changed the summer. Little Jennifer disappeared. That was the summer all the kids. From staten island discovered. That their urban legend. Was real.

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Play Later as teenagers we. Assumed cropsey was just an. Urban legend a cautionary tale. Used to keep us out of those. Buildings to stop us from. Doing all those things that. Teenagers like to do. But all that changed the summer. Little Jennifer disappeared. That was the summer all the kids. From staten island discovered. That their urban legend. Was real.

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Cropsey for some reason. Became the generic term for a. Maniac in boy scout camps up and. Down the Hudson river region of. New York state. So it would've made perfect. Sense for a story about a. Maniac who was hiding out in the. Woods and who abducted and. Killed little children to be. Called cropsey. First learned about cropsey.

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Cropsey for some reason. Became the generic term for a. Maniac in boy scout camps up and. Down the Hudson river region of. New York state. So it would've made perfect. Sense for a story about a. Maniac who was hiding out in the. Woods and who abducted and. Killed little children to be. Called cropsey. First learned about cropsey.

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Play Cropsey for some reason. Became the generic term for a. Maniac in boy scout camps up and. Down the Hudson river region of. New York state. So it would've made perfect. Sense for a story about a. Maniac who was hiding out in the. Woods and who abducted and. Killed little children to be. Called cropsey. First learned about cropsey.

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Our camp counselors would lead. us down this path, and they'd come out of the buildings and scare us. You know, this is where we. thought that Cropsey lived... in the basements down in here and in these other buildings. And, you know, we used to walk. through here, and you'd find beds and papers of people who had died here. So, you know, it kind of made. sense to us. "Cropsey," for some reason, became the generic term for a maniac in boy scout camps up and down the Hudson river region of...

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Our camp counselors would lead. us down this path, and they'd come out of the buildings and scare us. You know, this is where we. thought that Cropsey lived... in the basements down in here and in these other buildings. And, you know, we used to walk. through here, and you'd find beds and papers of people who had died here. So, you know, it kind of made. sense to us. "Cropsey," for some reason, became the generic term for a maniac in boy scout camps up and down the Hudson river region of...

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Play Our camp counselors would lead. us down this path, and they'd come out of the buildings and scare us. You know, this is where we. thought that Cropsey lived... in the basements down in here and in these other buildings. And, you know, we used to walk. through here, and you'd find beds and papers of people who had died here. So, you know, it kind of made. sense to us. "Cropsey," for some reason, became the generic term for a maniac in boy scout camps up and down the Hudson river region of...

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Willowbrook was strictly for. The mentally ill.

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Willowbrook was strictly for. The mentally ill.

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Play Willowbrook was strictly for. The mentally ill.

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First learned about cropsey. In summer camp. He was a doctor. He was supposed to have a. Hook. With a knife about this big. And he was an ax wielding. Madman. The wife was killed. He was being chased or. Taunted. He wanted kids. And he would find them and. He would hack you up. Chop 'em up. Don't go behind the Sherwood. Bunks. Cropsey's out there. Make sure you get off at the. Mall. Don't continue to go any. Further. Don't go down by the lake at. Night. Cropsey's down there. No don't go near....

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First learned about cropsey. In summer camp. He was a doctor. He was supposed to have a. Hook. With a knife about this big. And he was an ax wielding. Madman. The wife was killed. He was being chased or. Taunted. He wanted kids. And he would find them and. He would hack you up. Chop 'em up. Don't go behind the Sherwood. Bunks. Cropsey's out there. Make sure you get off at the. Mall. Don't continue to go any. Further. Don't go down by the lake at. Night. Cropsey's down there. No don't go near....

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Play First learned about cropsey. In summer camp. He was a doctor. He was supposed to have a. Hook. With a knife about this big. And he was an ax wielding. Madman. The wife was killed. He was being chased or. Taunted. He wanted kids. And he would find them and. He would hack you up. Chop 'em up. Don't go behind the Sherwood. Bunks. Cropsey's out there. Make sure you get off at the. Mall. Don't continue to go any. Further. Don't go down by the lake at. Night. Cropsey's down there. No don't go near....

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At what point though in. Your life did you start to. Realize hey maybe cropsey is. Real. When kids started. Disappearing from staten island.

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At what point though in. Your life did you start to. Realize hey maybe cropsey is. Real. When kids started. Disappearing from staten island.

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Play At what point though in. Your life did you start to. Realize hey maybe cropsey is. Real. When kids started. Disappearing from staten island.

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When you look at a place like. Staten island it was viewed as. A dumping ground for all kinds. Of things. The fresh kills landfill which. Took all the city's garbage. 8 million people's garbage Dumped in staten island. The farm colony was a place. Where people went who had. Tuberculosis. Willowbrook warehoused thousands. Of people and left them there. It was a dumping ground. Why would you dump them in. Staten island. 'Cause that's where you dump Things. So you dump kids. What's the...

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When you look at a place like. Staten island it was viewed as. A dumping ground for all kinds. Of things. The fresh kills landfill which. Took all the city's garbage. 8 million people's garbage Dumped in staten island. The farm colony was a place. Where people went who had. Tuberculosis. Willowbrook warehoused thousands. Of people and left them there. It was a dumping ground. Why would you dump them in. Staten island. 'Cause that's where you dump Things. So you dump kids. What's the...

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Play When you look at a place like. Staten island it was viewed as. A dumping ground for all kinds. Of things. The fresh kills landfill which. Took all the city's garbage. 8 million people's garbage Dumped in staten island. The farm colony was a place. Where people went who had. Tuberculosis. Willowbrook warehoused thousands. Of people and left them there. It was a dumping ground. Why would you dump them in. Staten island. 'Cause that's where you dump Things. So you dump kids. What's the...

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Jennifer is. Despite constant threats by state officials  to stay away from willowbrook, Donna and the. friends of Jennifer kept going this area had been covered thousands of times by volunteers, by police, by dogs. But in that time, one gentleman. came across an area that he noticed had Clay balls up on top, like someone patted down. And then this was all, you know, pushed back over with the trees. It was just a little spot that. he noticed the Clay balls. And that's what made us go back, or...

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Jennifer is. Despite constant threats by state officials  to stay away from willowbrook, Donna and the. friends of Jennifer kept going this area had been covered thousands of times by volunteers, by police, by dogs. But in that time, one gentleman. came across an area that he noticed had Clay balls up on top, like someone patted down. And then this was all, you know, pushed back over with the trees. It was just a little spot that. he noticed the Clay balls. And that's what made us go back, or...

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Play Jennifer is. Despite constant threats by state officials  to stay away from willowbrook, Donna and the. friends of Jennifer kept going this area had been covered thousands of times by volunteers, by police, by dogs. But in that time, one gentleman. came across an area that he noticed had Clay balls up on top, like someone patted down. And then this was all, you know, pushed back over with the trees. It was just a little spot that. he noticed the Clay balls. And that's what made us go back, or...

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As children we were deluded. By our parents' belief that. Staten island was such a safe. Place to grow up. But in reality every community. Has a seedy underside. Every suburbia has its secrets. We only discovered our own. Because of what happened with. Jennifer. And then with all the other. Children. After Donna cutugno and her team. Found the body of. Jennifer schweiger the police. Started connecting the dots. They looked at other missing. Children from staten island. Eventually they focused...

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As children we were deluded. By our parents' belief that. Staten island was such a safe. Place to grow up. But in reality every community. Has a seedy underside. Every suburbia has its secrets. We only discovered our own. Because of what happened with. Jennifer. And then with all the other. Children. After Donna cutugno and her team. Found the body of. Jennifer schweiger the police. Started connecting the dots. They looked at other missing. Children from staten island. Eventually they focused...

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Play As children we were deluded. By our parents' belief that. Staten island was such a safe. Place to grow up. But in reality every community. Has a seedy underside. Every suburbia has its secrets. We only discovered our own. Because of what happened with. Jennifer. And then with all the other. Children. After Donna cutugno and her team. Found the body of. Jennifer schweiger the police. Started connecting the dots. They looked at other missing. Children from staten island. Eventually they focused...