Have You Been to Doveland?

Why are people misremembering violent events en masse - events that never happened at all?............................................
Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html
https://www.denverpost.com/2006/09/27/hostage-horror/
https://obscurban-legend.fandom.com/wiki/Doveland,_Wisconsin
https://mickey-pal.tumblr.com/post/168142627743/haiku-robot-russiansupport
https://theghostinmymachine.com/2022/01/24/unresolved-what-happened-to-doveland-wisconsin-and-did-it-ever-exist-at-all/?fbclid=IwAR2-0b_t0EgyBSGht2ZdFA3bAi33LnGh48lBwFI-HqFfg_h5_s479s84oWw
https://mysteriousfacts.com/the-story-behind-disappearance-of-people-from-anjikuni-village/
https://www.americaisweird.com/was-doveland-wisconsin-a-real-place-and-did-it-vanish-in-the-1990s/
https://www.historicmysteries.com/doveland/
https://www.historicmysteries.com/aceredo/
https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/20124664/#
https://www.thetravel.com/sandy-island-googles-undiscovered-island/
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/17/1194349639/the-hype-for-a-fake-movie-zepotha-goes-viral-on-tiktok
https://loseremo.tumblr.com/post/627117270398894080
https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2019/10/30/project-sanguine-gecooper/
https://www.tumblr.com/reallyndacarter/701549225507536896/dancer-2?source=share
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/helltown-ohio
https://www.engadget.com/redditors-troll-an-ai-content-farm-into-covering-a-fake-wow-feature-145006066.html
The Capital Times, 04 Nov 2004, Thu · Page 72

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