# Dallas- Founded By Followers Of Cthulhu?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085 "2021-12-15T03:27:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/1 "2021-12-15T03:27:02Z")

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> **[A mysterious cephalopod-headed statue appeared in Downtown Dallas park where...](https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/cephalopod-statue-downtown-dallas-park-confederate-war-memorial-sarah-horton-cockrell-solomon/287-5de07db5-98d2-4575-adc4-fbdb78980166?fbclid=IwAR2bnN7LEsX0vPkXOs12sEq4IP6cgpUKGQrfIBkMYSSGilZGSdcPjBrXe68)**
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> It's the second of these bizarre statues to pop up in the city. The first, which claimed Dallas' founding father was part cephalopod, appeared in 2019.

Lovecraft confined his fiction largely to the New England region because that’s where he lived and what he knew. The film Dagon (actually an adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth) moved the locale to a poor fishing village in Spain. I see no reason it couldn’t work in the Gulf Of Mexico.

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**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/2 "2021-12-15T04:34:40Z")

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Nice, thank you for sharing this!

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/3 "2021-12-15T05:27:46Z")

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That totally fucking rocks!

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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/4 "2021-12-15T16:51:21Z")

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That absolutely made my week. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/5 "2021-12-15T19:30:03Z")

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Texas, so it figures.

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/6 "2021-12-15T23:24:13Z")

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This makes my day. Have fun, Texas!

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**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dallas-founded-by-followers-of-cthulhu/956085/7 "2021-12-16T00:38:47Z")

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I love that the attendant plaque spells the city’s name as _D’llas_.

_Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Khenne’dhi D’llas wgah’nagl fhtagn!_