# Is there actually a "Rue Morgue" in Paris?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 25, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-rue-morgue-in-paris/457719 "2008-07-25T09:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-rue-morgue-in-paris/457719/41 "2011-02-04T03:56:51Z")

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As for morbidly depressing street names, I give you Murdering Creek Rd in Queensland, Australia, apparently so named because of a massacre of aborigines that occurred there in the mid-nineteenth century. It is now in quite a popular and upmarket seaside area.

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