Note: This post contains mentions of racism and childhood sexual abuse.
Here are some of the top replies:
1.
“Elgin, Kansas.
The motto of the town is ‘A town too tough to die.’
A person told me a story about a time they stopped there on a cross-country motorcycle trip.
When they parked, they could see people peaking around the corners of buildings.
There wasnt a baby in the stroller it was a baby doll.
There are trees growing out of buildings.
For such a small town of nothing, in the middle of nothing.
It was, for a short time, ‘one of the worlds busiest cattle shipping towns.’
Its a creepy place.”
u/stephenhawkwing
“Ive driven through there, and its as cool and weird as it is creepy.
The view of Main Street, like you were talking about, is just so weird.
u/hour-shake-839
“Drove through there on the same cross-country motorcycle trip (the Trans America Trail).
I didnt see a single soul, and the town looked abandoned.
I do remember there being this weird tower randomly in town in some guy’s house.
Wish I took a picture of it.”
u/steampunker14
2.
“Tonopah, Nevada.
Clown Motel next to a cemetery full of infants and workers who died in a silver mine.”
“Shreveport is likeThe Last Of Usat night time.”
u/davemcelfatrick
“I spent a week there for work training a few years ago.
I thought the place was oddly cool.
I got a room in one of the casinos, which was odd, too.
$50/night for a really nice room because I was there during the week when the place was empty.
u/stopcallingmegeorge
“Aye!!!
Thats my hometown right there.
I was born and raised in Shreveport, dammit.
Just cause everything you just said is 100% true dont mean you have to say it.”
u/trixthekid20
4.
“Salton Sea, California.
I went to clean out a family member’s house after they passed.
Didnt see a single car on the road…or a human…that whole weekend.
Felt sooo creepy.”
“Barstow, California.
Its the convergence of highways in the middle of nowhere.
Its like an entire town of unhinged hitchhikers who got dumped there.
He didnt say anything; he just had this super creepy stare.
It was fucking terrifying.”
While we were ordering in the drive-thru, we started hearing gunshots in the motel complex nearby.
Never going back to that shit-hole town ever again.”
u/samwellturdly
6.
“East St Louis, Illinois.
Never seen a town that looked post-apocalyptic before going through there.”
So we made it Lubec, Maine.
It was kind of foggy and looked totally deserted.
I getStephen Kingnovels now.”
u/anybodyseemykeys
“My pick was a town in Maine as well.
We stopped off the highway looking for a place to eat and wound up in a town called Jonesport.
Really weird vibes.”
u/icy_selection_7853
8.
“Centralia, Pennsylvania.
It has been on fire for over 50 years.”
“Colorado City, Arizona.
Fuck you, Warren Jeffs.”
u/heaviestmetal89
“Born and raised there, can confirm.
Sketchy as fuck, especially since I grew up on the inside of that shit.
You’d never know child abuse till you saw it there.”
u/lilfoure
“Passed through there once on a Grand Canyon road trip.
u/namesmakemenervous
10.
“Point Pleasant, West Virginia.
The Mothman is hiding there, somewhere.”
“Most towns in East Texas close to the Louisiana border.
They don’t want you there, and they’ll let you know it.
I’m a white Texas native, and I don’t even feel welcome.”
The difference in vibes from the Texas border to the Louisiana border is night and day.
and when getting food nearby, ‘Y’all ready to order?
Okay, sugar, I’ll get that right out.’
u/swimming-fix-2637
12.
“Picher, Oklahoma.
Its an EPA superfund site that was being cleaned up and bought out.
Now its a ghost town.”
“Danville, Illinois.
It is also dangerous as fuck.”
u/executingsalesdaily
“Ive lived in Danville for one month.
I keep my head down to and from work.
No major issues up til now, but I always have my eyes open and moving.”
I definitely will be driving to the next hospital if it happens again.
It was like going to a hospital 50 years ago.
The doctor cleaned up the wound with a rag, not sterile, just a towel from a pile.
The doctor didn’t have gloves on, and he had blood all over his hands.
I said something about this, and he said, ‘Blood washes off easily.’
Then he just threw all the bloody stuff on the counter and left.
Then he came back in and said here is your prescription for 30 days of Vicodin.
I didn’t even ask for painkillers.
While leaving, EMTs were bringing in a patient, saying he was having a heart attack.
The nurse said, ‘Just put him in the hallway.
We will get to him later.’
As I was staring at her, she said, ‘It’s ok.
He comes in every day but is a little late today.'”
u/owncrew6984
14.
“Cairo, Illinois.”
“I stopped in Coeur dAlene, Idaho on a road trip two years ago.
Downtown doing a little sightseeing on foot, and I approached a four-way intersection.
Stared me down for a few seconds and drove on.
The whole experience felt so far off.
I went back to my car and left.
u/pusfilledonut
“This city was in the news recently.
The Utah womens basketball team stayed there when March Madness was in Spokane, 35 minutes away.
They had pickup trucks rev their engines outside the hotel and yell the the n-word at their players.
It sounds like an awful place.”
u/danny_adelante
“I’m a Black man with a white female partner.
We stopped in Couer d’Alene on our way back home from a road trip.
The hotel front desk asked my partner out loud, in front of me, if she was okay.
My girlfriend was confused, but I knew immediately what the guy meant.
‘Why are you with a Black man?’
We were refused service at a local diner for no reason the next morning.”
u/one-eye-optic
16.
“Whittier, Alaska.
Most of the towns residents live in a single apartment building.
Theres nothing else there.
The town is accessible by water and a one-lane tunnel through the mountain.”
17.And finally, “Gettysburg has a thickness I can’t explain.”
u/hashbrownpotato
“I was born there.
Love going on the haunted tours that actually go into older buildings.
Went into this old war hospital one night with a group of 20.
I’m not one that scares or frightens easily, but nobody else would go in the basement.
I got down to the bottom of the stairs and that thickness is exactly what I felt.
Have you ever been on a crowded train on a hot day with no place to move?
Yeah, it felt like that… but nobody was down there but me.”
