What is the spookiest town in the United States, in your opinion?
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Uncover the most chilling locations in the USA with our guide to the eeriest towns across the nation. From haunted houses to paranormal legends, we’ve got the inside scoop on the spookiest spots in America. Share your pick for the creepiest town and join the conversation!
Gary, Indiana
Cairo, IL
Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The Moth Man is hiding there, somewhere.
Colorado City, Arizona. Fuck you, Warren Jeffs.
Tenderloin in San Francisco is an experience to say the least. Especially at night.
Cades cove Tennessee – not a town as itβs part of a nature reserve but you get feels as you go around the wild settler housesβ¦.
Macon, GA
It just has really bad vibes for some reason
Clearwater Florida
Wallace Idaho.
Eerie, Indiana.
Medicine Bow, WY. I only stayed in the hotel for a night but it was super creepy. Lights off in the front and hasn’t been renovated since early 1900s with a bunch of creepy Victorian Era paintings and mouse shit everywhere.
Beaver, Oklahoma. Way out in the panhandle. Donβt go there if youβre a minority.
Centralia, PA. Has been on fire for over 50 years.
Whittier, Alaska
Most of the townβs residents live in a single apartment building. Thereβs nothing else there. The town is accessible by water and a one-way tunnel through the mountain.
Gettysburg has a thickness I can’t explain.
Vidor Texas, dangerously racist.
Topanah Nevada. Clown Motel next to a cemetery full of infants and workers who died in a silver mine.
I stopped in Coeur DβAlene Idaho on a road trip two years ago. Downtown doing a little sightseeing on foot and I approached a four way intersection. Three matching black SUVs pulled up to the stop sign, black out tinted windows, and full length Punisher logos on their hoods. The lead car stopped, and someone passenger side rolled their window down just far enough that I could see a ball cap and a pair of sunglasses. 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. Later I did an Internet search on the town and found info on the Aryan Nations compound, the bombings, arsons, attacks on Jewish businesses, and the America First white supremacists that still operate there.
Lynchburg, Virginia…home of Jerry Falwell and Liberty University.
~~It’s where Larry Flynt got shot~~
Edited to Add: looks like I remembered wrong from the movie
Florida, Missouri
Creepy, creepy, creepy.
I just checked. It’s now listed as uninhabited (by the living). I’m not surprised.
Harlan County Kentucky is interesting
I’ve traveled through a lot of tiny little back towns all around the western US. In southeastern California, the towns up the west shore of the Salton Sea have a unique kind of eerieness I’ve never felt anywhere else. Towns like Salton City, Desert Shores, and Oasis.
The Salton Sea, for those unfamiliar, is an inland body of saltwater. Back around the 1960s, a bunch of little resort towns popped up along its shores. But sometime in the 70s or 80s, a combination of agricultural runoff and wild variations in the salinity of the sea caused fish to die off in massive numbers. The stench of rotting fish pretty well killed the tourism industry, and the towns along the sea have never recovered. They’re not quite ghost towns, there are still a few thousand people living in each of the cities I named. But they’re only a fraction of the population they once had. I could definitely feel sort of a depressing weight on the towns, and the dead fish smell is still to this day a constant presence all along the seashore.
Clearwater Florida. Huge swaths of the town are owned by the Church of Scientology.
Barstow, California. Itβs the convergence of highways in the middle of nowhere. Itβs like an entire town of unhinged hitchhikers who got dumped there. Freaky shit.
Bardstown, KY. If there was a US remake of Hot Fuzz (which by the way, I’m not suggesting *should* occur) it would be set in Bardstown.
Voted prettiest town in the US, very lovely on the surface, has had a bunch of unsolved murders (including a cop driving home from work – which also involves rumors of department shit going on) and had a young teen gang which used to put really bad mumble rap music on youtube.
Terra Haute, Indiana.Β Weird ass place, always gave me the heebie-jeebies.
East St Louis, IL. Never seen a town that looked post-apocalyptic before going through there.
Elgin Kansas.
The motto of the town is βThe city that canβt be killedβ
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 round the corners of buildings. Shortly after a woman in an old dirty wedding dress came around a building pushing an old Victorian baby stroller. There wasnβt a baby in the stroller it was a toy baby.
There are trees growing out of buildings. The Main Street is a very out of place super wide brick road, so that they could heard cattle through the town back in the way back.
Itβs a creepy place.
There may be creepier towns but I’ve traveled the US a lot and the creepiest one I’ve personally been to was Gallup, NM. Some very unsetting lurkers around town. Man at the gas station seemed possessed. The whole place just had a horrendous vibe and we got out quickly and went on our way, couldn’t have paid us to spend the night.
My vote is with Las Vegas. Lotta desperate and creepy people and that is just the tourists. The flashing lights and constant sound failed to distract me from the dark underbelly that is right in your face.
How has no one said Harrison Arkansas? It’s the home of the KKK, and they aren’t shy about it.
Pitcher, OK. Itβs an EPA superfund site that was being cleaned up and bought out. The town was dying literally and figuratively, then a tornado came through and took care of enough that whoever had remained left.
Now itβs a ghost town.
Vidor, Texas. Super racist east Texas piney woods.
Don’t know its name, but it was around an hour past Vegas.
I was working warped tour and we stopped for gas at like 3am.
This place had giant bugs that swarmed you and left silver dollar size welts on your skin.
Fuck that city.
Most towns in East Texas, close to the LA 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.
Gotta say it. My wife and I were vacationing in Bar Harbor, Maine, and decided to drive to the easternmost point in the US. So we made it Lubec, Maine. It was kind of foggy and looked totally deserted. I get Stephen King novels now.
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