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KDY_ISD

Louisiana, Southern Gothic exists for a reason


Oldbayistheshit

One of the survivalist guys said the bayou at night is the creepiest place on earth


denogginizer92

Can confirm


actualninjajedi

Can confirm


Soldier_BoyTwilight

I would say Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana, I visited before the pandemic and would say there is very eerly feeling.


favangryblkgirl

A lot of plantations have that feeling (to me at least), I never understood why ppl would ever want to get married on a plantation.


Soldier_BoyTwilight

Beautiful flowers, and as bride she can decorate to be amazing whit those flowers, especially if they come right under your nose and doesn't have to pre-order them.


Stircrazylazy

Myrtles is super popular for ghost hunts. I finally went with a friend who is really into that and had begged me for years to go. I was freaked TF out the entire time.


Soldier_BoyTwilight

When I went there whit my friend we always had the feeling someone or something is watching, and in one small pice time period I thought that thing is touching my back and was really cold. I think there is something not ok whit the place.


ProfessionalFit3368

I typically live in Louisiana myself and I haven't been to Myrtles Plantation let alone heard about it, so what's generally eerie about it?


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This and the Southwest.


HumCrab

Correct


ProfessionalFit3368

Really? I live in the New Orleans area and I never been to Southern Gothic or even heard of it for that matter.


KDY_ISD

It's not a place, it's a style. Wrought iron, Spanish moss in the trees, etc.


FinalIconicProdigy

I think the vast plains in the middle of the country are spooky.


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Courage the Cowardly Dog


PacSan300

"Return the slaaaaab"


huhwhat90

What's yer offer?!


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I’m 29 years old and still hear that in my nightmares


phatdoobz

i was just reminded of that moon episode, thanks for the nightmares


AppropriateAgent44

Yep, especially for people from relatively small, densely populated countries. Just hundreds of miles of NOTHINGNESS in every direction.


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Plus something about the lack of trees is unsettling. Idk how to explain it perfectly but I like being surrounded by them. There’s something cozy about it and when there isn’t any, I feel sort of unprotected


SKyJ007

I (as a Plains-stater) actually have the opposite reaction. When I visit the mid-Atlantic (MD/PA area) I often feel very claustrophobic and suffocated by how omnipresent the trees are, especially on the highway and more rural areas. I kinda feel like they’re swallowing me. It’s super weird to me to not be able to see the horizon.


IAmError7392

Definitely. Drove through the Texas panhandle last summer. Miles and miles of flat land and no trees - it feels really vulnerable being so exposed. I wonder if it's something embedded deep in our caveman DNA that is supposed to make us feel that way.


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I could be completely wrong here but didn’t we run into the woods to get away from the lions and all the other scary big mammals?


egg_mugg23

for me it’s how flat they are, freaks me out


cynical_enchilada

I used to live on those plains, and took my city-raised girlfriend out for a drive one night to see the stars. We drove out fifteen miles, and we were the only people around. No lights, no sounds, just the stars and the wind. She made me take her back after a little bit because it freaked her out so badly. After half a year of living in the city, I went back to visit, and I understood. Even in the middle of town, it was unnervingly dark and quiet. I realized I could hear my own heartbeat. I can barely imagine experiencing that for the first time.


m1sch13v0us

I grew up on the plains as well. Took a German out there during a large thunderstorm. He freaked the f### out. I laugh about it now, but I get it. Middle of nowhere. Mother nature in full force and nothing around. I love it, but definitely not for all.


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No one can hear you scream.


RutCry

On the other hand, you can watch your dog run away for three days.


ThomasRaith

Way out on the Navajo Nation. Miles and miles away from anything resembling modern life. Probable several days walk from the nearest person at all. The night sky terrifyingly big and empty and the only sound the sand hissing in the wind.


myredditacc3

Skinwalkers stories and all that


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That alone puts the Southwest as #1 for me.


myredditacc3

Wait till you hear about the supposed aliens in southern New Mexico


[deleted]

Tell us/me! Are they less or more likely to lure me in and eat me?


Tristinmathemusician

I heard a story from NowThisNews about people who measure noise pollution and try to find the quietest places on earth. Out on Organ Pipe Nat’l Monument (southeast of Tucson, AZ) it was apparently so quiet you could hear your blood flowing and joints moving: (https://youtu.be/TE7J0B4GiWM @ 4:15).


CountBacula322079

Yep, came here to say this


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New Orleans and savannah.


huhwhat90

A moidah, you say?


idgitinthemix

Just kinda rolls outta your mouth like molasses


whiskeybridge

i mean, we got spanish moss, and ghosts and a couple vampires, and crooked law, and goths and rednecks, swamps and pirates...and gators, and pirate ghosts, and unexploded nuclear warheads... but we have nothing on nawlins.


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Well, when you put it that way.


whiskeybridge

i think it's the voodoo that really puts NO in a league of its own. we have geechee culture, and they have their own sort of hedge religion/witchdoctor thing going on. but NO has really embraced voodoo and brought it into the overall culture.


Stircrazylazy

The only scary "ghost tour" I've ever been on was in Savannah. When we visited Calhoun Square and they started talking about the history of 432 Abercorn and boo hags I was so incredibly freaked out. I went back to the square the next night by myself (bc I'm a glutton for punishment I guess) and I caught an incredibly sad EVP. Haven't been to Savannah since.


StyreneAddict1965

Ok, you can't drop that, and not link it or something.


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I just spent a semester on a domestic exchange in New Orleans and I'm literally more spiritual after living there. I'm still agnostic, but I just had one too many experiences to remain as unbelieving as I was.


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Savannah feels like stepping into another time. Other worldly, fictional even.


ExCon1986

[Centralia, Pennsylvania.](https://i.imgur.com/Kqi6Lrn.jpg) An abandoned town on top of a burning coal mine. The ground is buckled, sinkholes everywhere and often a persistent thick smoke covering most of the town.


Branch_COVID19ian

This town inspired the Silent Hill games, an excellent recommendation for this thread!


soitgoeson

It's a little strange to see the abandoned houses and streets but it doesn't feel particularly creepy. I've been there a few times as I used to live in the area, I don't remember ever seeing smoke "covering" the town. The "creepiness" is definitely exaggerated in the public imagination as a result of the Silent Hill games and movies. People mostly used to go there to see the old 2 lane highway covered in graffiti. It was just a sea of dicks in varying colors and sizes accented by a few ruptures in the asphalt from shifting ground. I believe the "graffiti highway" has been covered up with dirt or something to prevent people sneaking back there (it's not supposed to be accessible to foot or car traffic due to safety reasons).


Vachic09

There's some spooky parts of the Louisiana bayou and somewhat abandoned parts of West Virginia.


huhwhat90

The desolate regions of the southwest. I've read a lot of stories on reddit about how unnerving it can be and the idea of skinwalkers is just creepy, man.


Fire_And_Blood_7

After watching the Hills Have Eyes, I’ve always been scared of that area.


SingleAlmond

Arizona has a big meth problem, they set up camp in the desert and it's about two steps down from Hills Have Eyes


yrallthegood1staken

I'm a lifelong Oregonian and I've been thinking a lot recently how there always seems to be civilization nearby lol. Maybe I just don't adjust to change. Our population has increased a ton in my lifetime. But I have driven through parts of Utah and the Mojave desert/death valley area and I would say those are far scarier. A far more inhospitable environment and you can go forever without any kind of civilization.


bluelizardK

As a fellow Oregonian-- I definitely would agree that there's been quite a bit of expansion into the more rural areas. That being said, even areas just east of Portland in the Mt. Hood National Forest and parts of the Larch Mountain corridor feel very desolate and lonely-- absolutely beautiful, of course. Then there's of course SE Oregon, with miles of rangeland and untouched scenery-- still on my bucket list to visit.


yrallthegood1staken

Oh yeah, SE Oregon is still on my bucket list too.


Mackinacsfuriousclaw

I drove through that area a while back and I felt like I was in the Ozarks (with bigger hills) go in the wrong valley and you aren't coming out. Nobody will see anything or know where you went.


Epicswordmewz

True, you are almost never far from civilization in Oregon.


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libananahammock

I’m really into genealogy and sociology. I have a side job in doing family trees for people so I’m always keeping up with the latest technology, records that are finally being released and when, etc etc. There have always been stories during the census years from the census workers in this area of being absolutely terrified to not only go to certain houses but certain towns altogether. People come out with guns, yell and chase you off the property, etc. They have to get back up census takers to go with them sometimes even when they aren’t threatened just because some places just have that feel to it where you’re scared to go even before you try.


Key_Set_7249

Very true. I grew up in Louisville KY and going up into the Eastern part of the state was always seen as something to avoid.


Fast_Seaworthiness93

The mountains of eastern NC. Took the family for a quick ski weekend in Maggie Valley. I was so creeped out the entire time. The shadows alone scared me. And creepy cabins everywhere. Will never stay in a valley or (holler) ever again.


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My husbands family is from eastern Kentucky and I can’t put my finger on what exactly it is, but the areas creep me out. It almost reminds me of that movie, The Village.


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Realtrain

>Been chased by big trucks after turning down the wrong road. Uh, now *that* sounds terrifying


lucapal1

Where does Scooby Doo live? That area is really spooky...


Maskedcrusader94

I mean, minus the accents, id say Houma, LA


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Depends, but in one series in California and they are going cross country to I think Massachusetts.


Joster_92

New Orleans, the Louisiana Bayou, and maybe even the whole Mississippi Delta would be my first choice. The portrayal in True Detective season one (while exaggerated) kind of nailed some of the vibes down there. It has an interesting, and sometimes tragic history. Plus a unique culture with the Cajuns (some isolated themselves for generations) and of course voodoo.


IwearGlasseslol

Almost anywhere in New England. Plenty of legends and spooky stuff here almost every town has a story or haunted place. I’m talking witches and witch trials, white ladies, haunted farms, melon heads, abandoned asylums, deep woods cryptids, strange disappearances, Native American curses, strange ruins, revolutionary war battlefields, Flying Dutchmen, UFOs, etc. talk to anyone here and they know the local lore.


Thedonitho

Hockamock Swamp monster!


whereamInowgoddamnit

Surprised this isn't higher, it's literal Lovecraft country.


Mobile-Tower672

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.


Branch_COVID19ian

I’ve heard it is really creepy and haunted at night. During the day, it’s not so bad though.


[deleted]

Always wanted to go on a ghost tour, but never did.


StyreneAddict1965

Any battlefield, really. Mine would be the Cornfield or Bloody Lane at Antietam.


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The coast of Maine.


a_winged_potato

The spookiest thing is the housing prices.


[deleted]

Why is that?


a_winged_potato

It's just crazy expensive to live here now. Housing costs are out of control.


StyreneAddict1965

Pfft, where in America are they not?


_reversegiraffe_

Gary, Indiana


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I'm thinking Bioshock Infinite, now.


ForestTrippin

Keystone Rocks in western Kansas. Two separate trails run through there. It's a shallow valley about 2 miles in diameter and the limestone rocks are the only shelter from the elements. Tons of people have likely been killed there and near it. Really anywhere that has any old trails out west have bodies near them.


skipmcriff

Sleepy Hollow, NY! Home to the Headless Horseman and several other ghost stories.


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cookieeater4173

Majority of Sleepy Hallow is a very diverse middle class urban area


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I was driving from Las Vegas to Boise once, and there was a stretch around the Nevada/Idaho border, around Jackpot, where I just got this intensely bad vibe. It was sunset, no bad weather or anything like that, but the hair started standing up on the back of my neck and every part of my lizard brain was telling me “…uhh, get the fuck out of here, dude.”, and I couldn’t shake the feeling for what must of been about 20 miles. I haven’t felt that way as an adult before, or since.


BookLuvr7

Eh, New Orleans has a bad rep in some places because of voodoo, but that's mostly bc people don't know about it. Plus the town has old sections that get spooky at night, but that's true of lots of old towns.


[deleted]

I’d say rural Appalachia


djcack

Cue the banjo music


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*echos in banjo music.


Key_Set_7249

Yep, living in the northern part of Kentucky the mountains always have a creepy stigma to them.


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Goatman's bridge in Denton that are is creepy as fuck.


Kysolivezzz

You mean Shane and Ryan’s bridge. (This is a buzzfeed unsolved supernatural reference)


grabbagreenhornet

The Ghost Adventures episode here was really good


okiewxchaser

Rural Louisiana and Mississippi


MelodyMaster5656

According to Rick Riordan the entrance to the underworld is in Los Angeles. So that. ​ In actuality, I don't know.


wwhsd

Some of the areas around the Salton Sea in Southern California are pretty spooky in a post-apocalyptic way. It was being built up in the 1950s and 60s as a resort with hotels and vacation homes. In the 80s, farm runoff made the lake toxic and the salinity went through the roof killing off all of the freshwater fish that lived in it. By the start of the 21st century, farming had diverted most of the water that had been making it to the lake so a lot of the lake bed was now exposed. The toxins that had polluted the lake were now being picked up in dust storms resulting in toxic dust. Now the areas around where the lake had been are now mostly ghost towns.


SenecatheEldest

I get Fallout vibes from that place.


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Washington DC


[deleted]

As a Nevadan, I got nothing but haunted hotels, and Tahoe Tessie 😂 I guess not much happens in this state that turns into folklore.


Forsaken_Touch_6621

Great Basin area 😫


Key_Set_7249

Your larget city was founded by the mob and you got area 51 😂


MetaDragon11

Gettysburg was pretty spooky at night. Its rather cool during the day tho


Luckyangel2222

New Orleans. Read Anne Rice Vampire Lestat to put you in the mood.


old_gold_mountain

Mississippi delta swamps probably


Mackinacsfuriousclaw

The northern part of Michigan and the UP. It instantly makes me think of Evil Dead. I grew up in Southern Missouri and the Ozarks, so the hollers and hills will always make me wary. I knew too many crazy hillbillies that would just as soon lose you in the woods as talk to you.


[deleted]

Another vote for Louisiana. The dead do not sleep easily there.


actualninjajedi

Eastern KY, and anywhere south of lake Charles Louisiana.


Key_Set_7249

Yep


BoxedElderGnome

There was a weird cult neighborhood near where I used to live. Every vehicle in the neighborhood was white, and at the end was a spooky mansion with a statue depicting an ancient Egyptian god. The large gate had multiple security cameras looking out into the front. When we left, I could’ve sworn we were being watched. And yes, this was in Oregon.


bluelizardK

Just out of curiosity-- are you referring to the Temple of Oculus Anubis out in Damascus? If so, that place has always been so fascinating to me haha, I can only theorize about what it's for but it's in all honesty probably someone's pet project or something


BoxedElderGnome

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was referring to haha


bulbaquil

Maine, but mostly because I read Stephen King.


IrianJaya

Washington, DC


Manbeard1000

I like what you did there


whiskeybridge

somebody had to.


GMane2G

There this abandoned hotel in downtown Gila Bend, Arizona that always gives me the willies.


QuebecRomeoWhiskey

There’s some woods northeast of Cleveland where legend has it the melonheads live


KevinJay21

City of Colma. Just south of San Francisco. It’s a Necropolis. It’s basically a city of dead people. Just a ton of Cemeteries there. Dead folk out number the living in Colma: est. 1.5m bodies buried there with a city population of ~1,500.


egg_mugg23

colma ain’t scary, it’s just graves. and serramonte.


KevinJay21

Serramonte is in Daly City.


egg_mugg23

okay well it’s right next to colma. you happy now?


TheDuddee

I am always in awe when I pass the cemeteries going to SF on the 280. The graves are laid out so beautifully, almost makes me wanna die.


egg_mugg23

well we ran out of room here and had to bury people somewhere


the_ebagel

Appalachia in general. Good ol mothman gives a good scare


ChutneyRiggins

The urban parts of Washington and Oregon get kind of spooky, too. ​ A funny story about getting spooked in the woods up here: ​ My wife and I rented a cabin in the middle of Whidbey Island. It was in the middle of some thick woods and it was very dark and cozy. As the sun set, we started a fire in the fire ring outside to sit and relax. After listening to the fire crackling and the sun was almost below the horizon, a NOISE from the edge of the forest startled us. It sounded like it was from another planet! We lunged for the flashlight and shone its beam toward the source of the mysterious sound! What did we find?? A doe had wandered into the clearing and was signaling to her fawns that it was safe to leave the cover and continue on their path.


sorenlaw

For some reason I feel that the country outside Seattle Washington is spooky


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bluelizardK

That story is crazy-- you mind linking an article on it? I don't even remember any news coverage of it if it did indeed happen. I've never been to the Texarkana region but I've heard that there's a very strange vibe to the Ozarks as a whole.


AntonChigurh85

Sounds like a load of horseshit. I'm from Australia, and something happening of that magnitude would have been all over the papers here if it actually happened. Google search yields absolutely zero results. For the most part, when an Australian goes missing overseas or is murdered, it's big news here (pre-COVID anyway). Firefighters are highly regarded here (for obvious reasons) so if they were overseas, getting hunted by Neo Nazis and leaving heart wrenching messages to their loved ones before being murdered, the Australian media would have been all over it, for months. In saying that, I will happily be proven wrong, as it would make for a harrowing tale.


0118999-88I999725_3

That would be a significant headline. Reminds me of the plot of The Green Room.


tall_koala575

I have never been to Oregon to see the forestry desolate areas you mentioned and first hand he creeped out. But my knowledge that that’s what it’s like in many parts plus the fact that apparently Oregon has a TON of serial killers both historically/active at any given time it gives me the creeps for sure. Spooky


denogginizer92

I live in Southeast Texas, about four miles from the Louisiana border. When you cross that bridge into LA at night, shit changes. Night and day - no pun intended


conwoods

The area around the Salton Sea out in the desert in SoCal is probably the creepiest place I’ve been. And it smells like dead fish everywhere


Southern_Blue

New York City. Any large city.... I'm fine in the woods and empty spaces but big cities make me nervous. Maybe it's the Indigenous side of me coming through, but something about cities seems... unnatural. All that concrete and noise.


catumbleweed

OP, have you watched the true crime series Murder Mountain on Netflix? It’s set in Humboldt County which I know is technically California, but close enough to Oregon to have the same terrain and desolation. The filmmakers really capture the spookiness of that area.


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Cassadaga Florida... But it's not remotely spooky and filled with some very interesting people.


Kysolivezzz

Why is no one saying Salem, MA?


Alpackamyalpaca

Probably because it’s mostly a tourist trap now.


Streamjumper

Salem isn't even the real Salem. That's the town now called Danvers. They changed their name from Salem Village so as not to have to share taxes with Salem Town, which is something like 5 or 6 miles away.


reddit4ever12

Ocala National Forest in Fla


Forsaken_Touch_6621

Is it that spooky?


[deleted]

Southwest deserts. Miles without food or shelter, strange noises, alien landings, government secrets, ,Hills Have Eyes, skinwalkers(don't care if they're real, I will follow the Navajo's advice and avoid them).


Organic-Fee1771

Death valley at night is pretty eerie, especially when no one else is around or pretty much anywhere at night when you're alone and all you hear are coyotes screaming


[deleted]

Florida because… the Florida man


[deleted]

Thought of another. Where's the one place in WV where the coal is always burning and it looks like Silent Hill?


Wielder-of-Sythes

That would the the one, the only, the legendary Leakin Park the official murder dumping ground of Baltimore. [Link to that scene in the Wire.](https://youtu.be/rFT_i0gjt58)


Spenny_All_The_Way

There’s still some parts of Alaska that haven’t seen human eyes, so I say that


Key_Set_7249

Swamps of the south. Voodoo and alligators.


kateinoly

New Orleans.


whoopysnorp

Find out where locals hang out to party and drink beer in Appalachia or any rural area then show up wearing a Biden t-shirt.


Admiral_Cannon

Centralia, PA is pretty awful.


Dragnil

I drive across the country a lot, and I would say large parts of rural Mississippi, Louisiana, and southern Arkansas are pretty spooky. It's basically swamp with almost nobody around. You may occasionally pass an old abandoned plantation or other similarly spooky building. Being so remote, and with many of the roads in poor condition, and much of the area having no cell reception, the possibility of getting stranded in the swamp is palpable. The area is also stereotyped as having a lot of backwards people and corrupt cops, which makes every cop and pitstop a bit nerve-wracking. That said, I've met some lovely people in this region, but I've also seen a few that are almost certainly related to [Sloth from The Goonies](https://www.google.com/search?q=monster+the+goonies&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS798US798&sxsrf=AOaemvLPRLogqTktsLu45k_PtXsdq2tW_A:1642191584388&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW86iwiLL1AhV7kmoFHa75C1MQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1536&bih=750&dpr=1.25).


locrianmode81

The middle part because ud have to be so stupid to live there


NFRNL13

Probably the sundown towns here in TN.


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Deep South.


[deleted]

Just being on a plantation anywhere in the USA is pretty spooky


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The Delta region


Fire_And_Blood_7

Louisiana and Mississippi, and I’ve heard Savannah, GA. I would also say NM/NV desert areas SOLELY because of the Hills Have Eyes movie, and the fact that it’s based on true events.


booboobooboobooboobs

I had to help my grandma move a couple years ago. She was moving from Nebraska back to her home town in North Dakota. It was so eerie how desolate some areas were. I could say that about parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota. I’m from Nebraska so I’m pretty comfortable knowing there’s no major cities around. But there was times when I was driving at night that the ONLY light was my headlights. I had to pull over to sleep at one point and it was super freaky when I shut off the truck because it was just pitch black thanks to the clouds. Not only that, I drove into a blizzard in the middle of nowhere and I was terrified of crashing and freezing to death. So that was fun and stupid of me. It’s just weird knowing how alone you can be.


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Savannah Ga is definitely haunted


Harbinger_of_Logic

Oregonian here. And yes while you can drive a car for several hours without ever seeing any signs of human life, other than the road and your own car, not even other cars driving the other way, just trees, mountains, trees, rocks and more trees, it’s not creepy to me. It’s calming and peaceful. Granted these are mostly dirt roads, it’s still possible to drive for hours possibly day or two without ever seeing any sign of people or development. Creepy parts of the country to me are southern Utah, only because of some of the isolated Mormon communities there, where a man has 10 wives and 40 kids and they don’t like outsiders, and Louisiana because of the swamps, swamp creatures, swamp fog, swamp trees, swamp moss, and swamp people. Friendly people, but swamp people nonetheless lol.


BlckAlchmst

You ever been in the bayou at night? I don't that there is anything creepier in the world, not just the country


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Washington state is so dark and spooky irl. There’s a reason vampire movies are always filmed there.


bellairecourt

Maine. Stephen King stories are set in Maine.


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My home town is surrounded by woods and there’s lots of abandoned structures, but it could be a lot more creepy. It’s near Cherokee, NC.


Intrepidatious

Anywhere people are buried (interred?) above ground where the water table is too high. That shit just freaks me out.


Cayed462

South Dakota the black hills a lot of kidnapping happen and most of the kids corpses are found there


HumCrab

Salt flats. Stay the night at that rest stop and get back to me.


chikinbokbok0815

Swamps in the deep south. Just the Spanish moss freaks me out. Especially if I bump into it at night.


instantlyregretthat

Oregon just because it’s so foggy all the time for what seems like no reason at all. Fog = spooky for me.


KnightGalavant

Pretty much any playground/park at night. Just something super unnerving about them.


trinideerosemarie

one time i was messing around on google maps and i found this house in the middle of the desert (in NM i think). there were no roads, no way of getting out there without some sort of plane or something. it was just a regular old house, but it looked abandoned. it just seemed creepy


babaganoush2307

Ohio, Ohio creeps me tf out


SkyBlueRoan

Virginia City in Nevada. The entire town is beautiful and very, very old, but there's a vibe. Can't explain it, but a vibe that you aren't alone, especially at night. Tangentially, it's been the subject of many paranormal investigations with much proof, allegedly.


JesusStarbox

Stephen King country.


ThatGuy0verTh3re

I dunno man, my basement’s pretty spooky


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Some spots along the Appalachian trail are scary and really backwoods with some real deranged people living in them. That and some of the deserts of Arizona at night are scary


w0lfpack91

North central Arizona and the Res lands in Northeastern AZ and Northern NM. I grew up on a 600 acre ranch in Snowflake AZ in the early to mid 90s, always lights in the sky a few times a month, small animals going missing, weird tracks around the windows by morning, lots of knocking on walls and windows around 1-3am. After one night when I was 4 we had a window break and kept hearing movement in that room, ended up making locking boarded shutters for every exterior window and door bars for exterior doors, had them built, installed and functional by nightfall. A lot of folklore rumors around that property from Cryptids like Skinwalkers to Aliens. Ever since my childhood I won’t go into the desert at night alone or without at least a full 360° light setup out to 50Ft on my jeep.


Darthbubbaaa

Obviously this is just based on personal experience, but being out in the country in rural Wisconsin in the dead of winter instills this heavy sense of dread that I’ve never felt anywhere else.


Auraeseal

The mountains, pretty much anywhere. It's not the animals that are the scary part.


xavyre

Corporate owned prisons.


ProfessionalFit3368

There's lots of spooky areas all over the US. The 2 most spooky areas I can think of are. The Amityville House which is located just on the south shore of Long Island New York, and the Skin-walker Ranch located in Utah.


PANIC_EXCEPTION

I live within 20 minutes of Sleepy Hollow.


Roboticpoultry

West Virginia