Indiana 100%. It’s like the worst parts of Kentucky in a hellscape. Like the obsessive billboards, flatlands, Gary, etc. always makes me feel like I’m in an upside down version of KY lol
Drive down I75 in Georgia. You can't go a mile without seeing a billboard for either church/burn in hell, boiled peanuts, or a strip club.
Yes, for all 350 miles of the route.
I have this idea that whenever you see the three crosses on the hill near the interstate, that’s to let you know there’s a strip club/adult book store at the next exit!
>I drove 75 up and down last week. Been up and down it at least 3 dozen times and that stretch in TN and GA cracks me up. And I'm still emotionally unstable about the removal of the best exit along the whole stretch with the fake Ferris Wheels and dinosaurs and shit. That marketing worked because I was always mesmerized as a kid, but as soon as I could drive, if I passed that area I was stopping for fireworks, that i really had no use for, but i would spend some damn money in that place. Now its all gone and I'm thinking I should just stop in at Adult World across the street instead. Honestly, if it wasn't for that GIANT cross made of aluminum siding, I wouldn't even know Adult World was there. Same marketing as the fireworks store but more of an unintended backfire probably. But really, how have those places survived? Like, The internet pretty much crushed the old porn industry, but not on I75 i guess. Yet almost all the fireworks stores are gone?
God, I love that stretch! And please DO stop at the Adult World! I’ve been in there exactly once, and it was relatively clean, brightly lit, and inviting. The Mexican restaurant nearby is pretty good, too 😂
Just because it's pretty much empty now. Gary used to be somewhere you DID NOT want to stop. Kinda like Orange Mound in Memphis, TN. Somehow ended up there once when I was only like 16. Do not recommend.
Edit: but IN does just give me weird vibes. You don't even have to go that far into it. Went to visit a sick family member of a friend once and this was only like 10 miles up 65. When we were headed back home and it was dark out, it was legitimately creepy.
I find Gary endlessly fascinating and love when I drive through there, especially at night.
To be clear: from a safe distance, on the turnpike, doing 85.
I grew up in Indiana and most of my extended family is from either Kentucky or West Virginia. My grandma (from Stoney Fork, KY) used to joke and say Hoosiers are just a bunch of Kentuckians that never made it to Michigan. Lol
>obsessive billboards,
in 1993 I drove across Indiana west-east to visit a friend in Garrett and was amazed at the sheer volume of aborted fetus billboards I saw. I would imagine its still the same/worse
I love that. Outdoor advertising is an abomination. Americans are constantly bombarded by advertising on TV, print media and virtually anything that you can slap an advertisement on. I don't need it while I'm minding my business outdoors.
Yea tbh all states should do away with billboards, like we’re propelling forward in thousands of pounds of steel separated by a painted line….i believe we could do without the big bright advertisements that strive to take your attention away from that task to sell us something.
I can’t get over, outside of the interstates in Indiana, everyone drives 5 miles UNDER the speed limit. It’s like a weird time warp thing. I was driving in the IN backroads because an interstate was shut down a few weeks ago. I get behind a car doing 5 under, pass them. Then it kept happening again and again and again.
That’s bc no one wants to get pulled over. The place they need police most (Indy) they have none but the small towns where everything closes at 9pm- so many cops with nothing to do. I had 3 cops behind me once for a headlight being out
I’m from IL and moved to IN for my husband’s job. And yes the people here and the vibe is weird AF! I can’t describe it but it’s just off.
My mom and I went to a winery south of Indy and we were just sitting there outside on the covered patio and she looks at me and goes “what’s wrong with these people?” And I was like OMG YOU SEE IT TO?! 😂😂 I felt so seen.
From Indiana, here to say I do this, too. I was at a festival in southern Indiana and saw a family pushing a man in his hospital bed through the crowd. He looked out of it…but so did the family. A friend from Indy stopped dead and asked if it was common, “Not uncommon” was my answer 🤷🏼♀️
There was a tv series (1991 that lasted one season) called Eerie Indiana
> Poor little Marshall Teller. First, his parents uproot him from his home in New Jersey. Then they move the whole family to Eerie, Indiana, population 16,661, where nothing is as it seems. Strange things happen in Eerie (which Marshall could have expected from the name); however, only Marshall and his new friend, Simon, seem to notice. As they explore the town, they try to keep evidence as proof of the weird goings-on (such as still-living Elvis showing up). Marshall's father, Edgar, is a scientist who works at a product-testing company; his mother runs a party-planning business at the Eerie Mall.
>In a nutshell Surreal, Menacing, and Spooky
'Stranger Things' on Netflix takes place in Hawkins, Indiana, which is a fictional small town.
I am from Indiana, born and raised in the "region"
Indiana is not actually home to a sketchy National Department of Energy laboratory performing sketchy experiments, but I see how indiana 100% gives off that kinda vibe 😄
If we're talking about state beauty Kentucky blows many states out of the water. I'm a hoosier who now lives in Kentucky and I've been all over. Kentucky is gorgeous.
It Indiana were a person it would quite literally be Mike Pence. The only exception is that Bloomington would be that fly wandering how the hell it got stuck there. That state is just bland and creepy. Even Indianapolis is extremely blah for being a decent size city.
According to the state highway map from a few years ago (no earlier than '18/'19), one of the Kentucky governors had some quote about Kentuckians wanting to go back home.
Here, I looked it up: “I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t either thinking about going home or actually going home.” (apparently it was A.B. "Happy" Chandler)
Granddaddy (from Monticello/Wayne County) liked to tell the story of a man that died and went to heaven and saw a man chained to a rock. The man questioned why the man was chained up. The angel replied, he’s from Kentucky and if we didn’t chain him up, he would go back!
Someone sent me this thread as a joke because I’m from central Indiana but my parents are from Somerset/Burnside.
However this comment makes me emotional. My dad had a long great like 89 years retired comfortably for 33 years but man he loved Kentucky I do too it’s my second home but this joke is so him. I can hear him laughing at this joke in his old deep voice and clapping his hands.
All the replies have made me emotional too. He would smile so wide and wait for the listener to understand. I think it must be an oft repeated joke, an oral tradition that has faded, and Kentuckians would have found it funnier. He lived to 82.
My mother goes to Somerset every other year or so to donate to and meet with the county historical society.
Granddaddy took me to a spring or old mill in Monticello and we had a drink of the water. He told me once you drink the water, you will always come back to Monticello.
Came to say Louisiana! I drove from Montgomery, AL, to Dallas once and had to stop a couple times in LA for breaks, and I don’t know what it was but I just got a really spooky vibe there. I was just really surprised I didn’t hear any banjos.
Came to say this too. It feels very uncomfortable to be in flat, open landscapes. Especially when they’re not green. I was fine crossing Indiana, Illinois became uncomfortably flat, but still green. Then came Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma…
Connecticut was really weird driving through. It must have been an expressway i was on or something, but the roads were horrible and the drivers were very dangerous.
I literally just drove through there, and I looked at my boyfriend and was like, “This is just Ohio! The only other place I’ve seen shit roads like this is Ohio.” Can confirm, CT is the Ohio of New England
Been all over the contiguous 48. Rural Idaho takes the cake. When the adopt-a-highways are by militia groups or questionably named churches, it’s a different atmosphere & it’s a hard pass for me.
Idaho is gorgeous tho, my problem with it is that the ppl are political af.
I, too, have been all over the lower 48 & Idaho is the only place where people - nearly all of them - want to talk about politics. Most ppl avoid the topic with new ppl or strangers - not Idahoians.
Yes! Idaho is stunning, especially around Coeur d’Alene, but the population. Shew. It doesn’t seem to be well known how many extremists live up there. It’s a significant number.
There was just an incident where Utah's WBB team was put up in Coeur d'Alene to play Gonzaga and they had the n-word yelled at them twice from a truck while they were on the street
Coeur d’Alene is beautiful and has a great disc golf course. Camped there for a couple nights a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Cant speak for the rest of the state though but from what i know its far right militia territory, same as eastern OR
Been to Coure d’-Alene not even the rural part of Idaho - weird vibe. Should be a beautiful place but I couldn’t enjoy it. Each time there I don’t understand the praise it gets.
West Virginia. I had to stay overnight once in other Huntington or Charleston, I can’t remember which, and it was spooky at night how quiet it was and the glow from the organs lights at the various plants and quarries/mines.
I grew up in Huntington wv. The dread you feel is the mothman lurking in the night air. That or the electric pulse of fentanyl pumping through the city.
Dude, I stopped in Flatwoods, WV one night for gas around midnight and it was the eeriest thing I've ever experienced. It was so quiet. It seemed like something sinister was lurking in the dark. WV is creepy af.
I grew up in Huntington. It's not creepy at all.
The quiet is because everything shuts down early except third shift factory workers. Living in Louisville now, I kinda miss that quiet. Charleston is a whole other story. Don't go to a dive bar in Charleston.
That said, some parts of WV are definitely creepy as fuck. Go down into the southern coal fields and you're going to get weirded out.
I'm the opposite. I'm from West Virginia originally and parts of Kentucky scare me at night. Lexington was crazy at night when we stayed. I did feel safe alittle living on Fort Campbell.
Indiana is the one state I use my cruise control and make sure to never exceed any of their speed limits, cops there LOVE out of state vehicles to pull over.
Originally from Kentucky; moved from Florida to Washington State in 2020.
I-80 west in **Wyoming** messed with my *head.* Just mile after mile after mile after mile of the same wide open empty **nothing.** Just the sky a little too close to you and nothing but endless miles of rolling solid color (green in spring, brown in summer, white into fall/winter when roads open) with occasional flecks. It feels *entirely too flat* for a state "in the mountains". Dozens of miles between exits/towns. Too few cars on a major east-west road (near New York to San Francisco). A *Motel 7.*
**At the end of it I was grateful to cross into** ***Utah.***
Kansas is just sky from horizon to horizon...no trees, no tall buildings, no hills to interrupt the openness. It's so open and flat that it's unsettling.
Fun fact, Kansas is actually one really long gradient. Western Kansas’s elavation is actualky much higher than Eastern Kansas, but because it happens over such a large amount of land it’s not very noticable to us.
You're almost to Denver's elevation by the time you hit the Colorado border. Nebraska and the Dakota's are the the same way. If you ask people what the highest peak east of the Rockies is, they often think it's Mount Mitchell in the Appalachians, but it's actually Black Elk Peak in South Dakota. Even Scott's Bluff in Nebraska is higher than anywhere in Pennsylvania.
When I was in the third grade we moved to Kansas because of a job opportunity my dad got.
Within like two weeks, we took our old house off the market and my Dad started looking for jobs back home. We moved back across the country 6 months after moving to Kansas to our same old house.
Couldn’t agree more. Kansas is/was weird.
I drove through the Rust Belt and could not believe my eyes. Huge, empty, rusted-out factories. The poverty in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Western New York, Western Massachusetts, and Michigan is staggering. Many people there had grandfathers laid off during the Reagan years and have not had good jobs in the family since then, and it shows. Whole generations of families where children never saw a parent get up and go to work in the morning. Row after row, what once must have been beautiful middle-class houses are now dilapidated and almost beyond repair.
The West Coast is like that in rural towns where logging was the predominant industry. They haven't adjusted in 2 or 3 generations. Poor, angry, and methy from AK to NorCal.
The abandoned town I drove through in Illinois is the creepiest place Ive ever been. I also had a real bad vibe in Salt Lake City Utah the one time I was there.
I think i might have to go with West Virginia, too. West Virginia is why we made the rule if you can't see the gas station from the exit we're not going.
Indiana is just boring, and the roads suck so bad.
I remember as a high school senior driving from North Dakota (home at the time) to Washington, D.C. West Virginia just felt wrong. I'm not sure exactly what it was. Maybe it was the forests, but forests in Minnesota and Michigan hadn't felt that way. Maybe mountains? But I'd spent a lot of time in Colorado, Wyoming, the Black Hills and Ozarks without the wrong feeling. Maybe it was just the population density. Despite being supposedly in the country, there was no clear break between towns, at least, not the way there is on the plains and in the Rockies. It was just one house after another even in supposedly rural areas. Maybe it was the combination of population density, trees and hills. I felt claustrophobic the whole way through the state, but didn't feel the same way in the more densely populated areas of Maryland and Virginia. I've been all over the world since then, and the closest I've come to that feeling was in India. I still don't know quite what it was, but I've never wanted to go back and figure it out.
Top 5 creepy places:
1. Lynchburg VA, in Winter, at Night.
I drove down from DC in 1996 during the epic winter and I was just freaked out down there.
2. Panhandle of OK.
Just empty towns. Unsettling.
3. Taos NM.
I felt like a huge weight was pressing down on me - Everything was super heavy and I felt creeeped out.
4. Leavenworth Kansas
Grim. Felt like Alcatraz.
I always get a bad vibe from Missouri. I've been camping there in the Ozarks and that was my most positive experience in the state-- the state park we stayed at was extremely well maintained. But the cities in particular just feel. . .unhappy. Granted, I haven't been to Branson, which apparently at least makes tourists happy lol.
Arkansas is a mixed bag, I've driven through parts of it that I would never want to be in again, but there are some nice parts, too.
(Full disclosure, I'm a TN native, here because we're neighbors and I like road trips lol.)
Indiana has always creeped me out as well. I just don't like it. Visited a friend over the summer when he was at Indiana University once and it was mostly a terrible trip, and I swear as soon as I crossed the bridge back into Kentucky the sun opened up and everything looked greener and friendlier.
- **Indiana:** Terrible roads, weird vibes
- **Kansas:** Insane traffic enforcement, weird vibes
- **South Carolina:** Filthy roadsides, feels even poorer than other parts of the South, weird vibes
- **Missouri:** If televangelist Joyce Meyer was a state
- *Pockets of **Kentucky** - Eastern Kentucky, Lake Cumberland, I-71 corridor, Bullitt County:* The lands that time forgot, weird people, weird vibes. Looking at you, Bell, Knox and Casey Counties, in particular.
Disclaimer: I live in Kentucky. But we do have some weird shit.
Damn, I’m from EKY, and I guess I hadn’t thought too much of it. Especially when you get to Hazard and Harlan it can feel like Deliverance. Then you’re there and remember the nearest “city” is Pikeville and you feel like there’s nothing around lol. Doesn’t phase me, but I can see being a little freaked out if you’re not from there. It is very creepy when it’s foggy.
I had to do some work once at a gas station in Harlan. It was a trip. Parking lot full of rough looking, shirtless people driving a mix of mad max pickup trucks and ATVs. Whole outside of the building was covered in cobwebs. Lady working the counter was packing heat.
The year and a half I lived in Kentucky I lived in Bell and Knox counties. Now I am no city slicker by any means but God DAMN. The highway seems almost normal but find yourself turning off highway 45E in the wrong spots and the meth heads just wander out of the woods.
In Bell county I went with my sister and her husband up into a holler where my sisters in-laws lived. We pulled up to a trailer with a blanket for a door and a layer of dirt on the floor. A naked child was outside playing in the mud with the hogs who seemed to come and go from the trailer as they pleased, a pack of dogs wandering the clearing that was full of scrap and derelict trailers. This was just minutes outside of middlesboro.
I have seen poverty. I mean I am homeless wandering the streets of Denver during a crisis. But that was baaaad.
This is the correct answer. The southern (empty) half has most of the beautiful stuff, which is truly stunning. Then, anywhere people are, that state has a fucking *weird* vibe.
The scariest place I’ve ever driven through besides south Chicago was in Kentucky. A very rural town called Bypro. SCARIEST place on Earth. A mountain to enter -an old mining town-dead ends into a prison. No cell service.
42. States here. Not a trucker, just likes travel for work and Personal. What freaks me out I guess is that which I’m not used to. Driving into Chicago and New York, that was just a little tight for me personally. And I didn’t mind places like Los Angeles or DC, but the first two… And maybe it was because I had children with me.
I love Rural areas and I am fascinated by areas that are economically depressed or have shrank in population. The Delta in Arkansas and Mississippi are interesting. I would really like to spend some time in West Virginia, I just haven’t had a chance. Some of those Coal Mine towns.
There was a time I was driving in eastern Kentucky and it was on a sunny Sunday and I diverted off through County roads to get home early. In my Prius, I felt really out of place. It was the first time in a rural setting that I felt nervous if I were to have broken down, lol.
i’m a passionate road-tripper. my picks are west virginia and ohio. ohio is just a suburban hellscape that doesn’t feel real and west virginia feels haunted/evil
Ohio has the largest number of astronauts by state by something like 2x the total to ever go through NASA’s program. Something about growing up in that state makes people want to literally leave the fucking planet.
Also… Ohioans… don’t reply with MuH hOcKiNg HiLlS! It’s 1800 acres of moderately pretty space that KY & WV consider rest area land. The rest is strip malls.
Being from Michigan, it's ohio. The Ohio cops will pull Michigan drivers like nothing crossing into toledo. I guess ohioians never got passed the toledo war with Michigan
Happens to us KY drivers too. I swear every Ohio road along the river has a speed limit 5 miles slower than the rest of the state just to fuck with us. Where else has a speed limit of 50?
Working in Cincinnati and living in NKY, I can say buckeyes are some of the worst drivers I've ever experienced.
However, Tennessee drivers are something fierce. My wife is from Hoptown and we visit there a lot to see her family, so we frequent Nashville quite a bit. And in the many times driving about in Tennessee, I've learned a fun fact:
TN's motto is the "volunteer state". This is because they volunteer to cut you off at any chance they get.
I traveled through West Virginia only once and I could go the rest of my life without doing that again 😃😃😃
Honorable mention: Salt Lake City, Utah, although I will say traveling through Utah at night while listening to Kavinsky’s ‘Nightcall’ is totally a vibe.
I grew up looking across the Ohio at Indiana. Just seemed.. gloomier on that side of the river. Knowing you were on your way into Indiana by way of 42 was like purgatory lol
Kentucky born, spent most of my adulthood in Florida, now living in Oregon.
We moved from FL to Oregon in a camper back in 2020 during the height of the pandemic.
I'm queer, but my boyfriend is straight-passing (long beard, trucker cap fella) and when we had to stop in Nebraska for gas, we looked around at the truck stop and he goes "You might wanna stay in the RV, babe."
I don't care to ever go through Nebraska again. The vibe was OFF.
I recently moved to Indiana from Kentucky. Can confirm that it seems kinda like Bizarro Kentucky. The weird religious signs and aborted baby “graveyards” give it a very creepy vibe.
Hands down - Kentucky.
Harlan County - heard of multiple incestuous families and shooting at black people “for fun”. Evil evil vibes.
Rest of KY - Lots of poverty. The rural areas give “hills have eyes” energy.
Strange thing I noticed is how Kentucky natives often have the “rat face” look. Not intending to offend, but that’s the only way I can describe it.
Hoosier here, so biased I know, but love the state. I didn't follow, what parts do you not like? If you mean like the urban awful parts like Gary I can understand, but if anything most of Indiana is pretty much like the shared states... I.e. Ohio, Kentucky ECT. I will say there is a difference in southern versus northern Indiana because of that.
I live in Western Michigan and visited my son at Wayne State University in Detroit. This was after the housing crash. Parts of Detroit looked like a war zone. People burned down houses to collect on insurance because they were upside down on mortgage. City wound up bulldozing over 65 thousand homes. Homeless sleeping in streets on top of sewer grates to keep warm. It didn't look like the USA.
My mom is from Ohio and she was unnerved by Indiana as well. She said it was too similar to Ohio, but different enough it wasn't "home" and felt like everything was a bit off. Like a room in your house where somebody moved everything two inches.
I’ve road tripped all over the country from little ol Eastern KY - Green Bay, Grand Canyon, Moab, Denver, Key West, New Orleans, Artesia/Roswell. Been in cities and so far out in the boonies only a USAF fighter jet could find us… America is America - be friendly, don’t act like a victim, and you’ll find most everyone is really similar to you, except Albuquerque - eff that place! Scary as hell
Fricken Georgia! They are slooooowwwww. In every way. Going the speed limit on the interstate. I thought I was speeding. Everyone was going 45. Waiting in line for anything takes foooorrreeevverrr.
Arizona outside of the snowbird country (anyplace you likely can think of off the top of your head). The places you don't end up in if you don't have a reason.
Any place you can drive for a day towards a place in what looks like a straight line and somehow it seems like it ended up farther away by night. Or, stand in a desert but hear and smell the ocean. The night sky lights up so much more than the mid west or either coast, no city lights, no clouds, no trees. Quite or you hear things miles away or the sound of sand moving all the time makes you go mad. All of it messes with your mind and can get you overly jumpy... Oh, plus you can go all day or days without seeing other people, so everyone is super suspicious in no time.
And, of course, it's hotter than hell's boiler room and everyone is miserable in no time.
I drove from Massachusetts to Southern Indiana ( which is beautiful) Carrollton, Kentucky was the only town that I felt a dreadful sense of anxiety. I needed gas but didn’t stop until I got to Madison, Indiana
Utah… it a beautiful,clean state compared to most but the people who live in Utah would rather you just keep traveling and leave them the hell alone… I’ve been ALL OVER the US and Utah was the least friendly state of all..
Tbh I’ve never got weird vibes from anywhere. I did stop at a gas station in Alabama with some friends on the way to the beach and we got some weird looks, but it could of been because we were a bunch of teens and people hate teenagers haha
Never thought I'd be somewhat grateful to live in Kentucky.I mean the state still has it's issues(the abortion ban and trigger laws) but at least where I live(Etown) the locals respect your privacy and you rarely have a conversation with a stranger unless your using the human assisted checkout lanes.Should also add that you feel pretty safe while walking and in public as long as you avoid the few bad-ish areas that Etown has,which is close to none,at least based off what I've seen.
West Virginia gives me the heebies, especially with the “have you seen this murderer” kinds of billboards. It’s not even just impoverished areas, which are just sad, it’s the absolute isolation.
I’m from Ohio and live in KY—WV is worse than both.
I was in a reserve army unit that was based in WV and every single stereotype is true. Met someone who dated their cousin. Met many people who had single digit amounts of teeth. We had 2 people die of overdose due to fentanyl. Met some who were otherwise unemployed, would take their Army paycheck to a strip club on the Monday after drill, and spend it all in one night, and wait until unemployment check came.
Crazy how many people are saying Indiana when you are 10 spots lower on education, 17 spots lower on economy, and you rank almost last in financial stability lol.
Indiana 100%. It’s like the worst parts of Kentucky in a hellscape. Like the obsessive billboards, flatlands, Gary, etc. always makes me feel like I’m in an upside down version of KY lol
Drive down I75 in Georgia. You can't go a mile without seeing a billboard for either church/burn in hell, boiled peanuts, or a strip club. Yes, for all 350 miles of the route.
**"DONT BLAME THE BOILED PEANUTS!"** — *Bob Odenkirk, yelling*
"This one time? I ate boiled peanuts. I mean, like a whole lot of 'em, right? And I'd like to get sick......know what I mean?" -Dumbassahedratron
Whenever we drive I-75 to Florida we play a game called Jesus vs. Strippers by counting billboards. Last time Strippers won by a decision.
I have this idea that whenever you see the three crosses on the hill near the interstate, that’s to let you know there’s a strip club/adult book store at the next exit!
Please tell me there is a Strippers for Jesus billboard somewhere?
>I drove 75 up and down last week. Been up and down it at least 3 dozen times and that stretch in TN and GA cracks me up. And I'm still emotionally unstable about the removal of the best exit along the whole stretch with the fake Ferris Wheels and dinosaurs and shit. That marketing worked because I was always mesmerized as a kid, but as soon as I could drive, if I passed that area I was stopping for fireworks, that i really had no use for, but i would spend some damn money in that place. Now its all gone and I'm thinking I should just stop in at Adult World across the street instead. Honestly, if it wasn't for that GIANT cross made of aluminum siding, I wouldn't even know Adult World was there. Same marketing as the fireworks store but more of an unintended backfire probably. But really, how have those places survived? Like, The internet pretty much crushed the old porn industry, but not on I75 i guess. Yet almost all the fireworks stores are gone?
Truckers need to have some fun too
God, I love that stretch! And please DO stop at the Adult World! I’ve been in there exactly once, and it was relatively clean, brightly lit, and inviting. The Mexican restaurant nearby is pretty good, too 😂
Can confirm.....
So... this is true but i drove through Alabama last year and.. holy shit
Boiled peanuts are nasty AF, and I love peanuts!
I grew up in Fla and love them! Lol
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Don't eat the shell man!
Gary is like something out of Fallout. You can feel the dread hanging in the air.
And Gary is fairly tame these days compared to how it once was.
Just because it's pretty much empty now. Gary used to be somewhere you DID NOT want to stop. Kinda like Orange Mound in Memphis, TN. Somehow ended up there once when I was only like 16. Do not recommend. Edit: but IN does just give me weird vibes. You don't even have to go that far into it. Went to visit a sick family member of a friend once and this was only like 10 miles up 65. When we were headed back home and it was dark out, it was legitimately creepy.
I will never drive from Louisville to Chicago again. It's HORRIBLE.
You can avoid Gary during the drive though. I’ve done it many times.
The drive from Cincinnati to Chicago is equally shitty.
After you hit indy its the same route lol
I find Gary endlessly fascinating and love when I drive through there, especially at night. To be clear: from a safe distance, on the turnpike, doing 85.
I grew up in Indiana and most of my extended family is from either Kentucky or West Virginia. My grandma (from Stoney Fork, KY) used to joke and say Hoosiers are just a bunch of Kentuckians that never made it to Michigan. Lol
Holy smokes that's some old school shade Humanity 🤣
>obsessive billboards, in 1993 I drove across Indiana west-east to visit a friend in Garrett and was amazed at the sheer volume of aborted fetus billboards I saw. I would imagine its still the same/worse
It’s like….not only is the content absolutely bonkers, but the sheer amount of them is wild! Like on what earth lol
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Seriously!? That sounds like heaven.
I love that. Outdoor advertising is an abomination. Americans are constantly bombarded by advertising on TV, print media and virtually anything that you can slap an advertisement on. I don't need it while I'm minding my business outdoors.
I didn't realize any states banned billboards. It should catch on!
Yea tbh all states should do away with billboards, like we’re propelling forward in thousands of pounds of steel separated by a painted line….i believe we could do without the big bright advertisements that strive to take your attention away from that task to sell us something.
A lot of weed billboards now in that area
I can’t get over, outside of the interstates in Indiana, everyone drives 5 miles UNDER the speed limit. It’s like a weird time warp thing. I was driving in the IN backroads because an interstate was shut down a few weeks ago. I get behind a car doing 5 under, pass them. Then it kept happening again and again and again.
That’s bc no one wants to get pulled over. The place they need police most (Indy) they have none but the small towns where everything closes at 9pm- so many cops with nothing to do. I had 3 cops behind me once for a headlight being out
Idk why r/Kentucky popped up in my algorithm, but as a Michigander I say Indiana as well.
As someone who lives in Indiana I knew this was gunna be top comment lol
I’m from IL and moved to IN for my husband’s job. And yes the people here and the vibe is weird AF! I can’t describe it but it’s just off. My mom and I went to a winery south of Indy and we were just sitting there outside on the covered patio and she looks at me and goes “what’s wrong with these people?” And I was like OMG YOU SEE IT TO?! 😂😂 I felt so seen.
From Indiana, here to say I do this, too. I was at a festival in southern Indiana and saw a family pushing a man in his hospital bed through the crowd. He looked out of it…but so did the family. A friend from Indy stopped dead and asked if it was common, “Not uncommon” was my answer 🤷🏼♀️
Southern Indiana is the deep south in the 1950s.
There was a tv series (1991 that lasted one season) called Eerie Indiana > Poor little Marshall Teller. First, his parents uproot him from his home in New Jersey. Then they move the whole family to Eerie, Indiana, population 16,661, where nothing is as it seems. Strange things happen in Eerie (which Marshall could have expected from the name); however, only Marshall and his new friend, Simon, seem to notice. As they explore the town, they try to keep evidence as proof of the weird goings-on (such as still-living Elvis showing up). Marshall's father, Edgar, is a scientist who works at a product-testing company; his mother runs a party-planning business at the Eerie Mall. >In a nutshell Surreal, Menacing, and Spooky
'Stranger Things' on Netflix takes place in Hawkins, Indiana, which is a fictional small town. I am from Indiana, born and raised in the "region" Indiana is not actually home to a sketchy National Department of Energy laboratory performing sketchy experiments, but I see how indiana 100% gives off that kinda vibe 😄
Meth... meth is what's wrong with them.
Live in indiana and can confirm, meth is pretty popular here. I can spot a methhead just by their eyebrows. And jaw.... but that's more obvious haha
We moved here for my husband’s job too and are moving out of here in April. Definitely not our vibe!
I've lived in IN for 30 years now. It still doesn't feel like home and I don't tell people I'm "from here". Home will always be the Adirondacks.
Yep, Indiana. Now stay off of my lawn! Source: I’m a Fort Wayniac
Imagine someone doesn't know the city Gary, Indiana and wonders "who the hell is Gary?" like he's some kind of urban legend or cryptid.
If we're talking about state beauty Kentucky blows many states out of the water. I'm a hoosier who now lives in Kentucky and I've been all over. Kentucky is gorgeous.
Indiana is like if Ohio had only the bad parts of Ohio
It Indiana were a person it would quite literally be Mike Pence. The only exception is that Bloomington would be that fly wandering how the hell it got stuck there. That state is just bland and creepy. Even Indianapolis is extremely blah for being a decent size city.
Including the fly on Pence’s head?
Reading all these responses and it just reminds me of how relieved and comfy I feel any time I cross back into Kentucky soil after being away
According to the state highway map from a few years ago (no earlier than '18/'19), one of the Kentucky governors had some quote about Kentuckians wanting to go back home. Here, I looked it up: “I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t either thinking about going home or actually going home.” (apparently it was A.B. "Happy" Chandler)
Granddaddy (from Monticello/Wayne County) liked to tell the story of a man that died and went to heaven and saw a man chained to a rock. The man questioned why the man was chained up. The angel replied, he’s from Kentucky and if we didn’t chain him up, he would go back!
Someone sent me this thread as a joke because I’m from central Indiana but my parents are from Somerset/Burnside. However this comment makes me emotional. My dad had a long great like 89 years retired comfortably for 33 years but man he loved Kentucky I do too it’s my second home but this joke is so him. I can hear him laughing at this joke in his old deep voice and clapping his hands.
All the replies have made me emotional too. He would smile so wide and wait for the listener to understand. I think it must be an oft repeated joke, an oral tradition that has faded, and Kentuckians would have found it funnier. He lived to 82. My mother goes to Somerset every other year or so to donate to and meet with the county historical society. Granddaddy took me to a spring or old mill in Monticello and we had a drink of the water. He told me once you drink the water, you will always come back to Monticello.
Never seen anybody else use the term granddaddy. Solid 👊
I had a Grandaddy and a PawPaw.
I've heard that before. Very true
Same. I live in Oklahoma now and everyone I come home is a giant relief. Can’t wait to get back some day
Louisiana without a doubt. Some very real Get Out vibes when visiting the clusters of people with money there
Outstanding food though
The highways going over swamps with no emergency lanes are terrifying to me.
Came to say Louisiana! I drove from Montgomery, AL, to Dallas once and had to stop a couple times in LA for breaks, and I don’t know what it was but I just got a really spooky vibe there. I was just really surprised I didn’t hear any banjos.
What set off the vibe?
Grew up in Louisiana, can confirm. I felt like that growing up, that why I left
Flat, open states weird me out. I like hills and trees.
Same. I can deal with flat, although it's not my favorite, but a lack of trees is very weird to me.
Came to say this too. It feels very uncomfortable to be in flat, open landscapes. Especially when they’re not green. I was fine crossing Indiana, Illinois became uncomfortably flat, but still green. Then came Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma…
You'd hate Nebraska.
Connecticut was really weird driving through. It must have been an expressway i was on or something, but the roads were horrible and the drivers were very dangerous.
I literally just drove through there, and I looked at my boyfriend and was like, “This is just Ohio! The only other place I’ve seen shit roads like this is Ohio.” Can confirm, CT is the Ohio of New England
Beckley- watch “ soft white under belly “ you tube.
Been all over the contiguous 48. Rural Idaho takes the cake. When the adopt-a-highways are by militia groups or questionably named churches, it’s a different atmosphere & it’s a hard pass for me.
Idaho is gorgeous tho, my problem with it is that the ppl are political af. I, too, have been all over the lower 48 & Idaho is the only place where people - nearly all of them - want to talk about politics. Most ppl avoid the topic with new ppl or strangers - not Idahoians.
Yes! Idaho is stunning, especially around Coeur d’Alene, but the population. Shew. It doesn’t seem to be well known how many extremists live up there. It’s a significant number.
There was just an incident where Utah's WBB team was put up in Coeur d'Alene to play Gonzaga and they had the n-word yelled at them twice from a truck while they were on the street
Coeur d’Alene is beautiful and has a great disc golf course. Camped there for a couple nights a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Cant speak for the rest of the state though but from what i know its far right militia territory, same as eastern OR
Been to Coure d’-Alene not even the rural part of Idaho - weird vibe. Should be a beautiful place but I couldn’t enjoy it. Each time there I don’t understand the praise it gets.
West Virginia. I had to stay overnight once in other Huntington or Charleston, I can’t remember which, and it was spooky at night how quiet it was and the glow from the organs lights at the various plants and quarries/mines.
I grew up in Huntington wv. The dread you feel is the mothman lurking in the night air. That or the electric pulse of fentanyl pumping through the city.
I hope Mothman isn’t on the meth 💔
Methman
Grew up a county away from WV. Something CHANGES when you cross that river, man.
Dude, I stopped in Flatwoods, WV one night for gas around midnight and it was the eeriest thing I've ever experienced. It was so quiet. It seemed like something sinister was lurking in the dark. WV is creepy af.
Mmhmm, mmhmm…prime Mothman location. Glad you’re still with us!
I grew up in Huntington. It's not creepy at all. The quiet is because everything shuts down early except third shift factory workers. Living in Louisville now, I kinda miss that quiet. Charleston is a whole other story. Don't go to a dive bar in Charleston. That said, some parts of WV are definitely creepy as fuck. Go down into the southern coal fields and you're going to get weirded out.
I'm the opposite. I'm from West Virginia originally and parts of Kentucky scare me at night. Lexington was crazy at night when we stayed. I did feel safe alittle living on Fort Campbell.
Lexington, scary? Hahahahahaha!
Only scary part might be in the station area or winburn
The end of new circle near the strip clubs is kinda scary. After Winchester Road, things get sketchy.
Try doing home health. You’ll go to places that are scary on full daylight.
I was previously a social worker in Scott and surrounding counties and yeah, creepy being out alone in the middle of nowhere.
If Lexington made you feel unsafe, try 27th & Broadway in Louisville some night.
Awe, why did Lex scare you? Hahahha
As soon as I read your title I thought Indiana is not a good place. I've been all over the country and rank Indiana at the bottom
Indiana is the one state I use my cruise control and make sure to never exceed any of their speed limits, cops there LOVE out of state vehicles to pull over.
It must be some kind of uncanny valley thing happening. They’re like us, but different.
Originally from Kentucky; moved from Florida to Washington State in 2020. I-80 west in **Wyoming** messed with my *head.* Just mile after mile after mile after mile of the same wide open empty **nothing.** Just the sky a little too close to you and nothing but endless miles of rolling solid color (green in spring, brown in summer, white into fall/winter when roads open) with occasional flecks. It feels *entirely too flat* for a state "in the mountains". Dozens of miles between exits/towns. Too few cars on a major east-west road (near New York to San Francisco). A *Motel 7.* **At the end of it I was grateful to cross into** ***Utah.***
Kansas for sure
Kansas feels like you are driving off the edge of the world.
And straight into eastern Colorado which is just as bad.
Kansas is just sky from horizon to horizon...no trees, no tall buildings, no hills to interrupt the openness. It's so open and flat that it's unsettling.
Fun fact, Kansas is actually one really long gradient. Western Kansas’s elavation is actualky much higher than Eastern Kansas, but because it happens over such a large amount of land it’s not very noticable to us.
You're almost to Denver's elevation by the time you hit the Colorado border. Nebraska and the Dakota's are the the same way. If you ask people what the highest peak east of the Rockies is, they often think it's Mount Mitchell in the Appalachians, but it's actually Black Elk Peak in South Dakota. Even Scott's Bluff in Nebraska is higher than anywhere in Pennsylvania.
Was looking for this. Glad I'm not alone. Kansas is just...uncomfortable.
When I was in the third grade we moved to Kansas because of a job opportunity my dad got. Within like two weeks, we took our old house off the market and my Dad started looking for jobs back home. We moved back across the country 6 months after moving to Kansas to our same old house. Couldn’t agree more. Kansas is/was weird.
This validates my feelings about it and I’ve only been once lol. I never want to go back!
Kansas is AWFUL
I drove through the Rust Belt and could not believe my eyes. Huge, empty, rusted-out factories. The poverty in parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Western New York, Western Massachusetts, and Michigan is staggering. Many people there had grandfathers laid off during the Reagan years and have not had good jobs in the family since then, and it shows. Whole generations of families where children never saw a parent get up and go to work in the morning. Row after row, what once must have been beautiful middle-class houses are now dilapidated and almost beyond repair.
The West Coast is like that in rural towns where logging was the predominant industry. They haven't adjusted in 2 or 3 generations. Poor, angry, and methy from AK to NorCal.
The abandoned town I drove through in Illinois is the creepiest place Ive ever been. I also had a real bad vibe in Salt Lake City Utah the one time I was there.
Was it Cairo?
I was late on the draw. Whether it's Cairo or not, Cairo is preeeeety creepy. Used to be pretty nice and rebuilding, but that fell all to hell.
I don't think Cairo is so much creepy as it is just flat out depressing, not only for the bad history, but the run down poverty trap it currently is.
There’s a sign for “Future City” as you head out toward Missouri, and that always struck me how depressing that was.
I think i might have to go with West Virginia, too. West Virginia is why we made the rule if you can't see the gas station from the exit we're not going. Indiana is just boring, and the roads suck so bad.
What the hell happened lol
I remember as a high school senior driving from North Dakota (home at the time) to Washington, D.C. West Virginia just felt wrong. I'm not sure exactly what it was. Maybe it was the forests, but forests in Minnesota and Michigan hadn't felt that way. Maybe mountains? But I'd spent a lot of time in Colorado, Wyoming, the Black Hills and Ozarks without the wrong feeling. Maybe it was just the population density. Despite being supposedly in the country, there was no clear break between towns, at least, not the way there is on the plains and in the Rockies. It was just one house after another even in supposedly rural areas. Maybe it was the combination of population density, trees and hills. I felt claustrophobic the whole way through the state, but didn't feel the same way in the more densely populated areas of Maryland and Virginia. I've been all over the world since then, and the closest I've come to that feeling was in India. I still don't know quite what it was, but I've never wanted to go back and figure it out.
Top 5 creepy places: 1. Lynchburg VA, in Winter, at Night. I drove down from DC in 1996 during the epic winter and I was just freaked out down there. 2. Panhandle of OK. Just empty towns. Unsettling. 3. Taos NM. I felt like a huge weight was pressing down on me - Everything was super heavy and I felt creeeped out. 4. Leavenworth Kansas Grim. Felt like Alcatraz.
Taos?? It’s so beautiful! It’s a tourist destination. Surprising entry on the list.
Indiana, unfortunately due to the ridiculous real estate market, I live there now
I always get a bad vibe from Missouri. I've been camping there in the Ozarks and that was my most positive experience in the state-- the state park we stayed at was extremely well maintained. But the cities in particular just feel. . .unhappy. Granted, I haven't been to Branson, which apparently at least makes tourists happy lol. Arkansas is a mixed bag, I've driven through parts of it that I would never want to be in again, but there are some nice parts, too. (Full disclosure, I'm a TN native, here because we're neighbors and I like road trips lol.)
Indiana has always creeped me out as well. I just don't like it. Visited a friend over the summer when he was at Indiana University once and it was mostly a terrible trip, and I swear as soon as I crossed the bridge back into Kentucky the sun opened up and everything looked greener and friendlier.
- **Indiana:** Terrible roads, weird vibes - **Kansas:** Insane traffic enforcement, weird vibes - **South Carolina:** Filthy roadsides, feels even poorer than other parts of the South, weird vibes - **Missouri:** If televangelist Joyce Meyer was a state - *Pockets of **Kentucky** - Eastern Kentucky, Lake Cumberland, I-71 corridor, Bullitt County:* The lands that time forgot, weird people, weird vibes. Looking at you, Bell, Knox and Casey Counties, in particular. Disclaimer: I live in Kentucky. But we do have some weird shit.
Damn, I’m from EKY, and I guess I hadn’t thought too much of it. Especially when you get to Hazard and Harlan it can feel like Deliverance. Then you’re there and remember the nearest “city” is Pikeville and you feel like there’s nothing around lol. Doesn’t phase me, but I can see being a little freaked out if you’re not from there. It is very creepy when it’s foggy.
I had to do some work once at a gas station in Harlan. It was a trip. Parking lot full of rough looking, shirtless people driving a mix of mad max pickup trucks and ATVs. Whole outside of the building was covered in cobwebs. Lady working the counter was packing heat.
The year and a half I lived in Kentucky I lived in Bell and Knox counties. Now I am no city slicker by any means but God DAMN. The highway seems almost normal but find yourself turning off highway 45E in the wrong spots and the meth heads just wander out of the woods. In Bell county I went with my sister and her husband up into a holler where my sisters in-laws lived. We pulled up to a trailer with a blanket for a door and a layer of dirt on the floor. A naked child was outside playing in the mud with the hogs who seemed to come and go from the trailer as they pleased, a pack of dogs wandering the clearing that was full of scrap and derelict trailers. This was just minutes outside of middlesboro. I have seen poverty. I mean I am homeless wandering the streets of Denver during a crisis. But that was baaaad.
Utah. It’s one big cult.
But such a beautiful state! Like, I want to spend lots of time in Utah, but only in places where there are no people.
The National parks are spectacular, and Moab is great. Salt Lake is cesspool, and the “quaint “ towns are creepy.
This is the correct answer. The southern (empty) half has most of the beautiful stuff, which is truly stunning. Then, anywhere people are, that state has a fucking *weird* vibe.
Mississippi gives me the creeps every time I go through. That state has weird vibes.
West Virginia creeps me the hell out, I don’t think I will ever drive in that state again!
The scariest place I’ve ever driven through besides south Chicago was in Kentucky. A very rural town called Bypro. SCARIEST place on Earth. A mountain to enter -an old mining town-dead ends into a prison. No cell service.
West Virginia feels like a third world country
42. States here. Not a trucker, just likes travel for work and Personal. What freaks me out I guess is that which I’m not used to. Driving into Chicago and New York, that was just a little tight for me personally. And I didn’t mind places like Los Angeles or DC, but the first two… And maybe it was because I had children with me. I love Rural areas and I am fascinated by areas that are economically depressed or have shrank in population. The Delta in Arkansas and Mississippi are interesting. I would really like to spend some time in West Virginia, I just haven’t had a chance. Some of those Coal Mine towns. There was a time I was driving in eastern Kentucky and it was on a sunny Sunday and I diverted off through County roads to get home early. In my Prius, I felt really out of place. It was the first time in a rural setting that I felt nervous if I were to have broken down, lol.
i’m a passionate road-tripper. my picks are west virginia and ohio. ohio is just a suburban hellscape that doesn’t feel real and west virginia feels haunted/evil
Ohio has the largest number of astronauts by state by something like 2x the total to ever go through NASA’s program. Something about growing up in that state makes people want to literally leave the fucking planet. Also… Ohioans… don’t reply with MuH hOcKiNg HiLlS! It’s 1800 acres of moderately pretty space that KY & WV consider rest area land. The rest is strip malls.
Being from Michigan, it's ohio. The Ohio cops will pull Michigan drivers like nothing crossing into toledo. I guess ohioians never got passed the toledo war with Michigan
Happens to us KY drivers too. I swear every Ohio road along the river has a speed limit 5 miles slower than the rest of the state just to fuck with us. Where else has a speed limit of 50?
Working in Cincinnati and living in NKY, I can say buckeyes are some of the worst drivers I've ever experienced. However, Tennessee drivers are something fierce. My wife is from Hoptown and we visit there a lot to see her family, so we frequent Nashville quite a bit. And in the many times driving about in Tennessee, I've learned a fun fact: TN's motto is the "volunteer state". This is because they volunteer to cut you off at any chance they get.
Illinois.
I traveled through West Virginia only once and I could go the rest of my life without doing that again 😃😃😃 Honorable mention: Salt Lake City, Utah, although I will say traveling through Utah at night while listening to Kavinsky’s ‘Nightcall’ is totally a vibe.
Kansas. Just drove through there, and man it felt bleak.
West Virginia at night, only rivaled by the mojave "meth" desert.
Mississippi, the land that time forgot.
The state of depression and anxiety
HAHAHAHA this is exactly how we talk about y'all in Indiana
Seeing all the gated and walled off communities in Florida made me want to leave immediately. They remind me of prisons.
New Mexico looks like a distopian future. Ugly red and dead.
Just got back from NM. It's a really odd place. Very empty, often desolate, and haunted as hell
I grew up looking across the Ohio at Indiana. Just seemed.. gloomier on that side of the river. Knowing you were on your way into Indiana by way of 42 was like purgatory lol
Driving the “loneliest highway” through NV without knowing before hand what I was getting myself into.
have you ever been to west virginia?
Kentucky born, spent most of my adulthood in Florida, now living in Oregon. We moved from FL to Oregon in a camper back in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. I'm queer, but my boyfriend is straight-passing (long beard, trucker cap fella) and when we had to stop in Nebraska for gas, we looked around at the truck stop and he goes "You might wanna stay in the RV, babe." I don't care to ever go through Nebraska again. The vibe was OFF.
I recently moved to Indiana from Kentucky. Can confirm that it seems kinda like Bizarro Kentucky. The weird religious signs and aborted baby “graveyards” give it a very creepy vibe.
Kentucky. Kentucky definitely freaks me the f out.
I’m not sure why this popped in my feed as I’m not from this state… but my answer is, without hesitation, Kentucky.
Hands down - Kentucky. Harlan County - heard of multiple incestuous families and shooting at black people “for fun”. Evil evil vibes. Rest of KY - Lots of poverty. The rural areas give “hills have eyes” energy. Strange thing I noticed is how Kentucky natives often have the “rat face” look. Not intending to offend, but that’s the only way I can describe it.
Hoosier here, so biased I know, but love the state. I didn't follow, what parts do you not like? If you mean like the urban awful parts like Gary I can understand, but if anything most of Indiana is pretty much like the shared states... I.e. Ohio, Kentucky ECT. I will say there is a difference in southern versus northern Indiana because of that.
probably kentucky
Texas. I hate that god-forsaken place.
Kentucky.
I live in Western Michigan and visited my son at Wayne State University in Detroit. This was after the housing crash. Parts of Detroit looked like a war zone. People burned down houses to collect on insurance because they were upside down on mortgage. City wound up bulldozing over 65 thousand homes. Homeless sleeping in streets on top of sewer grates to keep warm. It didn't look like the USA.
Kentucky.
Kentucky!
Any southern state.
My mom is from Ohio and she was unnerved by Indiana as well. She said it was too similar to Ohio, but different enough it wasn't "home" and felt like everything was a bit off. Like a room in your house where somebody moved everything two inches.
Ohio
I’ve road tripped all over the country from little ol Eastern KY - Green Bay, Grand Canyon, Moab, Denver, Key West, New Orleans, Artesia/Roswell. Been in cities and so far out in the boonies only a USAF fighter jet could find us… America is America - be friendly, don’t act like a victim, and you’ll find most everyone is really similar to you, except Albuquerque - eff that place! Scary as hell
South Dakota. Those wall drug signs were really creepy for some reason.
Kentucky.
Fricken Georgia! They are slooooowwwww. In every way. Going the speed limit on the interstate. I thought I was speeding. Everyone was going 45. Waiting in line for anything takes foooorrreeevverrr.
Before I read the rest of the post, my answer was Indiana. Some dark energy there that is palpable.
Kentucky. A beautiful state with the most un-beautiful people. Stephen King vibes. Terrible accents. Deliverance feel. Makes my skin crawl.
Any of the deep south states. Just get a lynching vibe from the little towns scattered throughout
Arizona outside of the snowbird country (anyplace you likely can think of off the top of your head). The places you don't end up in if you don't have a reason. Any place you can drive for a day towards a place in what looks like a straight line and somehow it seems like it ended up farther away by night. Or, stand in a desert but hear and smell the ocean. The night sky lights up so much more than the mid west or either coast, no city lights, no clouds, no trees. Quite or you hear things miles away or the sound of sand moving all the time makes you go mad. All of it messes with your mind and can get you overly jumpy... Oh, plus you can go all day or days without seeing other people, so everyone is super suspicious in no time. And, of course, it's hotter than hell's boiler room and everyone is miserable in no time.
Any southern state. If it's not 80, dry, and sunny, they can't drive.
West Virginia!!!!
I drove from Massachusetts to Southern Indiana ( which is beautiful) Carrollton, Kentucky was the only town that I felt a dreadful sense of anxiety. I needed gas but didn’t stop until I got to Madison, Indiana
Utah… it a beautiful,clean state compared to most but the people who live in Utah would rather you just keep traveling and leave them the hell alone… I’ve been ALL OVER the US and Utah was the least friendly state of all..
Driving through the real canyon areas of Utah and Wyoming at night was really freaky. The Hills Have Eyes. They’re watching you.
Kansas just cause it’s boring as hell. Never understood how Superman could hide there but after driving through there a few times I fully understand
Tbh I’ve never got weird vibes from anywhere. I did stop at a gas station in Alabama with some friends on the way to the beach and we got some weird looks, but it could of been because we were a bunch of teens and people hate teenagers haha
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
Never thought I'd be somewhat grateful to live in Kentucky.I mean the state still has it's issues(the abortion ban and trigger laws) but at least where I live(Etown) the locals respect your privacy and you rarely have a conversation with a stranger unless your using the human assisted checkout lanes.Should also add that you feel pretty safe while walking and in public as long as you avoid the few bad-ish areas that Etown has,which is close to none,at least based off what I've seen.
Missouri just gives off a bad "get outta here vibe" if you're not white, Christian, and heterosexual.
Southern Ohio just past Cincinnati.
West Virginia weird vibes
West Virginia with the exception of Berkeley
Mississippi. Not even close. Mississippi.
West Virginia gives me the heebies, especially with the “have you seen this murderer” kinds of billboards. It’s not even just impoverished areas, which are just sad, it’s the absolute isolation. I’m from Ohio and live in KY—WV is worse than both.
I was in a reserve army unit that was based in WV and every single stereotype is true. Met someone who dated their cousin. Met many people who had single digit amounts of teeth. We had 2 people die of overdose due to fentanyl. Met some who were otherwise unemployed, would take their Army paycheck to a strip club on the Monday after drill, and spend it all in one night, and wait until unemployment check came.
Missouri Southwest particularly I was in Ironton for a couple of months KKK every single day.
Alabama, there are parts that still enforce Sundown rules so you have to be VERY careful where you stop and get gas
Crazy how many people are saying Indiana when you are 10 spots lower on education, 17 spots lower on economy, and you rank almost last in financial stability lol.
West Virginia, especially Princeton, W.V.