Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a town in New England that had an abandoned mental institution in it. It was about the size of college campus, dozens of large brick abandoned buildings. Very creepy.

Norwich, CT?

NP. This is my hometown and I can’t believe there’s someone else who knows about that place!

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore in the years between the Freddie Gray riots and the pandemic. Just a constant air of menace and lawlessness at night, even in the parts of the city that were considered safe.

West Baltimore hasn't been safe in a looooooooooong time.

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Catskills,NY

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The outer edges of Wichita are so damn depressing. So flat with no trees and not in a cool desert kind of way.

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama, Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakoka, Colorado Springs, Cumberland MD, Many parts of Florida.

You obviously don’t understand the post...name a specific town, not an entire state. You look kind of stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:West Baltimore. I drove my son through there a few years ago and he said "What IS this place?" So many abandoned homes and crumbling buildings.

Ahhh, gotta love white privilege!

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Anonymous wrote:When I was younger, I remember being scared of the buildings at Sheppard Pratt mental hospital in Towson, MD. They just looked old and creepy. I still live in the area and drove through the campus last week and loved the beautiful architecture. I guess age changes your perspective.

PP, for creepy factor, check out the abandoned Crownsville Hospital in Anne Arundel County. I drive by it frequently. Sometimes, there are vultures lined up on the edges of the buildings. Chills me to the core.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't remember where in rural Alabama (or maybe it was Mississippi) it was, but we stopped for gas at this old rickety gas station on the way to New Orleans and, boy of boy, did we stick out like a sore thumb. Cue the banjo music from Deliverance.

I had a similar experience in rural Alabama on the way to Florida. We were on a deserted county road and had to stop for gas at a dilapidated shack that had only 1-2 pumps. I was so creeped out. This was in the 1990s before cell phones, too. Yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:Alabama, Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakoka, Colorado Springs, Cumberland MD, Many parts of Florida.

You obviously don’t understand the post...name a specific town, not an entire state. You look kind of stupid.

You’ve never been black driving through these places.

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Anonymous wrote:Richmond Hill on Montserrat, a load of houses and villas that were just left and abandoned after the volcano erupted. Some still have groceries in the cupboard and books on shelves.

Oh wow I’ve been to Montserrat after the volcano too! Everything was covered in a thick layer of grey ash. It definitely looked like a ghost town (or island).

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I feel like bleak and creepy are very different vibes from reading these answers. They sometimes overlap but often not.

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Anonymous wrote:Gary, Indiana

Isn’t that where Michael Jackson was from?

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Anonymous wrote:Gary, Indiana

Isn’t that where Michael Jackson was from?

Yes. I think it had an economy when he was a child.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't remember the name of the town, but on a rock-climbing trip to Utah, we went through a tiny desolate place where everyone had red hair, and looked the same.

They stopped and stared at us as we drove through town.

Now that was creepy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alabama, Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakoka, Colorado Springs, Cumberland MD, Many parts of Florida.

You obviously don’t understand the post...name a specific town, not an entire state. You look kind of stupid.

You’ve never been black driving through these places.

I kind of see your point but driving through these entire states while black would be an entirely different topic though.