Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chernobyl.

Also, Soviet era apartment blocks and apartments in Ukraine and Russia.

I know it will sound weird, but I grew up in one of these blocks and they are nostalgic to me. In fact there is a FB community where people post pictures of Soviet era landscapes, so I am not the only one.

Wow, that's interesting. We were posted in the region for work, and in the first year were talked into taking an apartment in a Soviet building that was minutes' walk from work. It was the entire top floor of a Khrushchyovka, and the apartment itself had been fully renovated and looked great. But outside the windows and in the rest of the building itself, it was bleak as hell. The crumbling walls and general run-down look, plus the filthy, dog waste-strewn land childrens' "playground" areas outside the blocks were super sad, especially because there were often empty alcohol bottles and cigarettes thrown into the childrens' sand pits or under the swings. I made friends with a local family who lived in a non-renovated little flat and you could hear EVERYTHING from the neighbours above and around them.

We moved into an expat type building after that one year.

My parents still live in a Khrushevka (of a "better" type but still) and it's very odd to see my childhood home with the eyes of an adult who has traveled the world somewhat.
What you describe is very familiar. I am seeing it with the eyes of child so to speak...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure whether you mean poverty and crime, or truly haunting and sad. The worst energy I’ve ever felt anywhere was on an empty road leading to an open field in Cassedega, Florida. It is supposed to be a super high-vibe town. And for the most part, it was. But that road really got to me. I’m sensitive to energy and truly had a hard time breathing. I didn’t stay in that space long enough to even try to feel into whatever it was.

Are there people who have cursed the road? Probably.

Gawd these posts are just ridiculous. I swear. Are you the person who used to post regularly about people buying houses where someone might have died and mentioning freaking out about the souls roaming about where people have died? If you are, do you realize through history about a billion people have died all over the place.

[Anonymous]

18th St NE a bit further away from Union Station. It was 2008, I was on a work visit to DC, and went to a shoe store that I thought carried some wheelies that a friend asked me to bring. I didn't know what I was getting into, taking public transit and walking, with my orange Furla purse and a matching silk scarf! I must say everyone was nice to me and some nice older black ladies made sure I took the right bus which took me back to Union Station.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18th St NE a bit further away from Union Station. It was 2008, I was on a work visit to DC, and went to a shoe store that I thought carried some wheelies that a friend asked me to bring. I didn't know what I was getting into, taking public transit and walking, with my orange Furla purse and a matching silk scarf! I must say everyone was nice to me and some nice older black ladies made sure I took the right bus which took me back to Union Station.

so black people are creepy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Schenectady, NY

OMG

LOL went to college there in the early 90s and agree!

[Anonymous]

Superior, Wisconsin. Cold, gray, bleak, dirty

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh Honey. It's not a secret! https://opacity.us/site22_danvers_state_hospital.htm

This site will draw you in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh Honey. It's not a secret! https://opacity.us/site22_danvers_state_hospital.htm

This site will draw you in

https://opacity.us/site64_norwich_state_hospital.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Superior, Wisconsin. Cold, gray, bleak, dirty

Is Duluth nice? I've heard it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh Honey. It's not a secret! https://opacity.us/site22_danvers_state_hospital.htm

This site will draw you in

You're right! I'm clicking through pictures and can't stop. Some of those places are mega-creepy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh Honey. It's not a secret! https://opacity.us/site22_danvers_state_hospital.htm

This site will draw you in

You're right! I'm clicking through pictures and can't stop. Some of those places are mega-creepy!

He hasn't uploaded anything new in a while, but what he has will keep you busy for a while!

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Schenectady. Want to hear why you all are creeped out by it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Superior, Wisconsin. Cold, gray, bleak, dirty

Agree- Duluth is nice though.

[Anonymous]

I'm curious about the bleakness Cumberland MD. I drove through there on my way to school in the 90s. I thought it was so beautiful. It was always on my radar as a place to revisit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chernobyl.

Also, Soviet era apartment blocks and apartments in Ukraine and Russia.

I know it will sound weird, but I grew up in one of these blocks and they are nostalgic to me. In fact there is a FB community where people post pictures of Soviet era landscapes, so I am not the only one.

Wow, that's interesting. We were posted in the region for work, and in the first year were talked into taking an apartment in a Soviet building that was minutes' walk from work. It was the entire top floor of a Khrushchyovka, and the apartment itself had been fully renovated and looked great. But outside the windows and in the rest of the building itself, it was bleak as hell. The crumbling walls and general run-down look, plus the filthy, dog waste-strewn land childrens' "playground" areas outside the blocks were super sad, especially because there were often empty alcohol bottles and cigarettes thrown into the childrens' sand pits or under the swings. I made friends with a local family who lived in a non-renovated little flat and you could hear EVERYTHING from the neighbours above and around them.

We moved into an expat type building after that one year.

My parents still live in a Khrushevka (of a "better" type but still) and it's very odd to see my childhood home with the eyes of an adult who has traveled the world somewhat.
What you describe is very familiar. I am seeing it with the eyes of child so to speak...

I’m from DC but I LOVE brutalist architecture.