Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:toledo, ohio

I was once menaced in the parking lot of the krogers, just for having michigan plates. And it was the Krogers on the nice side of town!

Probably bc you call it Krogers. No “s” is needed, my friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haven't read the entire thread but West Virginia, near Charlestown. And the creepiest place is that abandoned mental institution in WV (we made a point of stopping there on the way out of WV) that now holds tours inside. It was closed on the day we drove through but I thinking of returning just to take the tour. It looked THAT creepy.

http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasylum.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walpole Prison, Mass.

Ugh. I googled it and as I was looking at one of the pictures, the lights suddenly came on in that picture.

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x89e47b5f6b806c83%3A0x741b23780fd2b94b!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMqRQ6iOGAF_BmX-5YYLqb-HQcbYQDh5jJkrUGp%3Dw331-h220-k-no!5swalpole%20prison%20-%20Google%20Search!15zQ2dJZ0FRPT0&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipNgCD7lgf_MGTjjy0M_0YlWb74pd_7QVViKxNab&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj3oJ6w9tvuAhXOm-AKHYgGBXYQoiowHnoECDcQAw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:toledo, ohio

I was once menaced in the parking lot of the krogers, just for having michigan plates. And it was the Krogers on the nice side of town!

Probably bc you call it Krogers. No “s” is needed, my friend.

All I’m saying is, it wouldn’t have happened at a meijers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now.

Bucharest is bleak even now.

+1.
Visited both in mid-00', Prague is newly cool. Bucharest, on other hand..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now.

Bucharest is bleak even now.

+1.
Visited both in mid-00', Prague is newly cool. Bucharest, on other hand..

We were in Bucharest in 2000 and it was like something out of a soviet movie, but with roaming dogs. We were also in Constanta, Romania and it was even even more so, but the people were lovely. They were so excited to meet Americans.

We were in Sarajevo in 2002 and Sniper's Alley was haunting, especially with the NATO peacekeeping troops and bare surrounding hills, which were felled for heat during the siege. Belgrade, with the bombed out Milosevic's headquarters and anti-American graffiti, were also haunting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now.

Bucharest is bleak even now.

+1.
Visited both in mid-00', Prague is newly cool. Bucharest, on other hand..

We were in Bucharest in 2000 and it was like something out of a soviet movie, but with roaming dogs. We were also in Constanta, Romania and it was even even more so, but the people were lovely. They were so excited to meet Americans.

We were in Sarajevo in 2002 and Sniper's Alley was haunting, especially with the NATO peacekeeping troops and bare surrounding hills, which were felled for heat during the siege. Belgrade, with the bombed out Milosevic's headquarters and anti-American graffiti, were also haunting.

They killed all the dogs in about 2014.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Murphy Village, SC. Irish Travellers live there, and it's truly bizarre. Huge McMansions with covered windows that appear unlived in, with trailers behind the houses where people actually reside. You definitely get the sense of being watched, because you are--I think they contact each other whenever there's a stranger cruising the neighborhood. If you drive around too long or too slow, they will follow you in big pickup trucks to intimidate you into leaving.

I don’t get it. Who built the McMansions and why? What do they do with the McMansions? What’s the point of being a Traveller (what my grandmother called a tinker?) if you’re living behind a mcmansion? That honestly sounds like the worst of both worlds. All the tacky boredom of suburbia, but without the closet space or water pressure.

There are allegations of widespread criminality in the community, which generated the money for the McMansions. e.g.:
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2018/09/21/5-south-carolina-irish-travelers-sent-prison-fraud-schemes/1378327002/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now.

Bucharest is bleak even now.

+1.
Visited both in mid-00', Prague is newly cool. Bucharest, on other hand..

We were in Bucharest in 2000 and it was like something out of a soviet movie, but with roaming dogs. We were also in Constanta, Romania and it was even even more so, but the people were lovely. They were so excited to meet Americans.

We were in Sarajevo in 2002 and Sniper's Alley was haunting, especially with the NATO peacekeeping troops and bare surrounding hills, which were felled for heat during the siege. Belgrade, with the bombed out Milosevic's headquarters and anti-American graffiti, were also haunting.

They killed all the dogs in about 2014.

OMG.

[Anonymous]

Prob not the level of creepy that's on this thread but when looking for family vacation spots within driving distance of the DMV when my kids were little, we tried both Nemacolin over winter break and Capon in the summer - found them both kind of creepy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:toledo, ohio

I was once menaced in the parking lot of the krogers, just for having michigan plates. And it was the Krogers on the nice side of town!

Probably bc you call it Krogers. No “s” is needed, my friend.

All I’m saying is, it wouldn’t have happened at a meijers!

Lol true! Meijers is a menace free zone. Ohioans hate Michiganders because they feel inherently inferior

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cumberland, MD. Something just feels off and creepy. And this is coming from someone who has spent years driving through western Pennsylvania on the way to my hometown near Youngstown.

Yes. Cumberland. Abandoned and blighted homes rotting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forks, WA - almost ruined the Olympic National Park for me

This summer, a mixed-race family & their kids were camping in Forks. They had a short-bus that had been fitted up as a camper. When they drove into town for supplies, a mob set upon them, since they HAD to be "a busload of BLM/Antifa." The mob felled trees to prevent them from returning to their campsite.

Teenagers with chainsaws came to the rescue but did not want to be identified in the news story I read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now.

Bucharest is bleak even now.

+1.
Visited both in mid-00', Prague is newly cool. Bucharest, on other hand..

We were in Bucharest in 2000 and it was like something out of a soviet movie, but with roaming dogs. We were also in Constanta, Romania and it was even even more so, but the people were lovely. They were so excited to meet Americans.

We were in Sarajevo in 2002 and Sniper's Alley was haunting, especially with the NATO peacekeeping troops and bare surrounding hills, which were felled for heat during the siege. Belgrade, with the bombed out Milosevic's headquarters and anti-American graffiti, were also haunting.

They killed all the dogs in about 2014.

OMG.

If they did it humanely it's better than allowing them to persist on the verge of starvation for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Came on here to say Romania late 90s was depressing as hell..as was Bucharest and surprisingly, Prague

I went to Prague a couple of times in the late 90s and had a wonderful time. It was full of life and energy but not over run with tourists as it is now.

Bucharest is bleak even now.

+1.
Visited both in mid-00', Prague is newly cool. Bucharest, on other hand..

We were in Bucharest in 2000 and it was like something out of a soviet movie, but with roaming dogs. We were also in Constanta, Romania and it was even even more so, but the people were lovely. They were so excited to meet Americans.

We were in Sarajevo in 2002 and Sniper's Alley was haunting, especially with the NATO peacekeeping troops and bare surrounding hills, which were felled for heat during the siege. Belgrade, with the bombed out Milosevic's headquarters and anti-American graffiti, were also haunting.

They killed all the dogs in about 2014.

OMG.

If they did it humanely it's better than allowing them to persist on the verge of starvation for years.

Agree, although I am up unsure of how they done it. Something had to be done though as a load of people had been attacked and I think a couple of them, including a kid, were killed.

Wiki says they had around half of them adopted. I seriously doubt that.