Creepiest, bleakest places you've ever been to

[Anonymous]

Ashland, KY
Washington, PA

[Anonymous]

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.

It’s not far from Waltham, MA, right?

[Anonymous]

Chernobyl.

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

FB community on creepy but nostalgic Soviet landscapes
https://www.facebook.com/yebenya/

[Anonymous]

Morecambe is the worst place I have been in the UK. Like Seaside OR, full of slot machines, heroine, and despair, with creepy Victorian undertones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngstown, OH

Really depressing

Gary, IN is super scary too.

I’ve been to both late at night. Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/maps/@34.413341,-117.3778434,3a,75y,265.51h,87.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stJZ_MNSjmqUceOjW_Wn7Dw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DtJZ_MNSjmqUceOjW_Wn7Dw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D27.991241%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

I visited this neighborhood in the high desert of California during the housing crash of 2008/2009. Picture foreclosure papers blowing in the wind like tumbleweeds. Boarded up 3500 square feet, 5 year old homes in a suburban community. Lots of people who bought these new "McMansions" as the neighborhood was built up in 2005/2006 for $450k only to have them be worth less than $100k a few years later. Truly a place of broken dreams. One of the most eerie places I've ever been.

I have a friend who worked during the crash doing trash outs of foreclosed and abandoned houses in the inland empire and desert. He said it was incredibly depressing especially when the houses had been abandoned, taken over by squatters or broken into, and then abandoned again.

[Anonymous]

Palmer Woods mansions area in Detroit, ca. 2005 before the small wave of gentrifiers bought up and moved in.

[Anonymous]

Loving this interesting thread

[Anonymous]

Downtown Detroit 25 years ago. Not creepy but bleak AF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.google.com/maps/@34.413341,-117.3778434,3a,75y,265.51h,87.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stJZ_MNSjmqUceOjW_Wn7Dw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DtJZ_MNSjmqUceOjW_Wn7Dw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D27.991241%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656

I visited this neighborhood in the high desert of California during the housing crash of 2008/2009. Picture foreclosure papers blowing in the wind like tumbleweeds. Boarded up 3500 square feet, 5 year old homes in a suburban community. Lots of people who bought these new "McMansions" as the neighborhood was built up in 2005/2006 for $450k only to have them be worth less than $100k a few years later. Truly a place of broken dreams. One of the most eerie places I've ever been.

I have a friend who worked during the crash doing trash outs of foreclosed and abandoned houses in the inland empire and desert. He said it was incredibly depressing especially when the houses had been abandoned, taken over by squatters or broken into, and then abandoned again.

What town is this? I drove through a very bleak town just over the Nevada border on my way to Yosemite. We just stopped to get gas and grab lunch but we were so creeped out at the gas station that we hurried the kids in the car and took off. Really bad vibes...

[Anonymous]

I booked a hotel on Expedia in San Jose Costa Rica that had a casino in the bottom of it. You could tell it had a lot of sex trafficking in and associated with it. It was so creepy, I couldn't stay another night so I went to a travel agency and asked them where to stay and they found me a nice place and didn't even take a cut.

[Anonymous]

Scranton, PA

All the abandoned coal mines, so many deaths. Financial ruin, old population that never left, born and died in poverty. Creepy old homes that were held as "corpse houses".

We used to call it Gotham City. Always gray clouds and bleak

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sandusky, Ohio

Amazing - opened this thread to say this, only to find it as the very first response. So true.

You all are also correct about Gary IN, Youngstown OH, parts of pre-rebirth Detroit.