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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mendocino County and Humboldt County, CA
Alcatraz 
Salem, MA
Many parts of Arizona
Marseille, France

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Oh, wow! What do you find creepy about Mendocino and Humboldt? I wanted to go to school at Humboldt State, but I was afraid that I'd flunk out because I would always be hiking and kayaking. It's just gorgeous there, to me.[/quote]
I think the town is run-down and depressed looking and feels slightly dangerous. The Victorian houses and gray skies are an eerie combination. The woods up in that area are so thick and old and like you could just disappear and never be found. People who live in isolation on side roads. The college is in Arcata and maybe has a different vibe. I find the whole area beautiful but eerie at the same time like you have to respect nature's power and remember you're small and insignificant. [/quote]

Agree with this completely. It is so misty and full of desperation with lost souls who want to live on the fringes and disappear from regular society.[/quote]

I haven’t been up there, but I’m sure the fact that 10s or even 100s of billions of dollars of marijauana commerce has gone down up there over the decades is part of it.

That much of a black market brings elements that permeate everything. [/quote]
Oh yeah, this definitely contributed to the weirdness: add in secrecy, crime and paranoia. You would see rolling papers sold at supermarket checkout stands. Not sure if that's changed since legalization but it's isolated and remote so it's not changed in that way. [/quote]

I don't know if it has changed much. There are still illicit growers. The cartels are involved.

I had a friend who lived up there for a period. Every harvest season he would trim plants and even for this low-risk, low-skill work there was a ton of money in it. He said that each year once he made a few thousand bucks he would quit. The money was tempting, but too much time sustained time in that world took its toll. [/quote]

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