Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:56     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:Charleston and New Orleans both feel spooky to me at night.


I went to law school in New Orleans. I spent three years waking up in the middle of the night, heart pounding, and terrified for no reason. Never happened before, hasn't happened since.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:54     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Many towns in upstate New York have a creepy, desolate, haunted feeling - dead downtowns, abandoned old homes, sad storefronts.


Yes Whitehall and cherry valley in particular. Cherry Valley is haunted. Books have been written about Cherry Valley, so creepy.


I went to college upstate. Oriskany Falls was rumored to be the home of an incest cult, but I'm pretty sure that was an urban legend inspired by its creepy vibes.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:54     Subject: Re:Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:The small towns of Eastern Tennessee. The mountains are beautiful but the poverty is devastating. The large population of MAGAs sadly doesn’t help either.


Agreed. The drive in the mountains between NC and TN, much closed now from the storm damage, always feels like an alternate universe. I stopped for has about 20 minutes outside of the Dollywood area, forget which side, and it was just eerie.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:50     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
North Korea. It’s like a 50s movie set, nobody hanging around or laughing.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:44     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:The Omni Bedford Springs. I left at 2 in the morning - could not even sleep there. The history as far as I could tell were that those were healing/sacred springs used by the Native Americans there when the white man just swooped in and took them. As soon as I stepped onto the property I felt very, very bad energy.


Oh, gosh. Yeah.

We stayed there last fall. We really enjoyed it, but it had a very eerie vibe. The whole place. The photos everywhere of folks there in the nineteenth century don't help.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 15:42     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
I love Dallas, TX, but that Adolphus Hotel is freaking haunted.

The whole town of Hot Springs, Arkansas gave me a very unsettling feeling, but I have no idea why.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 14:36     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:I traveled through Cambodia 25 years ago, and the country closed down once it became dark since so many didn't have electricity. So night time was creepy. I haven't been back and doubt it's that way now.


I found Cambodia to be a desperately sad place. I went around 15 years ago. I remember seeing signs that were PSAs urging parents not to prostitute their children.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 11:24     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Interesting several people say Charleston. Why is that.?? I hear it’s so beautiful and such a desirable place to live. I’ve never been but it’s on my wish list for a weekend getaway.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 11:20     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:Many towns in upstate New York have a creepy, desolate, haunted feeling - dead downtowns, abandoned old homes, sad storefronts.


This is the first thing I thought of. Abandoned factory towns have the most desolate feeling/energy.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 08:10     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Around 2001 or 2002 or so I toured St. Elizabeth's with GSA. It had closed down as a mental hospital (fully I think) but all the old buildings were still there before the construction of Coast Guard HQ. I couldn't wait to get out of there! (Although it had one of the best views of DC I had ever seen.)
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 08:06     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
I traveled through Cambodia 25 years ago, and the country closed down once it became dark since so many didn't have electricity. So night time was creepy. I haven't been back and doubt it's that way now.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 07:11     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:Jackson Mississippi. Felt threatening.


I agree. We only stopped there for lunch and I could FEEL the classism, the social segregation. I’ve been all over the south, have lived in the south for most of my life. In Jackson, I could feel people being put in their place.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 06:46     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:Many towns in upstate New York have a creepy, desolate, haunted feeling - dead downtowns, abandoned old homes, sad storefronts.


Yes Whitehall and cherry valley in particular. Cherry Valley is haunted. Books have been written about Cherry Valley, so creepy.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 05:27     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Zagreb. Police got on the train as we entered Croatia. Show us your papers! Flashlights in our faces.

I guess that's happening here now.


You never traveled before the EU, did you? That’s just border control, not something sinister.


No kidding. Being woken up in the middle of the night as the train crossed from Italy into Germany. Ausweiss bitte!
Germany and Italy do not share a border.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 03:46     Subject: Places with an eerie or creepy vibe
There is a scientific reason why some places feel creepy.

https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunted-frequency