What’s the creepiest place you’ve ever been too?

Indiana

Florida. It felt like the pre-Sixties color line was still in place.

Auschwitz

Bombay Beach, California (Salton Sea) before it became "artistic." Mind-bogglingly surreal and accompanied by the stench of millions of dead fish and birds.

Datalounge.

Atlanta in the 60s with all those freaky Dioramas and glorification of dead American traitors in a citywide saturate tribute to dead relatives and The Lost Cause of the War of Northern Aggression.

Trump's Asshole

Gary, Indiana

Hammond, Indiana

Barstow, California

R8, I went grad school in Hammond. I concur with your post.

Biloxi, MS after Katrina hit

Seaside, FL, where they filmed The Truman Show

agreed on Gary, Indiana

Dachau

Alcatraz prison. Bad vibes as soon as I walked in (and I’m not usually perceptive like that.)

The area between Beaumont and Lake Charles and North Louisiana, anywhere 5 miles north (off-limits to blacks) or south (off-limits to whites) of I-20.

I'm not a "oh! my stars! the city!" priss. I've been in a lot of Rust Belt towns that have seen better days, and lived in a few of them. But yes, even with that experience, Gary was surreal to see.

Madge's vag.

I don't get this feeling often...but I agree about Gary, IN...just totally depressing

other parts of Indiana are bleak too

A few years ago I went to an art show in Chelsea. It was an installation and you entered by climbing through a hole in the wall. Then you were in a series of rooms from the 70s, all very seedy with pornography on the wall. One room was a trashed and abandoned dentist’s office that also looked like a drug lab. That was the creepiest place I’ve ever been to. It was a relief to crawl out another hole and leave. Creepiest real life place.. Bethlehem, Penn. just gave me the creeps with the ruins of the steel mills.

the old industrial plant that I work at It's been cleaned up significantly since I started but the basement is still creepy

An interstate highway in Alabama that went through a forest in the middle of the night. I was on a road trip, driving alone. I passed a car that looked as though it had been in a wreck. I pulled over and started walking back to check for passengers. It was so dark and isolated I got the worst case of creeps I've ever had. I tried to go on, then turned and ran back to my car. As I sped away, I called the highway patrol so they could check it out.

Cairo, Illinois

Mar-a-Lago

Kind of obvious, but the Winchester House did actually have some very bad juju going on there. Chaco Canyon, where basically the whole population dissolved into thin air and disappeared also was a weird experience and I had unsettling dreams afterwards.

R16 I think you might mean this installation called Black Acid Coop in SoHo by the artists Jonah Freedman and Justin Lowe, which had an exploded meth lab at the center of it. It was a very unnerving space, especially with the burnt and melted things that gave off a smell.

An orphanage outside Bucharest, Romania in the late 90s. It was horrible even then, but i couldn't even imagine what it was like prior to the revolution in 1989

An orphanage outside Bucharest, Romania in the late 90s. It was horrible even then, but i couldn't even imagine what it was like prior to the revolution in 1989

The Capuchin Crypt in Rome is disturbing with its extensive bones and skull art through various chapels below in a church. And the catacombs in Paris were definitely creepy with it bones and skulls piles and being freezing cold and so far below the city.

Some friends and I stopped at an antique store in Rockaway Beach on the Oregon coast. As I walked through the store I kept feeling like I was being watched and the vibe got stronger and stronger. I told my friends I would meet them outside but they all said they were leaving too. When we got out we all talked about the creepy vibe and they said they too felt like the walls had eyes. This was probably 20 or 25 years ago and I'm still freaked out by the memory.

The Paris Catacombs, Church Of The Lord Jesus in Jolo West Virginia (a snake handling congregation), and Boone, Logan, and Mingo Counties in West Virginia.

I second Alcatraz. I felt claustrophobic after a little bit of time there and had the internal feeling of “get me the hell out of here!”

Runner up: Glore Museum in St. Joseph, MO. The museum was housed in a former state hospital and had (torturous) devices used to treat mental illness and mementos like a bunch of nails that a woman in the hospital had swallowed, etc. bad vibes in there too. Couldn’t wait to get out of there after walking through it. Just felt oppressive and heavy.

I would love to visit Pripyat and see the abandoned places there from the Chernobyl explosion but may never scratch that one off my bucket list. I suspect I’d get creeped out there, too.

Me.

I wrote about this before, maybe in a similar type thread. While I was in Rwanda we went to visit a genocide memorial at the church in Nyamata, from the outside looks like a typical 1970s suburban community red brick church. Inside are tables with bundles of decaying shoes and clothes belonging to the hundreds of victims who died there. The walls have rust colored swatches, which is where they bludgeoned babies and toddlers against the wall. The tin ceiling is pierced with holes, which I though at first was like an art installation, as if a heavens were created with starlight seeping in from above, but what really happened is that hand grenades were tossed into the church and shrapnel pierced the ceiling. There is just such an overwhelming feeling of sadness and despair that hangs over the place. Outback is an underground crypt where bones and skulls are on display.

And this isn’t just a singular memorial like this, we saw another church nearby that also left all the clothing and belongs people ran with in the church with bloodstains over everything. This article below has some photographs of the churches.

Omg

The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is very eerie and creepy. Scenes from the 12 Monkeys were filmed there fir the mental hospital.

[quote] Omg

Dyatlov right?

A drive from Oregon to Boise. Idaho is everything Stephen King writes about. It also harbors racists, fringe humans and decrepid ghetto towns, population 5, with 17 more hiding in the weeds. Hand painted signs that say: next gas station 217 miles to entertain you. Fucking Idaho.

[quote] Outback is an underground crypt

Coincidentally an Outback Steakhouse is one of the creepiest place I’ve been. The bloomin’ onion’s weird shape sent shivers up my spine.

R30 that is heartbreaking. I would never forget seeing that either.

I saw a creepy-ass dying fir tree in a forest that gave me chills.

Eerie, Indiana.

The House on the Rock. Defies description, really.

R30 here again. When I originally wrote my post I used the word thousands, but went back and changed it to hundreds because thousands seemed incomprehensible, but checking it is said 10,000 died there. Here’s an image soon after with the bodies.

R29, I’ve never been there.

I’ve only read about it and not been there, but the abandoned town of Dogtown, Massachusetts, which dates back to the late1600, is supposed to have a very disturbing aura and lots of bad things have happened there historically and still to this day.

A guy I hooked up with lived in a creepy farm-style house off a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. It reminded me of the farmhouse scene in Sin City., very dark, no one around, bad vibes. We went to his bedroom, which looked like an abandoned attic, which was filled with mannequins & dress forms. I thought, ok, this guy is a serial killer in his spare time or something. He was really nice, but we’d only met once before at my place. He also had OCD & would say these really weird euphemistic things during sex, never anything “dirty” or remotely normal.

After we had sex, I ran outside & hopped in my car, was never so relieved to get back on the highway. I never saw him again…

Devil’s Den at Gettysburg, as well as many other places in the town has some very creepy energy. This has some neat period photos vs. the same place today that you can seen what little has changed.

The lobby of the Cecil Hotel.

Men’s room. Train station. Rural Romania. 1981.

R46, you forgot “Picture it”.

Filled with tourists during the day, I'll visit the area where Seven Magic Mountains is, but around 1am.

For some reason, something draws me out there, and I can't quite place what it is. I do get an eerie feeling, even though the busy 15 Fwy is not too far behind me, but it feels as though I'm the only person in existence, and this fascinates me. I never see another car go by while I'm there, and the stars are at their brightest since there is no light nearby. There is even a random low humming sound, but this could be distant sound from that freeway with the big rigs and all.

As of 2021, when looking at the structure from the road I'm on (Las Vegas Blvd S), there are now extremely bright white lights to the northeast, several miles away. I wonder if they're just another solar panel farm, but it's Nevada, so who knows what is out there.

Whittier, Alaska. Only a couple of hundred people lived in the entire town, and they all lived in a highrise building. Also, there was an abandoned military installation, and I still remember the sight of the deteriorating theater with rows of warped seats.

The town was very depressing.

Tasmania. A lot of VERY damaged DNA in the backblocks, as you'd expect from a small place that was formerly a penal colony. Had some quite freaky experiences, and met a gay priest who did welfare work there, who confirmed the worst.

Did Gary used to be a normal city like when the Jackson’s were growing up there?

Drove into one town at sunset and it seemed like every inhabitant was slowly gathering on the corners staring at us with open mouths like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It seriously disturbed the people I was with, and got worse when we got to the motel, which was like something from a murder movie. Will never forget the tufted acyrlic carpet in mottled shades of piss, glinting in the dying rays of the sun, that ran across the floor and up the walls. WTF?!

R42 I’ve been hiking in Dogtown on weekend afternoons. Didn’t get any creepy vibes. The huge boulders are pretty cool.

St. Augustine Church Confessional! I was 12............ and Jewish!

Los Angeles,CA - What a dump!

Condemned section (death row), San Quentin

I worked as a medical consultant with the CA Dept of Corrections

Ken Biros murder house. The cinder block shed out back where it took place I believe is still standing, the rest of the house is gone though. It's a gruesome story.

Even creepier, I used to be drinking buddies with his brother.

Anne Frank’s attic. The gloom was overwhelming, We all wept upon exit.

The Fish Room

Staten Island. It was like a flashback to the 50s.

Pattaya, Thailand

Some of you guys need to give detail as to why the places you mention are creepy.

Casablanca

Hiroshima. Not creepy so much as haunted.

The Kings Park Psychiatric Center at Kings Park, Long Island. It comprised many (ugly) buildings over hundreds of acres and closed over 20 years ago. Yet the buildings were left standing and are now part of a state park! Careeeepy.

I've had many weird experiences in random old European hotels. I hate them.

[quote]A drive from Oregon to Boise. Idaho is everything Stephen King writes about.

Another vote for Idaho! The drive from Salt Lake City, while only about 3 hours, feels sooo lonnng. There is nothing out there once you get into Idaho. I was terrified of my car breaking down since I'm sure that the people from The Hills Have Eyes are still waiting out there.

There are areas in the Northern Neck of VA that are a Trump Shrine! TRUMP FOREVER! TRUMP IS KING! All over the place! Yeah, you see a lot of Trump signs in rural areas, but it's just over the top scary. Think Children of the Corn, only Children of the Dump.

The stretch of the Croatian coast held by Bosnia. A very weird, bleak no man's land

R62 if you want details Pattaya is creepy because of depraved sex tourists and "farangs" who are just living in the country to visit prostitutes,..or worse. The place makes Bangkok look tame.

Yes Thailand in general is creepy, except for the northern area, Chiang something or else. We stayed on floating "rooms" on a lake, very peaceful.

The rest of the country is full of ugly/and or obese sex tourists/pedos.

Chicago train. You will see a lot of lunatics doing creep stuff on it, especially on winter night.

A funeral home. I was eight and a half. First death in my family that I was aware of. My mother took me up to see the body. I remember squirming to get away. The whole thing was overload but since then I've had a real discomfort with funerals. I can still see it clear as day as I type this and it was.. many decades ago.

R22, thank you. Those were the artists that did the installation. Even the video is too creepy to watch.

Friends were recently in Flagstaff and realized simultaneously that THEY HAD TO LEAVE. Evidently other people have had this reaction..

R73 No way. I lived there 15yrs there’s nothing like that there and I feel it all.

Cheryl’s hole!

[QUOTE] Yes Thailand in general is creepy, except for the northern area.

R69 I lived there for a couple years (long time ago). I don't find the whole country creepy, just Pattaya and parts of Bangkok. But I will say that I was shocked at how pervasive prostitution is there. Before I moved there I'd thought it might be limited to parts of Bangkok but it is all over the country, except perhaps the Muslim provinces in the far south -- not sure about those areas.

R9 - Grad school in Hammond? What did you major in, liquor store robberies?

Newark

State Mental Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. No wonder Flannery O’Connor wrote what she did.

Area around Eureka CA/Redwoods Park. Such a beautiful area but really felt abandoned and creepy. Very isolated.

The Siskiyou Mountains always gave me an eerie vibe when I would be there. My parents use to take us camping there once every summer. Always strange events went on during those trips. Most notable was in the dead of night "something" lit up the entire area we were in with a bright light. It was the type of light color you see when lightening strikes close to you. Everyone froze, then my brother starting screaming. The light lasted maybe 10 minutes. We grabbed our stuff, ran to the car, and left the rest of things. Tent included. My parent's got a room in some creepy motel in Kirby, OR. That too had a funky vibe to it.

Parts of Northern California, coastal Oregon, and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington (I grew up there) have some strange areas.

The Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Supposedly haunted, but that is not what creeped me out. There were things that were just surreal, like looking down the hallway and noticing that there were no straight lines and everything was subtly curved, and walking into that little box at the back of the ship to see the dimly lit propeller, and thinking, "I'm seeing something I was never meant to see, from a point of view that is humanly impossible." It's just creepy.

R82 Lol I went to a HS prom on the Queen Mary. Didn't find it creepy, it was pretty fun.

I didn’t find Newark creepy. Just depressing.

New Orleans.

Vienna, Austria. My parents took my brother and me on a summer holiday to Vienna in 2006. I was really excited as it was the home of Mozart and Beethoven, but the Nazi creepiness got to me. The whole feel of the city just seemed dark. Maybe it was just me, but I couldn't shake the feeling of the anti-semitism that existed before and might still be there.

It's probably the history of the buildings but deserted / abandoned mental asylums are usually creepy as hell. Years ago, went urban exploring at Philadelphia's Byberry Hospital and it was so incredibly unnerving. Strange noises, definitely not animals or other people, heard by myself and others. Shadows out of the corner of your eyes. Pennhurst Asylum, about 30 miles from Philadelphia, is even creepier. You can practically feel the presence of the place as you get closer. Like Byberry, a lot of odd noises, shadows and just overwhelming emotion (look up it's history to understand).

Stull Church (and cemetery) outside of Topeka, KS was a church that had either partially burned or was just dilapidated and had no roof or doors or windows anymore. But the walls of stone still stood and as you drove by ona rural highway, you could see through the doorway, against the back wall, a grandfather clock, leaning at an angle that it should not have been standing at all. The graves were on a hill near the church with one tree that looked like an olive tree that you could see in the distance. It was creepy as hell. Locally it was said to have been a gate to hell, whatever that meant. A friend of a friend stayed nearby just for fun with friends when he was in college and refused to talk about it. Friends of mine drove us out there one night (I was like 17) and I was terrified and told them to leave because I felt like something bad would happen if we got out of the car. So we left. This was over 20 years ago. The place just had bad vibes and I don’t know why.

We lived in Calumet City and shopped at the Kroger's in Hammond. Spent many a Saturday at the Hammond Civic center for WWA wrestling. The best elevators were the ones at Goldblatz.

Loved Hammond Indiana.

Down a well in a basement with Precious.

Joan Crawford's makeup trailer.

Wasn’t a scene in Silence of the Lambs set in Calumet City?

What is "the worst", R50?

Scranton.

I went to a party in the restaurant which was at the top of the World Trade Center, think it was called Windows on the World.

Even though the party was for one of my closest friends, I couldn't wait to leave. Think I'd only been in the WTC a handful of times, every time I went in that building I had a feeling of dread.

I always got en extremely bad creepy vibe about the WTC. I hate very high buildings, so that was part of it. I don't mind flying, but there is something about very tall buildings which freaks me out. The WTC totally freaked me out.

R95, a few years ago someone on the DL wrote about going to the WTC in the summer of 2001 and getting a bad feeling. His companion did too and they both left quickly.

Hardees

My family thought Hemet, CA, was creepy. I think we were just projecting our feelings of grief as we were there to settle the affairs of our late uncle. It wasn't somewhere I'd want to live, but it had a spare, desert beauty. I got buzzed by a hummingbird while having a quiet moment outside my uncle's house, which brought a smile as it had personal significance to me.

I do hate driving in the countryside at night, doesn't matter where. Afraid my ride will break down, and I'll wind up stumbling onto the Leatherface estate to ask for help.

Gary, Indiana was bad in the 1960’s. The endless blocks of decay was extremely depressing. The original homeowners were furious that black families were moving in. I know, my summer job was working for my dad. I was assigned to assist this older man who raved endlessly about it.

Black families flooded north post Civil War seeking freedom and jobs. Whites were furious and froze blacks from union jobs. This impacted my strong views about civil rights and my commitment to fight segregation. Gary, Indiana was/is a depressing example of white privilege.

Rosslyn Chapel, the elevator to the top of the World Trade Center, alone in an ancient graveyard at 4 am

R100-Punctuation was never your strong suit, was it?

Detroit. Unfortunately, I was born there. I refuse to ever step foot there again. I got as far away as I could. Weddings, funerals, etc doesn't matter. Not going!

R101-Y-e-s-i-t-'-s-a-f-a-c-t*

A house viewing when we were looking around a few years ago. It simultaneously felt like there was a porn movie shot there (modern decor) and that somebody was murdered there. The bathroom had an open bottle of shower gel lying on its side, with some gel still in the bottom. I had seen enough at that point and we left.

When I returned from a business trip to Birmingham, Alabama back in the late 90s, I told my boss that I never saw so many mean-looking white people in one place before. They and the city creeped me out.

When I was a kid we referred to Hardee’s as Hardons.

The Ambassador Hotel.

A little boy and I were once walking together into the woods. It was a bright summer day but the deeper we went in the darker it got due to the dense leaves and then everything got dead silent. The little boy instinctively put his hand into mine for reassurance and said "This is creepy. I'm getting scared."

"You're scared?" I replied. "I've got to walk back to the car by myself"

Are you a nàhgą, R108?

[quote]The WTC totally freaked me out.

Well, it was an insatiable bottom.

Andy Cohen's prolapsed asshole.

I moved to New York from North Carolina in the early 70s. I worked downtown for several years and usually took the train down to the WTC station and then walked over to my building. Later I worked midtown but my job involved several trips down to the WTC for conferences and training sessions.

The WTC was the most cold, sterile public space I've ever been in. Creepy is the word. The lobbies were awful. The plaza between the two towers was ghastly. You'd expect it to be full of people eating and having a smoke during lunch hour but it was always empty and desolate. Inside the upper Towers the sway was disconcerting and the speed or the elevators disorienting.

But I have receipts for the books I bought at the North Tower Borders dated 8pm, September 10, 2001.

Has anyone here been to the WTC area before it was built? Was it creepy then, too?

It was docks and tenements before the area was cleared. The World Financial Center across the street that now abuts the river was built on landfill excavated from the WTC site.

A few years ago they found a Revolutionary era ship beneath the WTC.

A party at Andy Cohen's.

Was there anybody on it?

great thread; thanks, bitches

Georgia, California

Great thread. This and the Amboy, CA thread are right down my alley.

Picture it. Sicily. 1912.

Paris Catacombs, Pompeii

Lexington and East 125th st, NYC. Where inbred schizo homeless junkies abound

Los Angeles. Has a really dark strange vibe, the sunshine juxtaposed over so much desperation. Just weird vibes. A former psychiatric hospital in Columbia, SC that's supposed to be haunted my friend and I drove around. Really creepy. A lighthouse I visited in Florence, OR. Gorgeous ocean, but so desolate and strange feeling. I could go on.

R26 do you think the store was haunted?

R92 I was just thinking the same thing!! And I swear that just before reading your comment I was thinking of Jame Gumb's basement... Eerie!!

The Everard Baths was creepy by the late 1970s. The showers stunk of piss. And of course there had been a murderous fire there. It had a bad vibe, man.

This sculpture garden near Algoma, WI, tucked into a nearby wooded area. We took a trail into the woods where we encountered a fence and metal gate that had “Arbeit Macht Frei” spelled out in metal lettering above it. I thought white supremacist militia types were going to jump us.

Antiquarians with at least strong OCD and some with mental illnesses on top, got together to make "Christmas Houses". Each year was creepier than the previous year.

[quote]Each year was creepier than the previous year.

Oh, indeed. I have a Christmas-house story that would curl your toes!

I was terrified driving at night up through rural eastern Pennsylvania, past Scranton and Wilkes Barre. Then about thirty miles into New York State, I felt calm again. Pennsylvania feels more desolate and ominous to me. The people are creepy too. They have just gun stores and porn shops in the middle of nowhere.

uranus

Rural America is creepy, period. Especially if you’re not white.

My hoo hah.

R124 what part of LA? LA downtown??? I have been to different cities in the larger LA area (spouse lived in NoHo for a year) and found most of them to be beautiful and unique in their own way, or at least not creepy. People definitely dressed like they wanted to be seen (ie full makeup and over the top outfits when hiking Runyon Canyon) but I just found it annoying.

R87

[quote] Strange noises, definitely not animals or other people, heard by myself and others.

Oh Dear.

[quote] Some friends and I stopped at an antique store in Rockaway Beach on the Oregon coast. As I walked through the store I kept feeling like I was being watched and the vibe got stronger and stronger. I told my friends I would meet them outside but they all said they were leaving too. When we got out we all talked about the creepy vibe and they said they too felt like the walls had eyes.

I just wanted to ask if you had yet found yourselves a treasure! (sob!)

Binghampton, NY. Depressing and creepy.

R138, I know what you mean about Binghamton, NY. I lived there about a year around '67-'68 in a huge apartment complex across from a huge car lot. I never remember the sun shining there, though it must have. Everything seemed grey and cold and low energy all the time. Then my family moved to Santa Clara, CA. What a change!

R82 yes. That propeller viewing area was disturbing. I visited in grade school and still get goosebumps thinking about it.

Niagra, NY. Worse than fucking Scranton.

R140 - I watched propeller room video and saw pictures, and it does not look creepy. I guess you have to be there and feel it.

A lot of New York state is creepy... there's so much evidence of former industrial prosperity... old factories, grand homes, half empty towns. I drive through every summer on my way to Vermont and it's not creepy to drive past, but sobering. I imagine if you went, stayed, it would be. I got a very drab, dull feeling when out of curiosity I stopped in Sharon Springs, NY, which is trying to make a go of it - and a credible go - but still missed the mark.

New York is over. O V E R. Over. Find me a window

"What’s the creepiest place you’ve ever been too?"

Some people think I'm creepy, but it's okay

Because I've never been to me

144 posts and no one gave the OP an " Oh, Dear" for the title.

R144 I’ve been reading this entire thread anticipating this post!

[quote]New York is over. O V E R. Over. Find me a window

Perhaps some little NY state hick towns are over, but the main big cities are still going strong.

I was shocked when a friend moved upstate NY a few years ago. They figured it was time to cash in on a Brooklyn house they only paid $50,000 for. Their partner always worked from home and they make much more money teaching upstate than downstate. Who knew.

The downside, they need to drive, they must drive everywhere. What happens when they both are both no longer able to drive, they will be literally stuck in the boondocks.

Has to be Moore's Cottage at Yosemite. Told this story here before. The BF witnessed it with me. The hotel just looks plain haunted when you drive up. They put us in a cottage with four rooms. There was a connecting door to the room next to us. Just as we were falling asleep there was a lot of noise coming from that room and we could see the light come on through the door edges. The voices were loud and frantic-sounding but then everything calmed down. The next day that room was empty and I asked who had been there the night before. The clerk said nobody was in the room. A couple of years later, I found a ghost story about the hotel. In the 1920s a pilot crashed his small plane on the grounds and was pulled from the wreckage and taken into Moore's cottage, in that same room next to where we stayed. The pilot died before the doctor got there and his ghost has been seen around the hotel ever since.

Just relax, R147, it was a joke. God, you big city marvels are thin skinned delicacies. Don't take yourself too seriously, do you?

Red Roof Inn, Madison, Wisconsin.

Mauthausen

[quote]Just relax, [R147], it was a joke. God, you big city marvels are thin skinned delicacies. Don't take yourself too seriously, do you?

I wasn't the douchebag who posted: "New York is over. O V E R. Over. Find me a window"

Amazing how thin skinned you flyovers are. Why don't you stay in your home states and try to get some high-paying jobs there?

There's got to be a reason why so many ex-pats and flyovers want to live in NYC. Brooklyn is now populated with tons of people who are not even from NY, let alone from the US.

NYC is not the center of the universe, go move somewhere else.

Guys, you have to tell us what is creepy about these places, not just throw a name out.

To me, creepy is scary, eerie, ominous. A lot of the places listed are just depressing or fading shadows of a former glory.

Agree that creepy is more about being ominous. Towns in decline aren’t so much creepy to me as they are just profoundly depressing. Rural inbred backwaters have more of a creep factor because they may have some really peculiar or disturbing social dynamic. The place that I was unexpectedly the most creeped out by was visiting the Nazi rally grounds in Nuremberg. Between the history and large scale, it left me with an awful vibe.

Nebraska City, Nebraska. What a depressing little shithole.

Sorry. Very early in the morning and I misread the thread title. Nebraska City isn't creepy. It's just a depressing little shithole.

R156, I can’t believe I’m seeing Nebraska City here! My mom is from there but moved straight to NYC when she was 20. Totally agree with you, there is something a spooky about it.

Even Arbor Lodge is creepy. And John Brown’s Cave is the creepiest of all.

Having grown up in a busy city, most rural areas are creepy to me. Especially certain parts of New Jersey and upstate NY.

This is very specific, but the Tacoma area of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It's just your average suburban shopping area, but I always feel uneasy when I have to go there.

Aw R39, I loved the House on the Rock when I visited it with friends. Definitely weird, but it seemed charmingly quirky rather than sinister to me.

Creepiest place I've been was a youth hostel in New Orleans that I stopped at on my way home from Florida. Instead of giving me a bed in the main house, I was put up in a deserted bunk room in what used to be a carriage house out back. Wind was whistling through cracks in the walls, everything was creaking, I couldn't relax at all. Finally I went downstairs to the kitchen and sat in a chair with my blanket wrapped around me until morning. If I'd known how the place would make me feel I would have just parked my car in a hotel parking lot and slept in it instead.

Birmingham, AL gets my vote for creepiest community I've been to. I normally have a great sense of direction, but I get lost every time I attempt to drive through it and end up spending way too much time on backroads until I find my way out. Everything looks like it's been slowly decaying since the 1950s. And I can echo R105's impression of the residents.

bump

One night, when walking east on Bourbon Street, my husband and I were enjoying the New Orleans party atmosphere of the crowd, until we went just one block too far. Suddenly, the mood changed and it was creepy. We quickly did an about face and rejoined the party.

To me.

R163, that's happened to me before. New Orleans is one of those places that goes from one type of atmosphere to very scary within a block.

I’m not that poster, but *yes* r165! New Orleans is where I almost got mugged, and it was literally one block outside the French quarter. That city is no joke, you need to know where you are going.

Relative if mine lived in Nola within walking distance to the Garden District. He said his block was pretty quiet but it was a war zone 2 blocks behind him and he was mugged twice walking from his car, parked in the street in front of his house, to his front door.

Data Lounge

R167 do you remember what streets were around him? I went to New Orleans years ago and stayed in the garden district. I went walking a few blocks away to see some historical sites and ended up where the magnolia projects once were. Around there were blocks of abandoned homes and churches. Then I wandered some more and ended up walking past a men threading another mans life for owing him money. Saying he was going to kill him if he didn’t get it to him by 11. It was surprising how close all these areas were to each other all of it was still so hauntingly beautiful.

I lived between Baronne and St Charles in the lower Garden district, right next to the Magnolia projects. I had some kids climb into my window and steal some stuff, but never got mugged. I’ve been lucky in some respects my whole life. I was friendly with the drug dealers across the street and they were always up in the wee hours when I came home from being out at clubs, I felt protected by them.

I attended a Microsoft convention in NO (TechEd). The year before I went an attendee was killed by a stray bullet when walking to the convention center. I think that was the same year everyone got food poisoning from chicken salad sandwiches.

Monte Carlo Red Cross Ball

This is going to sound odd but I found ​The National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes to be creepy. Right near a busy road but all of a sudden it got dead quiet. No cars, no birds...silence. And the air felt heavy. Very strange.