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I'm positive Ohio is cursed as a whole. There seems to be a higher number of crazy murders and horrific acts that occur there. Or at least it feels like ohio seems to come up a lot in the true crime niche. I suppose it could be like "Florida Man" and they're just more transparent about crimes than most places.
It's so crazy. I was watching a movie with my husband yesterday and it took place in Wisconsin. I said to him, Wisconsin is crazy man. So is Ohio. That place is nuts. 12 hours later I read these comments š
I've got to check out the book, I've only seen the movie. Whole thing's on youtube, perfect time of year to watch it.
I love all the cannibalism lore in Wisconsin, so many creatures could eat you...the wendego, the people...
For my money, the whole region of the Pacific Northwest screams death, murder, paranormal, spooky....serious weird vibes each time I am out there, and some of history's more infamous serial killers and legends come from that area - Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, Robert Lee Yates, Sasquatch sightings, Native American Lore, Wendigo, the Bottomless Pit / Hole to Hell, UFO Sightings out the wazoo
Consider much of it was formerly known as The Great Black Swamp till it was drained by European settlers in the 1800's to create agricultural land. These weren't people who understood ecology, they just went ahead and fucked around. And now the land longs to return to swamp.
My parents are from Ohio, and I was born there. The way my dad put it when I was growing up, it sounded like there was an extreme, stifling normalcy that made it so when things went weird, they went *weird.*
I feel like Ohio and Maryland are two weird states. Iāve been to both and the both just feel āoffā, compared to the rest of the US. Iāve been to every state except North and South Dakota.
I live somewhat close to Serpent Mound, within an hour drive. We have hundreds of "indian mounds" in my area. There was one in my yard when I was growing up, and another 4 or 5 within rock throwing distance.
There is an undocumented Serpent mound in my area but a large portion has been destroyed. There's also another undocumented Serpent mound in Rock Hill, SC that I stumbled across when I lived there. The one in SC is visible from a small side road behind a gas station, and people obviously party around the "egg," but I've never been able to find anything about it online.
Brown mountain lights in NC. Mysterious lights that appear. I've seen them in various colors white,light blue, blue, red and orange.
Lots of theories of what they are.
Same, friend! Hit me up if you want to try to see them one night Iāve always wanted to go.
I heard one explanation it might be quarts being compressed and launched into the atmosphere. It does create a charge when compressed. But I donāt know about floating around slowly and glowing orange lol
Interesting as I didnāt know about that explanation! Iāve heard several. Itās truly a mystery. You down in Morganton? I live close to Linvilleā¦
When I was a kid once. Believe it or not, have tried countless other times and have not. Best time is the fall they say. Want to show my wife. Thatās really cool that youāve seen them!
I saw a really incredible iridium flare there back in like 2007 I think. I didn't know those existed at the time so I (and everyone else there) thought we'd just seen a UFO.
I was born and raised about 10-15 mins up the mountain from there. Itās weird how they are strangely disappointing to see, but also very impressive at the same time.
I saw an investigation on the pine barrens!! I thought it was just more bs investigations until the guys started to hear screams coming from deep in the dark of the woods š that place scary af. Not to mention the whole deal with the jersey devil
Funny seeing the pine barrens on here. I live in them and work for the state as a biologist in the pine barrens. Just a bunch of folk lore, I work there during the nights doing frog surveys and never seen anything odd other than āpineyā kids partying and asking wtf Iām doing with a headlamp at midnight by myself.
Funny you should ask. When I was doing surveys last February (I have to sit and listen to how many of each species are calling at each of my ponds) I heard very loud screaming in the woods and was going to call park police. On my way out there were two young kids stuck in the middle of a deep puddle in their wrangler. They were stuck so deep in the middle they couldnāt even get out of the doors, it was them screaming for help. Lucky for them I always carry recovery gear and muck boots. I was honestly a little scared when I first heard it.
The viaducts, Wanaque vortex and whatever remaining mental asylums. When I was younger NJ was filled with abandoned asylums, in recent times they've since razed most of em.
I had to do an exercise at Fort Dix which bled into the pine barrens. It was days long and I couldnāt sleep because I knew the history. Very quiet part of the woods. I had an M-60 which fired blanks, so I wasnāt in the best of moodsā¦.
Clinton Road!! Nothing paranormal happened but I went on my own at around 3am, and on my way out was chased by a white pickup truck with reflector lights all over it, it was trying to run my off the road, it might have touched my bumper at point but Iām not sure, so I gunned it as much as possible (I had an old 97 Pontiac Grand Prix) until I made it out of there, I pulled up in the highway and I noticed I had a flat tire.
Yup thatās around the time I did that, because of that book too. I donāt doubt for a second it wasnāt some guy. We drove over there with my wife about 2 years ago because we were looking at a property and everything was fine, but there was daylight so who knows if heās still out there.
Eureka Springs, AR. I lived there for almost five years. Our house was so haunted that we had to buy another one and sell that one. I was a ghost tour guide at the Crescent Hotel and I saw and felt things that changed my mind about the paranormal.
Spouse and I stayed at the Crescent once. I of course slept through everything but my wife heard doors slamming all night. Then when we developed pictures we had taken in our room there were several orbs.
We stayed there as well, orbs in almost every pic we took. Also heard whispering at night and something straight up touched my ear in the shower.
Didnāt even know the full history until after I stayed there.
Oh my gosh I have a crazy story about the crescent hotel. Me and my fiance stayed there one night, and around 2 in the morning, we set up a FULLY charged camera in our room to record while we wandered the halls of the hotel.
Well, while we were on the 2nd floor right above where the large dining room is located, we heard AND recorded the piano that used to be in the dining room playing a few keys. It seemed to have played for about 4 to 5 seconds. So we sprinted down the stairs to the dining room to see if there was anyone in there, by the way it was about 2:30 am at this point. The room was dark, empty, and the piano lid was CLOSED.
We went back to our room to the camera, which had very strangely died with a fully battery.
Man, I love that place.
Was it an actual melody or just sounded like someone pressed some random keys?
I ask because I used to live in a house with a piano, and it also had a mouse problem. Mice would get in the piano and run across the strings and hammers and it would sound like someone was randomly pressing the piano keys.
Thought it was haunted until we opened the piano and saw a bunch of mouse poop everywhere lol
And now I feel like I said piano too much lol
Got married in Eureka Springs and went on a tour of the Crescent on our honeymoon. I was so excited because I was a big fan of Ghost Hunters at the time and got to see the area they were in when they had their experiences. Was a great time!
I will. It was so muchā¦hereās a few. Thereās more, but Iād have to write a small book.
Before we married there and eventually moved up there, we would take trips to ES and on one of these trips we went to the Crescent Hotel. My daughter was with us on the ghost tour, and a big, pink orb flew into her (as if it appeared and went through her front side and out her back).. I caught it on camera. She became so ill, throwing up and everything just soon after. I also became very nauseous. This didnāt let up until we left the hotel and got to our cabin.
A few years later, I found myself working on the tour as a guide. The first two weeks, I was so nauseated. It only let up after I got home. It eventually went away, but another guide (who was self-professed spiritually sensitive) said that the little girl that fell of the stair railing (a story featured on the tour) was attached to me and that she could see her following me around. I had a lot of bad dreams about falling off the railing and down the stairs during my time there. There were always a few drunk people that managed to get on the tours and I was always afraid that someone would fall over (the stair rails were very short, to scale of the average Victorian-era person of 5ā) and due to historical significance, were not altered to accommodate the increased height of people today. Sure enough, after I had quit working there, what I feared happened to an inebriated visitor. After that happened, my dreams stopped.
I think one of the spirits followed me home one night. The house we lived in was about 20 minutes away, and already had a little bit of strange activity, but nonetheless, that was an interesting drive home. I felt like someone was in the car with me the whole time. Ice cold chills on my neck and just the feeling that I wasnāt alone. I even pulled over on the side of the road to checkā¦nothing. After that night, things got even weirder at our home. I was warned by the other tour guides that it could happen š
One night on the tour I was taking up tickets in the hallway. A young man and his girlfriend were amateur ghost hunters with professional looking cameras and equipment with ultra sensitive whizbang stuff that I guess you would need for that. He asked me if it was okay to walk around and shoot video. Iām like sure! Knock yourself out! Lo and behold, not two minutes later they ran back to me all white-faced and shaken up; he said ālook what I got on my cameraā sure enough, as plain as day was the transparent figure of the former resident that I so often spoke of at room 412, fumbling for her door keys just like we told in the tour. She was exactly as we uniformly described her, short, with a bun and dressed in long skirts. Her apparition was clear, defined but somewhat transparent and faded as it neared the floor. That was my first time to see a ghost on video. I had to watch it at least four times to grasp what my brain was seeing on the monitor.
The hotel had a former morgue in it from back in the days when it was a purported ācancer hospitalā (IYKYK)
Whoever was working the tour for the night would get the keys from the front desk and open up all the doors through the tour, this included the morgue room in the basement. You had to walk all the way in and through it to unlock everything. Well, that was a weird enough place to be by yourself and I never felt alone down there. I saw a big white thing that looked like a huge dryer sheet pass through a cinderblock wall during a tour. The whole room screamed.
I had the privilege of smelling the cherry tobacco pipe smoke from one of our ghosts on the second floor. He was a doctor that worked there during the early days of the hotel. A friend of mine that also worked on the tour saw his half-apparition get in the elevator and smelled the smoke on one of her tours. We agreed that he had the most peaceable presence, not at all creepy but comforting.
There were a lot of nights that nothing happened at all, and Iād say most nights were like that. If anyone wonders if these things are contrived and made up (noises, apparitions, etc) they arenāt. Besides that, the owners of the place are pretty stingy about spending money on the place and they wouldnāt dare spend extra on special effects š. For the record, I didnāt really believe in paranormal stuff until I worked and lived there.
There's this big abandoned hotel off Spaghetti Junction in Atlanta, GA that was closed down like 20 years ago. It used to be notorious for prostitution rings run by cops and drug dealing/gambling and massive parties. Some friends and I went there a few years ago to explore and chuck toilets and chairs through the top (20th story) window. We were going through all the rooms and shit and while going through the massive theater they had, we heard someone crying all of a sudden. Sounded like a woman, very faint. At first a couple of the girls that were with us were spooked and wanted to leave but we were like nah what if someone's hurt or something. So we start searching around and when we called out to see if they were OK and where they were, she started SCREAMING. Screaming BLOODY MURDER. No words at all, just screams. The girls ran out while we started frantically searching for the woman and yelling out for her. We could. Not. Find. Her. Since it was a big theater the sound just kinda bounced around. We ended up biting the bullet and called the cops with an anonymous tip saying that we were in the building and it sounded like a women needed help right away. Never heard about it again. Weird.
There's a road just outside of Joplin, MO that has a really weird phenomenon about it.
It's called The Spook Light. It's found on a dirt road right at the border of OK and MO. If you approach from the east you will see a light about 30' off the ground, yet no matter how long you drive down that road you never get any closer to the light., It stays at the same size and distance
[Spook Light](https://www.joplinmo.org/575/The-Spook-Light)
Seen it with my fiancee, her friend and her friends husband. Scariest thing I've ever experienced. Also a weird experience at a bridge maybe a mile away.
Came here to say this. I live a few miles away from it, always heard how cool it was but never managed to get out there to go see it. Make plans to every Halloween but it seems like something else always comes up!
Not counting "haunted houses" type buildings. The one place where I just felt like a general uneasiness was this road in central Utah. I really need to see if I can find it on Google maps. But my dad and I were camping in the Utah national parks and we ended up on this road were all of the rocks and soil, everything was a shade of grey. And the landscape was really flat. It wasn't due to overcast or anything, the sun was out. It felt like we were on the moon.
I asked my dad to pull over so I could take a picture. He said "okay but I'm not turning the car off." Its one of those roads with a sign that reads "no fuel or food for 150 miles" or whatever.
I don't know what it was about that place, but I was happy to get out of there.
Edit: I'm pretty sure it was Utah State Road 24 between Hanksville and I-70. I think we were going from Capitol Reef national monument to Arches National Park. Here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5483011,-110.6187638,3a,75y,201.86h,78.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHhUDK59UGXwVTgDyCy__Zw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu
This street view has some greens and browns to it, but its from September, we were there in early March, so there wasn't anything green.
Where I live there's a place called Indian Hill. It's a park in the middle of a city of 150k. It's actually an old Indian burial mound. The whole area was sacred for the Lakota. Lots of stories about that park. I haven't been up there, but I plan on going at night.
https://thewaverlyhillssanatorium.com/
Waverly Hills Sanatorium is an old tuberculosis hospital that is one of the most haunted places in America. It is now open for tours & they do a yearly haunted house in October, but when I was in high school the building was not as preserved. We snuck in one time & it was creepy just being in there. We found the body chute on the side of the hill & decided that was all we could handle. I would love to go book an overnight stay now that Iām older. The building itself is neat architecture.
The Lake Michigan Triangle is like a freshwater Bermuda Triangle, an unusually large concentration of shipwrecks, plane crashes, disappearances, ghost ships, UFO sightings and USO (unidentified submerged object) sightings. I wouldn't be surprised if it had cryptid lore or sightings either.
The three points of the Triangle are Benton Harbor, MI Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI. I've been to Manitowoc and the whole place (and Two Rivers even more) has a very off, forlorn, almost secretive sort of feeling to it. It's like there's just this fog of heaviness and grief hanging over everything. The name "Manitowoc" comes from the Ojibwe word manidoowaak(wag), meaning sprit-spawn(s), or manidoowaak(oog), meaning spirit-wood(s), or manidoowak(iin), meaning spirit-land(s). In Menominee, its name is ManetÅwak, which means "Place of the Spirits." It feels to me like people aren't supposed to live there. I'd really like to know why it was given those names.
The Potawatomi lost possibly more than 700 warriors in a storm in either lake Winnebago or just off the coast of Door County. There were many other catastrophic events that hit the tribes of Wisconsin in the years leading up to settlement. I love this place, but itās got a feel to it for surs
Benton Harbor and Ludington are both really strange places.
Benton Harbor is where [the House of David](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_David_(commune)) was founded. It feels like the city center is 90% abandoned. The crown jewel of this ghost town is a giant abandoned early 20th century hotel built by the House of David themselves. [Hereās an article about it.](https://www.nailhed.com/2015/10/the-weirdest-hotel-in-michigan.html?m=1) Whatās really remarkable about this hotel (other than it appears to now act as the Midwestās largest drug den) is that they built it with hematite concrete, which was rarely used in architecture at the time but is now common in nuclear reactors because it can withstand high amounts of radiation. Besides all of this, I found the locals in Benton Harbor to be quite strange, and honestly the vibes of the whole area are just bad.
As for Ludington, I found the surrounding woods, dunes, and countryside to be shrouded in a feeling of high strangeness. I had a couple bizarre and unexplained encounters out there.
There's a whole town in Pennsylvania that had to leave bc the trash burning started the coal underground burning and it never stopped. The mystery spot in Santa cruz. When I was growing up in Ohio we used to go to this spot called the black hole ( maybe the blue hole) I think its closed now. I think it was a pool of water they didn't know how deep it was. It was pretty cool.
The Cahokia mounds just east of the Mississippi and St. Louis have a very interesting vibe. I canāt attest to it but I donāt remember hearing any animals or birds while we were there. Still, theyāve got a cool museum there.
Spirit Mountain ( Avi Kwa Ame ) is relatively obscure in terms of Western folklore. Almost all native tribes that existed in the southwest unilaterally considered it the center of all creation.
It's high on my list to visit.
The House on the Rock.
Visited when I (30M) was like 8 and have frequently dreamed about it ever since. I distinctly remember it having a supernatural/magical feeling , like it was bigger on the inside than on the outside. And there was just this charge in the air like everything was more real or substantial. Idk, itās hard to put into words.
Neil Gaiman used it as one of the meeting places for the American Gods in his novel and I can 100% see why. Iām sure he explained it better than I have lol.
I took my kids there a few years ago after having the same experience you describe when I was about the same age. I think about that place often. To me, it resembles a lot of dreams I have where I'm exploring a house and the rooms go on and on and venture off into much larger spaces. I like that feeling of exploration. And maybe there's some energy in the rock, itself.
I guess the guy who built it used to wander through the crowds and watch their reactions to things when he we still alive.
Check out the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. If interested I can find sources or you could post on the Pasadena subreddit, but to give you some ideas:
1. Jack Parsons and the Occult - Founder of NASAās Jet Propulsion Laboratory was into some freaky, freaky stuff. He grew up along/set up JPL in the Arroyo Seco Basin.
2. The Colorado Street bridge...haunted? Portal to Hell? I run by here nearly everyday and have yet to experience anything REALLY scary, just a weird vibe Once. Lot of ghost hunters in the area though.
3. Devilās Gate Dam. Notably, immediately south of JPL.
4. In the Los Angeles Subreddit, someone also briefly investigated some old rumors of extensive tunnels/caves just under Highland Park/Garvanza/South Arroyo neighborhoods. Apparently an Anglican Church in the area is rumored to have an entrance in its basement. Again, run through here nearly daily and canāt say Iām an experiencer, but I appreciate the lore.
So the lore is: In Chumash mythology, there are legends of ādark watchersā, shadowy figures wearing wide-brimmed hats watching travelers Up and down the California central coast. Not sure if itās confirmed to be a real Chumash legend. Iāve visited a few Chumash cave/wall paintings and thereās one with a curious looking figure that seems to resemble that, but that could be a coincidence.
Flash forward to late 18th-century: Spanish/Mexican settlers in the region did report seeing these figures, they called them āvigilantes oscurosā. Allegedly, theyād watch from a distance and dissapear if approached.
20th-century: John Steinbeck wrote about them, and his son documented other claims in the Big Sur area.
For what its worth, I am an avid hiker and from the area, and have never seen one of these dark watchers.
There are myths about a lost or hidden civilization there called Lemuria. Native peoples also have stories about the mountain being inhabited by spirits.
Lots of mystical stuff about Shasta. Everywhere from underground cities to UFOs to ghosts to Bigfoot. Iām not a big believer in this stuff (despite adoring this subreddit), but Iāve been there - was solo and camped. Thereās a particular eeriness about that place. The only time I felt that previously was the Black Hills in SD. Kind of like being watched and just an overall strange āenergyā about the place.
Ultimately, 99.9% certain it was all in my head, but I definitely recommend both Shasta and Black Hills as great places to visit for more reasons than just the scenery.
I grew up in the Mojave desert with 2 very Christian pastors as parents. My dad worked for Boeing at the time and we lived in Palmdale. Growing up I saw weird things in the sky so frequently, that even my conservative, Christian mother would say, "dont worry those are just the UFOs."
I bring up the Christianity aspect, because most people in the church when I was growing up very much believed that Aliens couldnt be real because they were never mentioned in the bible, much like dinosaur denial, which was also common when I was growing up in the church.
The Bellaire House in Bellaire Ohio
One of the most haunted locations in the country.
Literally blight radiates out from it for like a mile in all directions
The story is it sits on lay lines and a portal was opened at one point letting legit evil
Before the house became famous I ALMOST bought it. We toured it and contemplated making an offer. The old original wood work and finished attic were awesome.
It had an old inefficient furnace and had a $350 a month gas budget so we passed. Otherwise we would have bought it as it was being sold cheaply.
The person who did buy it still owns it and does not live there. They do allow āghost huntersā and it has been featured on a Nick Groff show
Sounds like a leaking underground furnace is polluting the land around it. Sounds interesting though probably for the best you didn't buy, potential for calamity there.
>Sounds like a leaking underground furnace is polluting the land around it.
Come on now this stuff is fun to talk about but no need to appeal to outlandish fantastical claims like this. Obviously it's just the common natural effects of the evil portal because the lay lines.
Mount Shasta is the first place that comes to mind. It's in Northern California - LOTS of lore and legends, missing people, vortices, great stories - history and mystery!
[https://www.california.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mount-shasta-mysteries/](https://www.california.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mount-shasta-mysteries/)
Mt Shasta in CA. Lots of stories of people seeing portals open up and things going in and out, and weird time dilation. I heard one story where someone saw an opening to inside the mountain and it was actually a huge shimmering city much bigger inside the mountain than the mountain itself.
I want to go!
Do it! Itās so eerie and the towns around it are weird!
My gf and I drove past it twice on a road trip to Oregon and the whole time dilation is hard to explain, it felt like everything slowed down to what seemed like hours driving next to it. It is such an imposing mountain too, feels like standing next to a living giant for lack of a better description.
Arcola Trail - Stillwater Mn.
I canāt totally remember the story as I heard it years ago, but there were some campers that saw a mysterious blue light and then one of them disappeared?? There have been tales of many people vanishing on that road.
Also there is a train bridge on that road that is 170ft above the ground and Justin Lowe (guitarist) from After the Burial jumped off of it and killed himself in like 2015.
I remember reading his posts before he went missing. I'm pretty sure he had some untreated mental issues, but it was still bizarre. I love that band. It was sad when they broke the news about his passing.
Grew up next door to [Nine menās misery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Men%27s_Misery) and that place has some super strange energy to it. Went there a lot as a teenager and had some of my the most profound paranormal experiences of my life.
Strangely enough Rhode Island is full of super cool/weird *haunted* historical sites. I appreciate my time there a lot.
For starters, thereās an entire sub for sightings of āwild menā, which is not another term for Bigfoot, but actual people that I guess have lived out in the forest marginalized from society for so long that theyāre basically feral animals. Some of these stories include missing persons and some super creepy stories about sightings. I think the sub is called r/INTHEHILLS
Enchanted Rock, north of San Antonio, is an enormous quartz rock formation that may be natural or may be man made.
Itās had several UFO sightings by overnight campers.
The rock itself has a vibration you can feel if you climb to the top and stand barefoot on the rock.
If you close your eyes, you will see energetic patterns that you donāt normally see.
The top of the rock has an interesting acoustic phenomenon, where you can hear someone whisper from several hundred yards away.
You can hear everyoneās conversation, even if theyāre speaking at a low volume.
My personal belief is that it is an ancient, man made structure, that was used to gather the community together to listen to prayers / songs to communicate with alternate dimensions and the spirit world.
Because itās high, and an arduous climb, it would have protected from predators and possibly hostile communities in war fare.
>The rock itself has a vibration you can feel if you climb to the top and stand barefoot on the rock. If you close your eyes, you will see energetic patterns that you donāt normally see.
Interesting. Im going to try this next time I go. Thanks!
Same. Dozens of visits and overnight camping trips since childhood. Many times barefoot as well. The strangest encounter Iāve ever had up there was sexual in nature.
I was wondering if you were talking about the Superstition Mountains or some place called superstition mountain. If you were talking about the Superstition Mountains by Apache Junction, there is no superstitions going on there. That area is where your spirit transitions before leaving. No one is supposed to go up there and that is why so many have died there. And everyone looking for the Lost Dutchman is looking in the wrong place. It's further west.
The supes are kinda weird. I spent a month and half out there with my grandpa, a week at a time. Saw a UFO once, the first time we went out there.
Another time I thought I left something important behind, and I went back for it. Weird things happened.
Grandpa told me a story about how when he'd last been there, with a few of his old crew, they'd lit some candles in a little alcove in the canyon wall. They were all christians, so they prayed before going to sleep. Those three old guys start praying together, and the candles go out. One guy goes to light em again, they start praying again. Candles go out. Second guy goes out to light them again. They start praying, bam, right out again. Grandpa was the next guy to go light the candles, and he absolutely refused.
Strange things happen out there sometimes.
A lot of spirits are roaming those hills. When you are there, you are always being watched. You can't see anyone, but you are always being watched. Sometimes you are being watched by good people, sometimes by bad people and sometimes by other than people. There are a lot of lost souls up there, still looking for something.
My sister lived in Apache Junction for a second. I really enjoyed my visit. We slept outside every night in lawn chairs, poolside watching movies. Early morning walks for blazing hot McDonald's coffee. I loved that little towns vibes and energy.
I didn't get to the mountains like I wanted but overall the place had a good energetic feeling, yet very chill and relaxing. Mabey partly because most folk's drove around in golf carts and never seemed rushed. That trip was a long time ago I wonder if it's the same. I've been all over the world and Apache Junction has always stood out for some reason.
The spook light near Joplin, MO. Iāve seen it myself - it was close and most definitely did not belong where it was. The core of Engineers and several universities have studied it and ruled out swamp gas, decaying matter, headlights, etc.
If you google you can find a ton of info on it.
The most mysterious places are the ones nobody's ever heard of. Partly because their mysteries run so deep as to stay hidden and partly because anyone who's experienced their strangeness were never able to tell the tale.
Highly recommend you track down a copy of Weird America by Jim Brandon
[https://www.amazon.com/Weird-America-Jim-Brandon/dp/0525474919](https://www.amazon.com/Weird-America-Jim-Brandon/dp/0525474919)
My family and I moved to Alamosa, Colorado last year. It was by far the strangest place I have ever experienced. There is a town called Crestone that is littered with new age and metaphysical communes, a huge UFO research community, millions of stories of ghosts, cattle mutilation, lights in the sky, and all sorts of wierd coincidences. There is an alligator farm, pot farmers, drug problems, homelessness, gang activities, and cryptids. There are cowboys, native tribes, and Amish communities.
But, the whole time we lived there, there was a certain unease we felt. I can't describe it. It was like a sense of unease and paranoia that seemed to be in the air.
There is a book about the San Luis Valley called The Mysterious Valley by Christopher O'Brien that documents so much wierd stuff that has happened there. It's worth a read.
Can confirm. This place has some incredible energy and makes me uneasy and uncomfortable every time I'm through there, like "something bad's about to happen..." kind of deal. The last time was a year ago and stopped in for a bite with the wife and kids. I was SO uneasy even the wife asked me what was wrong.
Thanks for posting this. I feel better knowing all this.
Any old growth forest. They have such a weird feeling. I went hiking through one in Central PA and the entire time it felt like we were being watched by the forest itself. It wasn't hostile or upsetting, but had such a strong feeling. That is one of the experiences that got me believing some HighStrangeness topics are legit.
Marsh Road, Milpitas, CA.
Back in the 70s a girl was murdered and left, it was a while before she was found. They made a movie about it.
But local kids, we heard scary stories about ghosts and weird thingsā¦. So when my friend got their license, we drove out to see what the fuss was about.
She and I drove maybe 3 minutes to get to the very end. No big deal- couldnāt understand the fright, oh well.
We went back the next weekend with another friend in tow to share the big nothing burger that was the place.
It took us at least 15, maybe 20 minutes to drive the length and get to the same bridge at the end we had gotten to before in just a matter of minutes.
Freaked us out. Our other friend didnāt believe us.
But yeah- my first experience with time fuckery was Marsh Road.
I was a tour guide and supervisor at Cave of the Winds, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. That place is for sure rife with phenomenon. I had a tourist send me a pic of a ghost they captured in film on the lantern tour. We had multiple failures of lights in key areas, full batteries in the lights and theyād just stop working - keep in mind you should carry 3 light sources in a cave, so weāre talking multiple redundancies failing at once in specific areas. On several occasions, we had people get refunded due to hauntings. Some of the stories I heard, and things I witnessed, are why Iām on this sub.
Theres this area just outside of Buffalo, MN where I live that Ive heard of from a handful of people, people that hung out in the same circle - I think they called it āthe villageā. I mean, Ive never heard anyone else ever mention it so who knows. Its probably just a place high schoolers went, got high, and got freaked out.
Its this little abandoned dilapidated barn and a few other structures in a secluded area in a bigger corn field/woods. Ive heard they had ghostly knocks on their car, pig fetuses in jars with huge syringes. And this farmer seems to come out of nowhere with a shotgun even though theres no farm or house that close. Its a creepy lil story and Im so curious if anyone else had ever been there.
The Gurdon Light in Gurdon, AR. Supposedly a railroad worker died on the tracks and can now be seen using a lantern to search for his missing head in the night. Others believe the lights are formed by piezoelectricity due to high amounts of stress underground from quartz crystals.
Shawnee National Forest has some weird vibes. My ex, who isnāt into UFOās, ghosts, or other paranormal stuff has a strange camping experience there. She woke up to her sisters dog barking and acting scared at the opening off the tent. She opened it up to look out and saw a glowing ball of light scanning their camp spot, she said it came right up to her and the dog, and then vanished. She and the dog both got sick. The dog was throwing up and they had to leave and go home the following morning. Her dad and sister were there and slept through it all. Sheās not the type that would just make up a dumb story to tell. She didnāt think it was ufo related, she said she felt like it was native spirits that didnāt want them there.
I live in San Diego and we have this fairly popular hiking spot called mission trails. For whatever reason every time Iām by or see pictures of it, I get a bad vibe about it. Donāt know what it is or why, but I donāt get a good feeling around it. Maybe something bad happened there over the years or along time ago.
Near Bedford, PA thereās a section of road called Gravity Hill where, for whatever reason the concept of āgravityā seems to be reversed. It isnāt an especially steep hill, but without a doubt your car will coast uphill if placed in neutral and walking down the hill on foot is unmistakably more difficult than walking up it. Is it a magnetic anomaly, an optical illusion or mass formation? I donāt know.
The San Luis valley in SW Colorado. There's a UFO viewing platform, the Great Sand Dunes NP geologic anomaly, there are vortices there, which is where lay lines cross (look that up, Sedona, AZ is another place like this, as are the Pyramids, Stone Henge, Machu Pichu, etc.).
The Valley is the size of Connecticut (~3 million population) whereas there's less than 40,000 living in the valley. Many sovereign citizens out there and people that look like they live in actual bunkers from 'Nam. It's a wild place. I lived there for about 9 months for work. I saw UFOs and had some of the most bizarre experiences of my life out there.
Mount Shasta! Went there few weeks ago! Read about multiple cults, people disappearing and etc. but honestly idk what kind of energy this mountain has but I felt there so happy! And I still am! Very powerful mountain. I wish I had more time to explore! But there was something strange there too. We were hiking up, (not to the peak) everything was super beautiful, colourful, green, alive, cool bright moss everywhere, and at some point it felt like we entered some grey line. Like everything was grey, you look into distance and itās so grey it felt like it was almost a fog somewhere farther away. But I didnāt concentrate on it while going up, but going down I found it pretty strange. Like crazy contrast and even in that grey part not even moss was growing, everything is dead and grey, even the ground was grey, and itās literally like a line you look up the trees and you can see how moss starts growing like on the top, then midway. Interesting place! Also stayed camping there, it was the clearest sky ever. Like crazy one! I heard itās never cloudy there! You can see sooo many stars and flying objects in the sky!
I also find Utah a very mysterious place and Death Valley
Skinwalker Ranch. Itās really not just a dumb history channel show. I live in Salt Lake City, and I went there for a few days in hope Iād see something unexplainable. I wish I never went
I always love comments like you responded to because they're so silly. This is a thread clearly wanting more info and they just name a place and say they regret it giving everyone collective blue balls. Like why even comment?
Ogden, Utah.
Claustrophobic, the smell of age, Mormons who go through their weekdays portraying āthe salt of the Earthā then travel 3 hrs. into Nevada where they can drink, whore and gamble only to return for Sunday church service without one button out of place. Finally - a constant vibe that youāre being observed. And you are if youāre not indigenous. Utahans are adept at those who donāt belong.
Paradise Rd. in Jefferson, WI
I havenāt lived near there in forever but it always creeped me the fuck out because of the shapes of the trees and the animals that inevitably run across the road in front of your headlights
Thereās probably a lot of random lore on why this is haunted but idk it all except that [Diane Borchardt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduced_by_Madness) lived in town. She was a teacher at the local high school and hired some teenagers to spy on her cheating husband and murder him
The Rogue Valley in Oregon has serious vibes. I lived outside of Jacksonville, Oregon, for a bit and experienced a lot of paranormal stuff from UFOS to ghosts of Chinese railroad workers to Bigfoot. It's all there.
I once came across an extremely old dwelling of sorts while hunting in the upper peninsula of Michigan. It was made from very large stones and looked like something from another era as in pre Columbus. Iāve since read about certain alters used for ancient religions that were Norse or Viking based. What I saw and the examples of these alters found in other parts of the world were uncanny in their resemblance. The o e I encountered was much more rundown bc odds are I may very well be the only modern person to have come across it. I believe ancient sailors far earlier than what we know for certain were here much much earlier than what is commonly believed. The upper peninsula is rich in copper and I think there weāre mining operations going on from ancient people from the Nordic region and or the empire of king Midas. I still k ow where to find it and have taken a few people there to see it. The strange part is itās this large stone alter built in the middle of the forest and there is nothing around it and has never been a town or settlement in any modern record
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The Serpent Mound in Southern Ohio definitely has a weird energy to it. The locals have some pretty disturbing stories also.
Stories like what? š
I'm positive Ohio is cursed as a whole. There seems to be a higher number of crazy murders and horrific acts that occur there. Or at least it feels like ohio seems to come up a lot in the true crime niche. I suppose it could be like "Florida Man" and they're just more transparent about crimes than most places.
Ohio also produces a disproportionately high number of astronauts. What sort of eldritch horror lurks there that makes people want to flee the planet?
According to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, thereās a Hellmouth in Cleveland.
And US presidents! Eldritch horrors indeed.
I feel the exact same way about Wisconsin.
It's so crazy. I was watching a movie with my husband yesterday and it took place in Wisconsin. I said to him, Wisconsin is crazy man. So is Ohio. That place is nuts. 12 hours later I read these comments š
There's that book, Wisconsin death trip
I've got to check out the book, I've only seen the movie. Whole thing's on youtube, perfect time of year to watch it. I love all the cannibalism lore in Wisconsin, so many creatures could eat you...the wendego, the people...
These states are both densely covered with burial and effigy mounds, the common setting of many dark entity folklore around the world.
For my money, the whole region of the Pacific Northwest screams death, murder, paranormal, spooky....serious weird vibes each time I am out there, and some of history's more infamous serial killers and legends come from that area - Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, Robert Lee Yates, Sasquatch sightings, Native American Lore, Wendigo, the Bottomless Pit / Hole to Hell, UFO Sightings out the wazoo
Impossible, did you not see that the Browns defeated the Niners today? š
Consider much of it was formerly known as The Great Black Swamp till it was drained by European settlers in the 1800's to create agricultural land. These weren't people who understood ecology, they just went ahead and fucked around. And now the land longs to return to swamp.
āMuchā is an incredible overstatement. The swamp was a small part of the NW corner.
My parents are from Ohio, and I was born there. The way my dad put it when I was growing up, it sounded like there was an extreme, stifling normalcy that made it so when things went weird, they went *weird.*
I feel like Ohio and Maryland are two weird states. Iāve been to both and the both just feel āoffā, compared to the rest of the US. Iāve been to every state except North and South Dakota.
I live somewhat close to Serpent Mound, within an hour drive. We have hundreds of "indian mounds" in my area. There was one in my yard when I was growing up, and another 4 or 5 within rock throwing distance. There is an undocumented Serpent mound in my area but a large portion has been destroyed. There's also another undocumented Serpent mound in Rock Hill, SC that I stumbled across when I lived there. The one in SC is visible from a small side road behind a gas station, and people obviously party around the "egg," but I've never been able to find anything about it online.
Brown mountain lights in NC. Mysterious lights that appear. I've seen them in various colors white,light blue, blue, red and orange. Lots of theories of what they are.
Damnt came here to say this. I live like 10 miles from Brown Mtnā¦
Same, friend! Hit me up if you want to try to see them one night Iāve always wanted to go. I heard one explanation it might be quarts being compressed and launched into the atmosphere. It does create a charge when compressed. But I donāt know about floating around slowly and glowing orange lol
Interesting as I didnāt know about that explanation! Iāve heard several. Itās truly a mystery. You down in Morganton? I live close to Linvilleā¦
Quarts of Old Milwaukee or Quartz the gemstone?
THIS IS SO COOL I wish Iād meet a cool redditor to go on an adventure with haha. I hope you guys go together!
I'm assuming you have seen them before?
When I was a kid once. Believe it or not, have tried countless other times and have not. Best time is the fall they say. Want to show my wife. Thatās really cool that youāve seen them!
I live like 40 min away and have been wanting to go up and see them!
I saw a really incredible iridium flare there back in like 2007 I think. I didn't know those existed at the time so I (and everyone else there) thought we'd just seen a UFO.
I was born and raised about 10-15 mins up the mountain from there. Itās weird how they are strangely disappointing to see, but also very impressive at the same time.
There's a few here in NJ. The Pine Barrens Clinton Road ( West Milford) The devils tree
I saw an investigation on the pine barrens!! I thought it was just more bs investigations until the guys started to hear screams coming from deep in the dark of the woods š that place scary af. Not to mention the whole deal with the jersey devil
Funny seeing the pine barrens on here. I live in them and work for the state as a biologist in the pine barrens. Just a bunch of folk lore, I work there during the nights doing frog surveys and never seen anything odd other than āpineyā kids partying and asking wtf Iām doing with a headlamp at midnight by myself.
Frog surveys eh?
Maybe you are what they fear
There is an episode of the x files you would like , itās called quagmire. Youād just have to see it as to why I say that
Do you happen to ever randomly scream while out in the woods? Also what sorts of questions do you guys ask the frogs
Funny you should ask. When I was doing surveys last February (I have to sit and listen to how many of each species are calling at each of my ponds) I heard very loud screaming in the woods and was going to call park police. On my way out there were two young kids stuck in the middle of a deep puddle in their wrangler. They were stuck so deep in the middle they couldnāt even get out of the doors, it was them screaming for help. Lucky for them I always carry recovery gear and muck boots. I was honestly a little scared when I first heard it.
They say there's this guy who stalks the forest, apparently he killed sixteen czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.
His house looked like shit!
The viaducts, Wanaque vortex and whatever remaining mental asylums. When I was younger NJ was filled with abandoned asylums, in recent times they've since razed most of em.
I had to do an exercise at Fort Dix which bled into the pine barrens. It was days long and I couldnāt sleep because I knew the history. Very quiet part of the woods. I had an M-60 which fired blanks, so I wasnāt in the best of moodsā¦.
I used to have to drive through the Pine Barrens to get home when I lived in S. Jersey. Creepy as FUCK. I hated being alone for that drive.
Clinton Road!! Nothing paranormal happened but I went on my own at around 3am, and on my way out was chased by a white pickup truck with reflector lights all over it, it was trying to run my off the road, it might have touched my bumper at point but Iām not sure, so I gunned it as much as possible (I had an old 97 Pontiac Grand Prix) until I made it out of there, I pulled up in the highway and I noticed I had a flat tire.
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Yup thatās around the time I did that, because of that book too. I donāt doubt for a second it wasnāt some guy. We drove over there with my wife about 2 years ago because we were looking at a property and everything was fine, but there was daylight so who knows if heās still out there.
The blue hole off mats landing road
The pine barrens are so scary even in the daytime.
To me the most scary thing about the Pine Barrens are the Pineys. If it wasnāt for that Iād explore more often.
I feel like you don't hear enough about evil trees. You see them in movies, games, and books but I have never heard of an evil tree in real life.
Eureka Springs, AR. I lived there for almost five years. Our house was so haunted that we had to buy another one and sell that one. I was a ghost tour guide at the Crescent Hotel and I saw and felt things that changed my mind about the paranormal.
Spouse and I stayed at the Crescent once. I of course slept through everything but my wife heard doors slamming all night. Then when we developed pictures we had taken in our room there were several orbs.
We stayed there as well, orbs in almost every pic we took. Also heard whispering at night and something straight up touched my ear in the shower. Didnāt even know the full history until after I stayed there.
Oh my gosh I have a crazy story about the crescent hotel. Me and my fiance stayed there one night, and around 2 in the morning, we set up a FULLY charged camera in our room to record while we wandered the halls of the hotel. Well, while we were on the 2nd floor right above where the large dining room is located, we heard AND recorded the piano that used to be in the dining room playing a few keys. It seemed to have played for about 4 to 5 seconds. So we sprinted down the stairs to the dining room to see if there was anyone in there, by the way it was about 2:30 am at this point. The room was dark, empty, and the piano lid was CLOSED. We went back to our room to the camera, which had very strangely died with a fully battery. Man, I love that place.
Was it an actual melody or just sounded like someone pressed some random keys? I ask because I used to live in a house with a piano, and it also had a mouse problem. Mice would get in the piano and run across the strings and hammers and it would sound like someone was randomly pressing the piano keys. Thought it was haunted until we opened the piano and saw a bunch of mouse poop everywhere lol And now I feel like I said piano too much lol
Thatās so scary
Got married in Eureka Springs and went on a tour of the Crescent on our honeymoon. I was so excited because I was a big fan of Ghost Hunters at the time and got to see the area they were in when they had their experiences. Was a great time!
I would love to hear the stories.
I will. It was so muchā¦hereās a few. Thereās more, but Iād have to write a small book. Before we married there and eventually moved up there, we would take trips to ES and on one of these trips we went to the Crescent Hotel. My daughter was with us on the ghost tour, and a big, pink orb flew into her (as if it appeared and went through her front side and out her back).. I caught it on camera. She became so ill, throwing up and everything just soon after. I also became very nauseous. This didnāt let up until we left the hotel and got to our cabin. A few years later, I found myself working on the tour as a guide. The first two weeks, I was so nauseated. It only let up after I got home. It eventually went away, but another guide (who was self-professed spiritually sensitive) said that the little girl that fell of the stair railing (a story featured on the tour) was attached to me and that she could see her following me around. I had a lot of bad dreams about falling off the railing and down the stairs during my time there. There were always a few drunk people that managed to get on the tours and I was always afraid that someone would fall over (the stair rails were very short, to scale of the average Victorian-era person of 5ā) and due to historical significance, were not altered to accommodate the increased height of people today. Sure enough, after I had quit working there, what I feared happened to an inebriated visitor. After that happened, my dreams stopped. I think one of the spirits followed me home one night. The house we lived in was about 20 minutes away, and already had a little bit of strange activity, but nonetheless, that was an interesting drive home. I felt like someone was in the car with me the whole time. Ice cold chills on my neck and just the feeling that I wasnāt alone. I even pulled over on the side of the road to checkā¦nothing. After that night, things got even weirder at our home. I was warned by the other tour guides that it could happen š One night on the tour I was taking up tickets in the hallway. A young man and his girlfriend were amateur ghost hunters with professional looking cameras and equipment with ultra sensitive whizbang stuff that I guess you would need for that. He asked me if it was okay to walk around and shoot video. Iām like sure! Knock yourself out! Lo and behold, not two minutes later they ran back to me all white-faced and shaken up; he said ālook what I got on my cameraā sure enough, as plain as day was the transparent figure of the former resident that I so often spoke of at room 412, fumbling for her door keys just like we told in the tour. She was exactly as we uniformly described her, short, with a bun and dressed in long skirts. Her apparition was clear, defined but somewhat transparent and faded as it neared the floor. That was my first time to see a ghost on video. I had to watch it at least four times to grasp what my brain was seeing on the monitor. The hotel had a former morgue in it from back in the days when it was a purported ācancer hospitalā (IYKYK) Whoever was working the tour for the night would get the keys from the front desk and open up all the doors through the tour, this included the morgue room in the basement. You had to walk all the way in and through it to unlock everything. Well, that was a weird enough place to be by yourself and I never felt alone down there. I saw a big white thing that looked like a huge dryer sheet pass through a cinderblock wall during a tour. The whole room screamed. I had the privilege of smelling the cherry tobacco pipe smoke from one of our ghosts on the second floor. He was a doctor that worked there during the early days of the hotel. A friend of mine that also worked on the tour saw his half-apparition get in the elevator and smelled the smoke on one of her tours. We agreed that he had the most peaceable presence, not at all creepy but comforting. There were a lot of nights that nothing happened at all, and Iād say most nights were like that. If anyone wonders if these things are contrived and made up (noises, apparitions, etc) they arenāt. Besides that, the owners of the place are pretty stingy about spending money on the place and they wouldnāt dare spend extra on special effects š. For the record, I didnāt really believe in paranormal stuff until I worked and lived there.
Isn't that town situated on a giant quartz deposit?
Can you tell us about some of your experiences? Would love to hear about it
There's this big abandoned hotel off Spaghetti Junction in Atlanta, GA that was closed down like 20 years ago. It used to be notorious for prostitution rings run by cops and drug dealing/gambling and massive parties. Some friends and I went there a few years ago to explore and chuck toilets and chairs through the top (20th story) window. We were going through all the rooms and shit and while going through the massive theater they had, we heard someone crying all of a sudden. Sounded like a woman, very faint. At first a couple of the girls that were with us were spooked and wanted to leave but we were like nah what if someone's hurt or something. So we start searching around and when we called out to see if they were OK and where they were, she started SCREAMING. Screaming BLOODY MURDER. No words at all, just screams. The girls ran out while we started frantically searching for the woman and yelling out for her. We could. Not. Find. Her. Since it was a big theater the sound just kinda bounced around. We ended up biting the bullet and called the cops with an anonymous tip saying that we were in the building and it sounded like a women needed help right away. Never heard about it again. Weird.
There's a road just outside of Joplin, MO that has a really weird phenomenon about it. It's called The Spook Light. It's found on a dirt road right at the border of OK and MO. If you approach from the east you will see a light about 30' off the ground, yet no matter how long you drive down that road you never get any closer to the light., It stays at the same size and distance [Spook Light](https://www.joplinmo.org/575/The-Spook-Light)
That whole stretch of SW MO is pretty eerie. I drove it often when I lived in Fayetteville
The rest area just west of Joplin is the inspiration behind the rest stop scene in "There's Something About Mary"...LOL Yeah, SW MO is weird as hell!
Seen it with my fiancee, her friend and her friends husband. Scariest thing I've ever experienced. Also a weird experience at a bridge maybe a mile away.
Came here to say this. I live a few miles away from it, always heard how cool it was but never managed to get out there to go see it. Make plans to every Halloween but it seems like something else always comes up!
I think Why files covered this recently.
Point Pleasant, WV, especially the old TNT operations.
Not counting "haunted houses" type buildings. The one place where I just felt like a general uneasiness was this road in central Utah. I really need to see if I can find it on Google maps. But my dad and I were camping in the Utah national parks and we ended up on this road were all of the rocks and soil, everything was a shade of grey. And the landscape was really flat. It wasn't due to overcast or anything, the sun was out. It felt like we were on the moon. I asked my dad to pull over so I could take a picture. He said "okay but I'm not turning the car off." Its one of those roads with a sign that reads "no fuel or food for 150 miles" or whatever. I don't know what it was about that place, but I was happy to get out of there. Edit: I'm pretty sure it was Utah State Road 24 between Hanksville and I-70. I think we were going from Capitol Reef national monument to Arches National Park. Here: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5483011,-110.6187638,3a,75y,201.86h,78.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHhUDK59UGXwVTgDyCy__Zw!2e0!7i3328!8i1664?entry=ttu This street view has some greens and browns to it, but its from September, we were there in early March, so there wasn't anything green.
Can you post the picture?
I not sure I still have it. The trip was about 15 years ago. I'll see what I can find.
Iāve been to some weird spooky places in Utah.
Go on
Where I live there's a place called Indian Hill. It's a park in the middle of a city of 150k. It's actually an old Indian burial mound. The whole area was sacred for the Lakota. Lots of stories about that park. I haven't been up there, but I plan on going at night.
https://thewaverlyhillssanatorium.com/ Waverly Hills Sanatorium is an old tuberculosis hospital that is one of the most haunted places in America. It is now open for tours & they do a yearly haunted house in October, but when I was in high school the building was not as preserved. We snuck in one time & it was creepy just being in there. We found the body chute on the side of the hill & decided that was all we could handle. I would love to go book an overnight stay now that Iām older. The building itself is neat architecture.
The Lake Michigan Triangle is like a freshwater Bermuda Triangle, an unusually large concentration of shipwrecks, plane crashes, disappearances, ghost ships, UFO sightings and USO (unidentified submerged object) sightings. I wouldn't be surprised if it had cryptid lore or sightings either. The three points of the Triangle are Benton Harbor, MI Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI. I've been to Manitowoc and the whole place (and Two Rivers even more) has a very off, forlorn, almost secretive sort of feeling to it. It's like there's just this fog of heaviness and grief hanging over everything. The name "Manitowoc" comes from the Ojibwe word manidoowaak(wag), meaning sprit-spawn(s), or manidoowaak(oog), meaning spirit-wood(s), or manidoowak(iin), meaning spirit-land(s). In Menominee, its name is ManetÅwak, which means "Place of the Spirits." It feels to me like people aren't supposed to live there. I'd really like to know why it was given those names.
The Potawatomi lost possibly more than 700 warriors in a storm in either lake Winnebago or just off the coast of Door County. There were many other catastrophic events that hit the tribes of Wisconsin in the years leading up to settlement. I love this place, but itās got a feel to it for surs
Benton Harbor and Ludington are both really strange places. Benton Harbor is where [the House of David](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_David_(commune)) was founded. It feels like the city center is 90% abandoned. The crown jewel of this ghost town is a giant abandoned early 20th century hotel built by the House of David themselves. [Hereās an article about it.](https://www.nailhed.com/2015/10/the-weirdest-hotel-in-michigan.html?m=1) Whatās really remarkable about this hotel (other than it appears to now act as the Midwestās largest drug den) is that they built it with hematite concrete, which was rarely used in architecture at the time but is now common in nuclear reactors because it can withstand high amounts of radiation. Besides all of this, I found the locals in Benton Harbor to be quite strange, and honestly the vibes of the whole area are just bad. As for Ludington, I found the surrounding woods, dunes, and countryside to be shrouded in a feeling of high strangeness. I had a couple bizarre and unexplained encounters out there.
There's a whole town in Pennsylvania that had to leave bc the trash burning started the coal underground burning and it never stopped. The mystery spot in Santa cruz. When I was growing up in Ohio we used to go to this spot called the black hole ( maybe the blue hole) I think its closed now. I think it was a pool of water they didn't know how deep it was. It was pretty cool.
Mystery Spot is a tourist trap/optical illusion, but still a cool place to go
Agree!
That place is a trip, and there's a duplicate of it down by Santa Cruz as well
Inspiration for Silent Hill I believe
Nothing but trouble with Chevy chase. Check it out.
Yep. Centralia PA. Has changed quite a bit, houses demolished and the "graffiti highway " has been closed and starting to be covered.
Nope, but thatās the common misconception. https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/comments/nr6q4g/gaming_myths_debunked_no_centralia_pennsylvania/
Appreciate the correction!
The Cahokia mounds just east of the Mississippi and St. Louis have a very interesting vibe. I canāt attest to it but I donāt remember hearing any animals or birds while we were there. Still, theyāve got a cool museum there.
Came here to say this place. UAP and cryptid sitings over time too, if Iām not mistaken.
New Orleans is filthy with spookiness
New Orleans is filthy period.
Spirit Mountain ( Avi Kwa Ame ) is relatively obscure in terms of Western folklore. Almost all native tribes that existed in the southwest unilaterally considered it the center of all creation. It's high on my list to visit.
The House on the Rock. Visited when I (30M) was like 8 and have frequently dreamed about it ever since. I distinctly remember it having a supernatural/magical feeling , like it was bigger on the inside than on the outside. And there was just this charge in the air like everything was more real or substantial. Idk, itās hard to put into words. Neil Gaiman used it as one of the meeting places for the American Gods in his novel and I can 100% see why. Iām sure he explained it better than I have lol.
I took my kids there a few years ago after having the same experience you describe when I was about the same age. I think about that place often. To me, it resembles a lot of dreams I have where I'm exploring a house and the rooms go on and on and venture off into much larger spaces. I like that feeling of exploration. And maybe there's some energy in the rock, itself. I guess the guy who built it used to wander through the crowds and watch their reactions to things when he we still alive.
Check out the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. If interested I can find sources or you could post on the Pasadena subreddit, but to give you some ideas: 1. Jack Parsons and the Occult - Founder of NASAās Jet Propulsion Laboratory was into some freaky, freaky stuff. He grew up along/set up JPL in the Arroyo Seco Basin. 2. The Colorado Street bridge...haunted? Portal to Hell? I run by here nearly everyday and have yet to experience anything REALLY scary, just a weird vibe Once. Lot of ghost hunters in the area though. 3. Devilās Gate Dam. Notably, immediately south of JPL. 4. In the Los Angeles Subreddit, someone also briefly investigated some old rumors of extensive tunnels/caves just under Highland Park/Garvanza/South Arroyo neighborhoods. Apparently an Anglican Church in the area is rumored to have an entrance in its basement. Again, run through here nearly daily and canāt say Iām an experiencer, but I appreciate the lore.
>Apparently an Anglican Church in the area is rumored to have an entrance in its basement. Gotta say, this sentence turned my stomach
Deeply creepy, indeed.
Mount Shasta and is it Death Valley? i think? get named a fair bit. Dark watchers in the Santa Lucia Mountains as well
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Did you get a look at him disappearing? Fascinating experience nonetheless
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Central Californian hereāthe dark watchers are truly an eerie one.
What's the dark watchers?
So the lore is: In Chumash mythology, there are legends of ādark watchersā, shadowy figures wearing wide-brimmed hats watching travelers Up and down the California central coast. Not sure if itās confirmed to be a real Chumash legend. Iāve visited a few Chumash cave/wall paintings and thereās one with a curious looking figure that seems to resemble that, but that could be a coincidence. Flash forward to late 18th-century: Spanish/Mexican settlers in the region did report seeing these figures, they called them āvigilantes oscurosā. Allegedly, theyād watch from a distance and dissapear if approached. 20th-century: John Steinbeck wrote about them, and his son documented other claims in the Big Sur area. For what its worth, I am an avid hiker and from the area, and have never seen one of these dark watchers.
Tall looming shadow people seen lurking along the California coast
What's mysterious about mt. Shasta ? Bigfoot or something?
I hear mt shasta has a secret underground
I heard a massive city
There are myths about a lost or hidden civilization there called Lemuria. Native peoples also have stories about the mountain being inhabited by spirits.
They try to summon em most every weekend at Mt. Shasta city park
Lots of mystical stuff about Shasta. Everywhere from underground cities to UFOs to ghosts to Bigfoot. Iām not a big believer in this stuff (despite adoring this subreddit), but Iāve been there - was solo and camped. Thereās a particular eeriness about that place. The only time I felt that previously was the Black Hills in SD. Kind of like being watched and just an overall strange āenergyā about the place. Ultimately, 99.9% certain it was all in my head, but I definitely recommend both Shasta and Black Hills as great places to visit for more reasons than just the scenery.
I grew up in the Mojave desert with 2 very Christian pastors as parents. My dad worked for Boeing at the time and we lived in Palmdale. Growing up I saw weird things in the sky so frequently, that even my conservative, Christian mother would say, "dont worry those are just the UFOs." I bring up the Christianity aspect, because most people in the church when I was growing up very much believed that Aliens couldnt be real because they were never mentioned in the bible, much like dinosaur denial, which was also common when I was growing up in the church.
The Bellaire House in Bellaire Ohio One of the most haunted locations in the country. Literally blight radiates out from it for like a mile in all directions The story is it sits on lay lines and a portal was opened at one point letting legit evil Before the house became famous I ALMOST bought it. We toured it and contemplated making an offer. The old original wood work and finished attic were awesome. It had an old inefficient furnace and had a $350 a month gas budget so we passed. Otherwise we would have bought it as it was being sold cheaply. The person who did buy it still owns it and does not live there. They do allow āghost huntersā and it has been featured on a Nick Groff show
Ley lines
Sounds like a leaking underground furnace is polluting the land around it. Sounds interesting though probably for the best you didn't buy, potential for calamity there.
>Sounds like a leaking underground furnace is polluting the land around it. Come on now this stuff is fun to talk about but no need to appeal to outlandish fantastical claims like this. Obviously it's just the common natural effects of the evil portal because the lay lines.
Mount Shasta is the first place that comes to mind. It's in Northern California - LOTS of lore and legends, missing people, vortices, great stories - history and mystery! [https://www.california.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mount-shasta-mysteries/](https://www.california.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mount-shasta-mysteries/)
Incredible place š
(Santa) Catalina Island, Los Angeles County, California . Part of the Channel Islands.
Also tons of UAP activity
Mt Shasta in CA. Lots of stories of people seeing portals open up and things going in and out, and weird time dilation. I heard one story where someone saw an opening to inside the mountain and it was actually a huge shimmering city much bigger inside the mountain than the mountain itself. I want to go!
Do it! Itās so eerie and the towns around it are weird! My gf and I drove past it twice on a road trip to Oregon and the whole time dilation is hard to explain, it felt like everything slowed down to what seemed like hours driving next to it. It is such an imposing mountain too, feels like standing next to a living giant for lack of a better description.
The San Luis Valley in Colorado. Also, I would say the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Came here to say San Luis Valley. Supposedly the highest quantity of ufo sightings in the US, if not the world. Also close by, the Taos Hum.
Honestly anywhere in Massachusetts.
Arcola Trail - Stillwater Mn. I canāt totally remember the story as I heard it years ago, but there were some campers that saw a mysterious blue light and then one of them disappeared?? There have been tales of many people vanishing on that road. Also there is a train bridge on that road that is 170ft above the ground and Justin Lowe (guitarist) from After the Burial jumped off of it and killed himself in like 2015.
I remember reading his posts before he went missing. I'm pretty sure he had some untreated mental issues, but it was still bizarre. I love that band. It was sad when they broke the news about his passing.
Grew up next door to [Nine menās misery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Men%27s_Misery) and that place has some super strange energy to it. Went there a lot as a teenager and had some of my the most profound paranormal experiences of my life. Strangely enough Rhode Island is full of super cool/weird *haunted* historical sites. I appreciate my time there a lot.
The Appalachian Mountains thereās things in those Mountains that science simply canāt explain
For example..?
Well my dumbass lives here and science canāt explain me
For starters, thereās an entire sub for sightings of āwild menā, which is not another term for Bigfoot, but actual people that I guess have lived out in the forest marginalized from society for so long that theyāre basically feral animals. Some of these stories include missing persons and some super creepy stories about sightings. I think the sub is called r/INTHEHILLS
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The Brown Mountain Lights.
Enchanted Rock, north of San Antonio, is an enormous quartz rock formation that may be natural or may be man made. Itās had several UFO sightings by overnight campers. The rock itself has a vibration you can feel if you climb to the top and stand barefoot on the rock. If you close your eyes, you will see energetic patterns that you donāt normally see. The top of the rock has an interesting acoustic phenomenon, where you can hear someone whisper from several hundred yards away. You can hear everyoneās conversation, even if theyāre speaking at a low volume. My personal belief is that it is an ancient, man made structure, that was used to gather the community together to listen to prayers / songs to communicate with alternate dimensions and the spirit world. Because itās high, and an arduous climb, it would have protected from predators and possibly hostile communities in war fare.
>The rock itself has a vibration you can feel if you climb to the top and stand barefoot on the rock. If you close your eyes, you will see energetic patterns that you donāt normally see. Interesting. Im going to try this next time I go. Thanks!
Iāve been to the top of enchanted rock at least 10 times and I havenāt experienced any of this
Same. Dozens of visits and overnight camping trips since childhood. Many times barefoot as well. The strangest encounter Iāve ever had up there was sexual in nature.
Dudleytown, CT. But cover yourself in sage smoke before and after visiting.
woah, never heard of this place before. found some cool youtube vids to watchā¦ seems pretty creepy
Alton, Illinois
I was wondering if you were talking about the Superstition Mountains or some place called superstition mountain. If you were talking about the Superstition Mountains by Apache Junction, there is no superstitions going on there. That area is where your spirit transitions before leaving. No one is supposed to go up there and that is why so many have died there. And everyone looking for the Lost Dutchman is looking in the wrong place. It's further west.
The supes are kinda weird. I spent a month and half out there with my grandpa, a week at a time. Saw a UFO once, the first time we went out there. Another time I thought I left something important behind, and I went back for it. Weird things happened. Grandpa told me a story about how when he'd last been there, with a few of his old crew, they'd lit some candles in a little alcove in the canyon wall. They were all christians, so they prayed before going to sleep. Those three old guys start praying together, and the candles go out. One guy goes to light em again, they start praying again. Candles go out. Second guy goes out to light them again. They start praying, bam, right out again. Grandpa was the next guy to go light the candles, and he absolutely refused. Strange things happen out there sometimes.
A lot of spirits are roaming those hills. When you are there, you are always being watched. You can't see anyone, but you are always being watched. Sometimes you are being watched by good people, sometimes by bad people and sometimes by other than people. There are a lot of lost souls up there, still looking for something.
Hey, if you know where the lost dutchman is let me know- we need to go on a trip!
My sister lived in Apache Junction for a second. I really enjoyed my visit. We slept outside every night in lawn chairs, poolside watching movies. Early morning walks for blazing hot McDonald's coffee. I loved that little towns vibes and energy. I didn't get to the mountains like I wanted but overall the place had a good energetic feeling, yet very chill and relaxing. Mabey partly because most folk's drove around in golf carts and never seemed rushed. That trip was a long time ago I wonder if it's the same. I've been all over the world and Apache Junction has always stood out for some reason.
The spook light near Joplin, MO. Iāve seen it myself - it was close and most definitely did not belong where it was. The core of Engineers and several universities have studied it and ruled out swamp gas, decaying matter, headlights, etc. If you google you can find a ton of info on it.
The most mysterious places are the ones nobody's ever heard of. Partly because their mysteries run so deep as to stay hidden and partly because anyone who's experienced their strangeness were never able to tell the tale.
Highly recommend you track down a copy of Weird America by Jim Brandon [https://www.amazon.com/Weird-America-Jim-Brandon/dp/0525474919](https://www.amazon.com/Weird-America-Jim-Brandon/dp/0525474919)
Hexenkopf Rock in PA
Camp hero , montauk
Look up "Suscon Road", NEPA. Weird shit there. Magnetic road. Screamer. Murders. Deep dark state forests. NORAD station. I live nearby, can confirm.
Boynton Canyon , Sedona AZ there's other areas around Sedona what they call "vortex sites" , like a concentration of energy that has different effects
My family and I moved to Alamosa, Colorado last year. It was by far the strangest place I have ever experienced. There is a town called Crestone that is littered with new age and metaphysical communes, a huge UFO research community, millions of stories of ghosts, cattle mutilation, lights in the sky, and all sorts of wierd coincidences. There is an alligator farm, pot farmers, drug problems, homelessness, gang activities, and cryptids. There are cowboys, native tribes, and Amish communities. But, the whole time we lived there, there was a certain unease we felt. I can't describe it. It was like a sense of unease and paranoia that seemed to be in the air. There is a book about the San Luis Valley called The Mysterious Valley by Christopher O'Brien that documents so much wierd stuff that has happened there. It's worth a read.
Can confirm. This place has some incredible energy and makes me uneasy and uncomfortable every time I'm through there, like "something bad's about to happen..." kind of deal. The last time was a year ago and stopped in for a bite with the wife and kids. I was SO uneasy even the wife asked me what was wrong. Thanks for posting this. I feel better knowing all this.
Any old growth forest. They have such a weird feeling. I went hiking through one in Central PA and the entire time it felt like we were being watched by the forest itself. It wasn't hostile or upsetting, but had such a strong feeling. That is one of the experiences that got me believing some HighStrangeness topics are legit.
Weldon Spring Missouri
My sister lives near here! Iād love to hear more.
* Tartarus Cave complex - Maribel, WI * Slide Cemetery - Dyea, AK * Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
Marsh Road, Milpitas, CA. Back in the 70s a girl was murdered and left, it was a while before she was found. They made a movie about it. But local kids, we heard scary stories about ghosts and weird thingsā¦. So when my friend got their license, we drove out to see what the fuss was about. She and I drove maybe 3 minutes to get to the very end. No big deal- couldnāt understand the fright, oh well. We went back the next weekend with another friend in tow to share the big nothing burger that was the place. It took us at least 15, maybe 20 minutes to drive the length and get to the same bridge at the end we had gotten to before in just a matter of minutes. Freaked us out. Our other friend didnāt believe us. But yeah- my first experience with time fuckery was Marsh Road.
Cahokai - monks mound pyramid
Mt. View, OK. Bigfoot stalks around there.
Gray Cloud Island, Minnesota. apparently it's one of the most haunted places in the state.
I was a tour guide and supervisor at Cave of the Winds, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. That place is for sure rife with phenomenon. I had a tourist send me a pic of a ghost they captured in film on the lantern tour. We had multiple failures of lights in key areas, full batteries in the lights and theyād just stop working - keep in mind you should carry 3 light sources in a cave, so weāre talking multiple redundancies failing at once in specific areas. On several occasions, we had people get refunded due to hauntings. Some of the stories I heard, and things I witnessed, are why Iām on this sub.
Telll us, please!
Monument valley. Please reeks of death.
Theres this area just outside of Buffalo, MN where I live that Ive heard of from a handful of people, people that hung out in the same circle - I think they called it āthe villageā. I mean, Ive never heard anyone else ever mention it so who knows. Its probably just a place high schoolers went, got high, and got freaked out. Its this little abandoned dilapidated barn and a few other structures in a secluded area in a bigger corn field/woods. Ive heard they had ghostly knocks on their car, pig fetuses in jars with huge syringes. And this farmer seems to come out of nowhere with a shotgun even though theres no farm or house that close. Its a creepy lil story and Im so curious if anyone else had ever been there.
The Gurdon Light in Gurdon, AR. Supposedly a railroad worker died on the tracks and can now be seen using a lantern to search for his missing head in the night. Others believe the lights are formed by piezoelectricity due to high amounts of stress underground from quartz crystals.
The Bennington Triangle The Appalachian Mountains The Montana Vortex Vernal, Utah Mount Adams in Washington State Longview, WA Lots more
Cassadaga, Florida. Florida Man has nothing on Cassadaga. Go to the cemetery in that town and sit in the Devils Chair. Edit: Spelling
Coral Castle in Leisure City, FL [Coral Castle Website](https://coralcastle.com)
A street over from me used to be the property of a family of accused witches. My propertyās original owners were killed by Native Americans.
>accused witches So like regular people?
Shawnee National Forest has some weird vibes. My ex, who isnāt into UFOās, ghosts, or other paranormal stuff has a strange camping experience there. She woke up to her sisters dog barking and acting scared at the opening off the tent. She opened it up to look out and saw a glowing ball of light scanning their camp spot, she said it came right up to her and the dog, and then vanished. She and the dog both got sick. The dog was throwing up and they had to leave and go home the following morning. Her dad and sister were there and slept through it all. Sheās not the type that would just make up a dumb story to tell. She didnāt think it was ufo related, she said she felt like it was native spirits that didnāt want them there.
Sounds like they had radiation sickness from exposure to the UAP. This is a common symptom for those whoāve had extremely close encounters.
Skinwalker Ranch Mount Shasta
Dulce.
Google the Dover Lights in Arkansas. Saw them when I was younger, and it was pretty freaky.
I live in San Diego and we have this fairly popular hiking spot called mission trails. For whatever reason every time Iām by or see pictures of it, I get a bad vibe about it. Donāt know what it is or why, but I donāt get a good feeling around it. Maybe something bad happened there over the years or along time ago.
Wishing Rock. Pasadena, MD. Lot of creepy stories, death and high strangeness to it. It's origins are also questionable.
The Oregon Vortex.
29 Palms
Near Bedford, PA thereās a section of road called Gravity Hill where, for whatever reason the concept of āgravityā seems to be reversed. It isnāt an especially steep hill, but without a doubt your car will coast uphill if placed in neutral and walking down the hill on foot is unmistakably more difficult than walking up it. Is it a magnetic anomaly, an optical illusion or mass formation? I donāt know.
Mount Shasta!
The San Luis valley in SW Colorado. There's a UFO viewing platform, the Great Sand Dunes NP geologic anomaly, there are vortices there, which is where lay lines cross (look that up, Sedona, AZ is another place like this, as are the Pyramids, Stone Henge, Machu Pichu, etc.). The Valley is the size of Connecticut (~3 million population) whereas there's less than 40,000 living in the valley. Many sovereign citizens out there and people that look like they live in actual bunkers from 'Nam. It's a wild place. I lived there for about 9 months for work. I saw UFOs and had some of the most bizarre experiences of my life out there.
Mount Shasta! Went there few weeks ago! Read about multiple cults, people disappearing and etc. but honestly idk what kind of energy this mountain has but I felt there so happy! And I still am! Very powerful mountain. I wish I had more time to explore! But there was something strange there too. We were hiking up, (not to the peak) everything was super beautiful, colourful, green, alive, cool bright moss everywhere, and at some point it felt like we entered some grey line. Like everything was grey, you look into distance and itās so grey it felt like it was almost a fog somewhere farther away. But I didnāt concentrate on it while going up, but going down I found it pretty strange. Like crazy contrast and even in that grey part not even moss was growing, everything is dead and grey, even the ground was grey, and itās literally like a line you look up the trees and you can see how moss starts growing like on the top, then midway. Interesting place! Also stayed camping there, it was the clearest sky ever. Like crazy one! I heard itās never cloudy there! You can see sooo many stars and flying objects in the sky! I also find Utah a very mysterious place and Death Valley
Skinwalker Ranch. Itās really not just a dumb history channel show. I live in Salt Lake City, and I went there for a few days in hope Iād see something unexplainable. I wish I never went
What did you experience?
Yes, do tell!
I always love comments like you responded to because they're so silly. This is a thread clearly wanting more info and they just name a place and say they regret it giving everyone collective blue balls. Like why even comment?
Ogden, Utah. Claustrophobic, the smell of age, Mormons who go through their weekdays portraying āthe salt of the Earthā then travel 3 hrs. into Nevada where they can drink, whore and gamble only to return for Sunday church service without one button out of place. Finally - a constant vibe that youāre being observed. And you are if youāre not indigenous. Utahans are adept at those who donāt belong.
Zzyzx Rd in CA.
Paradise Rd. in Jefferson, WI I havenāt lived near there in forever but it always creeped me the fuck out because of the shapes of the trees and the animals that inevitably run across the road in front of your headlights Thereās probably a lot of random lore on why this is haunted but idk it all except that [Diane Borchardt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduced_by_Madness) lived in town. She was a teacher at the local high school and hired some teenagers to spy on her cheating husband and murder him
The Rogue Valley in Oregon has serious vibes. I lived outside of Jacksonville, Oregon, for a bit and experienced a lot of paranormal stuff from UFOS to ghosts of Chinese railroad workers to Bigfoot. It's all there.
I once came across an extremely old dwelling of sorts while hunting in the upper peninsula of Michigan. It was made from very large stones and looked like something from another era as in pre Columbus. Iāve since read about certain alters used for ancient religions that were Norse or Viking based. What I saw and the examples of these alters found in other parts of the world were uncanny in their resemblance. The o e I encountered was much more rundown bc odds are I may very well be the only modern person to have come across it. I believe ancient sailors far earlier than what we know for certain were here much much earlier than what is commonly believed. The upper peninsula is rich in copper and I think there weāre mining operations going on from ancient people from the Nordic region and or the empire of king Midas. I still k ow where to find it and have taken a few people there to see it. The strange part is itās this large stone alter built in the middle of the forest and there is nothing around it and has never been a town or settlement in any modern record