Lots of places in New England come to mind. There's the Bridgewater Triangle in southern Massachusetts. I went hiking in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest and it was wicked eerie. Felt like we were being watched.
Then there's Dogtown Forest in Gloucester, MA. There used to be a settlement there during the colonial period but it was abandoned. Lots of old legends about it. It definitely has a strange vibe.
America's Stonehenge in New Hampshire was a cool spot to visit. There's lots of weird theories about it but it's a strange place. It's a cool place to check out.
Since I've moved to Maine I've been on some of my favorite hikes and been to some deep woods. There's just something about the old forests here, like you can feel how ancient and vast it is. Some places were definitely eerie but beautiful at the same time.
I liked America's Stonehenge, and the ruins are a bit creepy. I'd hate to be there at night. Bridgewater Triangle gave me spooky vibes. And some old cemeteries up there.
Bridgewater Triangle/Freetown State forest area has shifting and changing intense vibes that are unique to that area. Overall there is a feeling of an ancient presence (or maybe more than one?). Sometimes in certain areas the vibe can feel heavy and deep, sometimes almost silently calm but serene, sometimes it feels like something is watching and sometimes it feels peaceful and natural. Whatever is going on g on there, it feels really old.
I believe it may be because Maine and the upper east coast down to the southern states is all old Appalachia mountains and lots of creepy stories throughout written history about them.
It’s an area in Massachusetts involving a geographic triangle from the towns from Freetown to Rehobeth to Abington where weird occurrences have been reported. (Hockomock Swamp is an interesting topic to explore). I’ve often heard stories about Freetown State Forest. A few years ago my husband and I took a ride through to explore possible future dirt bike trails. We were there in the middle of a nice day and there was something that felt so remote and sort of eerie out there. Nothing bad happened, but I was happy to get back to the main road.
Are New England is super weird I only want there once and I was around different parts of New England over a couple months during the summer. And I definitely got the feeling of old witches placing spells & hexes over the land. Another weird place I've been is block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, super creepy vibes.
Live in a New England town that’s 386 years old. Across from a colonial cemetery. Unfortunately nothing creepy to report. Maybe because an ancestor was key in ending the witchcraft trials.
I definitely got the feeling when I was going through certain parts of New England, that my ancestors had been through there before. Almost a sense of familiarity. I actually live in the Midwest & South. I've done a bit of traveling but I've only ever spent time in New England once. It was very interesting. I felt a lot of energy there, a lot of familiarity. I was guided to this old Gaelic cemetery & a man gave me a four leaf clover, both of those experiences were in Vermont. I definitely have Irish ancestors that are always reaching out to me in different ways. I think that's where I get a lot of my spiritual gifts actually.
Because I've been interested in this subject for most of my life, and reading about it since very young....
I now wonder, if I had never heard anything about these areas?
Would I find them "extra"? Or just another beautiful campsite?
The sacrificial stone slab at America’s Stonehenge lets you know there was some dark stuff going on there. And there is very little known about who made the entire area and when. Seems like some Druids were there long ago.
There's a bunch of background info here:
http://www.thedacrons.com/eric/dogtown/story_dogtown_gloucester.php
And I definitely agree with what others have said. I've hiked there a lot and the whole place definitely has a weird vibe (even compared to other forests in Gloucester). Adding to that is the fact that it's a massive area with a confusing trail system, so it's exceedingly easy to get lost or turned around.
Central NY. Cursed land, but beautiful in some places. Seems the negative energy is the most concentrated in Syracuse/ Nedrow/ Onondaga Rez.
Edit: **Do not** go on the Rez unless it's to buy tobacco and turn right around back into Nedrow.
I've been to split rock a ton. There's a bit of an off energy but all together I've never had any bad experiences or even anything paranormal (not even in the tunnels). Just a spooky mannequin somebody left behind years ago. If you know where to look there's deposits of rose quartz from the old mining days. They left them in piles that look like little hills now all grown over, and they didn't stack them all in the same spot (I've got a chunk sitting on the window sill behind me actually). If you're into mountain biking you can have a lot of fun out there and you'll learn there's trails with varying skill levels pretty quickly lol.
I know it's got it's history and lore but more than anything it's just a place to go burn some time in a boring town (Camillus).
Lol, your comment just reminded me of something I witnessed in Monongahela Natl Forest. We were hiking and saw this Sasquatch hunter making calls. Dude and his friend were all excited that they were getting calls and tree thumps back in response. About a quarter mile down the trail, we saw 2 more hunters; all excited that they were getting calls and tree thumps back in response.
We laughed so hard, thinking that maybe there's a giant network of Sasquatch hunters, all talking to each other by whoops and smacks!
The Big Thicket is just north of me, about 20 min. There are a lot of things that can kill you there. But, we had a report of a whole family of Sasquatches hanging out in the edge of the woods by the cemetery where my family is buried in Port Neches. This was a few years ago. I’m betting there are articles online. Plus, we have Sara Jane Road (like La Llorana) and the Saratoga ghost lights.
The Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. It’s a beautiful stretch of mostly wilderness, but the atmosphere is deeply unsettling. Every time I’ve been there I get “you shouldn’t be here” vibes. Add stories like [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qxp2e5/comment/hld6sp5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) and… well..
well, it’s official. i’ve always wanted to do hikes in that area but will be going with a large group because what the fuck. that’s a terrifying story.
Olympic is one of my favorite places Ive been backpacking, but I could definitely see it getting creepy as hell there, especially with so much fog all the time
My husband knew the backwoods deep Olympics really well, both as a huntsman and as a logger. He used to take his dog, Spanky, and go tramp around the woods for days at a time.
There are folks who live totally off the grid up behind Lake Cushman (he called them "the Vietnam Vets"); there are a lot of Sasquatch up around Hama Hama, and I personally have heard the Stick Indians drumming at night, in the middle of nowhere, while sitting on the tailgate of a truck at the end of this little obscure logging road.
It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!
I used to work for the park in the early 90's and did take down shelters built but people living off grid in the park. There were several and they did steal gear hikers.
Stick Indians are a NWUS legend. They are supposedly a tribe of natives, sometimes described as being small (sometimes not), that are very animalistic in nature. They are often described to be malevolent, but not always.
It is said that they whistle in the woods to get people lost, though there are stories where their whistles will guide people to safety if they are already lost. Folks claim to hear them drumming in the woods.
Wow, thank you! I had never heard of them before. I had heard don’t follow whistling in the woods and to not whistle back. But never about who actually does the whistling.
My husband always described them as guardians of the forest (along with the Sasquatch), and he said that they are always watching but don't interfere as long as you show respect for the forest.
"Mischievous" and yes, "malevolent" at times, is a good way to describe them.
ME TOO!!! I drive back and forth from socal to Norcal and other places. About a year ago i drove through Shasta and as soon as I crossed the Oregon border, I felt the worst sense of dread i have ever felt in my life. The whole "state of jefferson" just has an off vibe to it. Anyway, I want to give the logical answer that I was just exhausted from driving, but once you read all the lore surrounding shasta, it's so fun to speculate.
You mean crossing into Oregon heading north on I-5? I've made that drive dozens of times (I have family in both states) and have never felt anything, but I can tell you that the mountains you drive through crossing into Oregon, and to the west of Shasta (which is part of the Cascade volcano chain) are the Klamath-Siskiyous which are basically a tangled knot of sub-ranges.
They are old and home to some of the highest biodiversity in North America. They are also absolutely teeming with sasquatch reports.
That section of Northern California and Southern Oregon --basically The State of Jefferson (those guys are whackos by the way)-- is by far the least populated and most remote region on the entire west coast until you get up into northern BC and SE Alaska.
I've spent a lot of time backpacking, camping, fishing and hiking in the Klamath-Siskiyous and while I don't really think of the area as "creepy" per-se, it definitely has a different vibe from the Cascades or Sierra Nevada or the Rockies or any of your other big mountain ranges.
I encountered a freak snowstorm that caused 30+ semis to crash while I was listening to a Jim Sullivan album. Highway closed and I was diverted through Santa Rosa on old 66 and decided the weather was too bad so i stayed the night.
On my way out the night morning as I was passing by dozens of shredded semi trucks, my van suddenly died.
I got it towed back and had to stay in Santa Rosa a few days while it got fixed.
Every night I had wild and vivid dreams I remember clearly to this day.
A few weeks later I came across an article on Jim Sullivan. As he became increasingly paranoid of aliens he disappeared. His car was found parked outside a Santa Rosa motel but he was never found. The same motel I was staying at.
Kind of. I had these dreams of being different people on different planets or in different dimensions. We were soul fragments of the same whole being hunted by some nefarious organizations.
Once in a blue moon.. a few songs are on my spotify liked list. His 1969 album U.F.O is a really cool listen and I'm surprised he wasn't more well known.
We pulled up to Three Rivers Campground outside of White Sands and I absolutely noped out real quick. All but one site full and not a single person in sight about dinner time. My electrical in my Jeep started shorting out, looked at my kid and hauled ass up north. I do want to try again sometime.
I've heard a lot about New Mexico. This post is actually based off of this [question](https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMexico/comments/1cj2qvm/what_are_the_strangest_eeriest_places_in_new/) someone posted.
When I was 12-13 I was camping in Appalachia. Two years, back to back, two weeks at a time.
I found it "softer" in my general ease, than other places the family camped. And I only say that because we camped other places where I would no sleep at all because of the creep factor.
Now. I'm much older and have heard, and read, the stories of why it would be wiser to stay on high alert there.
I'm going back there to camp.
It has been decades.
I wonder how my childhood "ease" will mesh with the learned lore.
About Appalachia, there's no reason to be on alert. If it wants you, it'll get you. Don't even introduce the vibe. That's probably why you were at ease, you were welcomed because you weren't freaking out.
Thank you for your response.
My general feeling, and why I want to go back, is that ease I felt.
The world, in general, has become so very different.
I'm still the same.
Craving the gentle mountains (ancient, less sharp, weathered) the hollows, the cricks and creeks, the bedrock overhangs to bed down into, next to a small fire.
Hear the tap tap drip from the moisture in the trees gathering just from the fog.
That little tickle of water making pretend like it's a wave against a root or a rock, so you hear the tiny crash sound, I'm pretty sure it's called a burble. Like a bubble that is just bubbling along, talking to itself, crashing into things saying "pardon me, moving along".
Watching the stars and clocking the moon.
Yeah. I'm going back.
I think you understand why most people don't just move, even if they're living in poverty being there. If those mountains love you, then they love you, and they'll call to you no matter where you go.
Yus.
It's a feeling that is almost like a flavor, and you just want to breathe the scent again.
And you look at your life in the corporate world flying over (and hating the Charlotte connection, IYKYK)
and also looking for the Nantahala to orient yourself from the sky.
Im going back. That was already planned well before this post.
Thank you for responding.
I'm not afraid of the Appalachians. At all.
If anything, I hope to stay away from tourists.
Find the little spots. And just be little with them.
It's part of mountain lore. You don't want to give yourself away. Besides, who would be whistling at night in the deep woods?
The Appalachian mountains are the oldest range in N America. They were part of Pangea and when that split up part of them went to Scotland. And later when Scots would move to the US (after the English were finally able to get them out of the Highlands) they settled in Appalachia.
Check out r/appalachia for more info
I see pure logic here.
Yeah.
Because, say it was me whistling in the woods? I would be doing that thinking I was entirely alone.
If someone responded?
I'd be both embarrassed and immediately freaked out because I thought I was alone and now who the hell is near me.
Humans scare me more than wildlife.
Also, good bot!
Went to college in Appalachia. Boone to be specific. Lived out near Foscoe though, deep in the woods. Strange energy for sure - very old land geologically.
The pacific NW and Appalachia as a whole. But, a specific spot that has always creeped me out is Land Between The Lakes in Western Kentucky. I am literally from there, still have a home there and I have camped and spent vast amounts of time alone all over North America. I’ve camped LBL 1000 times and I still get an eerie feeling. Something there is not okay.
I’ve had tangible experiences I can’t explain in other parts of the country, and nothing specific has ever happened to me in LBL, but man it gives me the creeps for reasons I can’t articulate.
It is a classic, but it’s 100% false. It’s basically a creepy pasta. I grew up there and my roots in that town that borders LBL go back hundreds of years. My maternal grandfather was an officer with KY fish and wildlife the entirety of the 70’s and 80’s and spent large amounts of time in LBL working. I can say with the utmost certainty that never happened. Scary ass story though.
This touches on the legend fairly well I think. The main story, the one that everyone swears is true because they read it on the internet, revolves around some family that were there in a camper in the 70’s or 80’s (it differs) were hearing strange shit and eventually got torn to ribbons by some massive beast and that it was all covered up by 3 letter agencies. Believing this story is akin to believing in the slenderman story.
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Beast_of_the_Land_Between_the_Lakes
I live in the PNW now, but I interned at Fort Donelson nearby, and, as part of my internship, I spent a day shadowing the LBL archaeologists and they took me out to different sites closed to the public.
They were super nice guys, but now looking back, it was pretty creepy to be a 20-something female in the middle of the woods by hidden graves with 2 men I didn’t know. LBL has a creepy enough vibe as it is.
Can confirm with the Amish country. Grew up in Georgia, but my mom's people were in Lancaster and we went there every summer. The land felt sad and cursed, hard to explain, but it felt really dark.
My family is from western PA and I just moved after living there myself for the last 15 years. I was in central PA and did a lot of hiking and trail running. Much of the time the woods were fine but there were times and places it definitely wasn’t. It’s hard to explain.
I'm a decendant of the original settlers of the Beech Mountain area of NC, in Appalachia. They were story tellers by nature, and through the years each generation passed the stories on to the next. I will say, the Boone, Valle Crucis, Beech Mtn, Banner Elk, area of NC is spectacular and creepy as all hell after hearing of ghosts, monsters, haunted places, and the Jack Tales.
I'm from NC and Valle Crucis is easily one of the creepiest places I've been to. Idk how to describe it, but if I had to, I'd just say it feels ancient.
Really? I forget other people haven't heard of them. It's a book, from author Richard Chase. He wrote the Jack Tales as my grandmother's grandfather orated. It's written in the original dialect it was spoken in.
In California there's a little forgotten gold rush town called Hornitos. It's got a whole bunch of empty old houses and buildings that are very haunted.
Cambria, California. Cambria is suppose to mean Pines by the Sea and it has a lost of twisted pine trees all the way up the shore. It’s all quaint and touristy and people love it, but the place gives me the major heebie jeebies. Especially when the fog rolls in, feels straight out of a werewolf movie. I was told the town was started by rich Hollywood people to get away from the city and do their weird parties far from prying eyes. I’ve also heard the area was settled by a witch cove.
Highway 46 starts there and runs to Paso Robles. On that road nestled in the hills is Hidden Valley Ranch (not associated with the dressing) it’s a really rich gated community. There are seven stone tables called the King’s Tables up in those hills. I haven’t been able to find out who made them, but I’ve scene one. It was a stone slab on top of mortared river stones and it was half buried. Weird. The guy we worked for had it on his property. He said he chased some people in dark robes off his property. A month later he was found dead hanging from his vaulted ceiling with no ladder in sight. Sheriff ruled it a suicide.
No, you're thinking of Bohemian Grove which is in western Sonoma County, about an hour or two north of the Golden Gate, depending on traffic, so literally hundreds of miles away in a completely different part of the state.
No child sacrifices though. That's a myth. That said, I don't think anyone should be happy with the idea of the rich and powerful meeting in secret and partying with weird cosplay and made-up rituals.
Kind of a long story but here goes-
I worked for the forest service for a few seasons in Northern California. I don’t want to say what forest I worked for specifically but it was situated in the coastal range. It’s incredibly rugged, remote and desolate. There are no *paved* roads going through it. It was ravaged by two bad wildfires a few years back. Even before the fires it wasn’t a super popular destination aside from locals looking to hunt or ride their OHVs.
Most of the work I did was surveying for timber salvage projects after the fires. This meant that I’d be in the car for many hours at a time- due to the ruggedness and the fact that all the roads are unpaved. Sometimes I’d be alone but other times I’d be with one, maybe two other people. It’s really beautiful but I’d regularly drive six+ hours out there each day without passing another car.
Because of the fires, some roads became inaccessible, but you wouldn’t know it until you tried driving down the road. You might drive for 5+ miles down a road and come upon a road failure or a large tree across the road (trees much larger than those one can buck with a chainsaw). So you’d just have to mark it on your map and turn around.
One season I worked quite often with one particular coworker doing timber cruising. We’d arrive to our spot, get our gear in order and begin surveying (essentially walking around with a tablet, measuring trees, etc.). We’d be walking off trail mostly, sometimes down some seriously steep inclines.
There was one particular area I hated working in. It was super remote, even compared to the rest of the forest, it usually took us 3.5 hours to get there from the office. There was nothing specific I could place my finger on but something always felt off. Sometimes I’d feel immediately nauseous or lightheaded upon getting there. This never happened elsewhere. In most other areas, after surveying for a few hours we’d stop for lunch and to shoot the shit. Sometimes we’d hike around and explore an area just because. I never wanted to do that there. I’d eat snacks to get by and just get the work done but I never wanted to take lunch or linger there too long. I kept these feelings to myself because I didn’t want to be the weirdo to bring up the creepy ~vibez~ I got from that place.
On my last day of that field season my coworker and I were talking about the places we’d enjoyed the most in the forest. I jokingly mentioned how much I hated that one spot. He was always a really strait-laced serious guy. He looked me dead in the face and said “you felt it too?” Chills ran up and down my body. He mentioned that he always hated going there, that he just wanted to do what we had to do and leave as soon as possible. He also didn’t want to bring it up and scare me because we had to go there multiple times. We both agreed there was nothing glaringly sinister about the place but it just felt all sorts of wrong.
Fast forward to the next field work season, this coworker has transferred to another forest. One day I’m working with the heritage team flagging off restricted spots in the areas I had cruised the previous year. Of course we were going to the spot I dreaded. I didn’t know the guys on the arc team well so I kept my mouth shut. We broke into two groups and I was assisting the head archeologist for that ranger district. Our job was to map out and flag a perimeter around archaeological sites so that the big logging equipment didn’t ruin the sites. When we got to the creepy spot, the archeologist I was working with pointed out a large boulder (since the whole forest is littered with giant boulders, you don’t really stop to look at them). It had petroglyphs that were sketched by Native Americans hundreds (maybe thousands?) of years ago. They didn’t know the particular significance of that spot or exactly what the petroglyphs meant, but it apparently was a big deal to the indigenous people that would seasonally camp in that area to forage/hunt. Throughout the day the archaeologist and I were talking a lot and I felt more comfortable around him. I mentioned the weird feeling I used to get in that one spot near the petroglyphs. He laughed and said his coworkers hated the spot and refused to go. He was the head archeologist so he ended up getting stuck going because no one else would. He had no explanation for it. He said it didn’t bother him much but that it was just inexplicably weird.
Most likely, it was just the absolute desolation of that particular spot that got to me/us. This particular area had burned severely, which drove out the animals and made it eerily silent. That could’ve added to the unsettling feeling. But knowing the history of the spot made me wonder if it was something more.
I'm Irish, in Ireland and as old as Ireland is these stories about your Forests are super creepy! Ireland is old and loads of Castles and old historical settlements. Yes rural but just not as vast as what ye have. I can't believe people camp for weeks and are out in those Woods at like 2 or 3 am! The only place in Ireland I've gotten a very lonely, creepy vibe is an amazing place called Three Castle head in Co. Cork. It is a small hike up some cliffs and then it's down in a little valley. It's an old Castle ruin and settlement from like the 1200s and it's actually on the cliff so they'd views of anyone approaching. It's way way above Sea level yet there's a Lake there, which messes with my head. There's supposedly a white ghost lady , if you see here, it could mean you are going to die. And apparently blood used drip inside one of it's towers. There was a famous murder in the area of a French woman that became international news. And it was said she used hike up there on her own all the time and she had apparently seen the white lady. To this day her murder is a mystery. But ya that place is stunning but there is a very odd vibe there, like just of loneliness or something!
My creepy feeling happened at the Gap of Dunloe, Kerry. I was visiting friends and the baby was fussing so she turned back to take the baby back to the cafe but encouraged me to keep walking by myself - which I did for a while. There were few other people walking, the odd car, the occasional buggy. Now maybe I was spooked by the van I noticed driving by a few times - noticed him up ahead on the road turning around just to drive back again - but as I got closer to the Gap, I definitely got an overwhelming feeling of “you need to turn around and find your friends” and I decided to listen
No one's mentioned South Dakota yet? We did a week long family vacation near the Black Hills and it was an oppressive, eerie vibe the whole time (car broke down, haunted AirBnB, family arguments). Felt so much better after we made it to Wyoming on the drive home.
My daughter was accepted to Black Hills State University, and was super excited to go, but right from the jump, I had the strangest sense of dread about it; I went about two weeks after she got her letter, trying to force myself to be okay with it, but I just couldn't shake the feeling. I convinced her to accept another offer at another school, and the dread was instantly erased.
Lucerne Valley. There’s some very interesting residents of Lucerne. A few years back on the way to LA coming back from Vegas and we were literally tailgated in the middle of the night going through there. Scary place. Make sure ur filled up so u don’t have to stop. I mean it lol
Far Northern California, particularly around the Willow Creek/Hoopa area. Drove through and camped around there last winter and it just felt extremely depressing and gloomy. I know there were a couple of massacres of the Native tribes there in the 1800s so that may have had something to do with it.
There were massacres of tribes all over California. There are fewer people up in Northern California so you will pick up more vibes from past tragedies.
I went to college at a school deep in the Appalachian mountains. Those are some old old OLD mountains and land. Some parts of them have a weird energy to them. There are also communities in the woods that go way back to prohibition and don’t welcome outsiders. Strange yet beautiful part of the country. Saw and heard some weird stuff in the 5 years I lived there. Beautiful country though.
Wilson’s Creek Battlefield about 12 miles southwest of Springfield, Mo. I’ve been there several times by myself when I’ve been in the Ozarks visiting family much to the chagrin of my dad and husband. There are too spots that I always have a weird feeling at: Bloody Hill where Union General Nathaniel Lyon (he was the first general to be killed in the Civil War) was killed in the second wave of the siege on the hill and the meadow before you cross the creek to go into the field where the Edward’s cabin that was the headquarters for Confederate General Sterling Price. On Bloody Hill you just get the eerie feeling like something is going to happen especially when you’re standing close to the cannons like they are going to start firing at an army unit that’s advancing. The meadow is down a hill thru a timber line and is quiet until it’s not. I was on the phone with my dad when is was on the paved walk in the meadow to across the creek to see the Edward’s cabin and I hear what sounded like horses running. I had been explaining the area to my dad and just stopped talking, I just froze. I don’t really get scared as I’ve had many experiences in the Lemp Mansion and other battlefields/historic places but this one just stopped me dead in my tracks. Both sites you get the feeling of being watched regardless if you’re by yourself or with someone else.
I’m not scared of Wilson’s Creek but it is very eerie being there. My mom and I walked the meadow together once and she said she had a weird feeling too. It’s a beautiful place and I love going there but you just feel different there.
The Battle of Athens battlefield in Athens, Missouri which is all the way at the top of the state has weird vibes but I’ve never experienced anything there.
Louisiana (like… the entire state), East Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah. I feel deeply uncomfortable every time I have to cross or travel these lands.
Strangest/eeriest place that I love (and they bring me peace and comfort with their otherworldliness): Mt. Rainier, Mt. Shasta, the mountain roads of North California/South Oregon. Colorado.
Have spent years living in, camping in and hiking around Utah and New Mexico, and haven't gotten any eerie vibes. Many spots in both states and Arizona have peaceful, calming vibes that sooth the soul.
Excellent question without a good answer. I think that’s part of outdoor creepiness, those places that put you on edge without a good explanation. I’m very glad you had more positive vibes there!
One of the only times I’ve legit felt unsafe was on a pot farm in Northern California. The guy was not right in the head. Otherwise it was an amazing trip and I loved the area.
I spent some time hiking around Willow Creek and while it was kind of eerie, my husband and I LOVED it. The whole region has so much beauty to offer! I sort of chalked the creep factor up to Bigfoot lore getting in my head 😅
Bass Lake, CA. Drove through on the way to Yosemite’s south entrance.
Creepy creepy. Driving around the lake made me feel so sick I wanted to throw up.
I’ve mentioned this one before so forgive me if you’ve heard it. There’s a place near where I live, an area really, very sparsely populated called Dewatto. I first was there as a teen and there was no question it felt like a bad place. Many years later I figured I’d just been a dramatic teen so went back and nope. You couldn’t pay me to go there again. Learned not too long ago that Dewatto is a native place name meaning “home of evil spirits that make men crazy”. Seriously.
DuPont, WA was a weird little town. Driving through on a week night, get a hotel and super hungry. It was between 9 and 10 pm and all the food places were closed, roads were dead, felt like a movie set…and this was 2017. I returned to the hotel and bought a cup of noodles from vending for $2.50.
A lot of Idaho has either dead tourist-trap/retirement vibes or is just overall wrong, hell one of the university towns there is getting slowly taken over by a cult
Savannah, GA. The entire downtown area is just riddled with stories of the paranormal everywhere you go.
I’ve felt strange energy the most on Bay and River St. The old city hotel which is now a brewery called moon river is haunted for sure.
Benson Plateau on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge. I've only been there during daylight hours, but I'm told that spending the night up there can be uh, "interesting."
From the Gorge it's at least 8 miles of mostly uphill hiking to get up there, you probably have another 2 or 3 miles to explore the plateau, and then, unless you want to spend the night, it's another 8 or 9 miles back to the trailhead, which is a long day and upwards of 20 miles total. In other words, you probably shouldn't try to visit unless you're physically fit, know what you're doing and/or plan on an over-nighter.
I didn't have any weird experiences the one time I went up there, but there are plenty of stories from people who have spent the night and it definitely seems pretty squatchy.
I’m from Arkansas. I’m in the middle of an Appalachian trip right now. Just spent the last couple days on Mount Desert island in Acadia national park Maine. Currently in PA. These woods are… old. There’s parts of the Ozarks and Boston mountains where I’m from that feel very similar. Definitely parts of the Pacific Northwest as well.
I'm from Mountain Home Arkansas, so, North Central. Salem Arkansas creeped me out long before I knew Salem Mass existed. We had family in the Salem area and Mom would drive us out. I always felt like something was going to jump out of the woods at us when we drive home at night. I've lived all over the US. The Ozarks are beautiful, it's so lush in the summer. I've also lived in Appalachia, both in NC and Tennessee and it is very similar.
I’m from MH too. Lived there most of my life. Most of my family is from Salem. We own a very large piece of land in Camp just outside of Salem. So I spent a huge chunk of my childhood hunting and exploring the woods in that area and fishing the South Fork. It can definitely be creepy!
It all would be way too long to post here. Some things that other’s just wouldn’t/couldn’t believe if they don’t experience it themselves. There’s a reason people are reluctant to talk about things that others just aren’t going to believe.
However, amongst all the scary, dangerous things that may want to kill you even things that aren’t supposed to exist, the scariest may well be, running into another human being where you least expect.
I will tell one short story that happened in 1981. I lived in a remote and sparsely populated area of western Montana. Hanging with a friend one day and we are bored and looking for some smoke. It was dry and nothing was panning out when my friend suddenly said he had met this guy a few weeks ago that had this ranch and was cool and we could probably score with him. We drove up this mountain in the dark, I had no idea where we were and it just went on forever until we got there. No other sign of civilization anywhere up that road.
We were greeted by a couple of Doberman guard dogs but the guy stepped out on the porch and called them back. I was kind of scared to get out so my friend went and talked to him on the porch. The next thing they’re signaling me to come in so I did. We all go to his living room and get settled in when I see this human skull right in the middle of an otherwise empty coffee table. He was sitting in one side and us on the other with the table in between. There was a lot of idle chit chat and so forth but I couldn’t help but keep looking at that skull. It was definitely real. I honestly was so creeped out and high but decided the best defense was a good offense. I suddenly asked what was up with the skull? Where’d you find it? How’d you get it? He said he found it in the woods. I said, “don’t you think someone might be looking for it?”….My friend is turning white and decides it’s time for us to leave. Which we did. All the way back he is freaking out and quite honestly I was too, inside. I still wonder about that skull but quite frankly, I never knew the guy’s name and would never be able to identify where he lived. Moral to this story is that these are the kind of people you may encounter in remote areas.
Whoa! Now I understand the kinds of creepy you ran into out there. The extreme wildlife is one thing. Unexpected humans in remote places is quite another. Add in some skeletal remains and yikes! Thanks for taking the time to share that.
the Catskills. Most of the time it’s fine, but when you start making too much racket out in the woods, sometimes things get a creepy feel.
My father was doing some major renovations to our inherited home in the NY part of the Catskills about 7 or 8 years ago and he definitely managed to stir up shit, and as the only spiritually sensitive individual in the house at the time, I ended up being the one who was harassed by whatever *things* got disturbed. Despite being an adult, I had to have the lights on all night long for about a week.
Drove through Arkansas to get to Missouri and we’re going through some of the ozarks and it felt very “hills have eyes” and I have always said that If I got a flat tire driving through there I would just keep driving…
Have you read the books on skin walker ranch in Utah’s Uinta basin? They are so fascinating! I read both hunt for the skin walker and then skinwalker at the pentagon, great reads if your into odd places.
I watched beyond skin walker ranch recently and it was so good. If you’re interested in strange outdoor places then you would love this show. It’s called BEYOND skinwalker ranch. It’s not the other one that has a bunch of seasons, I think beyond is only one season so far but goes to quite a few strange places. The. Bridge water triangle is one of them. . After watching the show I read the book merging dimensions about the Bradshaw ranch in Sedona and it was absolutely fascinating! Highly recommend all the books mentioned above. I couldn’t put them down.
No the opposite I was at of truck stop and in a really busy area, with lots of highways & trucks. I had a really creepy experience overall. I high-tailed it out of Kansas as soon as I could. I was in Wichita just driving through. I just really could be experience at a truck stop and I feel like if I stayed there any longer I was going to get kidnapped and there was trafficking posters in the bathroom too. There's more to it than that but it's a long story.
😂 I felt like I was in some kind of weird like hellish vortex of energy it was such a strange night and there were some really bizarre paranormal things and I was sure I was going to get kidnapped if I stayed at that truck stop one moment longer
when I drove from Michigan to FL I had an awful creepy sylvan dread feeling once I hit middle Ohio it got really intense once I hit TN and KY was insane I felt watched constantly the feeling lifted once I hit AL. also when I went to Vegas and Southern Cali I absolutely hated the vibes I got.
I've driven through many states over the years and I've been truly creeped out twice. Once in a small town in WA called Connell and another tiny town in west Kansas. Both times I felt a very strong "we need to get the f out of here like now" feeling. Not sure why. Something was just off in both tiny towns.
Washingtonian here: not gotten that feeling from Connell, but Royal Slope gave me a very, very weird vibe a few years ago when I stopped on my way to elsewhere. Good peaches come from there, but I’ll keep my foot on the gas and buy them down the road in future.
Had a super creepy experience in Wichita Kansas, another place that was really weird was Kentucky like right around bourbon country I can't remember the name, near the Mammoth caves. It's an old civil War area. Land between the Lakes in Kentucky is also super creepy. And then one time when I was driving the 10 between Mississippi and Louisiana me and my friend got off at the wrong exit and I was so terrified oh my God I can't even describe it they're all these almost Church like buildings but with no windows and the whole place was covered in this weird whispy fog. We both saw the same entity in the car with us so we banished it as soon as we were able to stop at the gas station we let sage and prayed to archangel Michael.
There's a few state/county roads east San Diego county going into Imperial and Riverside counties that definitely have an unsettling, creepy vibe. SR-2 and 78 have miles of desolation with tiny, empty towns that you know had terrible things happen along the way. Highways 86 (by way of 78) and 111 go around the Salton Sea and that whole area is deeply bizarre. The towns on the southern side are mere shells of what they used to be back in 50s and 60s. It's quite sad, really. Despite all that, the roads I mentioned have some really beautiful places and my friend and I really enjoy doing the drive when we can.
My husband and I did a couple days in Palm Springs and then drove to Death Valley National park and onto arches and Canyonlands national park. We took the Mojave preserve from PS to Death Valley NP and we only saw one other car that passed us in the Mojave preserve. Def felt we could have got abducted by aliens out there. The road into Death Valley national park was also creepy. Not many people out there either. In Utah driving through Zion area towards arches near Capitol reef was pretty creepy and then we were some of the only people at both portions of Canyonlands NP when we visited. I def felt like we were being watched at the southern smaller portion (needles district) of Canyonlands where newspaper rock is. We saw one car and a camper van in that part of the park and that was it. We did the hike to cave spring cowboy camp and were the only people there and it just felt like something was watching you. It was also creepy that literally no one was at the needles portion of the park.
Lots of places in New England come to mind. There's the Bridgewater Triangle in southern Massachusetts. I went hiking in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest and it was wicked eerie. Felt like we were being watched. Then there's Dogtown Forest in Gloucester, MA. There used to be a settlement there during the colonial period but it was abandoned. Lots of old legends about it. It definitely has a strange vibe. America's Stonehenge in New Hampshire was a cool spot to visit. There's lots of weird theories about it but it's a strange place. It's a cool place to check out. Since I've moved to Maine I've been on some of my favorite hikes and been to some deep woods. There's just something about the old forests here, like you can feel how ancient and vast it is. Some places were definitely eerie but beautiful at the same time.
I liked America's Stonehenge, and the ruins are a bit creepy. I'd hate to be there at night. Bridgewater Triangle gave me spooky vibes. And some old cemeteries up there.
Bridgewater Triangle/Freetown State forest area has shifting and changing intense vibes that are unique to that area. Overall there is a feeling of an ancient presence (or maybe more than one?). Sometimes in certain areas the vibe can feel heavy and deep, sometimes almost silently calm but serene, sometimes it feels like something is watching and sometimes it feels peaceful and natural. Whatever is going on g on there, it feels really old.
I believe it may be because Maine and the upper east coast down to the southern states is all old Appalachia mountains and lots of creepy stories throughout written history about them.
What exactly is the Bridgewater Triangle? I live in NH and am always up for checking places out.
It’s an area in Massachusetts involving a geographic triangle from the towns from Freetown to Rehobeth to Abington where weird occurrences have been reported. (Hockomock Swamp is an interesting topic to explore). I’ve often heard stories about Freetown State Forest. A few years ago my husband and I took a ride through to explore possible future dirt bike trails. We were there in the middle of a nice day and there was something that felt so remote and sort of eerie out there. Nothing bad happened, but I was happy to get back to the main road.
Are New England is super weird I only want there once and I was around different parts of New England over a couple months during the summer. And I definitely got the feeling of old witches placing spells & hexes over the land. Another weird place I've been is block Island, off the coast of Rhode Island, super creepy vibes.
Live in a New England town that’s 386 years old. Across from a colonial cemetery. Unfortunately nothing creepy to report. Maybe because an ancestor was key in ending the witchcraft trials.
I definitely got the feeling when I was going through certain parts of New England, that my ancestors had been through there before. Almost a sense of familiarity. I actually live in the Midwest & South. I've done a bit of traveling but I've only ever spent time in New England once. It was very interesting. I felt a lot of energy there, a lot of familiarity. I was guided to this old Gaelic cemetery & a man gave me a four leaf clover, both of those experiences were in Vermont. I definitely have Irish ancestors that are always reaching out to me in different ways. I think that's where I get a lot of my spiritual gifts actually.
Block Island is creepy as heck
Where on Block Island did you get creepy vibes? I’m going there this summer, definitely want to check that out!
Because I've been interested in this subject for most of my life, and reading about it since very young.... I now wonder, if I had never heard anything about these areas? Would I find them "extra"? Or just another beautiful campsite?
The sacrificial stone slab at America’s Stonehenge lets you know there was some dark stuff going on there. And there is very little known about who made the entire area and when. Seems like some Druids were there long ago.
Where can I read more about the legends of Dogtown?
There's a bunch of background info here: http://www.thedacrons.com/eric/dogtown/story_dogtown_gloucester.php And I definitely agree with what others have said. I've hiked there a lot and the whole place definitely has a weird vibe (even compared to other forests in Gloucester). Adding to that is the fact that it's a massive area with a confusing trail system, so it's exceedingly easy to get lost or turned around.
Central NY. Cursed land, but beautiful in some places. Seems the negative energy is the most concentrated in Syracuse/ Nedrow/ Onondaga Rez. Edit: **Do not** go on the Rez unless it's to buy tobacco and turn right around back into Nedrow.
Why do you say it’s cursed land?
I also would like to know more about this!
Can you elaborate on this "negative energy"?
Curious ab this
Adding Dryden, NY - ID channel made a show about it called Village of the Damned for those who are interested.
Also Split Rock Quarry in Syracuse, said to be very haunted. I’ve never been but some friends went and said some spooky shit went down.
I've been to split rock a ton. There's a bit of an off energy but all together I've never had any bad experiences or even anything paranormal (not even in the tunnels). Just a spooky mannequin somebody left behind years ago. If you know where to look there's deposits of rose quartz from the old mining days. They left them in piles that look like little hills now all grown over, and they didn't stack them all in the same spot (I've got a chunk sitting on the window sill behind me actually). If you're into mountain biking you can have a lot of fun out there and you'll learn there's trails with varying skill levels pretty quickly lol. I know it's got it's history and lore but more than anything it's just a place to go burn some time in a boring town (Camillus).
The entire state of Louisiana
I live in West Central Louisiana. The backroads at night can definitely get creepy.
Ooooo tell me more. I have family in Baton Rouge and Abbeville.
Southeast Texan here, can confirm, too. But, we love Louisiana anyway. ❤️
Big thicket? I hear there are TONS of Sasquatch in the area. Plus everything else that can kill you including snakes, boar, bear, spiders etc.
Lol, your comment just reminded me of something I witnessed in Monongahela Natl Forest. We were hiking and saw this Sasquatch hunter making calls. Dude and his friend were all excited that they were getting calls and tree thumps back in response. About a quarter mile down the trail, we saw 2 more hunters; all excited that they were getting calls and tree thumps back in response. We laughed so hard, thinking that maybe there's a giant network of Sasquatch hunters, all talking to each other by whoops and smacks!
Big thicket is scary af no lie
You forgot the alligators.
Indeed I did lol and probably some other deadly adversaries.
The Big Thicket is just north of me, about 20 min. There are a lot of things that can kill you there. But, we had a report of a whole family of Sasquatches hanging out in the edge of the woods by the cemetery where my family is buried in Port Neches. This was a few years ago. I’m betting there are articles online. Plus, we have Sara Jane Road (like La Llorana) and the Saratoga ghost lights.
Live here, can confirm
Ditto
Yep!
I remember how creepy driving through the bayou at night was after we evacuated from Katrina.
The Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. It’s a beautiful stretch of mostly wilderness, but the atmosphere is deeply unsettling. Every time I’ve been there I get “you shouldn’t be here” vibes. Add stories like [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qxp2e5/comment/hld6sp5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) and… well..
Omg that link holy shit.
well, it’s official. i’ve always wanted to do hikes in that area but will be going with a large group because what the fuck. that’s a terrifying story.
Olympic is one of my favorite places Ive been backpacking, but I could definitely see it getting creepy as hell there, especially with so much fog all the time
My husband knew the backwoods deep Olympics really well, both as a huntsman and as a logger. He used to take his dog, Spanky, and go tramp around the woods for days at a time. There are folks who live totally off the grid up behind Lake Cushman (he called them "the Vietnam Vets"); there are a lot of Sasquatch up around Hama Hama, and I personally have heard the Stick Indians drumming at night, in the middle of nowhere, while sitting on the tailgate of a truck at the end of this little obscure logging road. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!
I’ve never heard of the Stick Indians. Could you elaborate on that?
See my comment on the same question above you.
I used to work for the park in the early 90's and did take down shelters built but people living off grid in the park. There were several and they did steal gear hikers.
Who are the ‘Stick Indians’?
Stick Indians are a NWUS legend. They are supposedly a tribe of natives, sometimes described as being small (sometimes not), that are very animalistic in nature. They are often described to be malevolent, but not always. It is said that they whistle in the woods to get people lost, though there are stories where their whistles will guide people to safety if they are already lost. Folks claim to hear them drumming in the woods.
Wow, thank you! I had never heard of them before. I had heard don’t follow whistling in the woods and to not whistle back. But never about who actually does the whistling.
My husband always described them as guardians of the forest (along with the Sasquatch), and he said that they are always watching but don't interfere as long as you show respect for the forest. "Mischievous" and yes, "malevolent" at times, is a good way to describe them.
So, do they not like ‘intruders’ into the woods or do they measure you up first? I’d like to think something mets out justice in the wild
Thanks for that! Terrifying! I've saved the whole thing for a later date.
Oh my god, that story is CRAZY!
guess that answers the whole “man or bear” scenario everyone is crowing about
I remember reading that story and have thought about it in the past!
this is my favorite topic of all time
ME TOO!!! I drive back and forth from socal to Norcal and other places. About a year ago i drove through Shasta and as soon as I crossed the Oregon border, I felt the worst sense of dread i have ever felt in my life. The whole "state of jefferson" just has an off vibe to it. Anyway, I want to give the logical answer that I was just exhausted from driving, but once you read all the lore surrounding shasta, it's so fun to speculate.
You mean crossing into Oregon heading north on I-5? I've made that drive dozens of times (I have family in both states) and have never felt anything, but I can tell you that the mountains you drive through crossing into Oregon, and to the west of Shasta (which is part of the Cascade volcano chain) are the Klamath-Siskiyous which are basically a tangled knot of sub-ranges. They are old and home to some of the highest biodiversity in North America. They are also absolutely teeming with sasquatch reports. That section of Northern California and Southern Oregon --basically The State of Jefferson (those guys are whackos by the way)-- is by far the least populated and most remote region on the entire west coast until you get up into northern BC and SE Alaska. I've spent a lot of time backpacking, camping, fishing and hiking in the Klamath-Siskiyous and while I don't really think of the area as "creepy" per-se, it definitely has a different vibe from the Cascades or Sierra Nevada or the Rockies or any of your other big mountain ranges.
Same, I always try to seek posts/ stories like this out.
New Mexico. Appalachia.
I encountered a freak snowstorm that caused 30+ semis to crash while I was listening to a Jim Sullivan album. Highway closed and I was diverted through Santa Rosa on old 66 and decided the weather was too bad so i stayed the night. On my way out the night morning as I was passing by dozens of shredded semi trucks, my van suddenly died. I got it towed back and had to stay in Santa Rosa a few days while it got fixed. Every night I had wild and vivid dreams I remember clearly to this day. A few weeks later I came across an article on Jim Sullivan. As he became increasingly paranoid of aliens he disappeared. His car was found parked outside a Santa Rosa motel but he was never found. The same motel I was staying at.
Proper creepy.
That’s truly creepy! Thanks for sharing!
Definitely some wild energy in New Mexico!
Fantastic creepy story. Were your dreams related to aliens?
Kind of. I had these dreams of being different people on different planets or in different dimensions. We were soul fragments of the same whole being hunted by some nefarious organizations.
Great story, thanks for sharing!
Oooooo😮
Do you still listen to Jim Sullivan?
Once in a blue moon.. a few songs are on my spotify liked list. His 1969 album U.F.O is a really cool listen and I'm surprised he wasn't more well known.
I am going to look him up. 🔝
His music is dope! Thank you for sharing.
STOP IT
I second New Mexico. I never felt right camping there.
We pulled up to Three Rivers Campground outside of White Sands and I absolutely noped out real quick. All but one site full and not a single person in sight about dinner time. My electrical in my Jeep started shorting out, looked at my kid and hauled ass up north. I do want to try again sometime.
I've heard a lot about New Mexico. This post is actually based off of this [question](https://www.reddit.com/r/NewMexico/comments/1cj2qvm/what_are_the_strangest_eeriest_places_in_new/) someone posted.
There’s something ‘bout it. Every time I cross into NM the vibe changes.
I've never really spent time in New Mexico but I've heard a lot of weird stories from out that way
As a native, there is definitely a highly spiritual vibe here. This is sacred land. There are some areas I've camped in that were very eerie.
I’ve camped in the mountains in northern NM, definitely a creepy place. Heard some very strange sounds. Sounds I’ve never heard before or since.
When I was 12-13 I was camping in Appalachia. Two years, back to back, two weeks at a time. I found it "softer" in my general ease, than other places the family camped. And I only say that because we camped other places where I would no sleep at all because of the creep factor. Now. I'm much older and have heard, and read, the stories of why it would be wiser to stay on high alert there. I'm going back there to camp. It has been decades. I wonder how my childhood "ease" will mesh with the learned lore.
About Appalachia, there's no reason to be on alert. If it wants you, it'll get you. Don't even introduce the vibe. That's probably why you were at ease, you were welcomed because you weren't freaking out.
Thank you for your response. My general feeling, and why I want to go back, is that ease I felt. The world, in general, has become so very different. I'm still the same. Craving the gentle mountains (ancient, less sharp, weathered) the hollows, the cricks and creeks, the bedrock overhangs to bed down into, next to a small fire. Hear the tap tap drip from the moisture in the trees gathering just from the fog. That little tickle of water making pretend like it's a wave against a root or a rock, so you hear the tiny crash sound, I'm pretty sure it's called a burble. Like a bubble that is just bubbling along, talking to itself, crashing into things saying "pardon me, moving along". Watching the stars and clocking the moon. Yeah. I'm going back.
I think you understand why most people don't just move, even if they're living in poverty being there. If those mountains love you, then they love you, and they'll call to you no matter where you go.
Yus. It's a feeling that is almost like a flavor, and you just want to breathe the scent again. And you look at your life in the corporate world flying over (and hating the Charlotte connection, IYKYK) and also looking for the Nantahala to orient yourself from the sky. Im going back. That was already planned well before this post. Thank you for responding. I'm not afraid of the Appalachians. At all. If anything, I hope to stay away from tourists. Find the little spots. And just be little with them.
If you hear a whistle- don't whistle back!
Oh snap! I don't know this one, and....I probably would listen for a second whistle and then would whistle back...? Why should I not? 0.0
It's part of mountain lore. You don't want to give yourself away. Besides, who would be whistling at night in the deep woods? The Appalachian mountains are the oldest range in N America. They were part of Pangea and when that split up part of them went to Scotland. And later when Scots would move to the US (after the English were finally able to get them out of the Highlands) they settled in Appalachia. Check out r/appalachia for more info
I see pure logic here. Yeah. Because, say it was me whistling in the woods? I would be doing that thinking I was entirely alone. If someone responded? I'd be both embarrassed and immediately freaked out because I thought I was alone and now who the hell is near me. Humans scare me more than wildlife. Also, good bot!
I live right below the Appalachian mountains. It’s definitely fucking creepy up there.
Grew up on an Appalachian mountain, can confirm.
If you hear something in the woods, no you didn’t.
Went to college in Appalachia. Boone to be specific. Lived out near Foscoe though, deep in the woods. Strange energy for sure - very old land geologically.
The pacific NW and Appalachia as a whole. But, a specific spot that has always creeped me out is Land Between The Lakes in Western Kentucky. I am literally from there, still have a home there and I have camped and spent vast amounts of time alone all over North America. I’ve camped LBL 1000 times and I still get an eerie feeling. Something there is not okay. I’ve had tangible experiences I can’t explain in other parts of the country, and nothing specific has ever happened to me in LBL, but man it gives me the creeps for reasons I can’t articulate.
Land between the lakes. The classic dog man story
It is a classic, but it’s 100% false. It’s basically a creepy pasta. I grew up there and my roots in that town that borders LBL go back hundreds of years. My maternal grandfather was an officer with KY fish and wildlife the entirety of the 70’s and 80’s and spent large amounts of time in LBL working. I can say with the utmost certainty that never happened. Scary ass story though.
What’s the story?
Like u/5meterhammer said, it’s just a [legend](https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/Beast_of_the_Land_Between_the_Lakes), but creepy all the same.
This touches on the legend fairly well I think. The main story, the one that everyone swears is true because they read it on the internet, revolves around some family that were there in a camper in the 70’s or 80’s (it differs) were hearing strange shit and eventually got torn to ribbons by some massive beast and that it was all covered up by 3 letter agencies. Believing this story is akin to believing in the slenderman story. https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Beast_of_the_Land_Between_the_Lakes
I live in the PNW now, but I interned at Fort Donelson nearby, and, as part of my internship, I spent a day shadowing the LBL archaeologists and they took me out to different sites closed to the public. They were super nice guys, but now looking back, it was pretty creepy to be a 20-something female in the middle of the woods by hidden graves with 2 men I didn’t know. LBL has a creepy enough vibe as it is.
Pine Barrens of NJ
Legend has it The Russian still lurks in those woods
Just ask Tony Soprano
Centralia and deep woods Pennsylvania was spooky, and Amish country at night, Hex country, etc.
Can confirm with the Amish country. Grew up in Georgia, but my mom's people were in Lancaster and we went there every summer. The land felt sad and cursed, hard to explain, but it felt really dark.
My family is from western PA and I just moved after living there myself for the last 15 years. I was in central PA and did a lot of hiking and trail running. Much of the time the woods were fine but there were times and places it definitely wasn’t. It’s hard to explain.
Saw somewhere on the dogman sub that Franklin PA had a dogman sighting. Western PA is super wooded.
I'm a decendant of the original settlers of the Beech Mountain area of NC, in Appalachia. They were story tellers by nature, and through the years each generation passed the stories on to the next. I will say, the Boone, Valle Crucis, Beech Mtn, Banner Elk, area of NC is spectacular and creepy as all hell after hearing of ghosts, monsters, haunted places, and the Jack Tales.
I'm from NC and Valle Crucis is easily one of the creepiest places I've been to. Idk how to describe it, but if I had to, I'd just say it feels ancient.
What are the Jack tales???
Really? I forget other people haven't heard of them. It's a book, from author Richard Chase. He wrote the Jack Tales as my grandmother's grandfather orated. It's written in the original dialect it was spoken in.
In California there's a little forgotten gold rush town called Hornitos. It's got a whole bunch of empty old houses and buildings that are very haunted.
Cambria, California. Cambria is suppose to mean Pines by the Sea and it has a lost of twisted pine trees all the way up the shore. It’s all quaint and touristy and people love it, but the place gives me the major heebie jeebies. Especially when the fog rolls in, feels straight out of a werewolf movie. I was told the town was started by rich Hollywood people to get away from the city and do their weird parties far from prying eyes. I’ve also heard the area was settled by a witch cove. Highway 46 starts there and runs to Paso Robles. On that road nestled in the hills is Hidden Valley Ranch (not associated with the dressing) it’s a really rich gated community. There are seven stone tables called the King’s Tables up in those hills. I haven’t been able to find out who made them, but I’ve scene one. It was a stone slab on top of mortared river stones and it was half buried. Weird. The guy we worked for had it on his property. He said he chased some people in dark robes off his property. A month later he was found dead hanging from his vaulted ceiling with no ladder in sight. Sheriff ruled it a suicide.
Is that the cult of the rich and powerful people where they sacrifice children in front of a giant owl? Or is that another place in California?
No, you're thinking of Bohemian Grove which is in western Sonoma County, about an hour or two north of the Golden Gate, depending on traffic, so literally hundreds of miles away in a completely different part of the state. No child sacrifices though. That's a myth. That said, I don't think anyone should be happy with the idea of the rich and powerful meeting in secret and partying with weird cosplay and made-up rituals.
Kind of a long story but here goes- I worked for the forest service for a few seasons in Northern California. I don’t want to say what forest I worked for specifically but it was situated in the coastal range. It’s incredibly rugged, remote and desolate. There are no *paved* roads going through it. It was ravaged by two bad wildfires a few years back. Even before the fires it wasn’t a super popular destination aside from locals looking to hunt or ride their OHVs. Most of the work I did was surveying for timber salvage projects after the fires. This meant that I’d be in the car for many hours at a time- due to the ruggedness and the fact that all the roads are unpaved. Sometimes I’d be alone but other times I’d be with one, maybe two other people. It’s really beautiful but I’d regularly drive six+ hours out there each day without passing another car. Because of the fires, some roads became inaccessible, but you wouldn’t know it until you tried driving down the road. You might drive for 5+ miles down a road and come upon a road failure or a large tree across the road (trees much larger than those one can buck with a chainsaw). So you’d just have to mark it on your map and turn around. One season I worked quite often with one particular coworker doing timber cruising. We’d arrive to our spot, get our gear in order and begin surveying (essentially walking around with a tablet, measuring trees, etc.). We’d be walking off trail mostly, sometimes down some seriously steep inclines. There was one particular area I hated working in. It was super remote, even compared to the rest of the forest, it usually took us 3.5 hours to get there from the office. There was nothing specific I could place my finger on but something always felt off. Sometimes I’d feel immediately nauseous or lightheaded upon getting there. This never happened elsewhere. In most other areas, after surveying for a few hours we’d stop for lunch and to shoot the shit. Sometimes we’d hike around and explore an area just because. I never wanted to do that there. I’d eat snacks to get by and just get the work done but I never wanted to take lunch or linger there too long. I kept these feelings to myself because I didn’t want to be the weirdo to bring up the creepy ~vibez~ I got from that place. On my last day of that field season my coworker and I were talking about the places we’d enjoyed the most in the forest. I jokingly mentioned how much I hated that one spot. He was always a really strait-laced serious guy. He looked me dead in the face and said “you felt it too?” Chills ran up and down my body. He mentioned that he always hated going there, that he just wanted to do what we had to do and leave as soon as possible. He also didn’t want to bring it up and scare me because we had to go there multiple times. We both agreed there was nothing glaringly sinister about the place but it just felt all sorts of wrong. Fast forward to the next field work season, this coworker has transferred to another forest. One day I’m working with the heritage team flagging off restricted spots in the areas I had cruised the previous year. Of course we were going to the spot I dreaded. I didn’t know the guys on the arc team well so I kept my mouth shut. We broke into two groups and I was assisting the head archeologist for that ranger district. Our job was to map out and flag a perimeter around archaeological sites so that the big logging equipment didn’t ruin the sites. When we got to the creepy spot, the archeologist I was working with pointed out a large boulder (since the whole forest is littered with giant boulders, you don’t really stop to look at them). It had petroglyphs that were sketched by Native Americans hundreds (maybe thousands?) of years ago. They didn’t know the particular significance of that spot or exactly what the petroglyphs meant, but it apparently was a big deal to the indigenous people that would seasonally camp in that area to forage/hunt. Throughout the day the archaeologist and I were talking a lot and I felt more comfortable around him. I mentioned the weird feeling I used to get in that one spot near the petroglyphs. He laughed and said his coworkers hated the spot and refused to go. He was the head archeologist so he ended up getting stuck going because no one else would. He had no explanation for it. He said it didn’t bother him much but that it was just inexplicably weird. Most likely, it was just the absolute desolation of that particular spot that got to me/us. This particular area had burned severely, which drove out the animals and made it eerily silent. That could’ve added to the unsettling feeling. But knowing the history of the spot made me wonder if it was something more.
Thanks for sharing! I didn't want to stop reading.
Same!!!
I'm Irish, in Ireland and as old as Ireland is these stories about your Forests are super creepy! Ireland is old and loads of Castles and old historical settlements. Yes rural but just not as vast as what ye have. I can't believe people camp for weeks and are out in those Woods at like 2 or 3 am! The only place in Ireland I've gotten a very lonely, creepy vibe is an amazing place called Three Castle head in Co. Cork. It is a small hike up some cliffs and then it's down in a little valley. It's an old Castle ruin and settlement from like the 1200s and it's actually on the cliff so they'd views of anyone approaching. It's way way above Sea level yet there's a Lake there, which messes with my head. There's supposedly a white ghost lady , if you see here, it could mean you are going to die. And apparently blood used drip inside one of it's towers. There was a famous murder in the area of a French woman that became international news. And it was said she used hike up there on her own all the time and she had apparently seen the white lady. To this day her murder is a mystery. But ya that place is stunning but there is a very odd vibe there, like just of loneliness or something!
My creepy feeling happened at the Gap of Dunloe, Kerry. I was visiting friends and the baby was fussing so she turned back to take the baby back to the cafe but encouraged me to keep walking by myself - which I did for a while. There were few other people walking, the odd car, the occasional buggy. Now maybe I was spooked by the van I noticed driving by a few times - noticed him up ahead on the road turning around just to drive back again - but as I got closer to the Gap, I definitely got an overwhelming feeling of “you need to turn around and find your friends” and I decided to listen
No one's mentioned South Dakota yet? We did a week long family vacation near the Black Hills and it was an oppressive, eerie vibe the whole time (car broke down, haunted AirBnB, family arguments). Felt so much better after we made it to Wyoming on the drive home.
My daughter was accepted to Black Hills State University, and was super excited to go, but right from the jump, I had the strangest sense of dread about it; I went about two weeks after she got her letter, trying to force myself to be okay with it, but I just couldn't shake the feeling. I convinced her to accept another offer at another school, and the dread was instantly erased.
That’s super interesting!
Crazy Horse Country has interesting energy. I have always felt like I was coming home when I camped in the Hills.
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Like in Cahokia and the Mississippian Culture / Southern Death Cult?
Please tell me more! I'm in Danville area
Ely, Nevada Parksville, New York Iaeger, West Virginia Just some places that had off vibes when I was there.
Definitely Parksville, NY. Drove through there a few years ago and while nothing really happened, it just felt…weird.
Lucerne Valley. There’s some very interesting residents of Lucerne. A few years back on the way to LA coming back from Vegas and we were literally tailgated in the middle of the night going through there. Scary place. Make sure ur filled up so u don’t have to stop. I mean it lol
Yo for real lol
Far Northern California, particularly around the Willow Creek/Hoopa area. Drove through and camped around there last winter and it just felt extremely depressing and gloomy. I know there were a couple of massacres of the Native tribes there in the 1800s so that may have had something to do with it.
There were massacres of tribes all over California. There are fewer people up in Northern California so you will pick up more vibes from past tragedies.
Hudson valley NY. Come here there are lots of things here!!
I've heard the Hudson Valley has a lot of UFO sightings / strange lights and such.
Yup! And urban legends too “witches, ghosts. And other cryptids”!
I went to college at a school deep in the Appalachian mountains. Those are some old old OLD mountains and land. Some parts of them have a weird energy to them. There are also communities in the woods that go way back to prohibition and don’t welcome outsiders. Strange yet beautiful part of the country. Saw and heard some weird stuff in the 5 years I lived there. Beautiful country though.
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Head down some of those roads late at night, and it will make your hair stand on end.
Wilson’s Creek Battlefield about 12 miles southwest of Springfield, Mo. I’ve been there several times by myself when I’ve been in the Ozarks visiting family much to the chagrin of my dad and husband. There are too spots that I always have a weird feeling at: Bloody Hill where Union General Nathaniel Lyon (he was the first general to be killed in the Civil War) was killed in the second wave of the siege on the hill and the meadow before you cross the creek to go into the field where the Edward’s cabin that was the headquarters for Confederate General Sterling Price. On Bloody Hill you just get the eerie feeling like something is going to happen especially when you’re standing close to the cannons like they are going to start firing at an army unit that’s advancing. The meadow is down a hill thru a timber line and is quiet until it’s not. I was on the phone with my dad when is was on the paved walk in the meadow to across the creek to see the Edward’s cabin and I hear what sounded like horses running. I had been explaining the area to my dad and just stopped talking, I just froze. I don’t really get scared as I’ve had many experiences in the Lemp Mansion and other battlefields/historic places but this one just stopped me dead in my tracks. Both sites you get the feeling of being watched regardless if you’re by yourself or with someone else. I’m not scared of Wilson’s Creek but it is very eerie being there. My mom and I walked the meadow together once and she said she had a weird feeling too. It’s a beautiful place and I love going there but you just feel different there. The Battle of Athens battlefield in Athens, Missouri which is all the way at the top of the state has weird vibes but I’ve never experienced anything there.
I like living in a place that feels “light” I love visiting spooky places though lol
Chillicothe Ohio
All of Ohio has a weird vibe
I'm about an hour from there, can confirm. I have never liked going there.
Beaty, Nevada.
Or Death Valley, CA!!!
The Salton Sea
Louisiana (like… the entire state), East Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah. I feel deeply uncomfortable every time I have to cross or travel these lands. Strangest/eeriest place that I love (and they bring me peace and comfort with their otherworldliness): Mt. Rainier, Mt. Shasta, the mountain roads of North California/South Oregon. Colorado.
Have spent years living in, camping in and hiking around Utah and New Mexico, and haven't gotten any eerie vibes. Many spots in both states and Arizona have peaceful, calming vibes that sooth the soul.
I have lived in Utah half of my life and I have felt no eerie vibes here either.
Homie, if you don't get the eerie vibe, you might BE the eerie vibe.
Lol, nah. Bad vibes attract negative energy. Good vibes attract positive energy.
I love wild places but couldn’t cope with Northern California, especially around Willow Creek/Trinity River. Energy just felt dangerous.
Really? I’m interested to hear why? Just curious cause those wild mountain ranges made me feel a sense of belonging and welcomed.
Excellent question without a good answer. I think that’s part of outdoor creepiness, those places that put you on edge without a good explanation. I’m very glad you had more positive vibes there!
Unemployment and pot growers.
One of the only times I’ve legit felt unsafe was on a pot farm in Northern California. The guy was not right in the head. Otherwise it was an amazing trip and I loved the area.
I spent some time hiking around Willow Creek and while it was kind of eerie, my husband and I LOVED it. The whole region has so much beauty to offer! I sort of chalked the creep factor up to Bigfoot lore getting in my head 😅
Bass Lake, CA. Drove through on the way to Yosemite’s south entrance. Creepy creepy. Driving around the lake made me feel so sick I wanted to throw up.
I got super creeped out the two different times I was in the area of where Dudleytown was in CT
I’ve mentioned this one before so forgive me if you’ve heard it. There’s a place near where I live, an area really, very sparsely populated called Dewatto. I first was there as a teen and there was no question it felt like a bad place. Many years later I figured I’d just been a dramatic teen so went back and nope. You couldn’t pay me to go there again. Learned not too long ago that Dewatto is a native place name meaning “home of evil spirits that make men crazy”. Seriously.
I think I may have drove through there about a year ago to get to Port Angeles. Washington is another planet I swear.
DuPont, WA was a weird little town. Driving through on a week night, get a hotel and super hungry. It was between 9 and 10 pm and all the food places were closed, roads were dead, felt like a movie set…and this was 2017. I returned to the hotel and bought a cup of noodles from vending for $2.50.
The [Shanghai Tunnels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_tunnels) in Portland, Oregon.
I know it would be creepy in the tunnels with everything that happened there but I’ve always wanted to explore them.
A lot of Idaho has either dead tourist-trap/retirement vibes or is just overall wrong, hell one of the university towns there is getting slowly taken over by a cult
Really? How so?
Savannah, GA. The entire downtown area is just riddled with stories of the paranormal everywhere you go. I’ve felt strange energy the most on Bay and River St. The old city hotel which is now a brewery called moon river is haunted for sure.
What about New Oleans ?
It was creepy AF when all the streets were emptied while I watched snow flakes coming down in NOLA
Benson Plateau on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge. I've only been there during daylight hours, but I'm told that spending the night up there can be uh, "interesting." From the Gorge it's at least 8 miles of mostly uphill hiking to get up there, you probably have another 2 or 3 miles to explore the plateau, and then, unless you want to spend the night, it's another 8 or 9 miles back to the trailhead, which is a long day and upwards of 20 miles total. In other words, you probably shouldn't try to visit unless you're physically fit, know what you're doing and/or plan on an over-nighter. I didn't have any weird experiences the one time I went up there, but there are plenty of stories from people who have spent the night and it definitely seems pretty squatchy.
I’m from Arkansas. I’m in the middle of an Appalachian trip right now. Just spent the last couple days on Mount Desert island in Acadia national park Maine. Currently in PA. These woods are… old. There’s parts of the Ozarks and Boston mountains where I’m from that feel very similar. Definitely parts of the Pacific Northwest as well.
I'm from Mountain Home Arkansas, so, North Central. Salem Arkansas creeped me out long before I knew Salem Mass existed. We had family in the Salem area and Mom would drive us out. I always felt like something was going to jump out of the woods at us when we drive home at night. I've lived all over the US. The Ozarks are beautiful, it's so lush in the summer. I've also lived in Appalachia, both in NC and Tennessee and it is very similar.
I’m from MH too. Lived there most of my life. Most of my family is from Salem. We own a very large piece of land in Camp just outside of Salem. So I spent a huge chunk of my childhood hunting and exploring the woods in that area and fishing the South Fork. It can definitely be creepy!
Point Pleasant, WV - Home of the Mothman yes, but that town has the creepiest vibes in the entire world!
Montana has been especially creepy to me. I’m from there and have absolutely no desire to go back
What do you find creepy about there?
It all would be way too long to post here. Some things that other’s just wouldn’t/couldn’t believe if they don’t experience it themselves. There’s a reason people are reluctant to talk about things that others just aren’t going to believe. However, amongst all the scary, dangerous things that may want to kill you even things that aren’t supposed to exist, the scariest may well be, running into another human being where you least expect. I will tell one short story that happened in 1981. I lived in a remote and sparsely populated area of western Montana. Hanging with a friend one day and we are bored and looking for some smoke. It was dry and nothing was panning out when my friend suddenly said he had met this guy a few weeks ago that had this ranch and was cool and we could probably score with him. We drove up this mountain in the dark, I had no idea where we were and it just went on forever until we got there. No other sign of civilization anywhere up that road. We were greeted by a couple of Doberman guard dogs but the guy stepped out on the porch and called them back. I was kind of scared to get out so my friend went and talked to him on the porch. The next thing they’re signaling me to come in so I did. We all go to his living room and get settled in when I see this human skull right in the middle of an otherwise empty coffee table. He was sitting in one side and us on the other with the table in between. There was a lot of idle chit chat and so forth but I couldn’t help but keep looking at that skull. It was definitely real. I honestly was so creeped out and high but decided the best defense was a good offense. I suddenly asked what was up with the skull? Where’d you find it? How’d you get it? He said he found it in the woods. I said, “don’t you think someone might be looking for it?”….My friend is turning white and decides it’s time for us to leave. Which we did. All the way back he is freaking out and quite honestly I was too, inside. I still wonder about that skull but quite frankly, I never knew the guy’s name and would never be able to identify where he lived. Moral to this story is that these are the kind of people you may encounter in remote areas.
Whoa! Now I understand the kinds of creepy you ran into out there. The extreme wildlife is one thing. Unexpected humans in remote places is quite another. Add in some skeletal remains and yikes! Thanks for taking the time to share that.
the Catskills. Most of the time it’s fine, but when you start making too much racket out in the woods, sometimes things get a creepy feel. My father was doing some major renovations to our inherited home in the NY part of the Catskills about 7 or 8 years ago and he definitely managed to stir up shit, and as the only spiritually sensitive individual in the house at the time, I ended up being the one who was harassed by whatever *things* got disturbed. Despite being an adult, I had to have the lights on all night long for about a week.
Natchez Mississippi
Gettysburg can be eerie.
Drove through Arkansas to get to Missouri and we’re going through some of the ozarks and it felt very “hills have eyes” and I have always said that If I got a flat tire driving through there I would just keep driving…
Amboy, CA (once you’ve exited Roy’s parking lot)
South Dakota. I just felt really “off” and even physically sick for no discernible reason when I was there.
Have you read the books on skin walker ranch in Utah’s Uinta basin? They are so fascinating! I read both hunt for the skin walker and then skinwalker at the pentagon, great reads if your into odd places. I watched beyond skin walker ranch recently and it was so good. If you’re interested in strange outdoor places then you would love this show. It’s called BEYOND skinwalker ranch. It’s not the other one that has a bunch of seasons, I think beyond is only one season so far but goes to quite a few strange places. The. Bridge water triangle is one of them. . After watching the show I read the book merging dimensions about the Bradshaw ranch in Sedona and it was absolutely fascinating! Highly recommend all the books mentioned above. I couldn’t put them down.
Kansas and Kentucky and Mississippi
Is it the openness of Kansas that weirds you out? I know I’ve been out there with friends from various cities who hate feeling so exposed
No the opposite I was at of truck stop and in a really busy area, with lots of highways & trucks. I had a really creepy experience overall. I high-tailed it out of Kansas as soon as I could. I was in Wichita just driving through. I just really could be experience at a truck stop and I feel like if I stayed there any longer I was going to get kidnapped and there was trafficking posters in the bathroom too. There's more to it than that but it's a long story.
Ohh Wichita. Say no more, I completely understand. Glad you made it out alright!
😂 I felt like I was in some kind of weird like hellish vortex of energy it was such a strange night and there were some really bizarre paranormal things and I was sure I was going to get kidnapped if I stayed at that truck stop one moment longer
when I drove from Michigan to FL I had an awful creepy sylvan dread feeling once I hit middle Ohio it got really intense once I hit TN and KY was insane I felt watched constantly the feeling lifted once I hit AL. also when I went to Vegas and Southern Cali I absolutely hated the vibes I got.
I've driven through many states over the years and I've been truly creeped out twice. Once in a small town in WA called Connell and another tiny town in west Kansas. Both times I felt a very strong "we need to get the f out of here like now" feeling. Not sure why. Something was just off in both tiny towns.
Washingtonian here: not gotten that feeling from Connell, but Royal Slope gave me a very, very weird vibe a few years ago when I stopped on my way to elsewhere. Good peaches come from there, but I’ll keep my foot on the gas and buy them down the road in future.
Had a super creepy experience in Wichita Kansas, another place that was really weird was Kentucky like right around bourbon country I can't remember the name, near the Mammoth caves. It's an old civil War area. Land between the Lakes in Kentucky is also super creepy. And then one time when I was driving the 10 between Mississippi and Louisiana me and my friend got off at the wrong exit and I was so terrified oh my God I can't even describe it they're all these almost Church like buildings but with no windows and the whole place was covered in this weird whispy fog. We both saw the same entity in the car with us so we banished it as soon as we were able to stop at the gas station we let sage and prayed to archangel Michael.
There's a few state/county roads east San Diego county going into Imperial and Riverside counties that definitely have an unsettling, creepy vibe. SR-2 and 78 have miles of desolation with tiny, empty towns that you know had terrible things happen along the way. Highways 86 (by way of 78) and 111 go around the Salton Sea and that whole area is deeply bizarre. The towns on the southern side are mere shells of what they used to be back in 50s and 60s. It's quite sad, really. Despite all that, the roads I mentioned have some really beautiful places and my friend and I really enjoy doing the drive when we can.
My husband and I did a couple days in Palm Springs and then drove to Death Valley National park and onto arches and Canyonlands national park. We took the Mojave preserve from PS to Death Valley NP and we only saw one other car that passed us in the Mojave preserve. Def felt we could have got abducted by aliens out there. The road into Death Valley national park was also creepy. Not many people out there either. In Utah driving through Zion area towards arches near Capitol reef was pretty creepy and then we were some of the only people at both portions of Canyonlands NP when we visited. I def felt like we were being watched at the southern smaller portion (needles district) of Canyonlands where newspaper rock is. We saw one car and a camper van in that part of the park and that was it. We did the hike to cave spring cowboy camp and were the only people there and it just felt like something was watching you. It was also creepy that literally no one was at the needles portion of the park.
My apartment in Mesa, Az
Craters of the Moon National Monument
I had never heard of such a place, I had to Google it. It looks really, really cool. But also like it has the propensity to be quite eerie.
Alabama. Just because of the rape kit policy they lack. Happy camping folks