I live in West Virginia. Point pleasant is nowhere near as creepy as some of the small towns in Southern part of state. Some have a "Wrong Turn" movie vibe to them..
I lived in the Lester/Beckley area growing up and my family always kept to that area. I wish I could’ve known of places like those growing up 😂 isolated communities are fascinating
I live a little over a hundred miles from Villisca, Iowa and have visited the The Villisca Axe Murder House. I didn't sense anything creepy about the house or the town. I found the residents to be very friendly. I found Villisca to no different than any other small rural town in middle America.
The Mothman in Point Pleasant is very very famous among paranormal researchers. They even made a move, The Mothman Prophecies. Lots of stuff going on in the Mothman story--aliens, all kinds of stuff.
I've been to Centralia, PA many times as I live about 30 minutes away....It's not nearly as creepy as this video makes it out to be. The big attraction was "graffiti highway". A section of highway that was closed due to the mine fire. It was fun to hike on foot and the entire length of the closed road was covered in graffiti! It's now gone because people were racing their ATVs on it and they covered it in dirt mounds.
Visited Centralia back in 2012 or so, as I have friends from Milton PA. I got to see the graffiti highway, which had steam floating up through the cracks in the asphalt. Definitely strange here and there, and surreal with all the streets and driveways around empty lots. It was a fun visit, and very interesting, but not as creepy as people assume, I agree
LOL Whittier, Alaska is one of the main tourist ports in southern Alaska that large cruise ships use. It is not creepy or scary, it's just a cruise ship town with a small population. It's also only about an hour away from Anchorage (the largest city in Alaska) depending on traffic.
It depends on the cruise lines. I've done Holland and Princess. Never been to Whittier. Which lines go there? Doubt me? Check current cruises. I've been on 4. Never to Whittier.
I'm not much of a movie guy but there was a really good movie about plane crash of the Marshall football team in West Virginia he references called We Are Marshall made awhile back.
Auburn West Virginia one seemed like the least menacing. It just sounded like a poor town that didn't see much traffic or visitors. So once someone drove by they just stood on their porches to see who it was.
A lot of exaggeration on Pt. Pleasant. The Marshall football team plane crash was not even close. The bridge collapse was due, get ready, to the highway department. They knew the bridge was in bad shape and did not replace it like. Actually, it is a nice little town.
There is nothing strange about living with deer. There is plenty that is questionable about Antelope but not the deer. I've seen this video before and there are a couple of places that I thought were appealing. The one that I've researched and seriously thought about moving to is Whittier, AK. I would be in heaven to be able to be in an area like that. Another video I saw gave a tour of the building and meeting some of the people. A far amount of Samoans, interestingly enough. Also, with the ships coming through they get to know the crews and they visit so it's not so isolated.
LOL! Guys, I've been to Brodhead, WI many times, and most recently about a month ago. This video makes it sound like every other building is abandoned and derelict. They aren't. The downtown is quite nice, the countryside is peaceful, and the "religious" people the video criticizes are a vibrant Amish community. Back in the '90s they DID have a KKK problem, though.
I visited Whittier earlier this year. The view from Whittier is THE GORGEOUS Prince William Sound and the fishing is A+. It was a highlight of the Kenai Pennisula for me.
There was a thriller/horror movie about the Point Pleasant Mothman called The Mothman Prophecies with Launen Linny and Richard Gere. It was a good movie from what I remember.
Just to let you know the picture they showed at the beginning of the Cairo Illinois section was of Pittsburgh Pa NOT Cairo. Geography King has a new video up showing Pittsburgh that you might want to look at for a future reaction, ruclips.net/video/mejKAVCFyqw/видео.html
There's a town in Alaska that stays dark for 30 days during a part of the year. They even made a horror movie out of it called 30 days of night This video proves me correct in my desire to live in cities. Super small towns are almost always creepy
The 1967 Silver Bridge collapse is a technologically iconic failure that changed the way suspension bridges were made. I have several times driven semi-truck across its replacement a mile or two down river. Still creepy. I had never heard of the Centralia fire. Thank you. The Great Mississippi Flood that destroyed Cairo was the subject of your Led Zeppelin in "When the Levee Breaks", one of my favorite songs. My advice when you come is to pick a medium size town, say fifty thousand, since big towns tend to be dystopian nightmares. You are an adorable couple with great shows. Gives me hope. Obey God. Amen.
No problem with deer on the porch. My Aunt had a pet deer and I remember that deer from when I was 4 or 5. Had friends who had pet skunks. Now that was crazy.
Mothman is legitimately creepy as hell. If you believe what all the people around back then were saying it'll give you chills. There's a movie about it obviously called Mothman and has it's Hollywood touches in it but overall that's what the people say or said and no one has really come up with a good legitimate explanation.
Oregonian here.. Antelope is a farming/ ranching area. The old Rashneesh compound was bought out, and is now used in the summer as a Christian Youth Camp. Many kids say they have a great time. The main Rashneesh conspirators were convicted, the Baggwan was deported, and followers scattered. Some live in US cities, and a few went to India to follow the Baggwan. Ranches are thousands to tens of thousands acres, it takes a lot to support a cattle business, as it is a high dessert plateau.
I think you meant "desert." If you typed it with a double s on purpose, the rule I learned to help me remember how to spell it is: there are 2 s's in 'dessert' because it's so good you always want seconds. 1 s in desert. Of course, the weird thing with that rule is that 'desert' can also be pronounced 'dee-SERT' if you're talking about the act of leaving your duty or post.
I've been to Skidmore, MO. It really is a depressing place. It is mostly run down with no real prospects to turn things around. You do get the feeling that something could be around the corner to make your life a bit more interesting than you would like. I suspect that it will become a ghost town eventually.
@@jamesigorreilly979 LOL only visiting that town High had to have been scary in itself, less you got high because of residents there selling drugs if so watch out next time ;-)
I live about three to four hours away from Centralia, Pennsylvania. We rode through the town many years ago and there were still some residents holding out on leaving. You could see the steam escaping through the ground but it wasn’t eerie, just small town rural America.
the city you said "looks nice" is actually Pittsburgh Pennsylvania , not cairo IL. the pictures after the title screen is cairo though. Pittsburgh is a pretty cool city, with the yellow bridges and point park, the steel building and the plate glass building. there was an awesome outdoor aviary on the northside too.
The first 2 shots this video shows of Cairo IL are actually of Pittsburgh PA. It shows the skyline, point state park and the three rivers. This source video seem kind a suss!
Centralia, Pennsylvania is about an hour or so from me. They didn't explain why there is a fire and why it's never been put out. The region is very rich in coal. The coal caught fire and there is no way to get down underground to put it out, and it just keeps burning. It's been burning since the 1960s and there is no end in sight. No one really knows what is going to eventually happen. It is definitely not a safe place to be.
If you haven’t seen the movie “We Are Marshall” I highly recommend it. Story of the football team who died in plane crash. I taught at ECU, the team they played that day. There’s a beautiful memorial to the Marshall team and all who died in the crash.
Been there many times it's about 1 hour from where I live (Parkersburg, WV). To me Point Pleasant isn't creepy I find it very mysterious and needing a big hug. The town, residents and area in general have been through a lot. "Montani Semper Liberi"
Cairo (pronounced "Kayro) Illinois was the place where the Mayor had the municipal swimming pool filled with dirt rather than allowing local African-Americans to swim in it (after the segregation laws were changed). The town was astonishingly successful back in the day and most of the Real Estate is constructed beautifully. Mansions are available very inexpensively but who would want to live there?
Exactly. I love small towns. I fail to see what is creepy about them. Cities, especially the bigger ones, are what I find creepy. People all crowded together, trying to pretend they have some semblance of privacy and room to breathe, ugh.
@@circedelune In a way u do have more privacy in big cities because in small towns everyone knows everyone which means everybody is in everybody's business
There are a lot of towns in rural America that have been emptying out for several decades, as the people have left the farms to move away for more jobs and other opportunities. A lot of these towns in remote corners of the Midwest and the South might be seen as non-viable, making them sad or even creepy. But I think it's possible that the folks who still live there have nice (if really quiet) lives, and they likely travel to visit family members in nearby towns and cities whenever they want to.
It seems like outside of most small-town America there is some creepy place/town that serves as an adventure point for bored teenagers. Around here (Canton and Akron, Ohio) it was Rogues' Hollow--an abandoned mining community, I think, complete with a ghost train and Cry Baby Bridge. "I dare you to spend the night at Rogues' Hollow," was a teenage taunt in the 70s, then the late 70s and early 80s exploded with horror classics like Halloween and The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre and teenagers could then just go to the local theatre to get "creeped-out."
Ok. Minor issue with video being watched. They used stock footage of a Southwest Airlines plane while describing the Marshall Football Team crash. Southwest Airlines has an excellent safety record. That was a chartered Southern Airlines flight that crashed in 1970.
I watch a RUclipsr by the Name of Mrballen. He tells spooky stories. Especially in the woods and mountains. Although they are more quiet and often have no civilization, id keep in mind of These places and others if you visit certain States. 😀
When talking about Vilisca, one “creepy” thing mentioned was the lack of another town or grocery store. I’m from the rural Midwest, and from my experience that’s actually pretty common, and I know out west in rural areas that’s something even more people deal with! Not many people are used to that sort of thing, even other Americans, just because of how many people do live in more urban areas. Vilisca is definitely creepy, but being isolated is pretty standard for the area.
I lived about 25 km from Centralia for about eight years. I never heard of anyone falling through a crack -- no deaths -- but there ARE random fissures which open up, so you've got to keep a bit of situational awareness about you. I'm aware of only three families that still live there (although that might have changed in the past couple of years). One of the only structures which still stands, and it's up on a hill which might not be burning underground, is a beautiful old Ukrainian Orthodox Church. There's another community, Ashland, which is just down the valley from Centralia. There's some fear that the seam which is burning could also ignite the seam under Ashland, causing a mass evacuation from another community.
The last ten could be related to the first ten. It's hard to walk away from your past. Unless you're a Native American, all Americans have left their ancestral home and family at least one time and some have left several ancestral homes. Europeans struggle with Americans' interest in genealogy, but America could be considered a country full of adoptees.
I don't see really small towns as being creepy in fact I'd love to live in one. I worked for two summers in Silver Gate, MT. It's a tiny little area 1 mile outside of the NE gate to Yellowstone. Most people pass through it on their way to Cooke City (3 miles up the road) and don't even realize they've passed it. There are only 3-5 people that live there year-round because it becomes very hard to get in and out over the winter. In hearing the description of the video I was thinking "I wonder if they'll mention Whittier." Sure enough, it was the first one mentioned! lol I learned about Whittier many years ago and really want to go there.
I remember talking about Centralia Pennsylvania in my Geology Mining class when we were talking about safety. It sits right over an extremely rich B grade coal bed. Its impossible to put out, the only real option is to monitor it until the coal burns out. Last time I checked the estimate was between 100 to 200 years. Cutting off oxygen wasn't even an option its so bad. There are other cases with fossil fuels burning but none so completely out of control like Centralia. At least none that I have heard about. Crazy huh?
I'm not living anywhere where I can only come out in a tunnel at certain times. That's like jail. I also love the street justice for number 1 and that no one told.
Every half hour the tunnel changes the direction of travel through it. It's really not that big a deal, it saved cost of making it wider if they even could have.
Well there’s one strange part, when they talk about Cairo, IL #5, they first show a picture of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It’s a perfectly fine city no where near IL. I don’t know why they did that. You should really watch the scary movie the Mothman Prophecy. It’s really good and will explain more of the Mothman sightings and such. Axe murders happened in 1912 so the murderer has to be dead by now. And Skidmore story is really scary.
I have been to Whittier Alaska and it is an interesting fishing town. As they said the only way in and out by car is through a one lane tunnel. At the start of the hour they let cars enter to go into town for 15minutes and on the half hour they do the same for cars leaving town. That is as long as there isn’t a train on the track that also runs through the tunnel. And you better be sure you leave town before they close the tunnel for the night.
#1 place Skidmore I am actually related to that D-Bag (Mackelroy), even in the family he wasn't trusted, and yes almost everyone knows the main person and the other shooters who killed him, His wife wasn't even allowed to testify who killed him instead the city took the lawsuit and paid her off, to keep people out of charges.
I used to live 10 minutes from Brodhead and played against them in basketball and golf in high school. I had no idea about hell's playground or any of the other creepy stuff. Nobody ever talked about it
Vici in Oklahoma allegedly has a cow tipping party. In Okeene (where I lived) they have an annual rattlesnake festival (but they have to import the snakes from neighboring counties).
I've been to #10, Whittier, Alaska. A little quirky, but not creepy. Most of the residents work for the port on on fishing boats. But I must say that it is remote, with no real roads to anywhere. The tunnel goes through a mountain range and ends up in Portage, Alaska. It used to handle only a train that had railroad cars designed to hold busses and automobiles for the trip through the tunnel. It is beautiful if you like nature, with kittiwakes and puffins and whales in Prince William Sound. You can boat over to the town of Valdez, which is bigger, being the terminus of the Alaska Oil Pipeline.
There is a movie based on the mothman legend called mothman prophecies also a movie based on the plane crash that killed the entire marshall university football team called we are marshall
Saw a RUclipsr driving around Cairo Illinois. Didn’t seem all that creepy. It actually looked like a place that could easily come back to life. From what was explained on the video, the town died down once the train system came across the town, taking away the use of the river that connected to the Mississippi. Someone also commented that they live in the town and they just received some large contracts for the use of that river, that will bring thousands of jobs there.
I'm from America from Santa Monica California and it's definitely not a creepy town it's an amazing town close to Hollywood and all the rock clubs and amusement parks I would like to know all the creepy towns in England or the UK as you may say
Many think The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica is haunted. We stayed there in prom night with a group and my girlfriend and her friends said they heard knocking and laughing in the hallway late at night. We'd been drinking so Idk. lol
I used to ride my dirt bike and quad at Centralia. A few years ago they finally kicked out the last couple of people that lived there. Demolished the remaining houses and ripped up graffiti highway and is now guarded by state troopers. Used to have so much fun riding there. At least I have pictures and memories to remember the fun I had there.
There are some small towns where people on the street stop and stare at your car when you drive through. It’s as if they never see strangers, and is very uncomfortable.
I live in Oregon and was in high school when Rashneesh was a city. We even had a Rashneesh day where all the students dressed up in pink and wore lots of beads like their cult followers. But the people in the cult started poison people around voting time so they could instill their own candidates into public office. They were putting salmonella into salad bars to make people sick so they couldn’t vote against them. If they were too sick to vote the cult figured they could win the elections. It was a really weird time in Oregon’s history....but now Portland is like a cult and weird. Oh and living with deer isn’t a big deal, they are always in my yard. But the bears and cougars do freak me out when they are in my yard.
The Marshall football plane crash is a fascinating story. There is a movie about it called WE ARE MARSHALL. It is sad, but ver inspirational. Worth checking out.
@@GilaMonster971 I was reading a book about a British Indian woman going to India, and traveling the country on 80 trains. One of the places she stayed was the Rashneesh's new Indian compound. Like many con-artists, they can always find a new place to trick people!
@@RogCBrand To be honest though if I was a bit older when Rashneesh was in Oregon. I might have went there.... Sounded like a wild sex party in the cult. I’m kind of kidding though 🤣
@@GilaMonster971 She did write that many of the people joining his cult were basically there for that reason! She didn't know the history, but after a short stay, realized they were really messed up!
I have been to Skidmore MO. I worked for a garage door company from St Joe, MO. I did not grow up in Missouri. The first time I was there, I had the strange feeling come over me. I had no idea what had happened in that town. I just knew that I wanted out of there. I have been back to take pictures of some of the places where stuff happened.
I was in one of the creepiest towns in Oregon in the middle of nowhere back in the early 90's. We drove from Vancouver, Canada, and had to take a stop and book a room somewhere since it was already late and drove down from a mountain area to this town that looked like it probably supported 200-300 people, but late night there was nothing going on. There was one spot open, and we went into the Pub/Bar to hopefully grab something and there were maybe 5 people in this place at around 10PM. Someone struck up a conversation with me and I can only say I wanted to just get out in the morning (boarding up the motel door of course) and just seriously leave.
So he didn't really elaborate much on what went down in Centralia that lead up to this point, which I guess makes sense since it's kind of a long and surreal story. The short version, though, is that a portion of a coal mine (which the town had originally sprung up around) caught fire, and to this day, that fire is burning off the coal deposits underground. Mining tunnels made for great ventilation initially, and it keeps causing cracks and sinkholes to open in the ground when parts of the deposit burn away and hollow out the ground or steam from underground moisture becomes pressurized, so it's basically creating its own oxygen supply along the way. Many attempts were made to stop it, but by the time the problem was discovered, it was too late to really do anything about it. It can't be fought from the tunnels because the conditions are too harsh for humans and most equipment, and trying to dig down from the outside just opens up more airflow. Oh, and all that coal burning is causing carbon monoxide to seep up through the ground. Pretty much all that can be done at this point is wait for the coal to burn off.
This is/was fascinating ... I recognized some of these, as I've actually passed by some of them while traveling; I don't remember actually passing *through* any of these, but ... When traveling, I keep track of where I am and don't mind making a bit of a detour if something 'catches my eye' somehow. I know I've passed somewhat near a few of these - I guess I should be glad that nothing about any of them ever 'caught my eye', and made me say to myself "I think I'll check-out that place ... maybe it'll be interesting!" Or I might have ended-up as another 'interesting & curious case' somehow.😳 P.S. - look up 'the mothman' ... it is weird.
I lice in a town of 600 homes, we can't support a grocery store, the town 7 miles west has a tiny 3 aisle store with near convenience store prices.. and a poor selection. 15 miles away in two different directions are full size stores, one is a lot bigger.. Walmart is 25 miles away for a small location, 40 miles away for two larger locations.. it takes a tiring afternoon to hit all 5 stores to stock up on a half month's supply of poorly inventoried products.
I see deer of all ages in my backyard, as well as all my neighbor's yards. We all watch out for them, especially the young ones. But I live in/near Deer Park, Ohio so there's that. As for the small population is a cause for concern, not really. There are small towns all over the country my wife lived in a town that had two churches, maybe a candy/general store, and a gas station that closed down. But it did have a post office. It literally was just a four-way stop. I say that because other towns nearby are just a group of tiny houses, not old or run down, just families buying some land, and builders had to have utilities so other new homeowners bought near to them as utilities were available. No four-way stop, just drive through without knowing it was a town. That doesn't mean there was anything shady about the town or its occupants. They liked country living, not wanting to live in a crowded suburb without all the zoning rules of even a small incorporated jurisdiction to limit what they can build on their land.
My cousin and her husband own a mortuary and they've told me how there is an elderly man that shows up sitting in a chair inside the mortuary. Everybody who's ever worked there has seen the man and, assuming he is a customer, has asked him if they can help him. I can't remember if he ever says anything or not but I guess everybody has seen the same elderly man.
13:42: In some parts of the US, a town of 100 people is a veritable metropolis. I've driven through towns that have far less than that. If people abandoned every town with less than a hundred people in the US then tens of thousands of towns would have to abandoned.
The photo shown first for Cairo, Illinois is actually Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Maybe the filmmaker got confused as Pittsburgh is also situated on the confluence of three rivers. But still...Pittsburgh has TWICE been chosen as America's Most Livable city...and Cairo is on the creepiest places list. Huh????
There's a pair of small towns in Wyoming that started life as the "man-camps" for the oil field workers on the U .S. Navy Petroleum Reserve at Teapot Dome. They're named Midwest-Edgerton, and I swear, if ever there's a place only Stephen King could love, This's It. The vibe is of Secrets (with a Capital "S"), and "you ain't from 'round here, are ya..." and the feeling that you just missed the curtains twitch behind the windows of the WWII-style crackerbox houses...
I went to a creepy bridge in nowhere Kentucky. Deep woods. Nobody out there. The rumor was if you put your car in neutral, it'll roll forward to the middle, then roll backwards. Well, physics can't support that! So we go in 3 cars. We roll forward, then roll back. I get out and say "It's because the wooden bridge sinks to its lowest here, and then sends the cars backwards. Simple physics." Then a creature roared and jumped out from under the bridge! Everyone panicked and screamed! It was Ben. My friend Ben. He was in the car to the rear, got out, snuck over the edge of the bridge and took the walkway so he could jump out right beside us in the front vehicle 🤣😂
There’s a movie made about the moth man a few years back. He allegedly was seen by many people before that bridge collapse. Some think to warn them to stay off the bridge.
I live in West Virginia. Point pleasant is nowhere near as creepy as some of the small towns in Southern part of state. Some have a "Wrong Turn" movie vibe to them..
Facts
I lived in the Lester/Beckley area growing up and my family always kept to that area. I wish I could’ve known of places like those growing up 😂 isolated communities are fascinating
Mothman makes it creepy.
I live a little over a hundred miles from Villisca, Iowa and have visited the The Villisca Axe Murder House. I didn't sense anything creepy about the house or the town. I found the residents to be very friendly. I found Villisca to no different than any other small rural town in middle America.
The Mothman in Point Pleasant is very very famous among paranormal researchers. They even made a move, The Mothman Prophecies. Lots of stuff going on in the Mothman story--aliens, all kinds of stuff.
I've been to Centralia, PA many times as I live about 30 minutes away....It's not nearly as creepy as this video makes it out to be. The big attraction was "graffiti highway". A section of highway that was closed due to the mine fire. It was fun to hike on foot and the entire length of the closed road was covered in graffiti! It's now gone because people were racing their ATVs on it and they covered it in dirt mounds.
Visited Centralia back in 2012 or so, as I have friends from Milton PA. I got to see the graffiti highway, which had steam floating up through the cracks in the asphalt. Definitely strange here and there, and surreal with all the streets and driveways around empty lots. It was a fun visit, and very interesting, but not as creepy as people assume, I agree
LOL Whittier, Alaska is one of the main tourist ports in southern Alaska that large cruise ships use. It is not creepy or scary, it's just a cruise ship town with a small population. It's also only about an hour away from Anchorage (the largest city in Alaska) depending on traffic.
Was looking for this comment. Watched a Peter Santenello video on this town and didn't get any creepy vibes at all.
The guy making the video has obviously never been to any of these places
I figured Whittier would make this list. I really want to visit there.
It depends on the cruise lines. I've done Holland and Princess. Never been to Whittier. Which lines go there? Doubt me? Check current cruises. I've been on 4. Never to Whittier.
I'm not much of a movie guy but there was a really good movie about plane crash of the Marshall football team in West Virginia he references called We Are Marshall made awhile back.
It was a great movie. A very moving account of a tragic event
It was a fantastic and extremely overlooked movie. One of Matthew McConaughey's best.
Love that movie
Auburn West Virginia one seemed like the least menacing. It just sounded like a poor town that didn't see much traffic or visitors. So once someone drove by they just stood on their porches to see who it was.
A lot of exaggeration on Pt. Pleasant. The Marshall football team plane crash was not even close. The bridge collapse was due, get ready, to the highway department. They knew the bridge was in bad shape and did not replace it like. Actually, it is a nice little town.
There is nothing strange about living with deer. There is plenty that is questionable about Antelope but not the deer.
I've seen this video before and there are a couple of places that I thought were appealing. The one that I've researched and seriously thought about moving to is Whittier, AK. I would be in heaven to be able to be in an area like that. Another video I saw gave a tour of the building and meeting some of the people. A far amount of Samoans, interestingly enough. Also, with the ships coming through they get to know the crews and they visit so it's not so isolated.
Peter Santanello!
It depends on what you do with the deer...
LOL! Guys, I've been to Brodhead, WI many times, and most recently about a month ago. This video makes it sound like every other building is abandoned and derelict. They aren't. The downtown is quite nice, the countryside is peaceful, and the "religious" people the video criticizes are a vibrant Amish community. Back in the '90s they DID have a KKK problem, though.
I visited Whittier earlier this year. The view from Whittier is THE GORGEOUS Prince William Sound and the fishing is A+. It was a highlight of the Kenai Pennisula for me.
There was a thriller/horror movie about the Point Pleasant Mothman called The Mothman Prophecies with Launen Linny and Richard Gere. It was a good movie from what I remember.
It was a good movie. You guys may want to do a reaction to it.
Just to let you know the picture they showed at the beginning of the Cairo Illinois section was of Pittsburgh Pa NOT Cairo. Geography King has a new video up showing Pittsburgh that you might want to look at for a future reaction, ruclips.net/video/mejKAVCFyqw/видео.html
There's a town in Alaska that stays dark for 30 days during a part of the year. They even made a horror movie out of it called 30 days of night
This video proves me correct in my desire to live in cities. Super small towns are almost always creepy
The 1967 Silver Bridge collapse is a technologically iconic failure that changed the way suspension bridges were made. I have several times driven semi-truck across its replacement a mile or two down river. Still creepy. I had never heard of the Centralia fire. Thank you. The Great Mississippi Flood that destroyed Cairo was the subject of your Led Zeppelin in "When the Levee Breaks", one of my favorite songs. My advice when you come is to pick a medium size town, say fifty thousand, since big towns tend to be dystopian nightmares. You are an adorable couple with great shows. Gives me hope. Obey God. Amen.
No problem with deer on the porch. My Aunt had a pet deer and I remember that deer from when I was 4 or 5. Had friends who had pet skunks. Now that was crazy.
The Mothman Prophecies is a cool movie you two should watch 👍🏻
Mothman is legitimately creepy as hell. If you believe what all the people around back then were saying it'll give you chills. There's a movie about it obviously called Mothman and has it's Hollywood touches in it but overall that's what the people say or said and no one has really come up with a good legitimate explanation.
Oregonian here.. Antelope is a farming/ ranching area. The old Rashneesh compound was bought out, and is now used in the summer as a Christian Youth Camp. Many kids say they have a great time. The main Rashneesh conspirators were convicted, the Baggwan was deported, and followers scattered. Some live in US cities, and a few went to India to follow the Baggwan. Ranches are thousands to tens of thousands acres, it takes a lot to support a cattle business, as it is a high dessert plateau.
I think you meant "desert."
If you typed it with a double s on purpose, the rule I learned to help me remember how to spell it is: there are 2 s's in 'dessert' because it's so good you always want seconds. 1 s in desert.
Of course, the weird thing with that rule is that 'desert' can also be pronounced 'dee-SERT' if you're talking about the act of leaving your duty or post.
@@annep.1905 Not on purpose. But that's a good memory helper since the spelling is opposite to normal phonetics.
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Very cool info man thanks 💯
Rashneesh gone and converted to a Christian camp? Out with one cult and in with a new one I guess.
I've been to Skidmore, MO. It really is a depressing place. It is mostly run down with no real prospects to turn things around. You do get the feeling that something could be around the corner to make your life a bit more interesting than you would like. I suspect that it will become a ghost town eventually.
it will after all the residents who were involved in Ken's death are gone/deceased.
Yeah I’ve visited that town … cause I got high isn’t a good excuse but …❤
@@jamesigorreilly979 LOL only visiting that town High had to have been scary in itself, less you got high because of residents there selling drugs if so watch out next time ;-)
I live about three to four hours away from Centralia, Pennsylvania. We rode through the town many years ago and there were still some residents holding out on leaving. You could see the steam escaping through the ground but it wasn’t eerie, just small town rural America.
Peter Santanello on RUclips did a REALLY good video on Whittier, Alaska and he toured the building!
I have deer, cats, racoons, dogs, you name it who freely roam on my property, here on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Nothing weird here.
the city you said "looks nice" is actually Pittsburgh Pennsylvania , not cairo IL. the pictures after the title screen is cairo though. Pittsburgh is a pretty cool city, with the yellow bridges and point park, the steel building and the plate glass building. there was an awesome outdoor aviary on the northside too.
My home. Pittsburgher 4 ever.
@@LKGerhold Me too!
The first 2 shots this video shows of Cairo IL are actually of Pittsburgh PA. It shows the skyline, point state park and the three rivers. This source video seem kind a suss!
Auburn, WV has a main road straight through, and several side roads; not sure where this guy is getting his information.
Centralia, Pennsylvania is about an hour or so from me. They didn't explain why there is a fire and why it's never been put out. The region is very rich in coal. The coal caught fire and there is no way to get down underground to put it out, and it just keeps burning. It's been burning since the 1960s and there is no end in sight. No one really knows what is going to eventually happen. It is definitely not a safe place to be.
If you haven’t seen the movie “We Are Marshall” I highly recommend it. Story of the football team who died in plane crash. I taught at ECU, the team they played that day. There’s a beautiful memorial to the Marshall team and all who died in the crash.
Been there many times it's about 1 hour from where I live (Parkersburg, WV). To me Point Pleasant isn't creepy I find it very mysterious and needing a big hug. The town, residents and area in general have been through a lot. "Montani Semper Liberi"
The movie Nothing but trouble is a comedy about the Pennsylvania town as well
When you said Cairo, IL looks nice, that wasn't a video of Cairo at the beginning that was Pittsburgh PA
Cairo (pronounced "Kayro) Illinois was the place where the Mayor had the municipal swimming pool filled with dirt rather than allowing local African-Americans to swim in it (after the segregation laws were changed). The town was astonishingly successful back in the day and most of the Real Estate is constructed beautifully. Mansions are available very inexpensively but who would want to live there?
Man there are DEFINITELY some creepier towns than those. There are towns with like 1500 people that are not only creepy, but VIOLENT
I love small towns. They are not all creepy. Some are just a slower paced life than you would find in the city.
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Exactly. I love small towns. I fail to see what is creepy about them. Cities, especially the bigger ones, are what I find creepy. People all crowded together, trying to pretend they have some semblance of privacy and room to breathe, ugh.
@@circedelune In a way u do have more privacy in big cities because in small towns everyone knows everyone which means everybody is in everybody's business
There are a lot of towns in rural America that have been emptying out for several decades, as the people have left the farms to move away for more jobs and other opportunities. A lot of these towns in remote corners of the Midwest and the South might be seen as non-viable, making them sad or even creepy. But I think it's possible that the folks who still live there have nice (if really quiet) lives, and they likely travel to visit family members in nearby towns and cities whenever they want to.
It seems like outside of most small-town America there is some creepy place/town that serves as an adventure point for bored teenagers. Around here (Canton and Akron, Ohio) it was Rogues' Hollow--an abandoned mining community, I think, complete with a ghost train and Cry Baby Bridge. "I dare you to spend the night at Rogues' Hollow," was a teenage taunt in the 70s, then the late 70s and early 80s exploded with horror classics like Halloween and The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre and teenagers could then just go to the local theatre to get "creeped-out."
As for the deer, it's not weird. It's unusual.
We have deer that roam the city. You can often find them in our yard foraging for food. Susanville, CA. The deer are protected.
The "curse" should be over now, as 200 years have passed.
Ok. Minor issue with video being watched. They used stock footage of a Southwest Airlines plane while describing the Marshall Football Team crash. Southwest Airlines has an excellent safety record. That was a chartered Southern Airlines flight that crashed in 1970.
I watch a RUclipsr by the Name of Mrballen. He tells spooky stories. Especially in the woods and mountains. Although they are more quiet and often have no civilization, id keep in mind of These places and others if you visit certain States. 😀
I live an hour north of NYC and deer pass thru my yard daily. Not unusual.
@margaret Spignardo I live an hour west of Detroit and there are 6 deer 🦌 in my backyard right now 😌 it would be weird if I didn’t see deer
When talking about Vilisca, one “creepy” thing mentioned was the lack of another town or grocery store. I’m from the rural Midwest, and from my experience that’s actually pretty common, and I know out west in rural areas that’s something even more people deal with! Not many people are used to that sort of thing, even other Americans, just because of how many people do live in more urban areas. Vilisca is definitely creepy, but being isolated is pretty standard for the area.
I'm 15 miles outside Washington DC and I have deer come up and look in my door/lick the window.
I lived about 25 km from Centralia for about eight years. I never heard of anyone falling through a crack -- no deaths -- but there ARE random fissures which open up, so you've got to keep a bit of situational awareness about you. I'm aware of only three families that still live there (although that might have changed in the past couple of years). One of the only structures which still stands, and it's up on a hill which might not be burning underground, is a beautiful old Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
There's another community, Ashland, which is just down the valley from Centralia. There's some fear that the seam which is burning could also ignite the seam under Ashland, causing a mass evacuation from another community.
The last ten could be related to the first ten. It's hard to walk away from your past. Unless you're a Native American, all Americans have left their ancestral home and family at least one time and some have left several ancestral homes. Europeans struggle with Americans' interest in genealogy, but America could be considered a country full of adoptees.
I don't see really small towns as being creepy in fact I'd love to live in one. I worked for two summers in Silver Gate, MT. It's a tiny little area 1 mile outside of the NE gate to Yellowstone. Most people pass through it on their way to Cooke City (3 miles up the road) and don't even realize they've passed it. There are only 3-5 people that live there year-round because it becomes very hard to get in and out over the winter. In hearing the description of the video I was thinking "I wonder if they'll mention Whittier." Sure enough, it was the first one mentioned! lol I learned about Whittier many years ago and really want to go there.
I remember talking about Centralia Pennsylvania in my Geology Mining class when we were talking about safety. It sits right over an extremely rich B grade coal bed. Its impossible to put out, the only real option is to monitor it until the coal burns out. Last time I checked the estimate was between 100 to 200 years. Cutting off oxygen wasn't even an option its so bad. There are other cases with fossil fuels burning but none so completely out of control like Centralia. At least none that I have heard about. Crazy huh?
I'm not living anywhere where I can only come out in a tunnel at certain times. That's like jail. I also love the street justice for number 1 and that no one told.
Every half hour the tunnel changes the direction of travel through it. It's really not that big a deal, it saved cost of making it wider if they even could have.
Well there’s one strange part, when they talk about Cairo, IL #5, they first show a picture of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It’s a perfectly fine city no where near IL. I don’t know why they did that. You should really watch the scary movie the Mothman Prophecy. It’s really good and will explain more of the Mothman sightings and such. Axe murders happened in 1912 so the murderer has to be dead by now. And Skidmore story is really scary.
I have been to Whittier Alaska and it is an interesting fishing town. As they said the only way in and out by car is through a one lane tunnel. At the start of the hour they let cars enter to go into town for 15minutes and on the half hour they do the same for cars leaving town. That is as long as there isn’t a train on the track that also runs through the tunnel. And you better be sure you leave town before they close the tunnel for the night.
#1 place Skidmore I am actually related to that D-Bag (Mackelroy), even in the family he wasn't trusted, and yes almost everyone knows the main person and the other shooters who killed him, His wife wasn't even allowed to testify who killed him instead the city took the lawsuit and paid her off, to keep people out of charges.
Centralia Pennsylvania is a mecca for urban explorers, video game nerds and horror movie Buffs.
I ve been to Skidmore, several town men shot the bully, it seems like any other small town
Towns don't creep me out . People do. Less people would be a reason to go there for me. Although I'd rather not live in any town or city
I used to live 10 minutes from Brodhead and played against them in basketball and golf in high school. I had no idea about hell's playground or any of the other creepy stuff. Nobody ever talked about it
Not nearly as creepy as it is made out to be.
Vici in Oklahoma allegedly has a cow tipping party. In Okeene (where I lived) they have an annual rattlesnake festival (but they have to import the snakes from neighboring counties).
I've been to #10, Whittier, Alaska. A little quirky, but not creepy. Most of the residents work for the port on on fishing boats. But I must say that it is remote, with no real roads to anywhere. The tunnel goes through a mountain range and ends up in Portage, Alaska. It used to handle only a train that had railroad cars designed to hold busses and automobiles for the trip through the tunnel. It is beautiful if you like nature, with kittiwakes and puffins and whales in Prince William Sound. You can boat over to the town of Valdez, which is bigger, being the terminus of the Alaska Oil Pipeline.
There is a movie based on the mothman legend called mothman prophecies also a movie based on the plane crash that killed the entire marshall university football team called we are marshall
Saw a RUclipsr driving around Cairo Illinois. Didn’t seem all that creepy. It actually looked like a place that could easily come back to life. From what was explained on the video, the town died down once the train system came across the town, taking away the use of the river that connected to the Mississippi. Someone also commented that they live in the town and they just received some large contracts for the use of that river, that will bring thousands of jobs there.
The Antelope one there’s actually an episode of forensic files for about it
Chicago is scarier than all of these places. Chiraq will take your life in a blink of the eye. Now that’s creepy! Lol
I'm from America from Santa Monica California and it's definitely not a creepy town it's an amazing town close to Hollywood and all the rock clubs and amusement parks I would like to know all the creepy towns in England or the UK as you may say
Many think The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica is haunted. We stayed there in prom night with a group and my girlfriend and her friends said they heard knocking and laughing in the hallway late at night. We'd been drinking so Idk. lol
I grew up in a town in northern New York. It had a population of about 125. I got out. But, My parents still live there.
10:49 This is an image of Pittsburgh, PA
I used to ride my dirt bike and quad at Centralia. A few years ago they finally kicked out the last couple of people that lived there. Demolished the remaining houses and ripped up graffiti highway and is now guarded by state troopers. Used to have so much fun riding there. At least I have pictures and memories to remember the fun I had there.
There are some small towns where people on the street stop and stare at your car when you drive through. It’s as if they never see strangers, and is very uncomfortable.
I live in Oregon and was in high school when Rashneesh was a city. We even had a Rashneesh day where all the students dressed up in pink and wore lots of beads like their cult followers.
But the people in the cult started poison people around voting time so they could instill their own candidates into public office. They were putting salmonella into salad bars to make people sick so they couldn’t vote against them. If they were too sick to vote the cult figured they could win the elections.
It was a really weird time in Oregon’s history....but now Portland is like a cult and weird.
Oh and living with deer isn’t a big deal, they are always in my yard. But the bears and cougars do freak me out when they are in my yard.
@dacrosber not usually....unless they are biting you.
Rub bacon on yourself and come on over.
Living with deer isn't creepy... depending on what you do with them...
The UK has tons of Creepy history
The Marshall football plane crash is a fascinating story. There is a movie about it called WE ARE MARSHALL. It is sad, but ver inspirational. Worth checking out.
I have been to Antelope OR. In 1980 on a Elk hunting trip w/family. Don't recall anything weard.
That was before Rashneesh took over the town. It was really weird after that...
@@GilaMonster971 I was reading a book about a British Indian woman going to India, and traveling the country on 80 trains. One of the places she stayed was the Rashneesh's new Indian compound. Like many con-artists, they can always find a new place to trick people!
@@RogCBrand To be honest though if I was a bit older when Rashneesh was in Oregon. I might have went there....
Sounded like a wild sex party in the cult.
I’m kind of kidding though 🤣
@@GilaMonster971 She did write that many of the people joining his cult were basically there for that reason! She didn't know the history, but after a short stay, realized they were really messed up!
I have been to Skidmore MO. I worked for a garage door company from St Joe, MO. I did not grow up in Missouri. The first time I was there, I had the strange feeling come over me. I had no idea what had happened in that town. I just knew that I wanted out of there. I have been back to take pictures of some of the places where stuff happened.
I was in one of the creepiest towns in Oregon in the middle of nowhere back in the early 90's.
We drove from Vancouver, Canada, and had to take a stop and book a room somewhere since it was already late and drove down from a mountain area to this town that looked like it probably supported 200-300 people, but late night there was nothing going on.
There was one spot open, and we went into the Pub/Bar to hopefully grab something and there were maybe 5 people in this place at around 10PM. Someone struck up a conversation with me and I can only say I wanted to just get out in the morning (boarding up the motel door of course) and just seriously leave.
Haha...sounds exactly like my tiny town in Oregon. Most outsiders are not very welcome.
I’ve been to villisca Iowa and didn’t see anything that creepy about it. A lot of “ghost hunters” stay in the house for obvious reasons
I remember that plane crash from the movie we are the marshals vary good movie
I just watched Mothman Prophecies, with Richard Gere. Good movie
So he didn't really elaborate much on what went down in Centralia that lead up to this point, which I guess makes sense since it's kind of a long and surreal story. The short version, though, is that a portion of a coal mine (which the town had originally sprung up around) caught fire, and to this day, that fire is burning off the coal deposits underground. Mining tunnels made for great ventilation initially, and it keeps causing cracks and sinkholes to open in the ground when parts of the deposit burn away and hollow out the ground or steam from underground moisture becomes pressurized, so it's basically creating its own oxygen supply along the way. Many attempts were made to stop it, but by the time the problem was discovered, it was too late to really do anything about it. It can't be fought from the tunnels because the conditions are too harsh for humans and most equipment, and trying to dig down from the outside just opens up more airflow. Oh, and all that coal burning is causing carbon monoxide to seep up through the ground. Pretty much all that can be done at this point is wait for the coal to burn off.
This is/was fascinating ... I recognized some of these, as I've actually passed by some of them while traveling; I don't remember actually passing *through* any of these, but ...
When traveling, I keep track of where I am and don't mind making a bit of a detour if something 'catches my eye' somehow. I know I've passed somewhat near a few of these - I guess I should be glad that nothing about any of them ever 'caught my eye', and made me say to myself "I think I'll check-out that place ... maybe it'll be interesting!" Or I might have ended-up as another 'interesting & curious case' somehow.😳
P.S. - look up 'the mothman' ... it is weird.
As soon as I saw the video title I knew Colorado City AZ would be on here.
mothman flying over the town in the 60's sounds like LSD to me LOL
I lice in a town of 600 homes, we can't support a grocery store, the town 7 miles west has a tiny 3 aisle store with near convenience store prices.. and a poor selection. 15 miles away in two different directions are full size stores, one is a lot bigger.. Walmart is 25 miles away for a small location, 40 miles away for two larger locations.. it takes a tiring afternoon to hit all 5 stores to stock up on a half month's supply of poorly inventoried products.
I see deer of all ages in my backyard, as well as all my neighbor's yards. We all watch out for them, especially the young ones. But I live in/near Deer Park, Ohio so there's that. As for the small population is a cause for concern, not really. There are small towns all over the country my wife lived in a town that had two churches, maybe a candy/general store, and a gas station that closed down. But it did have a post office. It literally was just a four-way stop. I say that because other towns nearby are just a group of tiny houses, not old or run down, just families buying some land, and builders had to have utilities so other new homeowners bought near to them as utilities were available. No four-way stop, just drive through without knowing it was a town. That doesn't mean there was anything shady about the town or its occupants. They liked country living, not wanting to live in a crowded suburb without all the zoning rules of even a small incorporated jurisdiction to limit what they can build on their land.
The skyline they showed in the first couple pictures of Cairo Illinois is actually the skyline of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania lol
*James* : hypothesizes about staying at a “creepy” house for supernatural investigation …
*Has anyone suggested you react to Buzzfeed Unsolved yet?* 😂
My cousin and her husband own a mortuary and they've told me how there is an elderly man that shows up sitting in a chair inside the mortuary. Everybody who's ever worked there has seen the man and, assuming he is a customer, has asked him if they can help him. I can't remember if he ever says anything or not but I guess everybody has seen the same elderly man.
America is so big,every state has it's own horror story or a creepy town.
13:42: In some parts of the US, a town of 100 people is a veritable metropolis. I've driven through towns that have far less than that. If people abandoned every town with less than a hundred people in the US then tens of thousands of towns would have to abandoned.
I was very blissfully ignorant about Brodhead. 😆
I've been to point pleasant many times. One of my friends moved there for a while. I never had any creepy vibes there
The first time-lapse photo that pops up as the narrator says, "Cairo, Illinois," is actually of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I just went to Oregon yesterday. To a very,very small town and there are always deer everywhere. How is that weird or scary?
That was truly creepy. But fun.
5:15 Y'all watch 'The Mothman Prophecies'. You'll won't laugh about that name anymore.
The photo shown first for Cairo, Illinois is actually Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Maybe the filmmaker got confused as Pittsburgh is also situated on the confluence of three rivers. But still...Pittsburgh has TWICE been chosen as America's Most Livable city...and Cairo is on the creepiest places list. Huh????
You two should watch the movie, Mothman. It has Richard Gere in it even.
There's a pair of small towns in Wyoming that started life as the "man-camps" for the oil field workers on the U .S. Navy Petroleum Reserve at Teapot Dome. They're named Midwest-Edgerton, and I swear, if ever there's a place only Stephen King could love, This's It.
The vibe is of Secrets (with a Capital "S"), and "you ain't from 'round here, are ya..." and the feeling that you just missed the curtains twitch behind the windows of the WWII-style crackerbox houses...
I went to a creepy bridge in nowhere Kentucky. Deep woods. Nobody out there. The rumor was if you put your car in neutral, it'll roll forward to the middle, then roll backwards. Well, physics can't support that! So we go in 3 cars. We roll forward, then roll back. I get out and say "It's because the wooden bridge sinks to its lowest here, and then sends the cars backwards. Simple physics." Then a creature roared and jumped out from under the bridge! Everyone panicked and screamed! It was Ben. My friend Ben. He was in the car to the rear, got out, snuck over the edge of the bridge and took the walkway so he could jump out right beside us in the front vehicle 🤣😂
There’s a movie made about the moth man a few years back. He allegedly was seen by many people before that bridge collapse. Some think to warn them to stay off the bridge.
That first place in Alaska needs a Mall next door
My family's farm was less than a mile away from villisca Iowa
"That's just grim". That's enough to make me want to visit... with my sidearm.