Centralia, Pennsylvania is the town on top of a perpetually burning coal mine that you mentioned. The inspiration for Silent Hill, as well as a few other works of fiction. The government condemned the town, but made an exception for those that lived there at the time to stay if they wanted. So no one can move there and once the last few residents leave or pass away, it will officially become a ghost town.
When I was a medical student in WV, I did my OBGYN rotation in Point Pleasant and every one I talked to mentioned about the Mothman figure that would fly around at night and if you looked out your window you would see 2 red eyes! I didn't see anything but it spooked the hell out of me lol!! But it's actually a great little town with really nice and wonderful people. Young people work at the coal mines or the river and that's why many stay. They did a movie with Richard Gere Called Mothman Prophecies (2002) based on Point Pleasant, WV!
My husband and I traveled through West Virginia back in the 70's. He was in a band and we were traveling to get to the next gig through the Appalachian mountains. We stopped at what we thought was an inn but it turned out to be a house. When we went in, there were three tables with red and white table cloths on them. We sat down at one of them and this little old lady who I swear was 90 years old came over and said " can I hep ya" We ordered burgers, turned out to be fantastic but the whole setting was really weird. It was also late a night so when we got back on the road we had to follow the lights of a truck ahead of us as we could not see a thing with the mist and winding road with no guard rails. We thought we would drive off the mountain at any time.
Last years Mothman Festival was crazy, I read it is estimated 200k people showed up, which is nuts seeing how the town Point Pleasent has a population of 4,100 people. I live in WV, every Halloween we go to a different "haunted" place and camp out for a weekend. WV has many creepy/spooky towns, most are from the Civil War, the rest are usually from the coal mining days that saw towns drop to under 20% of their population in a couple of years after most of the mines closed up in the 50s. Theres also the coal mine wars and flooding. The mining wars happen in the early 1900s that left many dead and whole towns abandon. The flooding seems to happen every 10-20 years, most of the time it is in the same locations and little by little people pack up and leave rather than rebuilding. Sometimes it hits a new area wiping out thousands of homes in rural areas, and people use that opportunity to finally move out taking the money from the insurance leaving their home and all of their now ruined items behind.
I live right outside of Kansas City and I do a lot of backroad driving, and I stumbled upon Skidmore on accident one day. I can tell you that it is absolutely creepy and dead af. I didn’t see one person on my way through. I got out of there pretty quickly lol It was weird. Even for Missouri.
I was visiting Kansas city with a friend who lived in Iowa (I am from northern new england) and we were just going to some scenic drive for me to see what the midwest really looked like...we got to talking and he missed a turn and we ended up driving though there. We didn't really talk until we got out of there,
Yes I'm from Kansas City and I told them about how time stands still in many Ozarks towns. Ozarks are only 60 miles away. Family has a farm there and if your family don't go back serveral generation don't go. It's twenty miles to any store from the farm
On Cairo, Illinois: the first image they showed was Pittsburgh, PA where the Ohio river starts. Far, far away from Cairo, Illinois. It was just confusing editing. (Pittsburgh is fantastic BTW!)
Years ago my ex and I were driving in Northern California, USA and we pulled off the highway to rest and eat. Within a couple minutes of being in this town three weird and disturbing things happened that gave us the creeps and we both felt like if we stayed there something bad would happen. We got right back on the highway and went to another town. Shortly after that we couldn't for the life of us remember what the town was called or what had happened to give us such a bad feeling about the place. It was like we'd been to the outer rim of the Twilight Zone or something.
@@juanacosta4328 I wish I could. We made four right turns and got right back on the highway. It wasn't until after we got down the road that we each admitted to the other that there was something very wrong with that town. We remembered it occasionally over the years and neither of us could remember anything but the feeling the town gave off.
I have been to vilissca and got to take a tour of the axe murder house. The most recent owner restored it back to what it looked like when the murders happened (even has the families things in there) and the axe is still at the town hall when I went back in 2012. You can go stay nights there. The town may hate it but it brings in the dark tourism dollars. There is a really good documentary on it. The family had photos taken with the two girls that slept over that night around 24 hours before.
We're locusts and have the space to do it. If a neighborhood takes a downturn, then they just create a new housing development and move there. I grew up in a small Midwest town and you can drive around and see the "nice" neighborhood from the 50s, the one from the 70s, 90s, and so on. It's a very US phenomenon, I think.
i grew up about a 15 minute drive away from centralia PA. one of the clips in this video showed the "graffiti highway" that was blocked off. Lots of my friends would go down there to take instagram pictures as well as my older brother. i never made it down there but we were taught about the incident in depth in our schools. the graffiti highway was covered in mounds of dirt in 2020 to "prevent trespassing and vandalism". everyone in the area tried to sign a petition to stop them because thats the whole point of the location. just a cool place to hangout and see the graffiti. if you go on google earth and zoom in from above you can see all the dirt mounds currently covering it. soon they will be planting trees there as well. its pretty sad because now i really cant visit it
I live in WV... the stuff about Point Pleasant is a confluence of things that happened in towns miles and miles away. The Marshall plane crash occurred outside of Kenova which is further west than the town Marshall University is located in which is 30 miles west of point Pleasant which is in another county.
The plane didn’t crash in Point Pleasant, it crashed into a hillside near Ceredo and Kenova, just short of the Tri-State Airport over an hour’s drive away .
the ax murder house is probably the creepiest place in america… the murderer apparently waited in the attic until everyone went to sleep and then axed them…. you can go in the house too
Damascus in Syria has been a massive capital since ancient times. They're talking about cities that didn't exist at all before a few generations ago, suddenly came into being and turned into shining lights of industry and culture, and then evaporated into emptiness all within a few decades.
I lived in a really cool apartment building in Alexandria Virginia and it literally had everything so when we had the major blizzard of 2009 or nobody herewas going anywhere for close to two weeks you would just go down to the first floor and there was a tunnel, and inside this building there was an indoor pool, bowling alley, two restaurants, a store, a game room, a sauna, Jacuzzis, I dry cleaners and a huge vending machine area and plus we had a pool outside with a Jacuzzi so the place was really coolb got sure!!! And I loved that condo, but it was a shame that the owner of the condo wanted to sell because I wanted to stay there! Because we do get winters here but this year is definitely the most mild winter we’ve had in Maryland like not one flake of snow and it is been in the high 60s in the last 2 weeks so I’m not complaining but now that I said that we’re gonna end up getting a blizzard next week! And I live in Maryland, so we have the Blair witch forest, which unless you’re a complete, moron, nobody goes into! There is a movie made about this place and you should watch it because it is a freaky scary movie but it’s also a true movie! I’m just curious do you guys have daylight savings time there in England? Sorry for the long message.
The government paid most of the residents of Centralia to move to nearby towns It was a very progressive beautiful town. There are dozens of mine fires burning all over Pennsylvania. The difference is that those mines were not located directly under the towns. Centralia they are sprawled underneath the town. The coal deposits provide an almost endless fuel supply.
Actually that one-building town on No10 isn't a creepy one at all. It's strange and unusual, but the people living there are super friendly and caring people. ^^ Seen a little documentary about it here on youtube where a guy visited and it's pretty fascinating. Lonely yes, but interesting to see and hear how these people organize themselves etc. 🙂
3:52 That's the Salton Sea and Slab City in California. Also an inspired location for the GTA game. Been there and yes its definitely uniquely it's own.
The "city" shown first in the "Cairo, IL" section was Pittsburg, PA. I have no idea why they put Pittsburg in that segment. Cairo was never that large.
I suspect every state has a creepy town with a history. Housing lotteries can work. Baltimore had some grim years. It had a housing lottery to rejuvenate the city with younger people who would make a stake in the neighborhood and not just flip. Worked really well there. Skidmore--yep, that is an odd place. I remember the media focus on that man who terrorized everyone until someone just had enought and popped him. Police and authorities were upset about non-cooperation. But the man was allowed to do whatever and whenever without the law stepping in. So someone in town did a solid for all to live without worrying about him. That place in W VA had a movie made 'Mothman Prophecies' with RIchard Gere and Laura Linney. Creepy movie--in a good way.
I live in Waterloo ia. Was working and passed the ax murder house got to take a free tour with a ghost hunting crew that was there. It was very cool and it does give off very weird vibes. Feeling like you are being watch constantly
It’s burning because they were mining coal and once the fire started, it will burn until all the coal has burned away. That’s why it’s expanding. It’s burning through. Since coal smolders, it could burn for centuries.
About Centralia. I have a funny story about the first time I visited about 15 years ago. If you saw Silent Hill, the main girl was walking through town and small critters are stalking her, and then and air raid siren goes off and they all scatter cuz something bigger is coming. When I was in Centralia, walking along the road that you saw cracked and sink holled, an air raid siren went off. Our jaws dropped. It turns out that a local fireman had just died and they blew the siren for his funeral procession.
No! Point Pleasant is a nice little town. Okay, they've had more than their share of problems .... (We made a lot of trips across the Silver Bridge when going to visit Dad's family in Point Pleasant.)
Pine Bluff, Arkansas Y'all. Y'ALL. If there ever is an actual zombie apocalypse, that'll be where it originates. Pine Bluff is a death trap. Hardcore death trap. Never stop in Pine Bluff. Drive straight through (or, better yet, bypass). Do not stop for any reason.
There's a really good movie about that plane crash that killed an entire high school football team called We Are Marshall. If you get a chance to see it, I highly recommend it.
I have been to Skidmore. You do get a weird feeling there. But the story about how that dirt bag was killed is missing a few key details here. The man had a very good lawyer in Kansas City who would get him off every time he was arrested. He shot a man with a shotgun and then the deputy who responded was going to testify at his court case. The man told the deputy that if he testified then he would kill him. So the deputy ended up moving away without testifying. At one point, the town had enough of it. The man was in his truck with his wife and several people came out and he was shot three times. Then the locals put the woman and her two daughters on the bus and told her to never come back. The woman was alter asked if she knew who pulled the trigger of the gun that killed her husband and all that she said was yes and that was it. He was so hated by the locals that over 30 local residents showed up to kill him. And for good reason. His daughters would rob and steal from the local grocery store and he would shoot people and never was prosecuted for any of it. So after years of that the locals finally took matters into their own hands. I can't say that I blame them. Their down has gone to the dumps but that was one guy that needed killin.
Creepy is a broad paintbrush. We have a lot of small villages and towns here in Pennsylvania that are absolutely stunning but are considered "creepy" because they're lousy with ghosts! 🤣
Creepy to me….Los Alamos, New Mexico where the atom bombs were built. The laboratory was still the main employer in the town. I worked there on assignment for two months and never saw a soul in the streets. Similarly, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, now home of the original London Bridge. That city is so hot, during my months long assignment there, I never saw a single child playing outside. By the way, the lake, Lake Havasu is at least as warm as bath water. One week the temperature there averaged 120 degrees. Our office building was located in a fairly new building which was abandoned by a snake worshipping cult. There was an empty swimming pool on the property, drained of water and eternal home to hapless animals who ventured too close. Finally, Lovelock, Nevada. My friend and I were driving cross country and had a minor car problem. We stayed overnight in a little motor inn where a biker club was staying. The next morning while waiting for our car to be repaired, we decided to have breakfast. We walked into a restaurant where we were completely ignored by the hostess. They were quite busy so we were patient beyond reason. Finally, I said to the hostess (twice) “We’d like to have breakfast. Can you seat us, please.” I swear all eyes turned on us when the hostess said, “We don’t serve breakfast here.” We left with the smell of bacon and coffee in our noses. Now, that’s creepy!
I watched a travel youtuber recently doing an episode about whittier, very very interesting and the people are really nice there. it looks worse than it is. but yea if isolation is scary for certain folks, than they shouldnt go there :D
15:26 That’s actually the city of Pittsburgh. He may of chose that video as the Ohio river meets up in Pittsburgh. Or he just chose it because he liked it. Lol! I have no idea but the city in the beginning of it at 14:26 was definitely Pittsburgh.
I recently saw a PBS documentary a few weeks ago about that Whittier Alaska building. It really is kinda isolating & somewhat constraining to stay in that building most of the time due to the freezing temperatures during the winter. It reminds me of my times at university dorms. They should not have left the previous building in disrepair this whole time & should try to fix it up now, although it will probably take a million dollars to do so. That way they can rely on 2 buildings instead of just one in cases of emergency, like a quake or fire, or as another storage for surplus inventory, apart from any of those large shipping crates, because as I recall in the documentary, they can sometimes get out of stock of something at their store. I think calling these towns "creepy" seems incorrect. Maybe "sleepy" is more appropriate. Or maybe "eerie". Ok, maybe all 3, heh. And yes, I remember Antelope, Bhagwan, Sheela & Rajneeshpuram of the 1980's, as that was an era I lived through & kept seeing them on TV news. Also, to make it clear, that FLDS Mormon sect in Colorado City has no ties to the "proper" Mormon church we know of today headquartered in Utah, as they split way back in the late 19th century due to conflicting interpretations of their beliefs, which included the banning of polygamy. That is, on mortal Earth. And that also the original belief of polygamy with Mormons has nothing to do with sex & its pleasures, but rather with the biblical "be fruitful & multiply" to bring in as many spirits into this realm as possible, in a proper manner of course (marital) before the end of days.
On the video they say Auburn has only one way in and out, and that one of the roads out of town is a dead end. Looking on google earth though and it's not the case. There are four roads in and out of town, none of which are dead ends.
I live 30 minutes from Centralia, PA. The "Silent Hill" town with the underground mine fire. It's really not creepy, just empty. Graffiti Highway was really cool there but they got rid of that...
Cairo Illinois, was never like it was depicted in the photo during it's boomtime period, it's peak population was around 1920 when it contain just over 15 thousand people and the population has dwindled ever since over the last century down to around 2 thousand or so people. Mostly because it inhabits a isolated lowling spit of land where 3 States converge where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers come together which is protected by a levee system due to flooding concerns.
There's a shitload of weird little towns like Auburn in West Virginia and Kentucky. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Alabama and have lived in New Orleans and love both of those places but you take me to some hillbilly backwoods holler in West Virginia and I'll damn near cry. It's weird out there.
Waco is too big to be on this list, but it's got a pretty colorful history overall. On top of the siege it was the site of one of the most brutal and notorious lynchings in US history as well as one of the deadliest tornadoes in US history which--according to legend--traveled the same path the lynch mob took from the courthouse to the site of the hanging.
I went camping right outside Colorado City, it’s a beautiful place with quiet hiking trails. You basically have the place to yourself. The non Mormon residents were nice but reserved. The Mormon residents were….strange.
It's because we weren't used to outsiders, as in people not from Colorado City, or as the locals call it Short Creek as the short creek runs right through the middle of it. Because the last time any outsiders came was back in 1953 when the state of AZ came in and raided, then took the women and children, and were trying to adopt them out, just because we were in Celestial Plural Marriage, so a man can have more than 1 wife. Then in recent years, the government came and started evicting families, just because they didn't want to associate with other people. So most of the people from Short Creek, including me and my family don't live there anymore. And because of what the government did I personally hate going through there when I have to take highway 389, so I go as fast as I dare, because of the government and other people, I don't like the feeling of the place when I have to pass through it. It feels worse than hell. And there was very little crime until other people started moving in. So a little bit about me and my family. We are not forced to believe in our religion. It is 100 percent our choice to make. So if I wanted to become a nonbeliever, then I could and my family wouldn't stop me as it was my choice, but why would I? I am happy with my life. So those stories of people having to be "rescued" is a whole lot of steaming pile of ------------. It was their choice to leave the FLDS. I am proud to be FLDS. The people who say that we are brainwashed are a pile of jacked-up donkeys. Well, they are. As the founding member of our church once said, I teach correct principles and they govern themselves. So I am not forced to believe the way I do. It is my own personal choice to believe the way I do.
I had a couple co workers that lived in point pleasant wv I’d go every now and then to their houses what a shit hole of a town, definitely a creepy place once you venture off into the wood into the abandoned tnt silos
Good list, agree with #1. Watched a cpl programs on it, and remember watching the 80s TV movie when it came out. Brian Dennehy scared the crap outta me. Good watch, even today. Sounds like a whole separate upload on Centralia is in order lol, what? Surprised to nvr hear about the fire since the 60s, even before YT and my awesome skitzo algorithm. 🤷♂️ 👍✌️🏢🚹🚹🚹
The 2 West Virginia towns aint that bad pleasant is actually a nice town They have a festival every year That brings in about 50000 people In the town . Is Auburn West Virginia Iwork with a lot of people from there It's old but Not that that bad lol
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Centralia, Pennsylvania is the town on top of a perpetually burning coal mine that you mentioned. The inspiration for Silent Hill, as well as a few other works of fiction.
The government condemned the town, but made an exception for those that lived there at the time to stay if they wanted. So no one can move there and once the last few residents leave or pass away, it will officially become a ghost town.
I've driven through there on my way home from college in Williamsport the smoke coming out the ground is ominous
When I was a medical student in WV, I did my OBGYN rotation in Point Pleasant and every one I talked to mentioned about the Mothman figure that would fly around at night and if you looked out your window you would see 2 red eyes! I didn't see anything but it spooked the hell out of me lol!! But it's actually a great little town with really nice and wonderful people. Young people work at the coal mines or the river and that's why many stay. They did a movie with Richard Gere Called Mothman Prophecies (2002) based on Point Pleasant, WV!
Pretty Good Film.
The Mothman Festival is a lot of Fun!.
My husband and I traveled through West Virginia back in the 70's. He was in a band and we were traveling to get to the next gig through the Appalachian mountains. We stopped at what we thought was an inn but it turned out to be a house. When we went in, there were three tables with red and white table cloths on them. We sat down at one of them and this little old lady who I swear was 90 years old came over and said " can I hep ya" We ordered burgers, turned out to be fantastic but the whole setting was really weird. It was also late a night so when we got back on the road we had to follow the lights of a truck ahead of us as we could not see a thing with the mist and winding road with no guard rails. We thought we would drive off the mountain at any time.
Dave takes the banter so well
Last years Mothman Festival was crazy, I read it is estimated 200k people showed up, which is nuts seeing how the town Point Pleasent has a population of 4,100 people.
I live in WV, every Halloween we go to a different "haunted" place and camp out for a weekend.
WV has many creepy/spooky towns, most are from the Civil War, the rest are usually from the coal mining days that saw towns drop to under 20% of their population in a couple of years after most of the mines closed up in the 50s. Theres also the coal mine wars and flooding. The mining wars happen in the early 1900s that left many dead and whole towns abandon. The flooding seems to happen every 10-20 years, most of the time it is in the same locations and little by little people pack up and leave rather than rebuilding. Sometimes it hits a new area wiping out thousands of homes in rural areas, and people use that opportunity to finally move out taking the money from the insurance leaving their home and all of their now ruined items behind.
I live right outside of Kansas City and I do a lot of backroad driving, and I stumbled upon Skidmore on accident one day. I can tell you that it is absolutely creepy and dead af. I didn’t see one person on my way through. I got out of there pretty quickly lol It was weird. Even for Missouri.
I was visiting Kansas city with a friend who lived in Iowa (I am from northern new england) and we were just going to some scenic drive for me to see what the midwest really looked like...we got to talking and he missed a turn and we ended up driving though there. We didn't really talk until we got out of there,
@@Mary-xc9dh Yeah if you could hold your breath the whole way you would lol
Yes I'm from Kansas City and I told them about how time stands still in many Ozarks towns. Ozarks are only 60 miles away. Family has a farm there and if your family don't go back serveral generation don't go. It's twenty miles to any store from the farm
On Cairo, Illinois: the first image they showed was Pittsburgh, PA where the Ohio river starts. Far, far away from Cairo, Illinois. It was just confusing editing. (Pittsburgh is fantastic BTW!)
Years ago my ex and I were driving in Northern California, USA and we pulled off the highway to rest and eat. Within a couple minutes of being in this town three weird and disturbing things happened that gave us the creeps and we both felt like if we stayed there something bad would happen. We got right back on the highway and went to another town. Shortly after that we couldn't for the life of us remember what the town was called or what had happened to give us such a bad feeling about the place. It was like we'd been to the outer rim of the Twilight Zone or something.
I’m curious, you mind sharing those three things that made you guys leave?
@@juanacosta4328 I wish I could. We made four right turns and got right back on the highway. It wasn't until after we got down the road that we each admitted to the other that there was something very wrong with that town. We remembered it occasionally over the years and neither of us could remember anything but the feeling the town gave off.
How north was it
@@colton3306 Almost to the Oregon border.
@@angelagraves865 I live around there I’d probably know the town
I have been to vilissca and got to take a tour of the axe murder house. The most recent owner restored it back to what it looked like when the murders happened (even has the families things in there) and the axe is still at the town hall when I went back in 2012. You can go stay nights there. The town may hate it but it brings in the dark tourism dollars. There is a really good documentary on it. The family had photos taken with the two girls that slept over that night around 24 hours before.
The picture that was shown at the beginning of Cairo, Illinois is Pittsburgh.
Yeah, whoever made that video screwed up big time.
We're locusts and have the space to do it. If a neighborhood takes a downturn, then they just create a new housing development and move there. I grew up in a small Midwest town and you can drive around and see the "nice" neighborhood from the 50s, the one from the 70s, 90s, and so on. It's a very US phenomenon, I think.
i grew up about a 15 minute drive away from centralia PA. one of the clips in this video showed the "graffiti highway" that was blocked off. Lots of my friends would go down there to take instagram pictures as well as my older brother. i never made it down there but we were taught about the incident in depth in our schools. the graffiti highway was covered in mounds of dirt in 2020 to "prevent trespassing and vandalism". everyone in the area tried to sign a petition to stop them because thats the whole point of the location. just a cool place to hangout and see the graffiti. if you go on google earth and zoom in from above you can see all the dirt mounds currently covering it. soon they will be planting trees there as well. its pretty sad because now i really cant visit it
I live in WV... the stuff about Point Pleasant is a confluence of things that happened in towns miles and miles away. The Marshall plane crash occurred outside of Kenova which is further west than the town Marshall University is located in which is 30 miles west of point Pleasant which is in another county.
The plane didn’t crash in Point Pleasant, it crashed into a hillside near Ceredo and Kenova, just short of the Tri-State Airport over an hour’s drive away .
Exactly. This dude’s videos are always full of bullshit
That first imagine of Cairo they showed was Pittsburg lolll
Pretty sure that first picture of #5 is Pittsburgh (that you said looked pretty good).
It is lol
the ax murder house is probably the creepiest place in america… the murderer apparently waited in the attic until everyone went to sleep and then axed them…. you can go in the house too
Damascus in Syria has been a massive capital since ancient times. They're talking about cities that didn't exist at all before a few generations ago, suddenly came into being and turned into shining lights of industry and culture, and then evaporated into emptiness all within a few decades.
I lived in a really cool apartment building in Alexandria Virginia and it literally had everything so when we had the major blizzard of 2009 or nobody herewas going anywhere for close to two weeks you would just go down to the first floor and there was a tunnel, and inside this building there was an indoor pool, bowling alley, two restaurants, a store, a game room, a sauna, Jacuzzis, I dry cleaners and a huge vending machine area and plus we had a pool outside with a Jacuzzi so the place was really coolb got sure!!!
And I loved that condo, but it was a shame that the owner of the condo wanted to sell because I wanted to stay there! Because we do get winters here but this year is definitely the most mild winter we’ve had in Maryland like not one flake of snow and it is been in the high 60s in the last 2 weeks so I’m not complaining but now that I said that we’re gonna end up getting a blizzard next week! And I live in Maryland, so we have the Blair witch forest, which unless you’re a complete, moron, nobody goes into! There is a movie made about this place and you should watch it because it is a freaky scary movie but it’s also a true movie! I’m just curious do you guys have daylight savings time there in England? Sorry for the long message.
there's a Netflix documentary about that town in Organ its fascinating
Waco is a college town essentially
Edit: actually Whittier seems like a nice community of people. There are YT videos about them
College town with big-city traffic lol
The government paid most of the residents of Centralia to move to nearby towns
It was a very progressive beautiful town.
There are dozens of mine fires burning all over Pennsylvania. The difference is that those mines were not located directly under the towns.
Centralia they are sprawled underneath the town.
The coal deposits provide an almost endless fuel supply.
Actually that one-building town on No10 isn't a creepy one at all. It's strange and unusual, but the people living there are super friendly and caring people. ^^ Seen a little documentary about it here on youtube where a guy visited and it's pretty fascinating. Lonely yes, but interesting to see and hear how these people organize themselves etc. 🙂
3:52 That's the Salton Sea and Slab City in California. Also an inspired location for the GTA game. Been there and yes its definitely uniquely it's own.
The area surrounding the Salton Sea is definitely creepy.
Great movie as well! The Salton Sea
@@TreyM1609 Yes. The history of it is fascinating.
The cult one in Oregon has a documentary about it.
The beautiful city that they showed at the beginning of the Cairo segment was, strangely, a photo of the skyline of Pittsburgh, PA.
The "city" shown first in the "Cairo, IL" section was Pittsburg, PA. I have no idea why they put Pittsburg in that segment. Cairo was never that large.
Peter Santenello did a video ( 5 months ago)visiting the one building town in Alaska
That beautiful downtown they showed for Cairo Illinois was Pittsburgh.
I suspect every state has a creepy town with a history. Housing lotteries can work. Baltimore had some grim years. It had a housing lottery to rejuvenate the city with younger people who would make a stake in the neighborhood and not just flip. Worked really well there. Skidmore--yep, that is an odd place. I remember the media focus on that man who terrorized everyone until someone just had enought and popped him. Police and authorities were upset about non-cooperation. But the man was allowed to do whatever and whenever without the law stepping in. So someone in town did a solid for all to live without worrying about him. That place in W VA had a movie made 'Mothman Prophecies' with RIchard Gere and Laura Linney. Creepy movie--in a good way.
I live in Waterloo ia. Was working and passed the ax murder house got to take a free tour with a ghost hunting crew that was there. It was very cool and it does give off very weird vibes. Feeling like you are being watch constantly
It’s burning because they were mining coal and once the fire started, it will burn until all the coal has burned away. That’s why it’s expanding. It’s burning through. Since coal smolders, it could burn for centuries.
About Centralia. I have a funny story about the first time I visited about 15 years ago. If you saw Silent Hill, the main girl was walking through town and small critters are stalking her, and then and air raid siren goes off and they all scatter cuz something bigger is coming. When I was in Centralia, walking along the road that you saw cracked and sink holled, an air raid siren went off. Our jaws dropped. It turns out that a local fireman had just died and they blew the siren for his funeral procession.
I have been to skidmore and went to a Bar their just like other small towns in midwest, the bully was shot by multiple people in the community
No! Point Pleasant is a nice little town. Okay, they've had more than their share of problems .... (We made a lot of trips across the Silver Bridge when going to visit Dad's family in Point Pleasant.)
22:49 this last part was totally random and funny as hell. Even the Blokes thought it was funny lol :P
That town in Oregon with the cult, I remember seeing it on an episode of Forensic Files.
LMAO when the video ends and the next one immediatley starts with "RACISM." THat made me lol
Man I love y'all. Y'all got a podcast?
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Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Y'all. Y'ALL. If there ever is an actual zombie apocalypse, that'll be where it originates. Pine Bluff is a death trap. Hardcore death trap. Never stop in Pine Bluff. Drive straight through (or, better yet, bypass). Do not stop for any reason.
WV town would not have been a farming town, but likely a coal town. Also Deliverance took place and was filmed in north Georgia.
For whatever reason, Cairo IL is pronounced 'Kayro'...it's a surreal and sad place with a sad history..
It is absolutely not true that Centralia is blocked off, you can drive through the town. In fact, they still mine coal just outside the town limits.
There's a really good movie about that plane crash that killed an entire high school football team called We Are Marshall. If you get a chance to see it, I highly recommend it.
I have been to Skidmore. You do get a weird feeling there. But the story about how that dirt bag was killed is missing a few key details here. The man had a very good lawyer in Kansas City who would get him off every time he was arrested. He shot a man with a shotgun and then the deputy who responded was going to testify at his court case. The man told the deputy that if he testified then he would kill him. So the deputy ended up moving away without testifying. At one point, the town had enough of it. The man was in his truck with his wife and several people came out and he was shot three times. Then the locals put the woman and her two daughters on the bus and told her to never come back. The woman was alter asked if she knew who pulled the trigger of the gun that killed her husband and all that she said was yes and that was it. He was so hated by the locals that over 30 local residents showed up to kill him. And for good reason. His daughters would rob and steal from the local grocery store and he would shoot people and never was prosecuted for any of it. So after years of that the locals finally took matters into their own hands. I can't say that I blame them. Their down has gone to the dumps but that was one guy that needed killin.
Mr. Ballen has a thing about Skidmore and the bully guy being killed.
And Count Dankula
That first picture about Cairo, Illinois was Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nowhere near Cairo.
Creepy is a broad paintbrush. We have a lot of small villages and towns here in Pennsylvania that are absolutely stunning but are considered "creepy" because they're lousy with ghosts! 🤣
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Sounds like you’re lousy with scepticism
The narrator of this video sounds like Craig Middlebrooks from the U.S. TV show 'Parks and Recreation'. "Somebody follow me, I'm distraught!"
Point Pleasant WV isn't that Bad i Live About a Hour away. Mothman Festival is a Blast 🙂
22:20 there's a Law & Order: SVU episode about that
I would love to live in this place which is in place 10. Look at the view there and how close the water is!
Creepy to me….Los Alamos, New Mexico where the atom bombs were built. The laboratory was still the main employer in the town. I worked there on assignment for two months and never saw a soul in the streets. Similarly, Lake Havasu City, Arizona, now home of the original London Bridge. That city is so hot, during my months long assignment there, I never saw a single child playing outside. By the way, the lake, Lake Havasu is at least as warm as bath water. One week the temperature there averaged 120 degrees. Our office building was located in a fairly new building which was abandoned by a snake worshipping cult. There was an empty swimming pool on the property, drained of water and eternal home to hapless animals who ventured too close. Finally, Lovelock, Nevada. My friend and I were driving cross country and had a minor car problem. We stayed overnight in a little motor inn where a biker club was staying. The next morning while waiting for our car to be repaired, we decided to have breakfast. We walked into a restaurant where we were completely ignored by the hostess. They were quite busy so we were patient beyond reason. Finally, I said to the hostess (twice) “We’d like to have breakfast. Can you seat us, please.” I swear all eyes turned on us when the hostess said, “We don’t serve breakfast here.” We left with the smell of bacon and coffee in our noses. Now, that’s creepy!
That was Pittsburgh Pa, they showed, not Illinois.
I watched a travel youtuber recently doing an episode about whittier, very very interesting and the people are really nice there. it looks worse than it is. but yea if isolation is scary for certain folks, than they shouldnt go there :D
In the Ozarks there's many strange towns. Some are like your back in the early 1900s. Time stands still in the Ozarks.
15:26 That’s actually the city of Pittsburgh. He may of chose that video as the Ohio river meets up in Pittsburgh. Or he just chose it because he liked it. Lol! I have no idea but the city in the beginning of it at 14:26 was definitely Pittsburgh.
I recently saw a PBS documentary a few weeks ago about that Whittier Alaska building. It really is kinda isolating & somewhat constraining to stay in that building most of the time due to the freezing temperatures during the winter. It reminds me of my times at university dorms. They should not have left the previous building in disrepair this whole time & should try to fix it up now, although it will probably take a million dollars to do so. That way they can rely on 2 buildings instead of just one in cases of emergency, like a quake or fire, or as another storage for surplus inventory, apart from any of those large shipping crates, because as I recall in the documentary, they can sometimes get out of stock of something at their store. I think calling these towns "creepy" seems incorrect. Maybe "sleepy" is more appropriate. Or maybe "eerie". Ok, maybe all 3, heh.
And yes, I remember Antelope, Bhagwan, Sheela & Rajneeshpuram of the 1980's, as that was an era I lived through & kept seeing them on TV news.
Also, to make it clear, that FLDS Mormon sect in Colorado City has no ties to the "proper" Mormon church we know of today headquartered in Utah, as they split way back in the late 19th century due to conflicting interpretations of their beliefs, which included the banning of polygamy. That is, on mortal Earth. And that also the original belief of polygamy with Mormons has nothing to do with sex & its pleasures, but rather with the biblical "be fruitful & multiply" to bring in as many spirits into this realm as possible, in a proper manner of course (marital) before the end of days.
On the video they say Auburn has only one way in and out, and that one of the roads out of town is a dead end. Looking on google earth though and it's not the case. There are four roads in and out of town, none of which are dead ends.
I live 30 minutes from Centralia, PA. The "Silent Hill" town with the underground mine fire. It's really not creepy, just empty. Graffiti Highway was really cool there but they got rid of that...
PT, pleasant is beautiful, done a cell tower repair there, very kool, but definitely creepy
Don't forget Tioga Texas and neighboring town Aubrey Texas. They have the creepiest people.
man driving in central florida is the creepiest here in florida or the panhandle towns those two forsure
Cairo Illinois, was never like it was depicted in the photo during it's boomtime period, it's peak population was around 1920 when it contain just over 15 thousand people and the population has dwindled ever since over the last century down to around 2 thousand or so people. Mostly because it inhabits a isolated lowling spit of land where 3 States converge where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers come together which is protected by a levee system due to flooding concerns.
They should add Clearwater, Florida. It’s basically owned by Scientologists.
19:46 Looks like the Moonville, Ohio train tunnel. I think it actually says Moonville on it. Obviously not located in West Virginia.
There's a shitload of weird little towns like Auburn in West Virginia and Kentucky. I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Alabama and have lived in New Orleans and love both of those places but you take me to some hillbilly backwoods holler in West Virginia and I'll damn near cry. It's weird out there.
Office Blokes Try spending the night in creepy axe house.
He showed Pittsburgh, PA for Cairo, IL….not sure why.
You never believe in ghosts til you see one. Love you guys.
at the end, RACISM 🤣🤣
Lmao
Auburn west Virginia was an old coal mine town. When they closed the coal mines well, the town ya know
West Virginia MothMan Prophecy Has got to be in this list
The #1 creepy town is Washington, DC.
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Mate I would say moss side between the mix of lifeless zombies to the yutes getting nicked
come to binghamton ny. its creepy how many alcoholics there are 😂
Waco is too big to be on this list, but it's got a pretty colorful history overall. On top of the siege it was the site of one of the most brutal and notorious lynchings in US history as well as one of the deadliest tornadoes in US history which--according to legend--traveled the same path the lynch mob took from the courthouse to the site of the hanging.
I went camping right outside Colorado City, it’s a beautiful place with quiet hiking trails. You basically have the place to yourself. The non Mormon residents were nice but reserved. The Mormon residents were….strange.
It's because we weren't used to outsiders, as in people not from Colorado City, or as the locals call it Short Creek as the short creek runs right through the middle of it. Because the last time any outsiders came was back in 1953 when the state of AZ came in and raided, then took the women and children, and were trying to adopt them out, just because we were in Celestial Plural Marriage, so a man can have more than 1 wife. Then in recent years, the government came and started evicting families, just because they didn't want to associate with other people. So most of the people from Short Creek, including me and my family don't live there anymore. And because of what the government did I personally hate going through there when I have to take highway 389, so I go as fast as I dare, because of the government and other people, I don't like the feeling of the place when I have to pass through it. It feels worse than hell. And there was very little crime until other people started moving in.
So a little bit about me and my family. We are not forced to believe in our religion. It is 100 percent our choice to make. So if I wanted to become a nonbeliever, then I could and my family wouldn't stop me as it was my choice, but why would I? I am happy with my life. So those stories of people having to be "rescued" is a whole lot of steaming pile of ------------. It was their choice to leave the FLDS.
I am proud to be FLDS. The people who say that we are brainwashed are a pile of jacked-up donkeys. Well, they are. As the founding member of our church once said, I teach correct principles and they govern themselves. So I am not forced to believe the way I do. It is my own personal choice to believe the way I do.
Top 10 creepiest small towns
Introverts and urban explorers: 😍🤤
Whittier has a very good cafe
If you play Fallout 76 there pay a lot of homage to the Mothman. You can find a lot of lore in that game about this.
I had a couple co workers that lived in point pleasant wv I’d go every now and then to their houses what a shit hole of a town, definitely a creepy place once you venture off into the wood into the abandoned tnt silos
Good list, agree with #1. Watched a cpl programs on it, and remember watching the 80s TV movie when it came out. Brian Dennehy scared the crap outta me. Good watch, even today.
Sounds like a whole separate upload on Centralia is in order lol, what? Surprised to nvr hear about the fire since the 60s, even before YT and my awesome skitzo algorithm. 🤷♂️ 👍✌️🏢🚹🚹🚹
The 2 West Virginia towns aint that bad pleasant is actually a nice town They have a festival every year That brings in about 50000 people In the town . Is Auburn West Virginia Iwork with a lot of people from there It's old but Not that that bad lol
deliverance was in arkansas
Georgia.
You guys need to react to Wilt Chamberlain nobody loves Goliath
The most disturbing thing about this video is how he uses images of gold diggers and smiling teens when referring to child rape. Yuck.
i dont mind creepy ghost town.....my problem is with creepy people lol
Yep… those people exist,
Ehhhh , deliverance was supposed to be in GA but actually filmed in NC. W. Virginia has its own problems don’t put Deliverance on them lol
It was shot primarily in Georgia.
If Santa Claus, IN ain’t on here I’m gunna be heated
If you want to delve deeper into the Marshall University crash, here is a good video on it.: ruclips.net/video/STCTBFa9-U8/видео.html
Take off the size restriction and Washington DC wins creepiest race
I’ve been to Whittier it is not creepy. Thee small town I now live in in NY with less than 1000 people is much more creepy
Ok creepy towns in England now make it happen
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Interesting video
You should react to MindSeedTV
2nd place doesn't fit, imo. Deadend road and people look at you?
Can y’all please react to all def roast me season 5 episode 9