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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
MN school considering repealing hate symbol ban
The Forest Lake School Board is debating repealing a school policy that bans hate speech on clothing. The policy currently bans clothing that features confederate flags, KKK, and swastika symbols. A school board meeting on Thursday featured an hour-long listening session during which residents expressed their concerns over the proposed dress code policy change. Ultimately, the school board voted to send this proposal back to the policy committee, where they can dig into more specifics.
CBS News
2 days ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Forest Lake Area School District debates repealing ban on clothing displaying certain symbols
This school district may repeal a ban on clothing with swastikas and KKK signs This school district may repeal a ban on clothing with swastikas and KKK signs This school district may repeal a ban on clothing with swastikas and KKK signs A northern Twin Cities metro school dress code debate is drawing large crowds and criticism at a school board meeting on Thursday. Forest Lake school leaders are considering repealing the ban on wearing clothing that displays the Confederate flag, swastika and KKK signs. "It will 100% impact the decision on where I send my children," said one parent at Thursday's school board meeting. It's a tense topic at the Forest Lake Area School District school board meeting. "The proposed dress code changes are based on the Minnesota school board association policy," said President Curt Rebelein to the crowd. "And 99% of schools in Minnesota" Rebelein discussed a dress code policy that would mirror the association's language. That language removes specific bans on symbols like the KKK, Confederate flag and more. "Based on directives from the Supreme Court of the United States and provides latitude for student expression and limitations around to ensure a positive learning environment for all students," he said. The board room wasn't even big enough for the size of the crowd that showed up on Thursday. The meeting was filled with students and former board members. "Where do we draw the line? Where?" one student told WCCO. "We need to start going back the direction of making every child feel included," said a former board member. Even a former superintendent attended. They were a teacher at the time the initial dress code was created, after an African American student was assaulted by students in 1997. The next day, students wore white shirts showing support of the incident. "It has bounced back and forth, which is why it's getting so much attention," the former board member said.
Boston Globe
11-06-2025
- Boston Globe
Stanley Nelson, editor who probed cold cases of Jim Crow era, dies at 69
No one was charged and, as the decades passed, the case gradually faded from the town's collective memory. Even the editor of the local weekly - who sometimes wrote columns on the area's history - was unaware of what happened that night in 1964; at the time, he was a child in a white community up the road from Ferriday. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Then in 2007, the FBI released a list of cold cases from the civil rights era. The editor, Stanley Nelson, began to dig. First came old police reports and forensic files on the Morris case, including redacted FBI documents obtained from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group. Advertisement Mr. Nelson moved on to interviews, including with former KKK members, as he tried to piece together what happened. As his articles began to appear in the Concordia Sentinel, some in Ferriday applauded his efforts to reopen the past. Others, it seemed, wanted to keep the lid tightly sealed. He received threats and, at least twice, was run off the road as he drove to the newsroom he shared with two colleagues at the 5,000-circulation weekly. Advertisement 'If you don't figure out what happened, and if you don't figure out why it happened, these things will live on forever,' said Mr. Nelson, who died June 5 in DeRidder, La., at 69. In January 2011, Mr. Nelson wrote about what he believed was the key piece of the puzzle - linking Morris's death to a former KKK henchman with a faction called the Silver Dollar Group. The man denied the allegations and was not charged. He died in 2013. But Mr. Nelson's investigation - and the reporting on why the KKK targeted Morris - was among the Pulitzer Prize finalists for local news in 2011 and reoriented the journalist's career to unearth other stories from the area's Jim Crow past. Mr. Nelson's work began to resonate far from the Mississippi Delta. The PBS news show 'Frontline' featured the documentary 'American Reckoning' in 2022 largely based on Mr. Nelson's probe into the 1967 killing of Wharlest Jackson Sr., a civil rights leader in Natchez, Miss., about 10 miles from Ferriday. A bomb planted in Jackson's car exploded when he flicked on his turn signal on his way home. Best-selling author Greg Iles also said Mr. Nelson's work inspired some of the historical overlays in his novels, including 'Natchez Burning' (2014), about attempts to revisit a murder case in the 1960s and the dark legacy of KKK violence and corruption. A character in the book, journalist Henry Sexton, was loosely based on Mr. Nelson. Advertisement 'Stanley Nelson raised his pen against the sword of hatred, and as a result, one bend of the Mississippi River looks a lot less dark than it once did. Stanley Nelson gives me hope for the South, and for America,' Iles wrote in the foreword to Mr. Nelson's 2016 book 'Devils Walking: Ku Klux Klan Murders Along the Mississippi River in the 1960s,' about the hate group's suspected links to the Morris murder and other unresolved cases. To mark the 60th anniversary of Morris's death, officials in Ferriday held a memorial in December in his memory. Mr. Nelson stood alongside Morris's granddaughter and great-granddaughter. In his articles, Mr. Nelson built an extensive argument on why the KKK unleashed its fury on Morris. He interviewed people recounting how the success of Morris's businesses angered local racists. Others speculated that Morris may have been targeted for refusing demands by a corrupt sheriff's deputy seeking free shoe repairs. A wreath was laid at the former site of Morris's one-story shop, now just the outline of a foundation. Mr. Nelson often remarked how he had no idea of what happened there until the FBI cold case report reached his desk. 'All my life, I passed by this shop,' he told an NPR correspondent in 2011, 'and didn't know it.' Frank Morris, fourth from left and wearing a tie and visor, in front of his shoe repair shop in Ferriday, La., circa 1964. Photo Courtesy Concordia Sentinel and the Civil Rights Cold Case Project, 2010 Stanley Skylar Nelson was born in Ferriday on Sept. 18, 1955, and raised in Cash Bayou near the village of Sicily Island. His father was a plumber and tended a family farm, and his mother was a nurse. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Louisiana Tech University in 1977 and soon joined the Concordia Sentinel, named for the surrounding Concordia Parish. He edited stories and covered local government and agencies overseeing issues such as Mississippi River water management. Advertisement As he turned to the civil-rights-era files, Mr. Nelson was adept at trying to minimize risks as he confronted people for information on long-dormant cases. Many former Klansmen, he noted, lived in rural areas, and they were rarely happy to see a journalist at their door. Mr. Nelson sent handwritten letters specifying the date and time he planned to show up in hopes of lessening the chance of violence. 'I just wanted to find out who did it,' he told The New York Times. He also found that family members of former KKK members were willing to spill private details. Children, he said, would sometimes see an opportunity to get back at abusive fathers. 'If your daddy was going out at night, burning buildings down, kidnapping and torturing people, doing everything bad that you can think of, they probably weren't too nice at home, either,' Mr. Nelson said in a 2018 speech. 'And they weren't.' Mr. Nelson's second book, 'Klan of Devils' (2021), detailed the Klan attack on two Black sheriff's deputies in Louisiana in 1965. The suspect, a World War II veteran, was detained, and the FBI was called in. The case collapsed when witnesses refused to give statements. Those killings - as well as the deadly attacks on Morris and Jackson - remain unresolved. Mr. Nelson retired in 2023 as editor of the Concordia Sentinel. He also taught classes at Louisiana State University's school of communications, which started a cold case project inspired by Mr. Nelson's investigations. His marriage to Nancy Burnham ended in divorce, but they later reunited as live-in companions. Mr. Nelson died at their home in DeRidder, she said, but no cause was given. Survivors include two children and four grandchildren. Advertisement In 'Devils Walking,' Mr. Nelson said his motivation to begin reopening the bloodshed of the civil rights era was partly as penance for his failure to know the full sweep of local history when he was younger. 'Every community and every citizen bear the ultimate responsibility of justice, including me and including you,' he wrote. 'After half a century, who is to blame for the future of justice in cases like this? We all are.'
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Yahoo
"It's Basically A Cult Town": 24 Places Across The U.S. That People Deem "The Most Unsettling"
A hot minute ago, Reddit user Bennevada asked the folks over on r/AskReddit to share the little towns across America they've passed through that gave them the creeps. From abandoned ghost towns to cities stuck in the past, here are 24 of the most bone-chilling places they shared: Hey, you! Have you visited or passed through a town in the US that was so eerie, you won't ever forget it? Tell us about it in the comments or anonymous form at the end of this article. Note: The following submissions are simply the opinions of these Reddit users from the previously mentioned thread, as well as these three (1, 2, 3) similar ones. If you're from one of these towns and think they got it all wrong, set the record straight in the comments! 1."Tonopah, NV. It's on the north end of the Tonopha missile range and Area 51. It's the beginning of nowhere and is home to the world's largest Clown Motel. The only reason to stop is for gas, then get TF outta there as quickly as possible." —littlebitstoned AK: "The entire population lives in a single apartment building, and the only access to the town is by boat or a 2.5-mile tunnel." —WeOwntheNightX Whittier has about 200 residents, almost all of whom live in the Begich Towers. TX: "We detoured through it due to a road closure. The residents hung white sheets saying, 'Don't stop' and 'Go that way.' They seem to have lots of white sheets..." —whatyoucallmetoday "I did some engineering co-op assignments in the Golden Triangle area (Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur) back in the early '90s. Everyone I worked with warned me to never stop in Vidor for any reason. I took their advice to heart. They said the town's claim to fame was being the former national headquarters for the KKK, and that there was a billboard on the stretch of I-10 that passed through Vidor that would occasionally get spray painted with the message '*n-word*, don't let the sun go down on you in Vidor.'" —underpants-gnome 4."Los Alamos, NM: Lots of land surrounded by barbed wire. Signs EVERYWHERE indicating 'No drones allowed.' Weirdly quiet. Pretty much everything closed at 3 p.m. We joked that it must be to give people time to get inside before all the radioactive monsters came out. A lot of the labs and facilities are still active for, I assume, reasons." —knittinator City, AZ: "Me and some friends were driving up to Duck Creek, UT from Vegas in winter and had to go in the back way via 89. This route takes you through Colorado City, Arizona, which is Mormon territory and about the creepiest place I've ever been. We had to stop for gas and we were watched like we were being hunted." —thai-stik-admin "I came here to see if anyone posted about this place. I stopped in there on my way to the north rim of The Grand Canyon back in 1999. This is not just Mormons, but Warren Jeffs's polygamous sect. I went into the grocery store to get supplies. All the young women wore 19th-century style clothes and would not look me in the face when they spoke to me. They tried to establish a compound in Texas several years later and Jess was arrested. Their idea of marriage was 50-year-old men marrying 12-year-old girls." —Troubador222 "So many polygamists. You can feel how unwelcome you are as you enter the town. We stopped there once on a family trip to get gas. A police officer immediately parked behind us and wanted to know where we were going and how long we were going to be in his town. He didn't leave until we did and he followed us until we got to the town border. We never stopped there again. It's basically a cult town." —ProfessorBrownie 6."The Loneliest Road" (Route 50), NV: "I went on the 'loneliest road' in Nevada, and it truly gave me a sense of scale for America as a place. In Europe, you simply cannot go that distance without encountering multiple massive cities. Where I live, every square cm of land has been apportioned for centuries, and then you go to Nevada, and it's And you have actual warnings telling you to fill up your car or else." —Ok-Commercial8968 St. Helens area, WA: "If you're adventurous and have a truck, you can find the old forest service roads on the side of Mt. St. Helens that got blown out by the eruption. I found them at night driving through there on a whim. Old forest service signs with half of the sign melted or blown off, completely overgrown roads, muddy trails, and absolutely no light. It was a clear sky with a full moon and, I shit you not, I couldn't see more than 50 feet ahead of me with the brights on. Eeriest shit I've explored, and I grew up exploring abandoned asylums and prisons. 14/10, absolute recommend." —Beautiful-Page3135 Related: "Something In My Head Said, 'Don't Get Up'": 16 Older Adults Reveal The Wildest Supernatural Encounters From Their Childhood 8."Centralia, PA: An underground coal fire drove out most of the population, so it's essentially an abandoned town. It was the inspiration for how Silent Hill is depicted in the first Silent Hill movie." —rookhelm An underground mine fire has been burning beneath the town since at least 1962. While most of the small town's residents have fled since then, a handful have remained. 9."Harrison, AR: It has billboards for White Power Radio. I had heard about it on the internet but had forgotten until some friends and I went camping on the Buffalo River. It's 100% legit." —pickleparty16 Haw, OH: "I've driven through it four times. Every single time it's the same story. Cars parked on the sides of the road, but no traffic. Doors wide open, but nobody is visible. No music, no people. Legitimately saw a ball roll across the street once and nobody could have thrown it. It looks like everyone who lives there disappears whenever I drive through, and then spontaneously, they reappear when I leave." —GNSasakiHaise *** Salton Sea area, CA: "The area around the Salton Sea in Southern California — particularly the upper half of the western shore, towns like Salton City, Desert Shores, and Oasis. I actually quite enjoyed the people there. Back in the 1960s, a bunch of resort towns popped up along the sea. In the 1980s, agricultural runoff severely polluted the sea. There were also wild variations in the salinity of the sea, and those two factors combined to kill off a ton of the sea's fish. The dead fish washed up on shore, the sight and smell of which pretty well killed the tourism industry. What remains is an ecological disaster and a bunch of not-quite ghost towns. "It's a really eerie corner of the world, and as someone who's spent a lot of time in tiny back towns across the western states, the Salton Sea area is definitely unique in my memory." —MasteringTheFlames of Tears Road, GA: "My wife and I drove on it, and it was a beautiful, sunny day when we made the turn. As soon as we were on the road, it started raining, and the weather got worse and worse until it was like driving in a hurricane. Then, as soon as we got to the end of the road and turned onto the highway, the skies cleared up and it was a beautiful, sunny day again. Super weird experience, and now years later, when strange things happen in the world, we joke with each other that it's all a dream and we're still trapped on Trail of Tears Road." —brickhamilton Related: Adults Are Sharing Their "I Can't Believe I Have To Explain This To Another Adult" Stories, And I Need A Break From Life After Reading These MO: "A few years ago, I got lost in rural Missouri. Super lost. Like, back county roads lost. So I got directions from a gas station where the worker was super pissed I wouldn't buy his overpriced map. He gave me directions, and I followed them down this backroad and ended up in Skidmore. It was like 2 p.m. and completely dead. Not a single person around. Mostly older houses, a run-down downtown, a new post office, that kind of thing. I was suddenly filled with dread. Like, Stephen King dread. There's trash blowing everywhere and there's just nobody. I drive by the library, and it's pretty much abandoned. There are oversized books in the window, and they're completely swollen from what I assume was water." "So I made it out of town and kept heading on my way, finally making it safely to my destination. Later on, I Googled the town, and what I found was wild. For a small town, it was full of gruesome murders, like one woman murdering another pregnant woman to get her baby, a guy terrorizing the entire town to the point where they just all kill him in the street, and murders from the 1800s. That kind of thing. It creeped me out more than any other place on three continents I've been on." —Vio_ d'Alene, ID: "Stopped at the visitor's center, while passing through Coeur d'Alene. On the way through town, we passed by multiple breweries and interesting places to stop for lunch, but there seemed to be an odd feeling about the place. We chatted with the people at the visitor center while my friend went to use the restroom. When she came back, she changed her mind about staying in town for lunch. She had found out that Coeur d'Alene is home to a major compound for the Aryan Nations. We realized, as we left, that there were not any non-white people walking around downtown." —Grigio_cervello Tree, CA: "As someone who lives in a big city, I thought the desert was creepy as hell. I absolutely loved Joshua Tree, but it was hard for me to fall asleep. It's completely silent out there at night." —AmericanWasted WA: "Creepiest place I've been is Forks, WA, and the areas around it. Almost constant cloud cover, all the locals seem to know something you don't, and knowing you're on the tippy top left of the states feels strange." —PineTreeGorgon 17."Edgefield, SC: A friend and I had to drive through there on a long excursion to the only Gamestop in the area that had a part for his Xbox. We first got there during the day, and there wasn't a soul on the streets. This was a Friday afternoon, and the streets were dead. Grocery store parking lot? Empty. Gas station? No customers. Sidewalks? Barren. Traffic? Non-existent. Add to that a general feeling of spookiness and we were pretty glad to put it behind us. Later, returned from where we'd been going and had to go through Edgefield again, this time at night. The town was fucking jumping. Cars all over the place, the stores full, people walking around. "When I got home, I hit Google out of curiosity, and the first thing to autocomplete was 'Edgefield SC Vampire.' Not going back to Edgefield if I can help it." —PowerSkunk92 GA: "Lots and lots of really creepy places — graveyards, many tight walkways in the historic district with no lights, and lots and lots of swamp land. It is said to be one of the most haunted cities in the USA." —HunterRoze 19."Vineland, NJ: A utopian sober town known as the home of Welch's Grape Juice. NJ's largest city by area but, it only has only 60,000 people. Strange 'planned' city with huge spaces between buildings, ridiculously wide streets, and everything out of normal proportion." —tpatmaho IL: "Driving through there was like going through a town in the Walking Dead. No people around, all the buildings are decrepit and worn down." —ArguingPizza NV: "It's a semi-ghost town and remnants from the old west. Time seems to stand still there in that old mining town." —g6paulson Outer Banks, NC: "They felt surreal to too flat." —manicpixidreamgirl04 "The Outer Banks in the winter feels like they are lost in time and space, it's VERY eerie." —StrangePondWoman CA: "I had to drive through it in the dead of night due to a bad accident closing part of the 15 freeway on the way to Vegas. It looks like something out of a bad '80s horror movie." —Additional-Software4 finally, New Orleans, LA: "The entire city has an ethereal vibe and it just feels haunted. Lots of creepy and unexplained events have happened there throughout history and people go a little wild there (in my opinion). I personally love the place, but I couldn't live there because it would make me mental after a while." —None Now it's your turn! Have you visited or passed through a town in the US that was so eerie, you won't ever forget it? Tell us about it in the comments or anonymous form below and you just might be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community article. Also in Internet Finds: People Who Never Believed In The Supernatural Are Revealing What Made Them Change Their Minds, And I'm Terrified Also in Internet Finds: "The Job Is A Complete Joke": People Are Revealing Professions That Are Wayyyyy Too Respected, And I Want To Know If You Agree Also in Internet Finds: "It Was Driving Everyone Bonkers With Mystery": 49 Times The Internet Came Together To Identify Weird Items That Had Everyone Completely Stumped
Buzz Feed
11-06-2025
- Buzz Feed
24 Creepy Unsettling Towns In America
A hot minute ago, Reddit user Bennevada asked the folks over on r/AskReddit to share the little towns across America they've passed through that gave them the creeps. From abandoned ghost towns to cities stuck in the past, here are 24 of the most bone-chilling places they shared: "Tonopah, NV. It's on the north end of the Tonopha missile range and Area 51. It's the beginning of nowhere and is home to the world's largest Clown Motel. The only reason to stop is for gas, then get TF outta there as quickly as possible." —littlebitstoned Whittier, AK: "The entire population lives in a single apartment building, and the only access to the town is by boat or a 2.5-mile tunnel." —WeOwntheNightXWhittier has about 200 residents, almost all of whom live in the Begich Towers. Vidor, TX: "We detoured through it due to a road closure. The residents hung white sheets saying, 'Don't stop' and 'Go that way.' They seem to have lots of white sheets..." —whatyoucallmetoday"I did some engineering co-op assignments in the Golden Triangle area (Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur) back in the early '90s. Everyone I worked with warned me to never stop in Vidor for any reason. I took their advice to heart. They said the town's claim to fame was being the former national headquarters for the KKK, and that there was a billboard on the stretch of I-10 that passed through Vidor that would occasionally get spray painted with the message '*n-word*, don't let the sun go down on you in Vidor.'"—underpants-gnome "Los Alamos, NM: Lots of land surrounded by barbed wire. Signs EVERYWHERE indicating 'No drones allowed.' Weirdly quiet. Pretty much everything closed at 3 p.m. We joked that it must be to give people time to get inside before all the radioactive monsters came out. A lot of the labs and facilities are still active for, I assume, reasons." —knittinator Colorado City, AZ: "Me and some friends were driving up to Duck Creek, UT from Vegas in winter and had to go in the back way via 89. This route takes you through Colorado City, Arizona, which is Mormon territory and about the creepiest place I've ever been. We had to stop for gas and we were watched like we were being hunted." —thai-stik-admin"I came here to see if anyone posted about this place. I stopped in there on my way to the north rim of The Grand Canyon back in 1999. This is not just Mormons, but Warren Jeffs's polygamous sect. I went into the grocery store to get supplies. All the young women wore 19th-century style clothes and would not look me in the face when they spoke to tried to establish a compound in Texas several years later and Jess was arrested. Their idea of marriage was 50-year-old men marrying 12-year-old girls."—Troubador222"So many polygamists. You can feel how unwelcome you are as you enter the town. We stopped there once on a family trip to get gas. A police officer immediately parked behind us and wanted to know where we were going and how long we were going to be in his town. He didn't leave until we did and he followed us until we got to the town border. We never stopped there again. It's basically a cult town."—ProfessorBrownie "The Loneliest Road" (Route 50), NV: "I went on the 'loneliest road' in Nevada, and it truly gave me a sense of scale for America as a place. In Europe, you simply cannot go that distance without encountering multiple massive cities. Where I live, every square cm of land has been apportioned for centuries, and then you go to Nevada, and it's And you have actual warnings telling you to fill up your car or else." —Ok-Commercial8968 Mt. St. Helens area, WA: "If you're adventurous and have a truck, you can find the old forest service roads on the side of Mt. St. Helens that got blown out by the eruption. I found them at night driving through there on a whim. Old forest service signs with half of the sign melted or blown off, completely overgrown roads, muddy trails, and absolutely no light. It was a clear sky with a full moon and, I shit you not, I couldn't see more than 50 feet ahead of me with the brights on. Eeriest shit I've explored, and I grew up exploring abandoned asylums and prisons. 14/10, absolute recommend." —Beautiful-Page3135 "Centralia, PA: An underground coal fire drove out most of the population, so it's essentially an abandoned town. It was the inspiration for how Silent Hill is depicted in the first Silent Hill movie." —rookhelmAn underground mine fire has been burning beneath the town since at least 1962. While most of the small town's residents have fled since then, a handful have remained. "Harrison, AR: It has billboards for White Power Radio. I had heard about it on the internet but had forgotten until some friends and I went camping on the Buffalo River. It's 100% legit." —pickleparty16 Red Haw, OH: "I've driven through it four times. Every single time it's the same story. Cars parked on the sides of the road, but no traffic. Doors wide open, but nobody is visible. No music, no people. Legitimately saw a ball roll across the street once and nobody could have thrown it. It looks like everyone who lives there disappears whenever I drive through, and then spontaneously, they reappear when I leave." —GNSasakiHaise*** The Salton Sea area, CA: "The area around the Salton Sea in Southern California — particularly the upper half of the western shore, towns like Salton City, Desert Shores, and Oasis. I actually quite enjoyed the people there. Back in the 1960s, a bunch of resort towns popped up along the sea. In the 1980s, agricultural runoff severely polluted the sea. There were also wild variations in the salinity of the sea, and those two factors combined to kill off a ton of the sea's fish. The dead fish washed up on shore, the sight and smell of which pretty well killed the tourism industry. What remains is an ecological disaster and a bunch of not-quite ghost towns. "It's a really eerie corner of the world, and as someone who's spent a lot of time in tiny back towns across the western states, the Salton Sea area is definitely unique in my memory."—MasteringTheFlames Trail of Tears Road, GA: "My wife and I drove on it, and it was a beautiful, sunny day when we made the turn. As soon as we were on the road, it started raining, and the weather got worse and worse until it was like driving in a hurricane. Then, as soon as we got to the end of the road and turned onto the highway, the skies cleared up and it was a beautiful, sunny day again. Super weird experience, and now years later, when strange things happen in the world, we joke with each other that it's all a dream and we're still trapped on Trail of Tears Road." —brickhamilton Skidmore, MO: "A few years ago, I got lost in rural Missouri. Super lost. Like, back county roads lost. So I got directions from a gas station where the worker was super pissed I wouldn't buy his overpriced map. He gave me directions, and I followed them down this backroad and ended up in Skidmore. It was like 2 p.m. and completely dead. Not a single person around. Mostly older houses, a run-down downtown, a new post office, that kind of thing. I was suddenly filled with dread. Like, Stephen King dread. There's trash blowing everywhere and there's just nobody. I drive by the library, and it's pretty much abandoned. There are oversized books in the window, and they're completely swollen from what I assume was water." "So I made it out of town and kept heading on my way, finally making it safely to my destination. Later on, I Googled the town, and what I found was wild. For a small town, it was full of gruesome murders, like one woman murdering another pregnant woman to get her baby, a guy terrorizing the entire town to the point where they just all kill him in the street, and murders from the 1800s. That kind of thing. It creeped me out more than any other place on three continents I've been on."—Vio_ Coeur d'Alene, ID: "Stopped at the visitor's center, while passing through Coeur d'Alene. On the way through town, we passed by multiple breweries and interesting places to stop for lunch, but there seemed to be an odd feeling about the place. We chatted with the people at the visitor center while my friend went to use the restroom. When she came back, she changed her mind about staying in town for lunch. She had found out that Coeur d'Alene is home to a major compound for the Aryan Nations. We realized, as we left, that there were not any non-white people walking around downtown." —Grigio_cervello Joshua Tree, CA: "As someone who lives in a big city, I thought the desert was creepy as hell. I absolutely loved Joshua Tree, but it was hard for me to fall asleep. It's completely silent out there at night." —AmericanWasted Forks, WA: "Creepiest place I've been is Forks, WA, and the areas around it. Almost constant cloud cover, all the locals seem to know something you don't, and knowing you're on the tippy top left of the states feels strange." —PineTreeGorgon "Edgefield, SC: A friend and I had to drive through there on a long excursion to the only Gamestop in the area that had a part for his Xbox. We first got there during the day, and there wasn't a soul on the streets. This was a Friday afternoon, and the streets were dead. Grocery store parking lot? Empty. Gas station? No customers. Sidewalks? Barren. Traffic? Non-existent. Add to that a general feeling of spookiness and we were pretty glad to put it behind us. Later, returned from where we'd been going and had to go through Edgefield again, this time at night. The town was fucking jumping. Cars all over the place, the stores full, people walking around. "When I got home, I hit Google out of curiosity, and the first thing to autocomplete was 'Edgefield SC Vampire.' Not going back to Edgefield if I can help it." —PowerSkunk92 Savannah, GA: "Lots and lots of really creepy places — graveyards, many tight walkways in the historic district with no lights, and lots and lots of swamp land. It is said to be one of the most haunted cities in the USA." —HunterRoze "Vineland, NJ: A utopian sober town known as the home of Welch's Grape Juice. NJ's largest city by area but, it only has only 60,000 people. Strange 'planned' city with huge spaces between buildings, ridiculously wide streets, and everything out of normal proportion." —tpatmaho Cairo, IL: "Driving through there was like going through a town in the Walking Dead. No people around, all the buildings are decrepit and worn down." —ArguingPizza Goldfield, NV: "It's a semi-ghost town and remnants from the old west. Time seems to stand still there in that old mining town." —g6paulson The Outer Banks, NC: "They felt surreal to too flat." —manicpixidreamgirl04"The Outer Banks in the winter feels like they are lost in time and space, it's VERY eerie."—StrangePondWoman Daggett, CA: "I had to drive through it in the dead of night due to a bad accident closing part of the 15 freeway on the way to Vegas. It looks like something out of a bad '80s horror movie." —Additional-Software4 And finally, New Orleans, LA: "The entire city has an ethereal vibe and it just feels haunted. Lots of creepy and unexplained events have happened there throughout history and people go a little wild there (in my opinion). I personally love the place, but I couldn't live there because it would make me mental after a while." —None Now it's your turn! Have you visited or passed through a town in the US that was so eerie, you won't ever forget it? Tell us about it in the comments or anonymous form below and you just might be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community article. Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
