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(#15) A Wall Of Dead Deer Is A Great Welcome Mat
From a former Redditor:
Actually just witnessed someone else's "creepy moment" a few minutes ago. I live in a really small town (about 1k). It's deer hunting season (I've been hunting all morning myself). Was driving home and passed our general store where the standard deer season scene was going on - a bunch of pickup trucks in the parking lot with dead deer in the back getting weighed in, hunters milling around in camo and plaid.
Anyway, I stopped, and behind me pulled in a vehicle with Canadian plates full of people who seemed quite "urban," obviously tourists. One of them got out to go into the store. The scene with the hunters/dead deer was probably a bit outlandish to them in the first place, but that wasn't the really funny part. During deer season the owner of the general store takes Polaroid pictures of each deer/hunter combo that comes in, and then tacks them up on the inside of the front doors of the store for people to see. At the particular moment that this Canadian tourist opened the doors to walk into the store, there was a whole crowd of camouflaged hunters all inside the store looking at the pictures. So the tourist essentially opened the door to be met by a crowd of rednecks all apparently staring straight at him. He definitely looked a bit bewildered and frightened.
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(#12) One Redditor's Town Is Lined With Puppets
From Redditor /u/benrules2:
There is a famous puppeteer (by puppeteering standards) who lives in our town and most of the store owners have commissioned puppets made in their image. As a result, our main street has creepy puppets in the front window of every shop.
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(#5) A Family Discovers A Creepy, Secretive Town
From Redditor /u/Mike7676:
The weirdest, or just flat out ODD thing I ever witnessed was when I lived in Kansas.
Small backstory: I was in the Army at the time, early in my career with my wife and two very young children. No money, not a lot to do around Ft. Riley unless you liked hunting and fishing, or could afford it. What we would do to alleviate boredom was drive. Just drive around quietly hoping the noise of the road kept the babies quiet. One Saturday in the fall of 2001 we came upon a tiny town. I believe it was south of Topeka as we would go there fairly often just to walk around.
As we drove toward it, we noticed that the little town was laid out... oddly. Like a grid square or suburb but miniscule. Perhaps a dozen homes? At one end of this layout was a large (for its size) barnlike building or school. Clearly abandoned, obvious fire damage the cause. Creepy, interesting, yes, but as we drove around the pattern of homes something else caused us to speed right out. At least five homes, as we drove past, not only slammed doors shut but also closed curtains, shades and faces near windows furtively poked out. Absolutely made our skin crawl and we never went back.
For reference, our car at the time was a light green old Dodge Neon, so its not like they thought it was a police cruiser.
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(#9) One Group Found A Nightmare Shrine
From Redditor /u/GreenGlassDrgn:
Got lost on our way to Centralia, PA. We ended up on a gravel road, winding up the side of a wooded mountain. At the end of the road was a well, which turned out to be a well-maintained memorial for firemen. Then our eyes drifted from the sign to the house in the woods behind it.
Tiny wooden cottage in the middle of nowhere. In the trees on the property, in a large radius from the house, all sorts of sh*t was hanging from the trees, dangling from branches, nailed to trunks, stuck on extra metal poles stuck in the ground. It was everything your nightmares have conjured, ancient stuffed animals rotting in the wind, even older yellow plastic lawn-sunflowers gone brown, dangling lawn chairs, and some painted wooden pigs that had been wrapped to trunks with duct tape and extension cords.
We got out of there fast.
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(#10) Townsfolk Watched Them Eat Dinner
From Redditor /u/YesterdayWasAwesome:
Driving from Denver to Mount Rushmore, my family stopped somewhere in Wyoming for dinner. Town population was somewhere in the neighborhood of 120-150.
There were two restaurants in the town. When we entered, it was pretty busy and right out of a movie, everyone turned around and stared at us.
People were staring at us throughout the entire dinner. It was unnerving.
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(#3) One Small Town Wasn't Very Warm To Outsiders
From a former Redditor:
I was working on location, cast and crew stopped in a small town about an hour outside of Dublin for dinner and a beer. The only place that was open was a bar with a chalkboard sign advertising bar food. We walked through the door and it was pretty busy, lots of people in there chatting away to each other.
Until they saw us and didn't recognize us, whereupon they all stopped talking and just stared blankly at us. All of them, perhaps 40-50 men and a woman behind the bar, all just staring at us. The director asked if they had a table for us for dinner and the barmaid, holding a plate of steaming some-sort-of-meat-and-chips, said they didn't sell food. As we left, bemused, three of them came to the door to make sure we drove on.
We drove on. Quickly.
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