Random Creepiest Small Towns They've Ever Passed Through (15 items)

• (#1) A Group Was Accosted By A Woman With Two Eye Patches

  From Redditor /u/clownparade:

  We found a small town, I can’t remember the name of it now because we didn't end up staying long - but the population sign [said] about 200-ish (can’t remember exact number) and we saw a campground, a hotel, one gas station, and one restaurant. We pulled up to the gas station and while we were filling up we didn’t see a single person on the street or anywhere, and it was early evening, about 5 pm-ish. We are just standing around looking at the old buildings and the gas station garage area. Suddenly we saw movement in a window, the blinds were down but open, and we saw what looked like a child in the corner, but he was bald, and he quickly moved away when he saw we noticed him. We were going to go into the store area to buy some food and drinks, but decided to keep moving. Creepy as hell, it reminded us of being in The Hills Have Eyes or something. Same landscape, same creepy gas station.

  We finish filling and then get back in the car and stop about two blocks away at the only restaurant in town. It was a dinky little place named Pat's Diner. There [were] two cars in the parking lot and the open sign was on, so we figured hey it’s the only place here and we gotta eat so let’s go.

  As we approach we can hear lots of people talking and laughing inside, seems like a nice place. What happened next was both the most confusing and disturbing thing I've ever been a part of. I feel like I walked into some B horror movie. As soon as we open the door and step in everyone in the whole place instantly stops talking, moving, doing whatever they were doing, and turns around and stares at us. The place was packed; I figure there were probably 10-15 tables but like 50+ people in this place. We just stood there in silence for what seemed like hours but was probably only 10 seconds. All of a sudden this very old lady in the booth right in front of us slooooooowly turns her head around, wearing TWO eye patches... and says in a creepy old voice "What do you want here?"
• (#2) Twelve Guys Blocked Someone's Way On The Road

  From Redditor /u/Syrup_Chugger_3000:

  I was a teenager driving around with a friend doing god knows what in southern Louisiana. Figured I would take random turns to see if I could find "shortcuts" between cities (again, no idea what I was thinking). Ended up driving through a neighborhood with bars on windows, houses badly damaged (obvious rot damage, one missing a side door to the house, etc.).

  As my friend and I started to get a "we took the wrong turn" vibe is about the time a group of people down the long strip of the road showed up. About 12 guys total all seemed to have appeared out of f*cking nowhere, lined up shoulder to shoulder across the road, and just stared motionless at my truck approaching.

  I decided we were f*cked if I stopped the truck, so I downshifted and charged straight at them full speed. They ended up moving out of the way about a second before I flew past, and by move I mean they just calmly walked just out of range of my truck and went back to standing at the sides of the road.
• (#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.
• (#4) A Motorcycle Group Found An Abandoned Town Decorated With Metal Sculptures

  From Redditor /u/MightierThanThou:

  I was on a motorcycle trip with a couple of friends and we had one person with GPS in front guiding us and we decided to take all the crazy back roads. To be honest, it was kind of a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-type drug vacation we had all been planning. One reason we wanted to take the back roads was to avoid the cops. We were all high as f*ck when we were riding down a mountain road and entered a small valley where there had once been a very small town. Like... 10-15 buildings all together. We decided to stop and have food but we realized that the town was completely abandoned. Every business on the street was closed. Every house was boarded up. The scary thing was that everywhere there were these weird little sculptures that someone had made out of scrap metal. One would be on a sidewalk, one would be on top of a building etc. Like weird, abstract art type stuff. Also there was a small roundabout that we stopped by and on the island in the middle there was this little hut made out of corrugated metal. We walked up to it and my friend, completely high as f*ck, asks, "What is the purpose of this structure?" in a robot voice and we all started laughing our asses off. A few moments later we heard a tractor coming towards us and decided to wait and see what happened, then it turned the corner and headed towards us and we could see that the tractor had been decked out with weird decorations. There was a deer's head mounted on the tractor's roof and rusty chains were hanging from the sides. We just bolted toward our bikes and noped the f*ck out and went back the way we came.

  I checked Google Earth a few days later to see where that place had been and it was a location where there was basically no photo resolution so it just looked like a greenish-brown blur. That place might as well have not existed.
• (#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.
• (#6) A Group Of Friends Found Trees Decorated With Knives And Dolls

  From Redditor /u/UnicornGirl24:

  Backstory: I grew up in a town of 100 people. Not much here but my friends and I used to drive the dirt roads and just hang out. One night we ventured a bit too far out of our normal area and managed to cross the state line (we are only 4 miles from the state line). We had never really driven around there and decided to explore. We turned down one dirt road and were greeted with machetes, knives, doll parts, and other various objects hanging from the trees. No houses were visible and no other side roads that could lead to a driveway were visible either. We noped out of there and drove for another hour to make sure no one followed us home.
• (#7) They Wandered Into A Saloon For Dolls

  From Redditor /u/MiddleGrayStudios:

  Once stopped for gas at the liquor store in this small town in Colorado of no more than a few hundred people. I asked to use a restroom and the clerk points me to this door. I go through the door and it's like an old Western saloon. However, there are life size stuffed dummies dressed in Western wear EVERYWHERE. This was around 6 pm. There should have been real people in there by then, right? I got a Deliverance vibe and bolted.
• (#8) They Stumbled Into Some Kind Of Time Loop

  From Redditor /u/americanslang59:

  When I first started working [in] music, I was on my first tour and driving from Phoenix, AZ to Austin, TX. We drove straight there (about 18 hours). The scary part about driving through Texas from Arizona is that once you hit El Paso, you are in the middle of nowhere for about 11 hours. Well, we got off the I-10... and went through a really small town. There were absolutely no cars, nothing was open and no signs of life. We drove for about 15 minutes through there and didn't see a single car... In a couple stores, there were lights on here and there but they were dimly lit. The creepiest thing was a sign that said "Happy Homecoming 2005!" on a store front window but it was actually 2008.

  We stayed in Austin for a few days and drove the same roads back to Phoenix. On the way back, we drove through the town around noon on a Friday and the town was busy as sh*t, with hundreds of people just walking around like it was a carnival. Most uncomfortable feeling ever.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#11) The Magpies Were A Warning Of Sorts

  From Redditor /u/soothfast:

  In England you often used to see lots of dead magpies strung up on tree branches in the countryside - this is in the South West. I think it was meant to discourage other magpies/birds from coming to the tree/field as well as keeping down their numbers. But it was always creepy coming upon a tree with dead magpies in various stages of decay hanging off it. Decidedly macabre.
• (#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.
• (#13) They Found A House That Had A Lot Of Pet Snakes

  From Redditor /u/Zee_WeeWee:

  I drove deep into the WV hills looking for a Jeep get-together. Pulled into the first house I saw in miles, which had a plexiglass housing filled with rattlesnakes on the porch. GTFO there.
• (#14) A Field Trip Group Was Bombarded With Questions From Curious Locals

  From Redditor /u/leakyaquitard:

  During a week of field camp (AKA my geology program's capstone course), we were passing through Montello, NV. We ended up stopping at the only gas station in town before heading up to a mountain range not too far away. This place is in the middle of nowhere.

  While we (a class of around 16) were perusing the gas station, what I could only imagine being the rest of the town showed up in the gas stations asking us all kinds of questions, like where we were going, how long we'd be out there, what university we were from and if we'd be digging around in the mountains or not. This may not sound that weird but a lot of people (along with me) in my class were thoroughly creeped out.
• (#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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