Random Towns To Stay Far Away From, According To People Who’ve Been There (15 items)

• (#1) Paisley, Ontario, Canada

  From Redditor u/ZookeepergameSea3890:

  Paisley, Ontario, Canada.

  I was heading out there with friends for a camping-style music festival... and this is before any of our group had GPS/google maps on our cell phones. We ended up getting lost on some of the country roads as everything looked the same (just fields and dirt roads), and the names/#s of the roads weren't well marked.

  We finally decided to stop at a farm to ask for directions. It was a very old-looking place. And as soon as we pulled into the drive, a whack load of Amish-style dressed men, women, and children came out and surrounded the car. Legit, one guy even had a scythe.

  I rolled my window down and politely said we were lost and asked how to get to such-and-such address.

  One of the men got down low and leaned right into my window and goes, "There's no place like that around here. How bout y'all stay here with us? You should stay here." And then he grinned this big greasy grin that gave me chills.

  People were really gawking and closing in around the car at this point and my friends started freaking out.

  I said something like, "Thanks, but we gotta go!" then put my stereo system on blast, which got the guy out of my window and made the folks around the car back it up.

  I immediately rolled up my window, revved my engine, and peeled out of there as fast as I could. We found the address about 5 minutes later, just down the road.

  Total Children of the Corn vibes for sure.
• (#2) Brandywine, West Virginia

  From Redditor u/19SpencerBuddy93:

  Years ago, I stopped in a little town called Brandywine in West Virginia. Walked into a bar, and right away everyone turned and glared at me. A couple of good old boys asked me if I was looking for trouble, and if I wasn't [then] I should move on. 

  I left the bar, and a sheriff car and two trucks followed me out of town. The dude in the sheriff car glared at me all the way out of town lol. I thought I was gonna get lynched.
• (#3) Nitro, West Virginia

  From Redditor u/Leona_Faye:

  Nitro, WV.

  I pulled into a gas station to fill up my leaky tire. There were people at the gas station at 3 in the morning, giving the “tweaker stare.” One asked to borrow my phone despite there being a working payphone.

  I jumped in the car with a half-flat tire, went 10 miles down the road, and found a much less sketchy truck stop to fill the tire back up.
• (#4) Centralia, Pennsylvania

  From Redditor u/Honey_81:

  Centralia, PA, is eerie as hell because you expect to find people walking around the town streets, yet the town is completely abandoned due to the fire that's been burning under the town for 70-ish years (I haven't been to the area since 2006, btw).
• (#5) Pelzer, South Carolina

  From Redditor u/Deus-system-failed:

  Pelzer, SC.

  To say it's off is an understatement. It got national infamy decades ago for being home to a predator Taoist cult that was stopped by the FBI. Their symbols still tag the rotting buildings, and despite having residents, nearly all businesses are essentially empty. 

  People drive far to avoid being there, and something is just unnatural about the aura. No one from Pelzer is from Pelzer, they are from Anderson.
• (#6) Troyes, France

  From Redditor u/StructureNo3388:

  Troyes, France. We were in the old medieval area, which was incredible, but it was eerie because there were literally no other people there, and bizarre because there were sound systems pumping Britney Spears music into the streets.

  [We] felt like Shrek and Donkey walking into Duloc.
• (#7) Tyrone, Pennsylvania

  From Redditor u/leatherrecliner:

  Tyrone, PA. It's a backwoods place with junkies, Mennonites, and one Hispanic guy called Raymundo. And it stinks of paper mill smell. They just look at you like they're waiting for your car to be unattended.
• (#8) Covington, Virginia

  From Redditor u/belac4862:

  Covington, VA.

  I used to drive a lot for work a few years ago, and about twice a week I would find myself in Covington. The first thing you notice is the smell. It was like drinking hot dog water, but you were breathing it in. That was caused by the pollutants from the paper factory there.

  About 20% of the people who live there work for the said factory. And factory work is not all rainbows and butterflies. So it makes sense that the people there wouldn't be too happy in the first place.

  All that aside, I drove by GPS for the most part, and before I even noticed the smell, as I was coming into town, I just felt off. Like someone was watching me or following me. But of course, no one was.

  I don't believe in the supernatural, but that place freaked me out so much. I'm talking Evil Dead (2013) type of feeling. Thankfully, I am no longer in that line of work now and I WILL NEVER STEP FOOT IN THAT TOWN AGAIN.
• (#9) Forsyth, Georgia

  From Redditor u/Bradious:

  Forsyth, GA.

  A few buddies and I took a road trip down to Florida shortly after we all graduated (years ago). Had a tire issue, stopped there to grab a new one. The guy at the tire place recommended we try the Subway while we waited. Everyone kept insisting we try the Subway, even the people at the place we went to eat. The people at the little grocery store thing when we were grabbing road snacks.

  It was creepy as hell.
• (#10) Lewiston, Maine

  From Redditor u/Galaxy_Ranger_Bob:

  Lewiston, ME.

  It's not the people, it's the town. There is just something about the place that stains your soul. Even driving through the place and not stopping makes you want to shower afterwards, but soap and water don't make you feel clean because it isn't dirt or pollution that is sticking to you, it's the Darkness that is Lewiston.
• (#11) Sand Mountain, Georgia

  From Redditor u/-Blixx-:

  Sand Mountain, GA, is one of the least welcoming places I’ve ever been.

  The people who live there don’t like outsiders, but they especially don’t like some outsiders. Once, and never again.
• (#12) Jaywick, East Anglia, UK

  From Redditor u/m_____676767:

  Jaywick in East Anglia. It's the worst town in the UK for several years running. There's just nothing there. All the houses are dilapidated and their gardens ruined. For a place so close to the seas, it's so creepy you can't even hear the waves. It's not a scary place, just really sh*tty, and it just makes you uncomfortable! 

  It's probably the only place in the UK you can buy beachfront property for under £100,000, but I don't even think that price would be worth it.
• (#13) Wilcannia, New South Wales

  From Redditor u/scruffynerf:

  Wilcannia, New South Wales.

  The end of nowhere. If you're ever on that road, stop overnight in Broken Hill instead. Much safer.
• (#14) Anna, Illinois

  From Redditor u/vinylscratch27:

  Anna, IL, would count for me. It has a reputation of being a sundown town even now. Most people forget about Southern IL, and it shows. Hell, most of SIL is like that. Nothing to do.

  The colleges are dying, and with their places like Carbondale (the closest thing to civilization outside of the St. Louis burbs). There are no jobs worth much, so anyone who wants to go somewhere in life would move elsewhere quickly.
• (#15) Jeffery City, Wyoming

  From Redditor u/Brancher:

  Jeffery City, WY. Stopped in at the only establishment in the ghost town. Old timer is sitting at the bar and turns around, and before even saying anything to me tosses me something, and I catch it. It was a .50 Cal round from an M2 or something. 

  He was like, “Don't drop it, it will probably detonate!” I was like, “Thanks for the heads up, dude.”

  Drank a beer with him, though - he was nice enough cowboy.

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