Brit Reacts to Top 10 CREEPIEST Small Towns in America

[@GinjaKilla]

Lmao. Im originally from West Virginia and can say that most of our “abandoned” towns are because they were formerly coal mining towns and those mines closed. People that stayed there, stayed because they like the natural beauty around them or were simply too poor to move. Google WV. Im sure you will agree that it is one of the prettiest states. 😊

[@Ladiofthewoods]

Agree. There isn't a single town here in WV I wouldn't visit. It is beautiful here and these abandoned towns are steeped in history and their stories are mesmerizing. I wasn't born here but arrived as fast as I could ❤

[@oakleyfarmer3887]

My wife is from WV she has told me some stories lol

[@Hun_Uinaq]

“O, The green rolling hills of West Virginia Are the closest thing to heaven that I know. Though the times are sad and drear, And I cannot linger here, They’ll keep me and never let me go.” 🎼

[@Shako_Lamb]

I grew up in Morgan County in the Eastern Panhandle. Not the worst part of the state to live. I love to visit, but I don't have any desire to move back full-time, at least for now. It's a nice vacation. As for people staying, it's poverty but also that, for some people, it's what they've known their entire lives, and they just don't have a desire to upend their life to go somewhere else. This is especially true of the elderly, but to some extent with all age groups.

[@azury21sameasxbl92]

Yea Arizona has a lot of abandoned western towns and copper mining towns. When they dried up or trains came into being, everyone moved where the money was and left everything behind.

[@catrheaper]

I’m from Huntington, WV and the Marshall plane crash did NOT happen at Point Pleasant! It crashed short of the airport to the west of Huntington. Point Pleasant is 53 miles away. A little research goes a long way.

[@hellbillyjr]

I'm from the Huntington area too. That was a weird/annoying moment in the video

[@hannahbeanies8855]

I’m still in Huntington! 😅

[@oneslikeme]

As someone from a small Appalachian town, it annoys me that Appalachian people are treated like cryptids. For no real reason either. Auburn, WV was just a town, with houses. No mention of murder, supernatural phenomena, underground fires, cults. Just people. Somehow that made it the 2nd spot on the list

[@jahnj2523]

Am a DMV nxgga WV nxggas r mad weerd

[@kcirtapelyk6060]

I don’t like how they’re treated either. My grandparents were from Appalachia and they were two of the most wonderful people to have ever lived.

[@oneslikeme]

@missam3404 The same thing happens on my neighborhood street in the city when someone rolls down who we don't know. It's just human curiosity. Sorry you're afraid of people

[@vladyvhv9579]

@missam3404 No one visible when going in. They were probably in the houses, and heard the yahoo on the motorcycle, so came out to watch and laugh at the fool who didn't know that that was a dead end.

[@sarco64]

There are a lot of old coal mining towns with one way in and out near where I live in Pennsylvania. Most of the old company houses have been modernized and they are actually very nice little communities where the kids can play outside without havig to worry about traffic.

[@janedurante6867]

I've been to Centralia, PA many times. I was there before they even closed the town. We have family in the next town over, in Mount Carmel. I've heard there are still possibly 2 people still living there, but that's about it. The coal is still on fire beneath the ground and will be burning for many more years to come.

[@davidotto3731]

Point Pleasant holds the Mothman Festival every year. It is hugely popular. It is not so creepy but there are mothman sightings surrounding the area to this day.

[@Pahdopony]

A friend of mine saw the mothman in the 1960's when he and his Ohio University buddies were driving on Rt. 7 between Athens, Ohio and Marietta, Ohio which is located right across the Ohio River from West Virginia. Apparently, it flew across the road in front of their car. 😳 I’m sure it had nothing to do with the beer they were drinking. 😂

[@stevewhiting556]

The Mothman Prophecy was a pretty good movie too.

[@vladyvhv9579]

@@Pahdopony Your friend saw an owl and told you it was mothman.

[@Jennifer-rp2sh]

I recommend taking a deeper dive into the Villisca, Iowa ax murders. Lots of KZbin videos and various podcast episodes on it. Very likely a drifter or temporary resident.

[@TanyaQueen182]

This was a really fun video and your reaction was great lol.

[@BeautifulKittenOfLove]

Been to Centralia PA and it is seriously scary....you can actually hear the fire burning under the street. They close off more and more of it every year. Soon it supposedly will be totally closed off.

[@larrierogers940]

I love this guy. He’s funny, compassionate, and he wants to come to America! We should have one family from every state that will take him in and show him around for a month then off to the next family and state. I would host him in a second!

[@icanary64]

He is a doll. I really enjoy his genuine reactions and joyous personality.

[@nikstorm594]

Agreed

[@joshualee8151]

haha u can show him st louis area! i can show him branson area! cuz noone cares about KC he prolly trip out knowing we had a ancient civilization the size of london currently... named cahokia mounds

[@larrierogers940]

@@joshualee8151 Damn straight!! 😂😂😂

[@larrierogers940]

@@joshualee8151 I wonder if he knows about St. Louis style pizza…🤔

[@kindredspiritbaseballmom7913]

Whittier, Alaska does not seem creepy. Very different in how they live, though. Peter Santenello did a video on it and the woman who gave him a tour of the building was the sweetest.

[@sharimedleyed.s.166]

I saw that video, too, and completely agree with you.

[@buckeyegirl16]

Me too

[@aniE1869]

Can't even pronounce the name of the building correctly.

[@starparodier91]

Friendly reminder from this channel’s Silent Hill fanatic that Silent Hill was NOT inspired by Centralia, PA. The movie inspired by the games was. 😊

[@YSongCloud]

I love how scared Lewis gets over even just the picture of 2, obviously very fake, zombies. We need to get him to play more horror games! LOL

[@itskrismas]

Whittier is a common tourist spot in the summer. The only way to drive there is through a tunnel that is shared with the train . That's why there are restrictions for autos going through. It is closed to autos after 4 p,m, daily. I don't think it should be on this list. There's another town in Alaska that has the highest number of unsolved disappearances in the United States. That guy didn't do his homework .

[@revgurley]

Worth watching the movie "We Are Marshall." All about the plane crash that killed the team. One fun thing to do almost any city you visit in the US, is to do a ghost tour. You'll get lots of local history, which a side of spookiness. But you'll learn a lot!

[@timcaldwell5241]

I’d be pissed if I was Southwest Airlines…I don’t believe it was one of their planes that crashed?

[@stevewhiting556]

He needs to do the ghost tour in New Orleans

[@hannahbeanies8855]

It was good movie but they got the location of the memorial wrong (when shot from the air) so it kinda put a damper on it. Probably not noticeable unless you live here.

[@silkcitysocialist420]

That old building in Whitter Alaska looks like a prison

[@jmg5878]

West Virginia is gorgeous but yeah man you wanna stick to main cities and main roads. Look up Odd West Virginia…I’m surprised it wasn’t on this list. I was through it once…felt like hidden eyes were on me the whole time. Made my skin crawl

[@natashamurphy9736]

I have been to the town of Whitaker Alaska it's a beautiful place and people are so great.

[@JC-mx9nd]

The Oregon comment is so true!😅 There are a lot of small creepy weird towns. Drain, OR on the way to the coast gives out serious ominous vibes.

[@MicahSps]

I'm from PA, and Centralia is where the local news people go to farm for local news awards. Every "Local Award Winning Journalist" went there and did a piece about the place and interviewed a family who will have to move the next time they expand the non-livable area to include their home.

[@venomenace]

Glad to see Centralia on here 😁 PA gotta represent.

[@adrianmay3573]

Grew up running around in the hills of West Virginia. I've been to point pleasant plenty of times

[@BobS-mv5fl]

I love your reaction videos. They make me laugh and make my day. I'm going to throw an "honorable mention" to the towns on this and add Dudleytown, CT. Supposedly the most haunted place in Connecticut. It was settled in the 1700's and was plagued by murders, untimely deaths, madness...the usual stuff. I used to live in Cornwall, CT, but never ventured into it, as it's way to creepy and on private land now.

[@Nerple]

For a guy that has reacted to many American regional slang videos, I had to laugh when you broke out the West Coast slang term “hella.” It’s one slang term I’ll never use.

[@JamesOrlowski]

I'm not sure I'd believe any video that labels what is clearly Pittsburgh, PA at 9:31 as Cairo, Illinois.

[@citrussage378]

Seriously! I was like, "That's Pittsburgh ya morons.".

[@Shako_Lamb]

The video's producer used a ton of stock footage with no regard for where they were actually shot. I'm an architecture historian and I recognized some Eastern European folk structures in the video. Two of the "Point Pleasant" shots used were actually the ghost town of Thurmond, WV.

[@NinjaBooKitty]

Jesus even I recognized it, I've only been there once. But I love it tho!

[@Oiyuki]

I think it’s so funny that they put Point Pleasant on here like it isn’t a massive tourist destination😂

[@rolindaking6685]

Been through Colorado City Arizona. It is true. The people there are mean to outsiders and have not move onto more modern ways. I laughed when I saw your reactions while watching your vid. I reacted the same and even said exactly what you said...hahahaha

[@ReneeHydrick]

Fall River, Massachusetts, the home of Lizzie Borden! We did a tour of her home last fall! We drew the line at spending the night in the room where her stepmother was axed to death.😮😯😲😳It was wicked creepy!😁 Hopefully, it's listed.❤

[@TanyaQueen182]

I'm from the Boston area and we went on a school field trip to the Borden house when I was in Jr High lol.

[@tenofivelips]

"Wicked creepy." You sound like a local.

[@jahnj2523]

Amanda?

[@richardmccarley281]

The first picture of Cairo, Illinois was actually Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

[@intallpines]

There is a lot of info on the cult in Colorado City, AZ. They definitely still exist.

[@terrymeehan7787]

That’s not a picture of Cairo that the point in Pittsburgh pa!

[@SharonElizabethWhitfield]

I had to pause your video and watch another about the Vallisca Axe Murders. But there are some things about this case that puzzle me. 1. Why that particular house? 2. Why only that house? 3. Why didn’t anyone wake up and start screaming? 4. Was everyone in the house given some type of drug that made them sleep? They had just been at the church for an event for children. Did someone put poison in the food and/or drink? 5. If there were screams, why didn’t other people in the town hear and come running? The killer seemed to have known a lot about the layout of the house. He also knew which rooms people slept in. So the killer must have known the family very well. Also, since it was June and it would have been very hot, the windows would have been open.

[@jaredwiggins539]

L3WG Reacts here's another reason 4 ya 2 steer clear away from Villisca Axe Murder House the Ghost/Spirit of whoever killed most of Family living inside the Villisca Axe Murder House as well as the kid of 1 of their neighbors spending the night inside the Villisca Axe Murder House is also said 2 be residing in/haunting that same house!

[@briannehawks613]

Dude. Colorado City, Az is not the only FLDS camp. There's one or was one where I grew up. Cottonwood, Az. Once you crossed from our towns limits on a dirt road, you'd find them.

[@EcPenney]

Dude, if/when you come to the US, hit me up. Wife and I RV (which you’ve learned is huge! 😆) from Wisconsin to California every winter via Route 66 there’s some pretty amazing/ creepy towns all along the way. 😎👍

[@lkajiess]

I used to live near Colorado City, AZ and that place is SUPER creepy.

[@cracker9302000]

Point Plesant is on a major trucking lane connection between the Carolinas and the Midwest. Been through there many times.

[@jonflora1]

As an Alaskan I can confirm that Whittier is creepy AF.

[@lkajiess]

I've been to Whittier, Alaska and that is a legitimately strange/creepy place. Although everyone we met was really nice and the scenery is beautiful.

[@vickiz6076]

I’ve lived in Wisconsin (Milwaukee) my whole life … 61yrs … and never heard about Brodhead … I guess I’ll be taking a road-trip soon 😊

[@colleenmayes1537]

My husband is from there. It's by Monroe.

[@strawburryfan13]

it's the park right a crossed from trackside mobile gas station but the better one is the old schoolhouse where some vagrant back in the 3os or so killed a school teach and her class of kids and let's not forget the Avon bottoms monster

[@strawburryfan13]

take highway 43 to Beloit then get on 81 west then go to highway 104 county road t then go about 5 or 6 miles.

[@HJTambo]

About Centralia. The last person living there just died within the last few weeks. 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 an 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.

[@kristendavis6684]

I lived close to Point Pleasant WV it is actually one of the nicest areas to live in . There are alot of farms there and my kids did 4H and sold livestock at the county fair. They loved living there thought The Mothman Prophacy was the only horror movie that ever scared them when they were little lol

[@tammycenter8757]

I have been to Point Pleasant West Virginia and it is not creepy at all. I have a friend who was stationed in Alaska and went to Wittier. He said it was not creepy. I have also been to Auburn West Virginia and no it is not creepy. These people who make these claims are just making up stories for click bait. Now there are some creepy towns like the one in Arizona but I find that the small places in Appalachia that Northerners think are creepy are not creepy at all. The people in Appalachia are some of the nicest people you could ever meet. Most people from big cities always say that small towns are creepy because they can't handle being around people who don't put up with their big city bullshit. That's the truth of the matter.

[@Peteroc860]

Lol big city people offending all 5 hillbillies that still live there 😅

[@carriesmith742]

I went to college in Buckhannon, WV and had a friend from Point Pleasant, which was only about 165 miles away. My own hometown in WV is about 300 miles away from Point Pleasant and about 220 miles from Auburn, WV.

[@Raees-Divitiae]

Helltown, Oh is pretty creepy. A very odd story. Centralia mine fire, PA is also really crazy.

[@tuzzday]

I don't think Helltown is creepy. It's pretty cool. 🙂

[@artemisw0lff0x47]

I live about 2 hours away from Centralia, PA. I lived in the same place for nearly 22 years, and only found out about the place because of Silent Hill. I watched both movies, and my sister told me that it was based off a real place close to where we live. I had no idea until I was around 20 years old.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Been through Centralia (vacation-detour)... and it's a sad story... You gotta start with understanding how coal deposits form, in huge great "seams" underground... Some wander way down, and some are relatively close to the surface... In Centralia, it had a mix, but the surface stuff led to the deep deposits in hard rock, and the mining company just kept digging down in strips to get at it. Some of the coal was relatively low-grade and determined not really worth bothering over... Along with debris that naturally happens in mining and shipping, you get some pretty hazardous mess and "tailings" left behind... Still technically the desired material, but just not pure enough to continue refining for it. That gets expensive... AND as towns are wont to do, there was an abundance of garbage... SO an abandoned part of the mines were converted to "landfill"... AND in the beginning all was well and good, but as garbage just kept becoming an ongoing problem, they started a practice of BURNING OFF the excess garbage to turn the landfill over and continue trying to bury what they could... Which worked (in the day and age) for a time, until there was just too much debris scattered among the low grade coal... eventually leading to one of the ongoing mine sections... or maybe a section they hadn't yet turned toward "harvesting". A strip mining operation gets big enough quickly enough, and the seams through Pennsylvania are IMMENSE... SO some sections just got put on hold while the easier stuff was being scraped out and shipped off... Until the first fire found its way underground. There had been a few smaller incidents, but the firefighting brigade had managed to take control relatively well, and nobody thought to ban the burn-off practice until it was too late... The fire took hold in the seam, filled the mine, itself, with toxic levels of heat and outgassing... and then found its way underground and WAY too big for the local fire brigade to handle it. National Guard was sent in for an attempt to "just boost manpower" but it became apparent that a "brute force" solution was simply never going to be feasible... Over the next century or nearly that, other teams, institutions, government agencies, and so forth have taken their various plans out to Centralia to try and put a stop to burning all the coal in the Pennsylvania hills... BUT nobody's come up with something aggressive enough... The seam travels directly UNDER the entire town, and sprawls out to neighboring counties. SO as it gets close to houses, toxic plumes of gas erupt through basements and KILL everyone indoors at the time... Roads get overheated to the point the asphalt melts and the ground collapses, creating the sinkholes... SO it really IS as dangerous as suggested, though you WILL notice before you've stepped somewhere you shouldn't that it's probably not a good idea... It's a trip worth making, but keep it reasonable. There's really on so much to investigate and see, and it's worth getting a local guide to show you the high points of note... talk about the town before it went to hell in a handbasket... and leave you feeling almost as disgusted with corporates and governments as you've ever been in your life. Hit Point Pleasant, too... ENTIRELY because of the Mothman... AND I went back for the Mothman Festival they have every year. Yeah, there's a certain... "weirdness vibe" to the whole town. It's not evil... It's not even really depressing... BUT kind of like your first visit to Austin, Texas (which should arguably be on this list too), it's just WEIRD... I think it should STAY weird... AND FOR F*CK'S SAKES Keep the weird in Austin, too! It just wouldn't be Austin, Texas without the weirdness... haha AND I missed a turn on the highway, and found myself in Colorado City, AZ... Don't go. It's the one place I will honestly advise you to AVOID... I don't think the people are outright evil or something, but there REALLY SHOULD have been a few clauses in the whole "Freedom of Religion" section in the Constitution... just something like "so long as you're not causing any harm"... because whether they believe it or not, they DEFINITELY HAVE and are still... Not much point to trying to save or rescue anyone there... It's difficult to explain, but when someone is that fanatical, there may not be any changing it... AND you can NOT rescue someone from themselves. It's legitimately IMPOSSIBLE. ;o)

[@DawnRGenX]

It’s worth watching the 2002 movie, “The Mothman Prophecies”. It’s quite entertaining. Also, the U.K. has some of the BEST ghost hunting shows and culture. If you like that, you’d enjoy New Orleans, Louisiana. Put that city on your U. S. destination list. You will find the food, people, history and culture to be very satisfying. There are people there who consider themselves to be vampires and have fang-implants in their mouths 😂 I’ve been there 7 times and it’s my favourite food destination in the states.

[@timesurfingalien]

7:04 been by there. Smokes all the time

[@cindylawrence1200]

My Cherokee grandmother said that there r many native Americans (curses) that have been placed on whites, including presidents, that have actually come true

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

Do tell.

[@genehollowell472]

@@moralityisnotsubjective5 As a history teacher, the one I've heard of was William Henry Harrison, the 9th US President who was the American general who got credit for winning the battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana, where he led US forces against a coalition of many different native tribes, led by Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa ("The Prophet")....heard the legend that Tecumseh put a curse on Harrison, who many years later became the first president to die in office, only one month into his term, April 4, 1841, after being inaugurated on March 4, 1841, which also seemed to curse the Whig party but I'll save the rest of that spiel for another time

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

@@genehollowell472 Interesting. Well, let people be and one doesn't have to worry about curses I guess.

[@shawneerenee4120]

Oh goodness sakes. Auburn is just another dead little town in here in Ritchie Co. WV. The few people that still live there aren't creepy. Since they closed the end of the road you don't really get strangers driving through so I'm sure the guy on the motorcycle probably drew attention.

[@dennismartinez9651]

I live by skidmore Missouri and i grew up with the ken macalroys kids

[@florancechapman6481]

I was born and raised in west Virginia. Married and live in Kentucky now. My husband lived there when he was a small boy. Always have heard of mofman.

[@FredHunley-v6o]

I live Ohio and around 20 years ago my friends and I went on a random road trip and ran into a turn around situation just like the biker It was very creep. A lot of the buildings had masonic symbols on them Also we tried to get gas there and the was locked and the attendant just stared at us 😢 it was so creepy we got out of there and stopped at a gas station few miles away and asked us how we got out We turned around and floored it.

[@bmbandit]

Hey! Something I can chime in on. I live in AZ and while I've never visited Colorado City I have looked into it out of interest. I saw a video where some folks went there and recorded their visit. Everyone there was pretty nice, but a lot of the stuff is still true. They still stared as they came into the town, and there was virtually no technology present. They all wore those old timey clothes still as well. A little interesting note is that they consider the cult's founder to be the only one that can perform marriage ceremonies. So nobody has gotten married there since he went to jail.

[@elizabethbaysinger7143]

I’m from about a half hour drive from Broadhead WI. I never heard those stories. I’m sure if we had we would definitely have gone to find out!!!

[@jacoby102]

I've been to Whitaker and seen all of this and it is beautiful. But I saw it during the fall so it was very creepy when u don't see anyone cause the docks were closed

[@meanjean9676]

My best friends fam is from point pleasant. We went once after the Mothman movie just to check it out. Dude...that place is creepy. The whole place.

[@sarabert63]

Skidmore Mo. as well as the towns around it have a serious drug problem. I know because I lived near there back in the 90's Ex husband got involved with it . Things got scary for me and my kids so I divorced him and moved away. It was the best thing I had ever done.

[@Ozmaeoz]

I live in Oregon and I have never been to Antelope, but I want to go visit there.

[@sarco64]

I grew up near a town that a lot of people would think of as creepy, Lily Dale, NY. It is a center for spiritualism, and a lot of the residents are mediums who conduct seances on a regular basis.

[@MDudleyfromTexas]

As you can tell from my name I am indeed from Texas and go to Galveston often. If you come to America go there. It is awesome and I have never encountered anything remotely haunted.

[@brittneylohman2480]

My husband and I went to college not far from Skidmore, and during that time, we actually taught the youth group at a church in Skidmore, which was three kids. That was 2007, so only three years after that pregnancy murder. Creepy stuff, obviously, but the people we interacted with were totally normal. I also grew up in Iowa and learned about the Ax murders in Villisca in high school. There was a play written about it that we read in Language Arts class. Skidmore and Villisca are only about 50 miles apart. So only around an hour's drive.

[@bekahface4484]

About the Warren Jeff's thing you asked if it's still going on today...it is. It is really upsetting but if you'd like to learn more I would suggest watching Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

[@Tracey-The_Momma_Bear]

Hi Lewis! I sure hope you are making a list for when you come to the US!

[@Jen-fq2tn]

I live about an hour away from Point Pleasant, and have quite a few clients who live there. It’s a spooky little town, but the people are nice. West Virginia, as a whole, is kind of eerie, but it’s a beautiful state.

[@amyhickey2020]

I've been to vallisca Iowa and a group of us actually did spend the night in the Moore house.

[@ReneeHydrick]

Ooooh, maybe Texarkana TX/AR? The Moonlight Murders! They never found out who did it!😬😬😬

[@freedomefighterbrony9053]

Texarkana aint a small town though

[@shawnwilt7196]

Point Pleasant is a great place.

[@angelaanderson9729]

As an American with common sense, I do not venture into small rural towns! This video was Hilarious. 😂

[@strawberrieproject]

I have lived in WV all my life and never visited the Mothman statue. The town I’m originally from used to do well but as I got older coal mines were shutting down, people started moving and the homeless population has really grew. Also he got the location wrong for the plane crash. It was in Wayne County which is closed to where the airport is.

[@thegang3551]

We have a number of abandoned Mayberrys (quaint small towns) in GA that died in the first big inflation crisis in the early 80s. They are ready made for overgrown post apocalyptic filming.

[@hannahbeanies8855]

Raised in West Virginia and still live here. Love it and been all over the state for work. It’s gorgeous. I was only uncomfortable a couple times. Once was in a place near Marrowbone, WV and not because of the name. Not really a town, just a location. The other is Williamson, WV. Both in southern WV and not too far from each other. Nothing bad happened. I just didn’t like the vibes lol

[@kirbygulbrandsen4507]

The people that live in Whitier Ak., want to live there.

[@sarco64]

There was a lot of inaccurate information about Centralia, PA. The mine fire doesn't involve a strip mine with visible flames shooting up. It's an underground mine which has been smoldering away for many years. One of the few remaining buildings, which is on a hill just outside of town, is Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church. There are actually many underground coal mine fires smoldering away in PA, including one under the Pittsburgh Airport.

[@TheMadeofhonor]

West Virginia is a beautiful State. I lived there for five years and traveled all over the Eastern part of it. Most of the people are very nice and helpful. The only place that made me a little uncomfortable was Green Bank, which has no cell phone service or internet. And a little Town in Paw Paw. Paw Paw has two Restaurants, that's it. No Stores except a Dollar General, no shopping, no fire dept., no police station, no cell phone service, and no internet etc. What do you do in an emergency?

[@brianormonde2175]

There's a guy that visits that whole town that lives in one building. It's pretty interesting. Not creepy. Weird? Definitely. You should react to that! I left the link before and my comment disappeared, but if you search Whittier Alaska, it's like the first one that pops up. The guy's name is Peter Santinello

[@briancunningham7118]

I've been to Colorado City. It's pretty weird

[@Shako_Lamb]

Some remarks, since the video wasn't particularly well researched or produced... The shots at 3:57 and 4:53 are actually Thurmond, WV. Completely different part of the state, but its story is worth exploring in itself. It's basically a ghost town being preserved as it is, as a historic landmark site. The excellent movie "Matewan" about the Coal Wars (major labor uprising in WV) was filmed there. The Marshall plane crash didn't happen at Point Pleasant. The Auburn story sounds exaggerated but not far off. In those extremely remote parts of West Virginia, everybody keeps track of who enters their neighborhood, and an unusual vehicle draws attention very fast. Also, Appalachia is usually pronounced "appa-LATCH-ah" from within. The people who still remain(ed) in Centralia are elderly people who spent their entire lives there and figured it wouldn't be worth moving so close to the ends of their own lives. The government controls most of the town, and has allowed the elderly to stay until their death, after which their houses have been demolished. Elderly situations like this are often why people stay in these kinds of dying towns, along with people who can't afford to move, and the very rare younger person who simply has no desire to get out in the world beyond where they grew up. 7:02 The definition of "strip mine" is commonly misunderstood (especially among the Minecraft community), it's actually a type of surface mine, as in stripping the ground away. The Centralia mines were underground, so they weren't strip mines. To this list I would add Sharpsburg, Maryland. It's the site of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single day for Americans in history. There's a particular creepiness not just in being on the battlefield, but also in walking along it and realizing how the shape of the terrain influenced the course of the battle and made it so horrific.

[@jibbster4388]

I lived in Cairo, IL for a short while when I was little. Despite the spelling being the exact same as the Egyptian capital, it is actually pronounced K-Air-Oh. There is a very small restaurant there called The Dairy Hut, which still serves old fashioned floats. Would recommend a visit just for that.

[@jibbster4388]

Kinda surprised Olmsted, IL isn't on this list. It's a village of no more than 250 people and to top it off, It's a ritualistic cult town. My girlfriend is Korean and when I took her to meet my mother, who lives in Olmsted, we received glances of malice and death threats. One guy went as far as building a deer skull effigy blocking my mother's driveway. There aren't any police officers located within a ten mile radius of the town due to fear of the locals... Think Resident Evil Biohazard.

[@joshualee8151]

@@jibbster4388 kinda curious.... why would u bring ur gf there knowing thats how they people are in the first place? 🤣🤣

[@jibbster4388]

@@joshualee8151 To meet my mother.

[@stevewhiting556]

Gotta love southern Illinois. It’s so different than the Chicago area…almost a different state. My dad was born in El Dorado (that’s Dor-AY-do) and lived briefly in Cairo. If someone plopped you down in southern Illinois and you had no idea where you were, you’d swear you were in the middle of Georgia or Mississippi. Going back to creepy places like Cairo, Gary Indiana is another one of those not-quite-abandoned places. At one time, it was the murder capital of the USA. I think 3/4 of it is abandoned and crumbling. The other 1/4 is a haven for violent crime, drugs and general lawlessness. You’d swear you were in an old Eastern Bloc country.

[@billsart]

Whittier, Alaska is a one building town that everyone lives in. It is one of the main ports for cruise ships in Alaska it isn't as bad as it sounds. I've seen videos about it. The town in W.V. was more likely a coal mining town.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

Visit wherever you want, but if you move here, New York City is probably your best bet. Texas is filled with crime, and I've spent my whole life vowing to never even enter the state!

[@Sobergirl_]

I have discovered that I am about 4 hours away from Colorado City, Arizona.

[@kimberlypillman2983]

You should watch the movie “Mothman Prophecies”.

[@Sho81]

I have stayed in Point Pleasant for a couple of nights. Have met someone from Auburn and stayed there for a night. Some of the people are genuinely decent folks where as some others I will not talk about. But I also live only about an hour and a half drive and as an idiot teenager went to Centralia with some buddies being dumb.

[@darrelladams4188]

How did Picher OK not make the count down….. look it up…… It’s “ similar “ to Centralia PA . No fire

[@elkins4406]

Love Canal is also that same flavor of creepy.

[@cindylawrence1200]

There’s a place in Alabama that stays on fire. My great uncle said it’s from a gas underground

[@mortensen1961]

I was raised in Whittier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .California. . . . . . .

[@ravenm6443]

The ax mrder was suspected to have been done by a guy who was a holy man traveling through. Can’t remember his name, but his story doesn’t ad up. He had contact with the children the night before at a church event.

[@donnaneville192]

The Marshall plane crash DID NOT happen in Pt Pleasant! It happening very close to the airport that it was scheduled to land at Tri-State Airport in Kenova WV.

[@amymccoy504]

I’m listening to this drinking from a villisca axe murder house shot glass🤣 I went there and that town is so small and was a bit creepy

[@nikstorm594]

Cairo is a HELL HOLE, accidently drove through there. But most of Illinois sucks.

[@murphygirl4782]

😂 Missouri finally made a list... of course, it was a list like this.

[@Kim-J312]

I'm from Chicago. I used to go rock climbing in Eastern Kentucky alot . I was warned be careful of the hillbillies. My friend and I pulled over just to switch drivers on small county road . We were in front of house, ( looked like dilapidated shack ) . It looked like an abandoned house . Nope the owner came out w a shotgun rifle in her hand , I yelled "wat y'all lookin' at !!" . I jumped back in car drove off quickly. 😳

[@Kim-J312]

The name of town was Nada Kentucky, be careful folks

[@julietdenniss1798]

Centralia had a fire that lit the coal seam on fire and it’s still on fire. The government moved everyone out except for a few people who are mostly older.

[@larrierogers940]

He needs to do a video on the most haunted houses,places and urban legends of America. The real exorcist house base on the movie in St. Louis is 10 minutes from me…

[@sheilabree1991]

Lemp Mansion too

[@joshualee8151]

ive heard it is the exorcist house... then i heard its not... its near soulard area if im correct? alton illinois has some creepy b&b that are haunted... and the lore with the piasa bird... alot of limestone bluffs up in that area which i heard causes paranormal phenomenon

[@sandrabarlow4936]

Hahaha.....I live right next to Colorado City Arizona...... he didn't give the full story and there is technology there and it is alot different now. There are still some people like that there , but there are alot of just average normal people. Visit it.

[@nightlyrowentree6047]

Should watch "escape polygamy" its a tv show about people escaping cults usually just the girls

[@rockymtn1291]

Great show

[@MDudleyfromTexas]

Alcatraz is right in the bay, and while you may think you can swim to land, good luck. With incredibly cold water, swift currents and great white sharks many people thought better of it. However, of the many attempts only 2 ever actually escaped and were never caught. However, they think it's just because they died and the current carried them out to sea.

[@annexcelestial]

I live five miles from Centralia Pennsylvania

[@christinedonnelly8330]

Ohhh... Whittier Alaska isn't creepy. My sis lives there... PART TIME and I've stayed with her a few times, nothing creepy about it AND not everyone lives in the Begich building, there are other places to live, not a whole lot, but there are other places to live. In the summer it's a bustling city and they have cruise ships that go in there throughout the summers. AND they have a train that frequently goes in and out of there on a regular basis.