British Guy Reacting to Top 10 CREEPIEST Small Towns in The US

[@willard1521]

Some places in the US have the nearest grocery store an hour or more away. You do your shopping once a month

[@immortalfae13]

ABSOLUTELY!!

[@ejtappan1802]

Yup. Lots of smaller communities and rural areas might not have stores or gas stations nearby. They just make sure they have plenty in between shopping trips.

[@ryanv1279]

I live in Colorado, there are some people who go shopping twice a YEAR. People who live out in the mountains don’t even have a road to there house sometimes so its ATV only, in the winter the road closes so even if you have a car there is no getting out till spring (unless you have a snowmobile) so most people go shopping once in spring and once before the road closes. I worked at a Walmart close to this area (La Plata Canyon for those interested) and I would have people come through and spend $2000 in one go.

[@nicklester5883]

Very true. Emergency services are also 30 minutes to an hour out. Same with hospitals.

[@jimmyjennings5343]

Yup. There's little towns like that up here in northern Michigan where the nearest grocery store is an hour or so away.

[@booklover4330]

It's a very minor thing here: But I love how you look things up when you're uncertain about something. I wish that more people would do this.

[@vaporsaver]

For real.

[@beesnort3163]

Ikr? I love how he does that!

[@bobaboy7503]

Agreed

[@carbon5362]

Yes, he thinks looking up stuff is boring for us be we really enjoy it. When someone has a question and leaves it unanswered it leaves everyone unsatisfied.

[@mabeylane7163]

honestly I don't understand how so many people haven't figured out that they can just look stuff up. it seems like the most basic level of common sense. googling random questions I have has honestly taught me more than anything in school past 9th grade.

[@laurenstendel9111]

A grocery store being 20 minutes away is just normal small town stuff. Before we got a Dollar General close to us, our nearest grocery store was like, 25 minutes in either direction.

[@Tyrannosaurus_STFU_III]

Yup...and Dollar General ain't much of a grocery store.

[@ronclark9724]

Well the average county in the USA, on average is around 30 miles east to west and 30 miles north to south, not necessarily in a square. The county seat in many rural counties(not all) is the only town in the county with a Walmart.

[@dans864]

@@Tyrannosaurus_STFU_III they sell more grocerys in small towns they even have a freezer section with frozen fruit veggies meats and milk and the further out you go the bigger they get kinda reminds me of how walmart was befor supper centers those all closed after they went to all super centers a lot of towns lost their walmart after that western kansas oklahoma and Nebraska all have counties with only one town a piece that range in population from a couple hundred to 10 or 15 thousand if you wanna be left alone on cheap land with no taxs it's highly recommended

[@anniebalsbaugh735]

Yep, just like rural Ohio

[@HydraulicHydra9]

Yup same here

[@thedudeabides2531]

"Are there cults in the US?" Uh, yeah! Tons. I think we're pretty much the crazy cult capital of the world.

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

MLMs

[@cassandraluckert8115]

Cult capitol of the world. Because we call crazy, religious freedom. Then tell each other we absolutely MUST respect everyone's batshit beliefs. Fun bonus, this fact explains almost every screwed up aspect of our country. Everyone's beliefs must be respected. Take note of the slippery slope everyone else.

[@stoneragan3870]

@@cassandraluckert8115 So we shouldn't have freedom of religion?

[@cassandraluckert8115]

@@stoneragan3870 Sure up until the point you attempt to push your bullshit on someone else. We should also ban religious indoctrination of children but other than that sure have at it, just so long as you keep your crazy to yourself. We should also offer therapy for those that want to escape religion and join reality.

[@stoneragan3870]

@@cassandraluckert8115 You sound like a joy to be around

[@safron2442]

Someone mention convenience store in a rural town? *DOLLAR GENERAL INTENSIFIES*

[@Bacopa68]

I found out that's true. I had a couple of occasions to drive to BFE Northeast Texas for business last year and stay in truck farming and small plot ranching communities. There were Family Dollar stores in places that looked like they could not support a store. But it kinda made sense they existed. Population density wasn't that low. I guess Dollar General has some awesome mathematical modeling. Honestly, I hope Biden puts whoever sites Dollar Generals in charge of pandemic control. These folks can crunch the numbers.

[@cptray-steam]

Either that or Family Dollar or Dollar Tree.

[@solarchaotica]

Barely related but It's actually really cool that more dollar generals are adding in fresh food sections. Since they almost always have one in areas that are food deserts. It's pretty convinient

[@safron2442]

@@solarchaotica Yeah, definitely!

[@JoshuaRWorkman]

My hometown of Elkhart, Indiana is far from rural but there's Dollar General everywhere.

[@jacobrock8470]

The woman who killed the pregnant woman in Skidmore, missouri was just executed this week, her name is Lisa montgomery

[@TriXJester]

Isnt that the same place a dude was gunned down in broad daylight?

[@blankb7483]

@@TriXJester yes. he was killed in front of the whole town and no one in the town has ever said a word

[@-notyourordinarybisexual-8435]

well then

[@camjam0536]

Coincidence? I think not

[@brbw]

was*

[@grandmasterblueberryice4882]

America also has a lot of scary urban legends.

[@nadronnocojr]

They aren’t legends ............................................................................................................

[@projectc.j.j3310]

@@nadronnocojr who tf cares

[@thegrimsbaby5085]

I think every country does not just america

[@grandmasterblueberryice4882]

@@thegrimsbaby5085 well I'm not from every other country

[@larey9484]

One of my local favorites coming from Virginia - the Bunny Man lmao

[@noahkane26]

14:13 “Cairo, Illinois” *Shows a picture of Pittsburgh*

[@noahkane26]

@pauljuly16 yeah I think it was because he was talking about rivers merging, but not really necessary anyways

[@T.anchris.T]

@pauljuly16 me too! lol i'm born and raised there.

[@Olivetree80]

I know right, I was concerned, I think it's because he mentioned it sitting between the Ohio River

[@noahkane26]

@@T.anchris.T Same! From the south Butler area

[@edwardmiessner6502]

He also showed an oil fire behind two houses in Germany when discussing Centralia, Penna.

[@daniellehurrell6620]

"Why is it so loud???" That couldn't be more American if we fucking tried. 😂😂

[@riabunz]

you should do american urban legends, if you haven’t yet

[@Alyssa-senpai]

I agree! 100th like btw

[@DimpleDumple787]

American Cryptids and urban legends are great! Like the Appalachian Not Deer and the Jersey Devil and the Devil's Stomping Grounds in NC.

[@darleneadams6844]

Oh thats a great idea

[@wedthurfri443]

We have urban legends?

[@wedthurfri443]

@@box0choco593 Tell me one Urban legend from the US, because I genuinely don't know any. I'm gonna look stupid you tell me one that was obvious

[@makaylahaverluk667]

When I read "creepiest towns" I thought it would be more like haunted and abandoned or just have strange stories with a population of 20, not axe murders and rapists, I'd consider those more like terrifying.

[@aichanbainsidhe33]

Look into Centralia some more. They don't even usually TELL the scariest parts, but I lived very near there for a long time, and they really don't tell you the worst of it at all.

[@lonedinosaur13]

@@aichanbainsidhe33 yes!

[@LuthienCross]

yeah i was expecting to see Bodie, California and other such ghost towns

[@wyattroberts98]

Look into helltown ohio if you want creepy

[@makaylahaverluk667]

@@wyattroberts98 oh geez, with a name like that it's gotta be interesting!!!

[@jeremiahallyn4603]

Small rural towns in the US usually have Dollar General, Family Dollar or gas stations where you can get essential items. Mostly junk food, not many healthy foods available in them.

[@JonBurrows3577]

Very true. I posted about drug stores but Dollar General and Family Dollar are sort of similar, and like you said, none of them usually have fruit or vegetables.

[@minameier99]

Yes! The dollar tree in my city has bananas for 50c each and that's about it for fresh options, go anywhere outside the states' metros and they can't even offer that.

[@arcanask]

@@minameier99 My Dollar Tree's grocery section is the refrigeration unit in the back corner. They actually do stock a surprising amount of fresh fruit and veg. That is to say, any amount. It's not top shelf, but if you don't mind a slightly uneven stalk of broccoli or slightly off-color strawberries, it's all good.

[@minameier99]

@@arcanask ours have coolers for drinks but no real fridges, come to think of it some of them do have frozen sections with mostly TV dinners but sometimes they get stock for frozen fruits and veg! At the moment whenever they do, I stock up to make smoothies my mom can have between her mouth surgeries

[@ressljs]

I live in a small town in North Dakota. We do have a Dollar General and a small grocery store. Any serious shopping requires a 40 mile drive (each way) to Grand Forks. But if you drive the other way, there's more small towns, but none of them have any grocery stores. So two towns over, they'd have to drive 30 miles each way just to shop at our pathetic little store and 70 miles each way to get to the real stores in Grand Forks.

[@bigussmokesus8866]

You should react to the most haunted places in each state

[@M_u_t_e96024]

Most haunted is my home in Mo just not recorded

[@Popcorn-ch7uy]

@@M_u_t_e96024 Where?

[@badwifi_real]

@@Popcorn-ch7uy He said Missouri

[@mattvon1034]

One with cheese

[@Cthomp91]

Good idea!

[@elizbethkieffer6887]

Me watching from the US just as surprised as he is about all of this.

[@Throbnnwilliams]

Speaking for rural east Texas alone, it’s a no for the “corner shops” as you describe them, among homes and residential areas. A lot small towns do have a small grocery store in the center of town if you’re lucky, whereas a lot of rural areas have at least a 15 mile drive to the nearest produce store, sometimes much much further.

[@cindyknudson2715]

15 miles is NOTHING to travel to "go to town" to do your shopping. It's only 15 minutes away.

[@ronclark9724]

Europeans think a one and a half hour drive is a long journey. Americans think in terms a ten and a half hour drive is a long journey. The truth is the average European can drive across their nation in one single day. For most Americans it will take far more than a single day to drive across the nation, likely five days...

[@KittenUndercover]

@@ronclark9724 Exactly this.

[@scotplemmons4209]

In my area some kids travel 15 minutes or more to school

[@KDbelieves]

lol 15 minutes is nothing. It takes me an hour and a half to get to school.

[@charlottedrolet9000]

This comment feels like home.

[@jayc9345]

Re: your question about corner shops, we have them... kinda. He mentioned that there was no grocery store except their gas station - and in many small towns, our petrol stations are the equivalent of corner stores in cities. They'll often carry basic groceries (bread, dairy products, a small selection of canned food, loo roll, etc). And it's not unusual for people in small towns to need to drive 20-45 minutes to get to a store that's much bigger than that. In the small town I grew up in, we had one small grocery store, but the selection was so small that most people drove to the next town over (about 25 minutes), which was about 5 times the size and had a few big grocery stores and one department store.

[@okiendn2400]

This is true. I was born and raised in a small town called okemah Oklahoma still live there. Although we have a grocery store next door to my house we choose to drive 20 minutes to the next town because I have Walmart. Plus our grocery store is outrageously priced so it's a only if you need two thing

[@lane6866]

Unless you're in New York or a few other large cities. Then you have delis that sell essentials as well as freshly prepared sandwiches and meats and the like (mostly in Manhattan) and bodegas, which are truly neighborhood groceries in the outer boroughs. A video on the actual size of New York and its boroughs, public transit and the like would probably make a good reaction since it is definitely one of the major places in America that is really its own culture.

[@okiendn2400]

@@lane6866 it's weird here in Oklahoma we call a hot box the deli the sandwich place the deli as well

[@sap8730]

We call them country stores in Virginia. Rural area gas stations, that will normally have basic supplies, are scattered throughout.

[@promontorium]

Yes there are corner stores. I don't know where you people live or why you don't, but they're all over California.

[@jrax1713]

Funny how they didn’t mention slab city a desert town in the US that literally doesn’t have any laws

[@caitlyn189]

Slab city still has federal and state laws. Its weird, off the grid and attracts anarchists and stuff, but it’s not lawless.

[@Game-Breaker97]

That’s like the only one I was for sure expecting before watching. Weird he didn’t include it.

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

@@caitlyn189 well, anarchy doesn't mean "lawless"

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

Sounds like my kind of town. I'll need to check it out. (edit) Never mind. I just looked it up and it is in California. I escaped that shit state and would never go back.

[@trocoplaytv1254]

@@ASMRyouVEGANyet no offense but in a sense I believe it does. Isn't anarchy in its most simple form the lack of government?

[@angiehemenway243]

OK so am I the only one who answers him when he asks questions about the US into the camera? Like out loud? LOL Just me?

[@acyasin1000]

I definitely do!

[@angiehemenway243]

@@acyasin1000 haha good 😂 glad it's not just me

[@Tammy-og8hl]

Isn't that how your supposed react. I yell at the 📺 all the time.

[@veryc7437]

"In Broad Daylight" was a movie made about Skidmore, Missouri's town bully who was killed there but not one of the dozens of witnesses came forward to say who did it.

[@JoshuaRWorkman]

If you were witness to the murder of such a man, would you say anything? He held an entire town hostage to his own whims and the person who killed him did everyone a favor until everything else happened.

[@the_cruz_shooter]

@@JoshuaRWorkman I cheered them on.

[@merricat3025]

That was a good movie. I watch it on KZbin and I remember people commenting that we're from Missouri and said it was true and that's what it was like.

[@Melissa-wx4lu]

America has this issue called "Food Desert" where there isn't a place for people to buy fresh food. There are many, many small towns where the gas station is the only place they can buy food without having to travel out of town. Convenience store food. They are quite the issue here with the declining health of Americans, that some can't get fresh vegetables, or fruit even if they wanted to. many are poor and don't have means of transportation to where the food is. This is often why in many of these cases, when people are able to get to a proper store, they buy enough food to last them the whole month. Since the food needs to be shelf stable, there are many many people who grow up and reach adulthood only ever having vegetables out of a can. Or knowing the flavor of powdered milk.

[@irisblue2332]

Not just small towns, there are food deserts in big cities where (usually poor and/or minority) residents don't have access to fresh, good food at a reasonable price without getting in a car or a lengthy bus ride.

[@WindyWooshes]

I just learned about this in geography

[@kdrapertrucker]

@@irisblue2332 oh, they have access, they just don't buy healthy food. There is no area of more then 20,000 that doesn't have a wal-mart, Target, or meijer supercenter or a grocery chain of some sort. All of which carry a selection of fruits and veggies.

[@xaviercopeland2789]

Declining health? I thought we were getting better with things like decreasing obesity and all.

[@Melissa-wx4lu]

@@xaviercopeland2789 America's life expectancy is actually going down. The big issue these days is Diabetes and hypertension

[@Sarah-nn5ef]

A cult is like a group of people that idolize someone or something (religious a lot of the time) to the EXTREME. You don’t want to be in a cult and sometimes they can be dangerous.

[@datamatr1x]

like trump supporters.

[@jariemonah]

@@datamatr1x lmao. Beat me to it.

[@alleghanyonce]

@@datamatr1x It's really tiring seeing unnecessary and completely irrelevant political comments everywhere.

[@jesuschristbutafab9923]

@@alleghanyonce ikr

[@datamatr1x]

@@alleghanyonce okay and? go take a nap then.

[@wolver73]

We call them “mom and pop” stores.

[@EpicMinerNK]

I think those are usually family owned convenience stores, but he's talking about convenience stores like 7 Eleven and other large chains

[@hermunkulus]

That sounds like a midwest thing. I've never heard of that.

[@FYE24]

No bs i have never heard that

[@robhugh535]

@@hermunkulus It's more a generational than a regional thing. When most of them were individually owned rather than corporate chains they usually were called corner stores or mom and pop stores.

[@rickyfever]

Not all convenience stores are “mom and pop” stores. Most convenience stores are big chains (7-eleven, Walgreens, ampm, circle k, cvs, etc...). Mom and pop shops are locally owned by people in the community. They are not large corporations. Always support your local mom and pop shops!!

[@mutantenderman2601]

If I'm not mistaken, Jones town had it's origins here in the US. And according to legend, the night before the bridge in Point Pleasant collapsed, mothman was reportedly seen flying above the bridge

[@klaudia7470]

And if I remember correctly there is a film about moth man legend, starring Richard Geere ;)

[@caretaker158]

yeah, Jones founded the "People's Temple" in 1955 in Indianapolis and... if I remember correctly, he recruited heavily in the San Francisco area before heading to Guyana in 1977

[@halloweenbaby4192]

I love how he searches everything up it’s adorable to say the least 🦋

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

You need to remember most of these towns are VERY rural. So stop thinking of them in terms of UK estate living. Even UK rural living is more urban than most of rural US. 20 minutes to the grocery isn't that big a deal here. And the government moved most of Centralia's residents away ages ago. Those who are there now snuck back in, like the folks who moved back rear Chernobyl. Some folks have no sense of self-preservation.

[@Amber-zg4zo]

Yep. I think it’s difficult for most Europeans to imagine how spread out we are because Europe is so much more densely populated. Virtually everywhere that isn’t urban has areas like the pictures of Colorado City he was so shocked by.

[@richardiiibrinker492]

Ok, but I have lived in Missouri my whole life. I grew up in a nice mobile home park outside St. Louis County. Everyone had a car, and until I was five there wasn't even a school building in our town. No one called it rural or the country. Everyone lived in subdivisions, everyone was poor, and whether it was a house or mobile home, it was well taken care of. It wasn't until I got older that I was a trailer park from hell. I had a friend in college who grew up on a farm in a farming community. That is what I consider rural and small town. But again, their town was well kept and there were stores and business in the center of town. But if you drive through Missouri there are Towns that are nothing more than abandoned buildings and a few houses. Again, there is no farmland in sight and these towns exist between small towns and midsize college towns. The highway that goes by them is busy all times of the day of night. But I don't think rural when I see them. I think of ghosttowns. Towns that used to be alive with business and stores. About where I grew up, it was hill country, and appropriately named High Ridge. The subdivisions and mobile homes were built into valleys and hillsides. My grandfather hunted squirrel in the woods behind our trailer. I spent my youth playing in the woods and creeks, but I was close to city life. We just told out of town relatives and people that didn't know the area that we were from St. Louis. Relatives in the southern part of the state were fascinated with how we talked. They said we spoke so fast. Asked us to speak again and again. Now we didn't call ourselves rural like they did, but there were very little differences in the towns we lived. They talked slow, had a mindset that they were different, but I didn't see any differences. But these towns people are talking about don't have a community to them. They are just a number of houses.

[@goblinlibrary280]

As somebody who lived in Appalachia, that second West Virginia town sounds pretty normal for hill folk. They do not trust outsiders. Kind of sad Helltown, Ohio wasn’t on this list!

[@ronclark9724]

West Virginia. Almost heaven... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6LGfpWhe7dpoM0

[@Keyleey]

I was hoping to see Helltown on the list as well.

[@ressljs]

I've got friends in WV, and I've been to Point Pleasant. It's a nice town, but there are some bad things in it's history. Now I've been to some small towns in Southern West Virginia that were kind of creepy. Since everyone in those small, isolated towns know each other, I'd catch everyone watching me when I'd go into a gas station.

[@Nonchalant_248]

When I think of West Virginia I think of that horror movie Wrong Turn LOL.

[@LeannahW]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing lmao, but honestly I got lost in West Virginia at night once on a road trip from Ohio to NC and it just felt WEIRD. Like I know it's all normal and in the daylight it would have been fine but not knowing the area and it being dark and quiet was eerie as hell lmao

[@SingleStepStudios]

The lady that murdered the pregnant girl in Skidmore was just put to death a few days ago.

[@yobamajoe2595]

Ohh that’s who that was

[@caldeauwolf5534]

And nobody felt bad about it. Well, no one that mattered.

[@janistroud76]

I love how interested you are in our differences. I equally enjoy hearing about the UK

[@lilybarker8865]

I lived in a village in Michigan until I was 13, literally not enough people to be considered a town and our grocery store was like 40-45 mins away.

[@grilledlettuce1845]

Funny enough depending on where you live, some corner stores are to be definitely avoided during certain hours or just based off where they are located. In the poverty striken town outside of Pittsburgh where I grew up, this old Middle Eastern immigrant owned a corner shop and made some bomb ass gyros, but he ended up closing years later after certain nighttime antics, brawls, drug deals, and literal shootouts

[@whatjustinawhat]

Lol I’m from a poverty stricken town outside of Pittsburgh! Allegheny, Westmoreland, or butler county? 😂💖

[@TabbiToyCollectibles]

@@whatjustinawhat I would also include Lawrence county as well

[@josephgarcia2006]

@@whatjustinawhat you’re cute af

[@catgirl6803]

We have a lot of corner “bodegas” in my city but they’re really just fronts for drugs. One woman who owned one of the bodegas was shot and killed in front of her kids as she was working the store in a “robbery gone wrong” but when information came out, it was a gang execution. And another one near me was finally shut down for drugs. Now there’s another corner store 2 blocks down where there’s dealers always loitering outside.

[@whatjustinawhat]

@@josephgarcia2006 thank you 😂 that’s so nice !

[@AndrewL209]

Love the content bro, from a small town American😂

[@stonedmalone8587]

Same here

[@zerbyjay777]

Totally.

[@masenmelo5681]

When me and him are from the same small town 😳

[@AndrewL209]

@@masenmelo5681 Masen wtf

[@dreww4925]

Same

[@normal-potato05]

Not to offend anyone, but Gwyneth Paltrow’s “goop” has a cult vibe

[@yamemeguy4744]

It’s definitely got some shady shit going on

[@normal-potato05]

@@yamemeguy4744 exactly

[@Cubs-Fan.10]

And its still gross lol

[@idontknowleavemealoneplease]

Every thing about it is sketchy as fuck. When I first heard about it I thought is was a dumb comedy skit. Spirit Science levels of crazy.

[@WildChildMcCloud]

She's such a bizarre woman..

[@HannahGaston]

11:00 yes they're called CVS and Walgreens

[@ancestrywoman1]

The Point Pleasant one is crazy. The Marshall plane crash was not in Point Pleasant , it crashed in Kenova WV an hour away from Point Pleasant. He doesn't know what he is talking about. And I have yet to see the Mothman. We moved here 12 years ago and nothing has happened since we have been here.

[@gregadkins2483]

I grew up near Point Pleasant. The Marshall University plane crash happened over an hour away in my hometown of Huntington so that really has nothing to do with the town. Pt. Pleasant is super creepy though. There are "igloos" where materials were built during WW2 which are dark are eerie and a "haunted" insane asylum.

[@ejtappan1802]

I live in Huntington, and have visited Point Pleasant several times. I never found it spooky or creepy. But, of course I only see the main streets.

[@rdfox76]

@@ejtappan1802 Yeah, when I was on a kick learning about West Virginia folklore and such, I actually made a point of visiting Point Pleasant during a road trip through the state. Completely ordinary small town, in my opinion. I couldn't even find the Mothman statue.

[@thursty2308]

Currently live here. BUT a trivial question no one knows, is Lakin Hospital is one of the first to perform a Lobotomy

[@gabbytabbert7519]

15:31 "The people here live with actual deer on their porches. That's a major weird red flag" The entire Midwest: ........

[@immortalfae13]

Especially when you can shoot one for dinner & fill your freezer without leaving home. After fighting with them all summer over your garden, gotta say it's pretty satisfying.

[@gabbytabbert7519]

@@immortalfae13 Same problem! Them and the rabbits. You can’t keep them out no matter what you try 😂

[@minameier99]

Rural Pacific Northwesterners: .....but we like our little buddies, they munch the compost and like the barn cats

[@gabbytabbert7519]

@@minameier99 Oh don’t get me wrong I love deer. Sometimes they’re pesky but at the same time a lot of farmers where I’m from will leave a small strip of corn in their fields unharvested so the deer have something to eat during the winter. We complain but we’re softies 😂

[@minameier99]

@@gabbytabbert7519 haha absolutely! My grandpa was the same way, always complaining about them 'getting into his fruit supply' like he didn't plant one of his plum trees in the valley by the woods so the deer and other animals could harvest when he first bought the property. The family still makes jokes about someone 'getting into the fruit supply' when they see someone using a gift they bought them😂

[@JonBurrows3577]

The “small versions of Target” equivalent, and probably what UK small Targets are based off of, are the “drug stores” like CVS and Walgreens. These have a large make up/cosmetics area, hair care aisle, tooth care aisle, feminine care/baby aisle, paper goods, all sorts of “over the counter” medications/remedies, chips/snack food, drinks, frozen food, a photo center, lots of candy, and of course, a pharmacy. The corner stores are all over, but in Texas and now starting to expand outward are Buc-ee’s, up to 67,000 sq ft of greatness: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3vUhYxmhr2kf9k

[@ixionn563]

Another thing to consider would be the fact that gas stations tend to be everywhere, probably around 90% of them or more having a small convenience store connected to them. I would say gas stations are the corner stores of America.

[@dustyclasso2012]

I love buccees

[@Taygetea]

There are actually literal small versions of Target too. They're just like the other drug stores, but they have more Target-y stuff. Like a Walgreens might have some clothes and towels but the mini-Target across the street will have better ones.

[@adilhoxha5443]

there's also 7 eleven

[@JonBurrows3577]

@@Taygetea oh, didn’t know those were a thing in the US, too. I would like that instead of the huge store.

[@bodyofhope]

Yes, we have corner shops. In NYC it's called a Bodega or Deli. In other urban areas, they're often called Convenience stores. In my area, we have gas stations at every mile or less which serve the same purpose. The further out you go, it's Dollar General or Wal Mart, and ppl do have to travel further the more rural you get. I lived in an area like that only once, and you just do a big grocery shopping trip once every couple weeks, and then run to the gas station/convenience store for staple items (bread, eggs, milk) in between big shopping trips.

[@KellyAnn2390]

I'm not from there, but Point Pleasant WV is such an interesting and historical place. It's nowhere I'd want to live, but the strange vibe there is a bit intoxicating.

[@coolwhip455]

In Centralia the PA government declared eminent domain on all of the property in the affected area which basically meant that the government bought all of the property there and everyone in the town was relocated with the exception of those who wanted to stay. As of now, only 1 house still has someone living in it and after that person passes away or decides to move, the house becomes property of the state. The town also officially lost its zipcode about a decade ago and no one is allowed to buy any property there.

[@ianstratton1629]

That person should will it to someone to spite them.

[@merricat3025]

That actually is on my list of places I would like to see. Do people still get together on Memorial Day at the cemetery? I saw a documentary on it and it had people at the cemetery bringing flowers to the loved ones and reminiscing with each other.

[@coolwhip455]

@@merricat3025 I'm not sure if people still go there for Memorial Day or not. I've been there once when I happened to be traveling through central PA. I took a little detour and decided to check it out. Its pretty interesting, Very eerie. Unfortunately there's lots of trash and litter scattered all over the place mostly from people visiting and leaving their garbage there. Its not a park or anything so no one actually maintains it in any sort of way. Most of the original town roads are there but no structures. Nature is quickly reclaiming it.

[@merricat3025]

@@coolwhip455 I'm from the Midwest and I don't go that way very often. I went PA a few years ago but I didn't realize Centuria was there. If ever go back that way again I want to stop.

[@upfrontbuckle04]

As soon as I saw the title, I knew Point Pleasant would be on the list. The people are nice enough, but there is certainly a strange vibe to the place.

[@gregadkins2483]

It is a strange place. Especially at night.

[@swonn-um4qf]

Family live in Gallipolis OH. We love the Mothman Museum.

[@blankb7483]

I was surprised two of these towns are within an hour of where I live. Yet another sign I need to move

[@MrAflac9916]

I live 45 minutes from Point Pleasant. This part of the country isn’t “creepy” - it’s economically depressed and struggling. More sad than scary. Edit: I’ve also been to Cairo, Illinois. Worst town I’ve ever seen in my life.

[@Bacopa68]

@jt cash The Guy over at the Gin and Tacos website said the most humane and cost effective solution to Cairo would be to give everyone a half million dollars at gunpoint to force them to move away. After that, cut holes in the levees and let the rivers take it.

[@angiewan105]

You seem like such a nice, genuine person so I love watching your videos! Also yes so we have "Super Targets" (which are larger than the regular Target) and "Neighborhood Walmarts" which are mostly for groceries and some toiletries. I didn't even know we had these things until a few years ago lol until I moved.

[@jaycam6823]

The US is extremely big that’s why stores can be far in certain places

[@garbageday587]

Well Canada is bigger and we don't have that king of thing.

[@drivers99]

I looked up Auburn WV and it’s not even true that there’s “only one road in or out.” I see 4 ways in/out. Also the unrelated stock photos and videos are annoying and/or misleading.

[@nattiberrington]

Oh, having the closest grocery store being 20+ minutes away is pretty normal, when you live in the country, here in the U.S., even if thousands of people live there. This is because many small towns here are farming communities and aren't willing to sell profitable farm land to a grocery store, or the store doesn't want to buy land in that area, because many farmers use cow manure to fertilize their crops, so they fear the smell will drive customers away, and the rural places, in the northern United States, get plowed less often and after busier areas, during the snowy winters, because they aren't high traffic areas, so that means that accidents are less likely to occur.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

Yeah, when we say we are diverse. We MEAN diverse. A lot of people are tolerated here that wouldn't be anywhere else. Or at least not in most countries.

[@richardiiibrinker492]

Tolerated? My landlord is white, and because I'm white, he lets his racist side out in full force thinking I believe the same as him. He wouldn't dare talk that way in public because I live in a "diverse" college town. We have people from all over the world coming to attend one of our three colleges. But I was born in this state, moved to this town twenty years ago and racism and intolerance is a living breathing thing. Not everyone is racist but enough of the population is that when something is said by someone that can be interpreted that way, people that are the tolerant ones also give each other knowing looks. I live in the midwest. It happens everyday her. So I wouldn't be letting all that Land of the Free propaganda you learned at school have you talk so fast.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

@@richardiiibrinker492 Wow...you certainly can jump to the wrong conclusion, then go on a tirade, can't you? One of the many things that is tolerated here, is sadly, racism. I live in the south, so I doubt you've seen it more than I have. When I said we are a diverse nation and lots of things are tolerated here that would not be in other countries, racism, sexism and bigotry were exactly what I meant. So, check your attitude at the door. You misunderstood my meaning.

[@Oliver-yc5fi]

I live in a creepy town. There's an island that coffins fall out of, people were also decapitated there. We have abandoned graves in the woods. The road leads to a dead end... literally, there are one or more graves there. We were one of the first places to pick up the Titanic distress signal. Somebody was murdered in the house next door to mine in the 70's on Halloween. There was a building in the woods here where sick people went to die. A man took his own life here after he crashed his fishing boat into an island and wouldn't abandon ship. A coast guard helicopter crashed killing three people. I'm sure there's probably other stuff too. So basically my town is extra creepy.

[@oak1780]

you live in Gelligroes Mill? wait maybe not you said one of the first , guess I have to go back to sleuthing.

[@Oliver-yc5fi]

@@oak1780 Not sure if it's too much of a hint but I'm in Canada.

[@oak1780]

@@Oliver-yc5fi dont worry, I've already given up the search. wanted to stop while it was fun and not creepy :) is was a fun distraction though.

[@ianstratton1629]

I have a huge coast guard family. So that crash stood out to me as they aren't common. Only one I could find in Canada (killing 3) happened in the Arctic Ocean after departing from Resolute. That the one?

[@Oliver-yc5fi]

@@ianstratton1629 Nope Atlantic Canada 2006.

[@mslamblambs7610]

I've been bingewatching your reactions all day. Thanks for making them. :)

[@ce3586]

Okay, so Centralia, Pennsylvania. The mining industry there was coal mining. There's a massive deposit of coal under the town. So there was an abandoned open pit mine. The town had been using it as a rubbish dump for decades. Somehow (no one is sure how) something sparked a smouldering burn in the rubbish. They tried putting it out, but the rubbish was so tightly packed that water couldn't penetrate to extinguish the smouldering bits. Eventually it ignited a seam of un-mined coal. Once it hit the coal depost there was nothing they could do to extinguish it. So it's essentially a coal fire that has been burning through this MASSIVE coal deposit. And it's been burning ever since.

[@bellas14u]

And we mustn’t forget that all efforts to stop the burn were unsuccessful or just way too expensive for them.

[@marthapackard8649]

Apparently this isn't a one off. China has an enormous subterranean coal fire that has be burning for decades also. The few residents that stayed just wouldn't leave their homes. Mostly older people. The government went in and shored up their houses if they were in danger of collapse and let them stay. This was a while ago. I wonder if there is anyone still there now.

[@bellas14u]

@@marthapackard8649 oh my stars, I never knew there was another place suffering the same fate. Thank you so much for bringing it up. I have to look into it. My heart hurts for the families that have to uproot even when for their own safety, it must be hard to leave “home” behind.

[@4erographer]

If you want more "creepy" content, I highly reccomend the channel Fascinating Horror. He mostly covers disasters and tragedies but does so in a very respectful manner that i haven't seen other channels do. His videos are really informative and well thought out! I really recommend his videos theyre great. Great vid as usual! Keep up the good work my dude

[@goblinlibrary280]

Fascinating Horror is a great channel!

[@kjsalomonsen9299]

I think, Luka, you forget that we have big refrigerators and freezers and so, we don't buy food on a daily or weekly basis. I grew up in a small town of 300 people. When I was little we had a farmer's store it was a grocery store and downstaires it had a little bit of dime store stuff, as cars and roads improved there wasn't a need for this type of store. It's not unusual for people to drive 10-20 miles to go shopping. My mom did it once a month when we were little and more often as we grew up.

[@RyLHatch1989]

True that. I live in rural WV. My neighborhood, literally in the middle of the woods, about 2 miles to the main road, is mostly made up of vacation cabins and weekend homes. The nearest gas station is a fifteen minute drive, while the nearest actual grocery store is 30 minutes one way, unless you feel like driving to the nearest Wal-Mart, which is about 50 minutes away. However it's not uncommon for most Americans, who live rural lives, to have either a second refrigerator or a large chest freezer in their garage, basement, or on their porch, so grocery shopping only becomes necessary once or twice a month. Plus, it's not uncommon to find roadside vendors selling freshly grown fruits and vegetables, especially during the summer months, far cheaper than the grocery stores will, and which are relatively easy to can up and store for the winter months.

[@mikephalen3162]

Americans also don't do the European city dwellers practice of buying fresh bread and fruit and vegetables daily.

[@kjsalomonsen9299]

@@RyLHatch1989 I forgot about the roadside stalls. Where I grew up it was mainly sweet corn. We also, bardered we had a small orchard so, we traded apples for sweet corn or something mom didn't have in her garden.

[@timmytenor1940]

Subbed just over a month ago. Crazy to see how much your channel has grown so quickly. Keep up the good content!

[@redryder6523]

This guy is sesationalizing a lot this stuff. I live in West Virginia and while we do have our share of sleepy little towns here none are a dangerous place to stray into, certainly not Point Pleasant. I've visited there twice and stayed in a really old motel that is supposedly haunted. I really love the town and surrounding area. Point Pleasant sits right on the Ohio River and is small and as its name implies quite pleasant. The Mothman pheonomenon is very interesting and plays a large role in the town and area. The Mothman statue is really cool and a lot bigger than it looks in photos btw.

[@SilvanaDil]

If Point Pleasant was cursed for 200 years, the time has passed already.

[@HALberdier17]

@Bradley Richardson 1777 is when the curse was suppose to start because that is when Cornstalk died. So the curse should've been lifted in 1977.

[@immortalfae13]

But the damage is done! Maybe they decided to stick around after BEING MURDERED!

[@YetiUprising]

I hereby further curse the town for 4000 years.

[@imaginethat1331]

@@YetiUprising why would you do that lmao

[@Nonchalant_248]

@@immortalfae13 right! ....smh

[@Intheshadows-u1m]

Ok if were talking creepy , you should visit the Stanley Hotel in Colorado ! That place is reallllly scary . I stayed there one night and couldn't sleep for about a week after that ...

[@marym4261]

I wouldn't say it was scary but it's got an eerie vibe if you're alone in a hallway or room.

[@clane4485]

It's also the hotel that is shown in The Shining

[@marym4261]

@@clane4485 actually it's not in the movie but the events and things inspired Steven King's novel The Shining. It's not a very big hotel.

[@katrinaingram7871]

I still want to go there. When I was younger I talked to ghosts or spiritual beings and curious is I still can

[@babyfry4775]

I live in Colorado and stayed at the Stanley Hotel. Nothing happened to us overnight but we took a tour of the grounds and buildings and some weird stuff happened during that. The town Estes Park where the hotel is is really nice.

[@three2267]

Wow he said "Rural Areas," in the beginning like they're ALL Leper Colonies. I'm sure there are Nooooo creepy Urrrbaan areas anywhere in America.

[@MrThankman360]

LOL. No kidding. To me, the creepiest are certain areas of cites.

[@TheSkyGuy77]

most of Rural America is just big open plots of land, very few people and whatnot. Not much danger at night except for wildlife. most urban areas are very dangerous at night (lots of shootings and murders in places like Chicago).

[@Nonchalant_248]

For me a "rural area" might as well be a leper colony. I avoid them like the plague LOL

[@MrThankman360]

@@Nonchalant_248 Too bad. Some of the nicest people live there.

[@justindavis6223]

Point pleasant was actually pretty cool to visit if you like cryptids. The mothman museum is really cool.

[@aranavenger]

I really like how you stop to look stuff up. It is neat to see more information about stuff.

[@blckpanthr13]

"Wild Wild Country" is an insanely good Netflix docuseries on the Rajneeshi cult from Oregon in the 80's, if you're curious!

[@dom7098]

mate you can drive 10 minutes in any direction outside of Norwich and find places where the houses are very far apart from eachother

[@jonathonfrazier6622]

Centralia was the inspiration for the 'Silent Hill' series.

[@rotciv557]

No it wasn't, that's just a myth

[@jonathonfrazier6622]

@@rotciv557 no it was. The creator of Silent Hill said so himself.

[@jtomas1334]

@@jonathonfrazier6622 bro everyone knows it said it In the video no need to tell anyone

[@HALberdier17]

I don't think the games but the screenwriter of the movies based their version of Silent Hill on Centralia.

[@rotciv557]

@@HALberdier17 Yes, this. THIS is the actual link to Centralia that Silent Hill has. The games aren't based on it, the look of the first movie was.

[@jessicarobinson2199]

No, we don't have what you describe as "corner shops" to a large degree in the rural areas of the US like what they have in the UK. They are usually convenience markets inside gas stations. In upper peninsula Michigan, which isn't even considered that rural, it can be 30 minutes or more between gas stations or roadside markets.

[@iwasframedformyparentscrim9519]

Awesome job! You actually look into things about the stuff you look at. And help people understand the basics of research

[@BlkBrryVonne]

Anyone else find it odd that they showed the skyline of Pittsburgh, Pa when talking about Cairo, I'll.

[@babyfry4775]

Yes very odd.

[@reuvenknight1575]

yep

[@Wilex-Rivi]

I was actually wondering that

[@WalkenDead]

I didn't catch that, but I'm kind of listening while doing other things. I've been to Cairo so I'll have to go back and watch

[@cassandraluckert8115]

Wrong yes, odd? Considering it's a unverified video made by some random person I would call it youtube working as expected. Hahah

[@nolantolson652]

laughed when a big deal was made about the nearest grocery store was 20 mins away. I was like welcome to Kansas lol. Lived in a town named Bennington for years. Need food drive 25+ mins, want to eat McDonalds drive 25+ mins or need to go to work drive 25+ mins. Normal life here lol.

[@ronclark9724]

More like 60 miles or nearly an hour where I live in West Texas... By the time the volunteer fire department shows up at my home, the fire would have consumed the house...

[@pacmanc8103]

@@ronclark9724 that is crazy

[@nolantolson652]

@@ronclark9724 Know what you mean I work rural water Dept. My coverage area is huge. Some areas I drive through would take fire department or a ambulance near 40 mins to get to.

[@mazdaman2315]

Most small towns actually aren’t creepy they have friendly people and beautiful scenery but most small towns do have there fair share of ghost stories (but so does The most haunted city on earth London) but I’d say the small town I live in is charming along with all the other small towns in northern ny except for dekalb and gouvenour

[@elizabethwhitsell3851]

@Matthew Barrick I grew up in that area! - what's creepy about those 2 towns? Maybe things have changed since I moved away.

[@mnm4ever7591]

I've lived in Oregon my whole life and I've never ever heard of that whole story! Crazy!

[@brandonleeker]

Appreciate how mindful you are of others, it shows how much you care about people and making sure you don't offend anyone. You were very mindful of how you were wording the intro, we know how much you care but I appreciate it!

[@adelledinsmore7969]

Ok that thing about going 20 min out of any city in Oregon and finding weird shit is TOTALLY true. I thought he was gonna talk about the Oregon Vortex!

[@elizabethwhitsell3851]

For sure! The Oregon Vortex has a super creepy vibe. And, yet, we keep going back to visit! 😂

[@caldeauwolf5534]

I guess that’s what happens when you become a tourist destination for like 300 years, huh? Coyote Works is a KZbin channel that covers a lot of old homesteads and high desert area, I recommend checking it out!

[@juliantorres3239]

U should react to some ghost videos by channels like nukes top 5 or slapped ham they're not really scary like a horror movie but they're just bizarre to see. Day 1

[@frankb3347]

There's a tavern in my town which has had several serial killers and numerous murderers as their patrons over the years. People say it's haunted or cursed.

[@amandapollard8007]

I think the equivalent of of corner store in the US would be our gas stations- or at least for more rural areas

[@rookiebae3177]

For more populated areas they are liquor stores and gas stations. There are literally two liquor stores within walking distance in my house, like incredibly short walking distance like 1 and a half minutes

[@rexjolles]

I live in Pennsylvania and I've snuck into centralia. That place is like hell on earth

[@ViolentKisses87]

In Rural Areas the "Corner Stores" are generally Gas Stations with a small grocery section and often a Deli + Hot Food like Fried Chicken, Ribs, Meatloaf and sides. and we mustin forget Dollar General stores of which there are 16,278 Dollar Generals in the US

[@dats3]

For more information about what a cult is Google the BITE model which stands for: Behavior control Information control Thought control Emotional control It's a fascinating subject and not all cults are religious.

[@RebeccaDubs]

The cult of Trump is one such example.

[@dats3]

@@RebeccaDubs I agree.

[@travisclay9239]

One person’s creepy town is another person’s home sweet home.

[@TheKukulkan]

Colorado City, AZ. A group of friends and I decided to stop by and take pictures of the town in 2004. We just left the Grand Canyon and we were making our way to Zion National Park. Upon entering the town I decided to take a picture of a police vehicle parked on the side of the road. We were amazed how the city planning was and how creepy some of the homes looked when we were pulled over by a cop. He asked us to get out of the car and he took my camera while he was running everyone's ID. He never asked us why he pulled us over, never asked us what we were doing. Just told us that we looked suspicious. After he ran our names through the system, he asked us what we are doing in his town. We told him, that we stopped off on our way to Zion. He told us "You California kids need to show respect. This is a private town with honest people. You are not in public grounds and you have no business here. I want to arrest you for invading their privacy, but I will let you off if you leave immediately." He followed us to the highway and out of AZ. A few minutes later I checked my camera and noticed he deleted every picture on my SD card. Thankfully I back up all my pics every night so I only lost about 20 pics. I traveled to 40 states and this was the only place where I felt like I was not welcomed.

[@jack7956]

i grew up close to zion and colorado city. it really is like this.

[@AmyEugene]

Me as an Oregonian: Well to be fair, there's plenty of weirdness IN the cities as well. Basically the entire state has all kinds of weirdness anywhere you go. As soon as he said the word cult, I was like ohhh the Rajneeshies.

[@helensarkisian7491]

Channel suggestion: The World According to Briggs

[@Ocaljr]

Corner stores are found everywhere in the urban town and urban cities throughout NY and NJ. They are called "Bodegas."

[@Camhobza]

15:33 “What’s up with deers man?” 😂😭💀

[@connorthompson4030]

My dad lived in antelope when the raznish (I don't know how to spell it) were there. He said they carried military grade weapons. Also in Rural Oregon dear are a nuisance and they aren't afraid of humans it is normal to have one on your porch.

[@caldeauwolf5534]

Absolutely, I think that’s why most people in rural areas (including me) were glad when they passed the roadkill law, that you can pick up roadkill as long as you report it with the Sheriff. Makes wrecking a good car or truck a little less painful when you can eat the offender!

[@MrFig358]

Wild wild country on Netflix is a mini series about the cult in antelope

[@nickswafford2413]

Having been to Point Pleasant West Virginia, it’s not as weird as it’s made out to be. They have cute little moth man frosted cookies and the entire town just uses it as a cool mascot

[@merricat3025]

I drove through it before I knew it was a place. It was just like any other town on the river. If I were them I'd capitalized on The Masked Man 2

[@thomasr7921]

Where I live there are 6 grocery stores within a 1 and a 1/2 miles of my house. However in other areas of the country you can go over an hour with out seeing a grocery store.

[@okiendn2400]

When describing the town broadhead he described every single small town in America! You're either religious or meth heads (drugs or alcohol) not just meth. But Most are both at different times in life. Me included but I'm proud to say I now have two years of sobriety and without God it would have been impossible

[@starparodier91]

Silent Hill fanatic here- Centralia was the inspiration for the movies, not the games. Very eerie similarities though!

[@Michelle-ce1qh]

LOVE the Silent Hill franchise

[@berdettewymer1705]

I imagine the residents of Whittier Alaska live there because it's more cost affective than, for lack of a better term, commuting. There are many little villages and towns in Alaska that can only be accessed by air or boat. It probably would cost a great deal to go back and forth in such an isolated place, especially if its a company town.

[@yaboi_LGK]

Not sure if someone answered this yet, but yes, we have convenience stores and smaller versions of Walmarts that are usually called Neighborhood Walmarts which is usually just grocery items and maybe some other essentials like hygiene and sometimes school supplies in small scale. I'm not sure about small Targets as the only ones I have seen are the supermarkets but I am aware of two different types of Targets: the standard Target, which doesn't include a grocery section and the Super Target that does. As far as corner stores/convenience stores, the most popular in the US are 7-Eleven (sometimes stylized as 7/11 or 7-11), Quik Trip, Kum&Go, Circle K to name a few.

[@WildChildMcCloud]

Those people in WV have an unfortunate hand in life and i doubt they'd hurt a motorcyclist turning around. They were probably in awe.

[@Kilo-sz4ch]

Which town in London is the most dangerous? Google: *yes*

[@oougahersharr]

London is the city . . . not the country or county.

[@Wichita0]

@@oougahersharr I think he meant to replace the word, "town", with, "street".

[@realmattytime]

Yeah no the thing abt America is that it’s SO big the hyper religious people, like religious to the point that it’s dangerous, can so easily isolate themselves from the rest of the world. And severe isolation always leads to weird shit

[@nolaray1062]

I would go so far as to say that some of the “mainstream” religious people are getting to the point where they are dangerous and aren’t interested in isolating themselves at all. The opposite, they seem hell bent on making the country the way they think it should be.

[@CJGunner92]

@@nolaray1062 eh that can be anyone with strong ideals. These days people make their opinions their ‘religion’.

[@AliinaG]

I live in Houghton, Upper Peninsula of Michigan USA. All of our structures are old mining houses and buildings that we still use today. I live in one that's over 100 years old it used to be a hotel! There's an abandoned mine shaft down the street from me where a lot of miners drowned deep in the mines. My high school is so old it has an underground bombing shelter/bunker. Its just a really old creepy town with loads of history with abandoned haunted buildings and structures everywhere. There's also a huge ghost town that's now an abandoned air force base in the woods north from Houghton. It has an abandoned church, bowling ally, pool, and over 60 houses. An absolute ghost town.

[@Evil-Dude3]

Nice vid dude hello from Houston,TX :)

[@Maewolf]

There is a cult near me in yelm, wa usa called "ramthas school of enlightenment" they beleive lizards live up in mount rainier.

[@badbatchproductions7861]

Y'all got some wierd sh*t out on the west coast.

[@SpaceJunkie12]

Like lizard people?

[@MichaelScheele]

"Ramtha" is supposed to a warrior from the lost continent of Lemuria who is over 35,000 years old. Somehow, his "channeler," JZ Knight, can understand him and translate into English. Actress Salma Hayek was involved with them in some way. She thinks they killed her dog. The cult was noted for being a big donor to the local and national Democrat Party. The county organization returned the money. It's unclear whether the 0bama campaign did or not. Total whack-a-doodles.

[@ashrenith]

Um I’m from WA and had no idea this existed 😂 Not surprised though

[@Maewolf]

@@MichaelScheele agreed crazy as shit haha

[@alanruiz7169]

Hell yeah theres cults in the US. PLEASE react to a "church of scientology" i swear its like out of a movie

[@gheorghitaalsunculitei9146]

In Colorado City 60% of the population is under the age of 18

[@triggergaming8814]

Not anymore.

[@mayaenglish5424]

11:00 It depends where you live. There are corner shops in residential areas but they're really for like, ice cream, cigarettes, water, scratch tickets, junk food, beer, etc. Then there are Shops like what you describe, a sort of "mini walmart" which sounds like a drug store. We have a Walgreens, could be a CVS or a Rite Aid, but that's probably on the main road, not residential.

[@johnnyw1ck917]

There is a documentary on Skidmore if you are interested in it. Its called "No One Saw A Thing"