Atlantic City's Black Horse Pike is Terrifying / Drug Motels, Dead Bodies & Dead Ends

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[@DrewsAdventuresGo]

Dan Bell does it best. The roadside memorial reminds me of some here in Australia. I am looking forward to your doco on the unalivings Dan. You always get the facts perfect, the narration epic and the scenes on point my friend 😍. Keep well Dan 🤗

[@DanBellFilmIt]

thanks drew. you didn’t have to do that!!

[@DrewsAdventuresGo]

@DanBellFilmIt yes I did Dan. You are always inspiring and a great soul, through and through ❤️

[@lizgaspari-gasparinutrition]

My ex fiance, Rhodes Campbell was found M(rdered near some Denny's in 1999 in Absecon. Case went cold yet someone admitted to me that an ex-cop who had some ownership in a gym called Island Gym or something like that. It's disgusting !

[@sarawasylyszyn2177]

Tracey is my cousin, I and my family miss her greatly. Her mom brother have now both passed on, never getting answers. I hope that one day they will find out who took her life and the 3 other women.

[@Lxrzo]

R.i.p im sending good luck to yall

[@xnj9206]

Her brother is vinnie manna right?

[@joeystreets3606]

They need to get fresh eyes on the investigation much like they did in New York with experienced investigators with one goal in mind. File a congressional and force their hand to move this investigation to the forefront.

[@anthonytripp2251]

The police focused on one guy and made his life miserable til he got a lawyer and DNA cleared him. There is a guy in North Carolina who was a wannabe pimp at the time who supposedly confessed to a friend but the police never acted on it. There really needs to be a reopening of the case. ACPD is incompetent.

[@ShefraPeterson]

Sorry about your cousin Tracy, three other ladies. That lost they're lives, Rest In Peace!! I hope and pray, that catch the person or persons that did this! Get justice for Tracy, and three lady's, who lost they're lives.

[@swankyb9454]

That booth with dried spunk dripping down everywhere was unbelieveable. I cant believe people actually go into these places. Thanks Dan 😂 for giving us a peek into degenerate hell.

[@llg3pe]

Beyond disgusting

[@brucebeamon5460]

I believe it , I used to go DECADES ago … but at least they appeared cleaner …. I’ was amazed to see someone actually video and add it to there content ON LINE !

[@PsychobabbleRapp]

Those places were hopping in the 80's and 90's, time sqaure was full of them and almost every city had some, I went in one with a few buddies when I was in my mid 20's , and we were actually stalked as several older guys followed us around panting, all the booths had glory holes big enough to stick your hole head through , . We had no idea gay guys hooked up in there, when we went to the counter to get tokens we were looking at all the weed pipes they had, the guy behind the counter reached down and picked up one that was shaped like a penis and asked if we wanted one of those. !!!. . The first booth I went in had a glory hole that was about 3 feet high and a foot wide, and within 20 secounds of me shutting the door and dropping a few coins in, some white guy dropped the biggest penis I have ever scene to date through, it had to be 13 to 14 inches, very oddly shaped and not circumcised, I am in my 60's now and have yet to see one even close to the size of that thing, no porn actors black or white have even come close,.. The guy was tall and lanky red head and very unattractive almost nerdy looking. When I quickly exited the booth my buddy came out of the one on the other side and we both looked at each other with shear terror in our eyes, as a crowd had gathered like we were on display, . We flew out of that place as fast as we could, and I never set foot in one again, .. my buddy said the booth had cut outs ( glory holes) on both sides because John Holmes senior showed him his weapon also, .. I have never forgotten how disproportionate that thing looked hanging off him, and always wondered how in the heck he managed to function from day to day with that much meat hanging there , as it truly did hang dam near down to his knees.

[@Lisa-jp1zf]

Well I made it 58 years and never saw the inside of one of those booths….thanks for the experience..I think. 🤮

[@charlottemcbrearty1849]

Whoever is still patronizing these places in the internet age should probably be on some kind of watch list. Also, is there no health code in play at all?

[@freakishuproar1168]

It's weird to think how isolated the side of an otherwise busy motorway can be. All those folks driving by, and just beyond the thin strip of bushes is a loathsome liminal land few of them will ever wonder about, let alone ever see. Creepy stuff!

[@DanBellFilmIt]

that’s the craziest part. thousands of people riding by and no one sees you. at night even more so.

[@mamadukes9791]

I love the way you wrote that. ♥

[@Houkasmokingcaterpillar]

​@@DanBellFilmIt Hi Dan! Google the name Fatima Perez. She was kidnapped & buried alive on the side of the Black Horse Pike, in 2014, 10 minutes from where you filmed this.

[@kr-pm1xg]

🌴😒 It's weird to think anyway..I mean, what is thought.? A chemical reaction brought on by our surroundings.? Or just a chemical reaction.? That makes us all think somewhat alike..and if you stray from that normal range..you're insane..and those chemical reactions you're having are causing your "symptoms" of "mental illness.. ...🌴🤔💨🧠💤...

[@bdpage2023]

Beer cans, soda bottles, cigarette butts & syringes. Homelessness is a pervasive, worsening problem

[@Raymond-rr5iv]

The Black horse Pike before you get to Atlantic City is creepy !!! You get the feeling that over time there are bodies in a lot of places ... Desolation roadside.

[@MichelleBattersby-dw3yy]

I know someone, that "worked" the pike/ motel, she was almost a victim! She fought him off, as he was trying to choke her ,with pepper spray! God was on her shoulders that day

[@DanBellFilmIt]

hi michelle. would you friend be willing to give an interview about this incident? email me [e-mail]. she can be totally anonymous.

[@ThaZaMobofficial]

She didn’t say who it was she was trying to fight off ? Lol

[@SirEnwardEffsler]

​@@ThaZaMobofficial I mean, she could probably give you a description of the guy... but even if he did give a name, the chances of it being a fake name are extraordinarily high given the circumstances.

[@ThaZaMobofficial]

@@SirEnwardEffsler I think it was either Rex or somebody else maybe the ebs is now deceased or it was Rex ..

[@missique1324]

Ominus Area ..since those unsolved Redrums...Great video Dan. it's the back Bay of west AC...that locale is constantly flooding... uninhabitable

[@s-nooze]

This is peak Dan Bell content!

[@MuckyPup115]

This is very Dan Bell.

[@voxpopuli905]

Dan always been my favorite

[@themanofshadows]

I miss the days of the Meat Factory and Children’s Asylum vids.

[@voxpopuli905]

@@themanofshadows and the abandoned hotel series…and I liked his sketchy childhood stories, about the man lurking around in the dark.

[@Audioobscure]

I stayed in abandoned motels several times out of desperation,no where else around and no transportation. One time the owner opened up room for us and no one had been inside the place for numerous years. So our room had free spiders, dust and mold. No towels or linens, no soap, a little running tepid water. Another hotel turned 0ut to be a homeless shelter. Another was a huge abandoned resort that had one room they let us use. I could go on and on.

[@Baroness666]

Are you from AC or is it just where u ended up?

[@PollyPurree]

Nice of the owners to let you stay there.

[@thebigcapitalism9826]

​@@PollyPurree presumably you say this sarcastically lol

[@Artist11_NC]

I find this fascinating.I would like to hear more details about these adventures

[@mariecolette9066]

I hope things have gotten better for you. You’re a survivor pat yourself on the back..life can get rough at least they gave you sympathy and allowed you to stay indoors.

[@CNSninja]

Hey, Dan, be careful, man! When you got out of your truck to film inside that terrible backrooms motel you left your truck running with the door wide open. That's a big no-no in a place like Atlantic City. It's one really common way people get their vehicles stolen. Anyone could've run up and taken the truck and everything in it and you wouldn't have even seen them coming. Imagine being stranded like that in a place like THIS. Ugh. But anyway, excellent work, as ever. Your videos never disappoint. Something about this place gave it an extra air of creepiness, even in the broad daylight. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a few times.

[@girlnextdoor0703]

Sometimes when I’m out driving through rural areas I wonder how many bodies may be hidden in the woods I’m passing. I know it’s creepy but some places just seem tainted.

[@chickenwitrice761]

It’s life

[@Leeza-G]

Perhaps you sensed something. We all have those abilities. ✨

[@lisabonanno3839]

This place is desolate in the middle of everything

[@followtheciaence]

Billions of humans have already died

[@kristinak3844]

Me too once you know what really goes on in the night time or the underbelly whatever you want to call it you wonder these things because so many people are S trafficed not just grown women but children too from every city New York 20000 kids a day in Philadelphia probably the same amount of kids and Atlantic City probably a little less but specially kids that are immigrants here illegally those kids are being trafficked even their parents traffic them just to get over here it's disgusting and satanic rituals it's really nasty with these elite people who can buy them due to them and all I have to say is save the children save the children save the children so they don't end up growing up to become drug addicts because even these traffickers will give them drugs and get them hooked on purpose

[@glitterwave80s77]

Omg that black marble/pink counters and plants in the pizza place! Sketch but love the 80s design LOL

[@DanBellFilmIt]

girl it was lit in there. the whole lobby was great.

[@BGNOLA]

I bet it's a money laundering front; only way it could be staying open

[@spmj1251]

Black horse pike area gives off a familiar "leakin park" creepy vibe😬 another entertaining vid dan❤️

[@DanBellFilmIt]

i’d say it’s actually creepier than leakin park. between the motels and dark dead end roads it just give off killer creep vibes.

[@lindsay33333]

​@@DanBellFilmIt I'd say they both are equally creepy. Please keep showing us this content Dan!! We love you 🩷🩷🩷

[@Crystal-nw3mv]

@@DanBellFilmItsouth New Jersey pine barrens is the creepiest place I’ve been there’s just something different about it

[@johnpouliot]

​@@Crystal-nw3mvNo sound at all most of the time.

[@AldermanFredCDavis]

I would imagine you already know it Dan, but Atlantic City is surrounded by marshland. A lot of the surrounding areas APPEAR to be solid ground........but step or drive in the wrong area, and right to the bottom of a body of water you'll go.

[@planesandviews]

I find these videos strangely relaxing before I go to sleep, and I don’t know why 😅 keep it up!

[@jodyferguson3430]

same

[@Artist11_NC]

It's like riding around on a little adventure with a friend ❤

[@lgarla23]

It’s all in the voice my friend. He has the right tone and pitch to relax the viewer. The slower pace helps as well. I’m falling asleep as I’m typing 😴

[@patriciamcguffie7387]

It's the voice and slow calm speaking. If you havent yet, check out asmr videos. The relaxing feeling is called asmr. It's your Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response to certain sounds, movements, etc.... asmr is awesome. Changed my life since i discovered it. I watch asmr every night now in bed.

[@johnjacobs1776]

It never ceases to amaze me how people can just pull up in the areas where there aren't buildings or people and just dump off mattresses, appliances, trash, furniture, etc. Trashy people literally and figuratively.

[@lgarla23]

Migrant behavior

[@rudelittleant3654]

happens in the hills behind my house all the time -_- absolutely filthy, horrible for the ecosystem. broken down cars, dirty mattresses, trash, spoiled food, boxes etc..

[@johnjacobs1776]

​@rudelittleant3654 I hear you. Yeah, unfortunately, one person dumps something, and then it just snowballs to a complete dump site. You've seen the NO DUMPING signs at some places and it looks like a landfill. Some folks have no consciousness, especially these days. Sorry to hear that is happening so close to your place.

[@juice_in_liters]

Dan I love the new focus on creepy adult video stores! It's like a strange fascination since I'll never go into one myself haha. I seriously can't imagine the smell of those video booths and theaters.

[@TardBanger47]

Cmon we can go together❤

[@thesouluniversal]

I could almost smell that booth through the screen, ew

[@burbeefylimowhitz9908]

That's exactly what I was thinking too, the smell must be just an absolute nightmare. Like the kind of thing that stays with you for a bit 😂🤢

[@Vid_Master]

Absolute depravity, i had no idea those stores had stuff like that in them. How is that even legal?!

[@Neptunes_Bounty]

​@@Vid_MasterWhy should it be illegal lol.

[@afterthestorm221]

It's Friday night with a new Dan Bell episode! Perfect!

[@ellawaves]

Also, Friday the 13th!

[@effdonahue6595]

@@ellawaves 💀Nyah Ahah!! Woop Woop Woop!!! 😈

[@ChubbaWubba169]

I bounced at a bar on Black Horse Pike in early 90s and it was a pretty decent place then. Very sad to see what it is now! Thanks for sharing Dan.

[@shannon_w.]

Which bar?

[@ChubbaWubba169]

@@shannon_w. Admiral Lounge

[@WillS-pl8wg]

What bar ?? Pal.

[@ChubbaWubba169]

@@WillS-pl8wg Admiral Lounge

[@zeddee8383]

“You pay 10 dollars to come in here…” yup, glad you got the concept Dan 😂

[@-norsecode-]

My heart is so broken over all the women and man who were found in such a horrible state. Keep yourself safe, Dan. 💜💚🧡

[@greghenrikson952]

Apparently Dan Bell is starring in the new season of "True Detective"! Love the opening LOL

[@coalregionrider6525]

Yeah, I'm really enjoying the new openings and the music also

[@DanBellFilmIt]

the longer format video i plan to produce on this case will be much more polished and cinematic. i shot this on my phone and threw it together in a couple hours.

[@greghenrikson952]

"From the nasty bathroom, his looming shadow grows. Hidden with the bedbugs of all the sordid hoes. He drives his car up slowly, towards the empty house, and when he switched to black light, the matress ran with blood."

[@lucianaromulus1408]

​@@DanBellFilmIt youre a master ! Beautiful work, especially for just throwing it together so quickly

[@brianaschino4903]

@@DanBellFilmItI can’t wait!!

[@nonconnahordeath]

That abandoned van at 06:19 has been there as far back as at least October of 2019, according to Google street view.

[@blank4425]

Nothing better than a Dan Bell video..especially at notorious locations like black horse pike!!!..thanks for the content dan!

[@scar531]

Black Horse Pike is peak sordid environment.

[@d-rg.karamitev9796]

One of the most professionally conducted investigations I’ve seen on a KZbin channel so far…Absolutely brilliant! Dan thank you for the amazing content!

[@thomasgagliardi5931]

I live in Brigantine where we do our radio program and we have seen some creepy stuff on top of where the serial killers dumped the bodies. They were actually dumped near the train tracks. If Rex didn't do it, then no one did. Most of us knew he had been down here multiple times. I am surprised you got back there with no AC Police stopping you. We have more apparitions and ghost sightings on the beaches of Brigantine down here on the north end. Keep up the great work Dan.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

hey thomas. could you shoot me an email. [e-mail]. i have some questions for you.

[@thomasgagliardi5931]

@@DanBellFilmIt you got it brother give me a little while doing pre-production for the radio show we got the new Frank Zappa box set and some new David Gilmour I have to cut up and I'll shoot you an email right after you are the man dude

[@willsellfrog429]

I love Brigantine and I love ghosts. I need to hear your stories

[@thomasgagliardi5931]

@@willsellfrog429 I never thought I'd actually have an experience but then when I moved here 12 years ago, a lot of stuff started to ramp up. I live on the North End of the island and I have seen stuff that put me in disbelief that it was actually happening in front of me. Strange apparitions, people you are CONVINCED you are seeing and not even ONCE thinking 'omg, this is an apparition' you were thinking, 'wow, people surfing and playing on the beach on this time of night in this chilly weather? Wow.' Then you get closer, and their gone. Strange shit bro.

[@Thomas-cj5jl]

Would love to hear the info on Brigantine. Is there a way to contact you?

[@melissalove2463]

It never fails to amaze me how humans can remorselessly take the lives of other people that they don’t know or have done nothing to wrong them !

[@renesagahon4477]

Get used to it that’s been happening since the beginning of time and always will unfortunately 😢

[@mattheweisenstein9953]

The Mayor of Atlantic City Marty Small and his wife Laquetta who is the Superintendent of schools were both recently charged with beating their daughter with a broom until she was unconscious. Both of them still have their jobs

[@rodgerklotz6810]

Its a great day in the great city of Atlantic city!

[@instrumental]

Cool story bro. Almost relevant

[@UNKNOWNSUBJECT777]

This is exactly why these crimes have ever been solved. Why would the people in power want to bring attention to Crime in AC when they are neck deep in criminal activity themselves

[@EM-wo6wf]

That’s highly disturbing

[@jameslyddall]

I have no idea why I came across this channel but fascinating to watch. I live in a lovely little village in England (originally from London). Just spent the last hour google locating and mapping the area you shot in and my god it looks utterly desolate and depressing. As someone said being on the side of a freeway is the most lonely experience you can have and ending up dead in a canal is so heartbreaking.

[@Dalt21]

There’s plenty of good by the Jersey shore. I recommend google mapping ocean city or cape may. Also even Atlantic City, though it looks bare and decrepit in some areas, you can still have a lot of fun there. It’s not all doom and gloom Off topic, but My dad’s side moved to AC in its heyday during the 1880s from the Manchester area ! We still have photos of their old businesses on the boardwalk. Cheers !

[@mauragaffney9333]

I know where this is because I live outside of Philadelphia. A lovely little English village actually sounds pretty cool. I want to visit the UK one day! So many things to see there!

[@williambrown8374]

A lot of stuff like this is Tennessee. Our state is full of abandoned towns and areas. In the city and the mountains as well! There is even a stadium size cave under Nashville itself.

[@doubled3962]

So creepy .. that one place looked like an institution ! Instead of a motel .

[@ellawaves]

Yes! I think the place of which you speak reminded me of an abandoned school in Baltimore. Talk about creepy.

[@lighttgaming6481]

Lived on the black horse pike my whole life. More specifically West Atlantic City which is only a few blocks long as you make your way into AC. Genoa Avenue. Just a few blocks behind all those motels towards Pleasantville.

[@rodgerklotz6810]

how was it? any crime trouble etc

[@lighttgaming6481]

@@rodgerklotz6810 I almost got kidnapped twice and me and a buddy were prob less than a mile from those bodies. We use to walk back there all the time.

[@matthewfarmer6830]

Happy Friday the 13th Dan. Thanks for sharing this. You take care.

[@thecatsmeowfromny]

Please, please be careful going to all these places alone! You have me worried for you. Take a friend with you if someone is available. 🥰

[@MononokeLynn]

Dan, I feel like I need to send you a box of disposable rubber gloves so when you go into those booth you dont have to touch anything.

[@rudelittleant3654]

or a full hazmat suit 😣

[@Batboy_idiot]

Dan Thank You for being our tour guide to the dark underbelly of our collapsing society

[@oceanmannnnnnnn]

Nothings “collapsing” just economies shifting and changing.

[@FreyaVanBuren-go8qn]

So scary...as a woman, that place is terrifying.😢😢😢

[@AwfulWaffle8474]

i almost vomited when you showed the booth. thanks Dan, the taste of my dinner tasted good on the way up as well.

[@nickytommymancinelli8066]

Spunk & Spooge

[@abethepunk]

Same! I'm here, innocently eating my breakfast, and on goes the blacklight lol

[@archangel6666]

The handprints 😭😂 place is a damn biohazard

[@rachelk7555]

A place you might want to explore is Durango, CO where I used to live. The reason is because underneath the Main Street in town are tunnels where in the 19th Century they would transport prostitutes to the businesses above on the street. While eating at an Asian restaurant one time several years ago, the owner took us downstairs in his restaurant & showed us one of the blocked-off tunnels.

[@DigitalJill]

Oh my gosh! This is so intriguing!!! I would pay yo hear about this!! Not joking! You should totally tell the story and post it to your channel. That would be lucrative content. Please share any details if you are able! Thanks for giving me something interesting to research!! I haven't been able to find a new subject matter to immerse myself in as I've not had anything that has been both intriguing and new to me. I have been forced to take time off due to a medical condition that I am currently having to undergo an extensive sustained period of some really aggressive types of treatment and it's really been so limiting on my ability to do little else and it's so isolating and lonely and boring. I have been in a funk that would be amazing to be distracted out of, but I've already binged the shows and movies and read all of the books, and researched and diy'ed all of the craft and hobby related activities and interests and have organized and rearranged the furniture, the landscaping, started gardening, making things more cat friendly and fun.....okay, TMI. Sorry, but just another hopeful wish to hear your story! ❤

[@Harbor420]

Everytime I watch your videos Dan I get this sense of liminal space, and with your narrating.. its the best! You have such a real way of seeing the world. Its just refreshing, and please keep up the good work 🎉

[@Tinerene]

Same!! America is so liminal

[@MrPhrigid]

That stretch of road has always felt weird to me. Thank you for these videos, Dan! Loving them!

[@gregggoss2210]

At one time, this was a thriving area,especially when the casinos first opened. Atlantic City as a whole is a shadow of what it once was. The shine has worn off and now the true color is showing through.

[@em7dim9]

​@@gregggoss2210 More like the PA casinos have taken away their business. It's not the city's fault. I love AC.

[@chillingsworth4384]

Even the poor Teddy Bear committed suicide. Just couldn’t take it anymore

[@anthonytripp2251]

I live in AC and the last place at Pacific n MLK is notorious. Odd that one person with a camera can discover what the entire Atlantic City Police Dept cannot.

[@shannon_w.]

Lol that's not surprising 😂

[@davegentry-pu9xm]

They're all good, Dan, but this ranks as one of your top 10 videos in my book. Thank you so much. Be safe out there!

[@ChannelZero1031]

I love places like this. 4:31 The whole landscape, backdrop with the billboard with the post on the right, the whole thing just gives me uncanny valley.

[@therealednam0de234]

As someone who grew up in and still lives in Atlantic City, the Black Horse Pike has always been an eyesore for me. I’ve watched the motels slowly decay and it’s such a depressing thing to see on your daily commute.

[@lgarla23]

Makes you wonder who the hell owns them

[@devonkelly44]

I grew up ten minutes from here! My mom was a paramedic in AC and was CONSTANTLY being called to the motels. She has so many harrowing stories. I also will never forget when the bodies were found. So many people victim-blamed the women because they were sex workers 😢😢

[@jameslyddall]

I live in England and just randomly stumbled on this channel and loving this content. Watching this does make me think the area has some creepy vibes to it but I suppose thats what it's supposed to do. Probably a different feel if you live there but I just spent ages google mapping the area. Feels pretty desolate and sparsely populated.

[@AllisonDancerChick1982]

I live about 15 minutes away, on the opposite side of Egg Harbor Township (the Somers Point side). Ick, this area is so creepy!

[@johncarolina4950]

@@jameslyddallThe amount of pain you find in and near American towns based around casinos is just staggering. Atlantic City is the rawest of all the big American gambling cities by far. To compare it to somewhere in England, it's like Blackpool but with guns and heroin

[@Rountree1985]

They still do victim blame, just as much if not more now. And now everyone has a smartphone and internet access, so now we have to actually hear what these aholes have to say. “Well if she didn’t want to get r-ped and m-rdered she shouldn’t have been wearing such a short skirt. She was asking for it!” Yes there are people who actually think this way, and think that everyone else should feel that way.

[@Dalt21]

@@johncarolina4950there’s definitely bad in Atlantic City. But you can still have a lot of fun there’s it’s not all doom and gloom

[@scar531]

That peepshow used to have live girls in it! I missed it though, I went and poked my head in once about four years ago, they had already stopped doing that. So sad. Black Horse Pike is creepy AF. I used to do the same "tour" for fun. It feels horrible there.

[@ashleywhitefield6076]

No wonder they don't have live girls anymore considering just how absolutely disgusting those booths are or the fact anyone chooses to go to a booth, pay money, and do something that can so easily be done at home for free with video.... like someone has already said, whoever goes there regularly should be put on some sort of watch list. It's that sort of thing that leads downhill to a sex worker getting murdered and dumped, and that's putting what probably happened to those murdered women lightly. Makes me want to cry for humanity...

[@susandavidson1691]

Truly disgusting 🤮 and unnecessary tbh. Why, just why

[@theSkavenger84]

Used to love going in there when I was a teenager lol

[@BarbHowe-tm8vi]

That is, most certainly, creepy. Those memorials were so depressing. I never understood why a family would want to mark where their loved ones passed away so tragically. If I had to drive passed that spot, I would not need a memorial to remind me of that horrible event. Loving the regular Friday nights videos from one of my favorite storytellers. Thanks, Dan.❤️

[@Audioobscure]

Agree. Crash site memorials are twisted

[@StinkyBlack1]

It’s mostly people who don’t really feel anything but like to put on a show for sympathy money.

[@ashextraordinaire]

Dude I'm so glad I'm not the only one. Over 10 years ago, a girl was hit and killed pretty horrifically at the intersection outside my neighborhood, and her family (who live in a different neighborhood a few miles away) have kept up a memorial ever since. Originally, they set up on the median where her body landed, but the flowers and balloons were deemed a safety hazard, so they moved everything to the corner. They went so far as painting a larger and larger section of the sidewalk until the city issed a cease & desist (which the family sadly fought in court), and they change up the decorations with the seasons. FOR OVER A DECADE. I admire their dedication, but it feels macabre. My cousin was killed in a similar manner 15 years ago, and we remember her and talk about what her life may have been like, but we don't keep a stranglehold on our grief. (She was a teacher, so some of us donate school supplies and classroom money in her name instead.)

[@darlahays2471]

You nailed it! My nephew was involved in a single-car accident, ejected from his car. We never put up a memorial, and a majority of our family passed the location at least once a day. It's been over 25 years and I know the exact spot it happened 💔

[@iGame3D]

It's to remind people to drive carefully and often not to drink/do drugs and drive.

[@grungerfox1571]

I've been all over Jersey (especially South Jersey) been in over 100 towns. But this area in the marsh lands next to downtown AC are dying. It used to be really busy in the 80's and 90's. A guy I used to work with in Buena said " I worked at Ballys in the 90's. It was so busy in AC back then the Casino employees couldn't park in the city. We had to shuttle in from the AC Expressway." It isn't like that anymore.

[@grungerfox1571]

I also stayed in one of those Black Horse Pike Motels like 15 years ago. It was a dump then too.

[@RonBeaulieu]

Yeah I was at Ballys 2 years ago after not going to AC for a long time. AC definitely isn't thriving like it use to.

[@HuguetteBC]

You could park in the city, but had to pay. I think I paid $15 a week to park at one of the mom and pop hotels.

[@nicolemegyeri5267]

Dan brought the black light. 😂😂😂

[@DanBellFilmIt]

i got a little one that’s very bright and fits neatly in my pocket.

[@nicolemegyeri5267]

@@DanBellFilmIt that place was tainted.

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

@@nicolemegyeri5267gave me the super willies

[@kathyinwonderlandl.a.8934]

@@DanBellFilmItnot surprised 🫠of course you do

[@ballbagchris6920]

Do you love s****** d****? 😂

[@jlynnmac6246]

Hi Dan Bell. I don't live far from this area and I drive past Oh St. Joseph everyday. Appreciate the tour because I wonder what is going on in that area. I observed homeless people walking around the area around 7:00 am. Yes, it is a creepy area! Look forward to your other fun and creepy adventures!

[@DanBellFilmIt]

i wouldn’t doubt if there are squatters in there maybe doing that old man favors to stay there. everything over there is so dark those motels especially.

[@jameslyddall]

Just been reading reviews of Oh St Joseph and yeah looks closed down according to research. I'm sure someone could reinvest in that area and its amazing how much nicer a place looks once you've done a bit of landscaping and got rid of abandoned vehicles.

[@VioletsOnMars]

The tragedy surrounding these places breaks my heart. 😔 It's incredibly sad when people are taken over by drugs and substance abuse, mental illness or lifestyles they grew up in...

[@Fido-vm9zi]

You said it exactly right.

[@GRAFHC]

You're killing it with these new videos... this is what KZbin is all about, I used to be a subscriber and fell off years ago, just resubscribed again tonight. Looking forward to your future content!

[@thomasmint1761]

Very cool video. The entire area seems cursed. Not surprising that bodies have been found there, and fatal car accidents occurred.

[@kellyboyle7732]

There's a novel by Caitlin Mullen called Please See Us, set in Atlantic City and partially based on the real Eastbound Strangler. Read it a couple of years ago, it's a good book. Thanks for another great video Dan! Makes my Friday night complete!

[@brianaschino4903]

Going to check this out, thx for the Rec 👍🏻

[@DeborahFlorian-gy6lw]

That was an excellent book. I also read it a number of years back, but the memory of its storyline is what prompted me to look at this video when it came up in my feed.

[@Torjox]

I just got that! I need to read it

[@scramblemindjumble]

The blacklight in the porn shop has me SCREAMING. I live in south jersey and haven’t seen this shadiness in my life here. And I’ve been to Atlantic City quite a few times

[@liverpoolfcslayer4290]

I've been to this place back in the late 80s early 90s when leaving AC... And im telling you this place was just a Scary Seedy place. We never stopped. Drove straight through and kept going. All the way home to P.a. the vibes we got were bad. Gotta remember the Mob and Atlantic City walked hand and hand!

[@jameslyddall]

is there still any mafia presence at Atlantic city or is this pretty much a time of the past?

[@liverpoolfcslayer4290]

@@jameslyddall I couldn't tell you. I wouldn't be surprised but not to the extent it was back than!

[@311_21-k]

@@jameslyddallgood question

[@liverpoolfcslayer4290]

@@jameslyddall If you have ever seen Casino with Deniro and Sharon Stone? Atlantic City was the Las Vegas of the east. The Mafia were in the Concrete Business back in those days 70s,80s. They Owned the Unions. I Wouldn't be surprised to find out that there are Bodies Entombed in some of the Foundation's/Concrete Pads of buildings when they were building Casinos, Hotels, Motels back then... The Mafia had interesting ways of wacking people.

[@dayglodoggy]

​@@jameslyddall replaced by cartels, since the main vice income became their drugs.

[@jrthetravelingsalesman6357]

Come out to Salem, NJ and let me know if you need a tour guide to some really old/deplorable places. I was doing some exploring yesterday and found a very old cool looking theatre and bowling alley. This area has so many abandoned buildings and seedy spots but also some beautiful vintage architecture that’s crumbling from decay and neglect. Let me know Dan and be safe out there man

[@melbrown6019]

That’s about 20 miles south of where I am from originally. I moved away in 2008. It’s definitely a super sketchy area. Atlantic City has really gone downhill. That area has always been kind of scary. You’re brave for going in there 😅

[@testchannel7806]

Amazing work Dan!! So excited to see your in Jersey!! 😊❤

[@dondavis5633]

Dan...please tell me you have lots of hand sanitizer. PLEASE.

[@fahr]

oh lord watch his "another dirty room" series

[@WeasleyGirl1767]

I lived by A.C. for 17 years and drove the Pike several times a day. To me, the most dangerous thing about it was the number of people running across the middle of it.

[@sleeplessaquarius]

You found a goldmine of creepiness around there! Hands down, the creepiest place Ive ever been, without a doubt was Gallup, New Mexico (2013) . The main drag was all $20 buck a night places, where many people lived . One after the next . Toys strewn about, towels hanging in the windows, cars on flats . It was wild to see . I couldnt wait to get the hell outta there, & on to the next leg of wherever the road trip took us . When my photography friend & I got back home after this week long trip exploring the Southwest, we talked on the phone about the main drag & the motel signs we had photographed, we read the reviews on Yelp & were blown away . He lived in Chicago, & I lived near Knoxville when we made that trip . I always enjoy hearing other peoples travel experiences .

[@MommaM101]

We used to live there no lies told😂😂

[@teannahclayborne6655]

Alot of the motels have been torn down but the remaining motels have been so called renovated they actually used to look worse than that a few years ago.

[@rachelk7555]

Dan, you confirmed a thought I’ve had for years in another video you made recently: you’d be a wonderful owner of a nice mid-century motel, decorated in beautiful mid-modern decor in a cute small town not too far from a big city.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

I AGREE

[@charlottemcbrearty1849]

I've always wanted to get one and restore it to its original 1950s glory.

[@Neptunes_Bounty]

​@@charlottemcbrearty1849I've always thought that 50s motels were kind of tacky.

[@elenahoverter9020]

Had me singing the Sopranos theme song 🎵 "Woke up this morning..." 🎵 Bravo Dan!

[@tendraftsdeep]

It's my Birthday and this is what I'm watching

[@DanBellFilmIt]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!

[@tendraftsdeep]

@@DanBellFilmIt ❤🐱 thank you Mr Bell! Just officially signed up Patreon

[@matthewfiscus2]

Thank you Dan Bell for visiting my neck of the woods on this spinning blue orb. I live in Ventnor City so I take that road often. Depressing as hell.

[@Crrly]

That motel gave me chills, looked like an abandoned hospital.

[@Cardioqueenmom]

Long time supporter and I’m Back for another watch and so pleased to see this video getting so many views! Excellent work as always Dan! 🎉

[@teannahclayborne6655]

Wow I so surprised to see this video Im from Pleasantville the Pike runs straight through Pleasantville into Atlantic City, the Black Horse Pike has seen a lot of tradgedy over multiple decades.

[@vondahartsock-oneil3343]

Roflmfao at the "wall art" in that one place! The other place, at least had wooden benches with tin backing. No getting too comfy there!! Thank gawd. This really took a few turns. Despite the title, I still wasn't prepared for all that I saw. That's GOOD. Thnx for the content Dan. Hugs and luvs from Oklahoma :)

[@Tia-t1c]

This is my new fav channel. I love exploring abandoned places. Well I don’t go But I like to watch people go there! Hahah thank you!! So creepy and interesting!!

[@thekraemer1757]

Everything dies baby that's a fact, maybe everything that dies one day comes back. Atlantic City

[@kathleengeiser6956]

Bruce Springsteen.?

[@DorothyMartin-x7d]

Welcome to Jersey Dan!!

[@IVR02]

I always remember being creeped out by the roads going into Atlantic City when I'd go with my family growing up. Glad to see they're just as freaky as I remember. Oh, and the last time I was in Atlantic City, I stayed at the Claridge, and I distinctly remember my room was in the back and overlooked that last store you filmed. Always thought that was really funny.

[@Cloudywithachanceofcaulk]

Confirming the notifications are working!❤😊

[@coalregionrider6525]

Yes, they are

[@rishianand5250]

Did we have to see the cum room dan?

[@tjnucnuc]

It’s so refreshing to see content like this. I can watch this for hours on end.

[@tinastanbaugh]

That video booth was disgusting 🤢

[@DanBellFilmIt]

i spent hours licking it clean. the owner was so impressed he refunded my money.

[@tinastanbaugh]

@@DanBellFilmIt Wtg!

[@bernarddemski5317]

Dan Bell !! Still the best !! Thank you

[@Chaotic-Demise77]

Parts of the actual original Friday the 13th, was filmed in my hometown in Jersey, Blairstown, Hope & Hardwick.

[@shannon_w.]

I live down in South Jersey (right near A.C.) and I have ALWAYS wanted to take a trip up there and do the "Camp Crystal Lake" weekend stay over.

[@Chaotic-Demise77]

@@shannon_w. well, the camp is actually Camp NoBeBosco. My grandparents house is literally just down the road from there. However, it's owned by the boy scouts now. It's under surveillance. My mom & aunt worked in the Diner as teens and knew the owner.

[@CKNnewjersey]

Dan bringing it Jersey style on Friday the 13th 👻💀🙀

[@Audioobscure]

I hike all railroads tracks and can't tell you how many weird places like this ive found with suspicious abandoned items.

[@kchastain3]

There’s creepy and then there’s this place with flashing danger signs everywhere.

[@gerardnglavin6249]

Wow. Amazing post. Please more 🙏 of the same. Love from Ireland 🇮🇪.

[@buckiemohawk3643]

Atlantic city was were everyone went back in the day. A lot of the motels were even used by seasonal workers as well

[@jessicad83]

Yayyyy another Dan Bell weekend 🥳

[@missdenisebee]

This randomly popped up in my recommends, and I was immediately hooked. I grew up outside of Philadelphia, in Chester (another deeply sad, abandoned city), and I remember going to AC a couple times with my parents in the early 90s. It still seemed so exciting & lively back then. I live in Wilmington, Delaware now, and we have several of these creepy, liminal spaces here too. Certain parts of the city just freak me out, and I do my best to avoid them.

[@4for4phillylang]

The memorial in front of the old closed down raquetball club happened maybe 2 months ago at most…young female 8 months pregnant lost her life. A car crossed the line going 55-60 mph and hit head on. I actually went to same location just to pay my respects 2 days after it happened. Theres still a go fund me set up for the family Edit…Escarlin Suriel was the 21 yr old from Atlantic City (santo domingo dominican republic) 8 months pregnant with her 2nd child which was a little girl as well

[@lisabonanno3839]

I helped pull kids away from the other burning car. One girl breathed her last right there. Three other young people lived. There were some men that stopped to pull them from the car, they were all unconscious. I will never, ever forget it. The Oh St Joseph’s has a vibe, that whole stretch. People are always getting into crashes there. But when you’re there you WANT to drive through as quickly as possible. Just an evil to it.

[@trunks828]

I was in a well known band that played almost every weekend in Atlantic City 10 years ago. You’re literally just scratching the surface on the crap that has been happening. Try walking down Atlantic City side streets at 3am fun times.

[@rodgerklotz6810]

Any good stories?

[@bryanbosch]

Love the music in the background. Reminded of True Detective. Thanks for sharing another great episode

[@azdrifter3968]

That is pretty creepy, I didn't know there were theaters like that out there. Who the heck uses those places? Super filthy and run down.

[@ronniespradlin1089]

dan, I look forward every friday night to watching your new videos. Wish they were longer.Keep them coming. Much love from San Diego California.

[@PowerTrain611]

I was homeless in Atlantic City as a teenager. It was awful. I saw the best of people and the worst of people.Very polarized. There are two homeless shelters in NJ... They are both in Atlantic City. One is for adults and one is for minors, but with the way people are treated but the staff, I decided I was better off staying in an abandoned building, which was later burned down. The fire started from the building next door... Cause unknown, at least to me. Fortunately, I was not in the building when it happened.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

that’s ridiculous that the staff at the shelter is so bad you’d rather sleep in a bando. glad you got off the streets. i can’t imagine how difficult it would be struggling with nowhere to go in atlantic city.

[@rodgerklotz6810]

How were the staff bad? Any stories?

[@PowerTrain611]

@@DanBellFilmIt life is rarely fair. But sometimes it's in those moments you learn to appreciate the small things in life. I will always carry the emotional and physical scars, but they make me who I am, and I'm not afraid of anything anymore, nor am I ashamed of myself for it. Fortunately, that is in my past these days. I'm now married with five cats and living my best life. Thank you for your kind words!

[@theliquidllama1]

I live in NJ and there is literally 1 street from the flashy hotels to the broken down ghettos that is Atlantic City. It's sad really.

[@n.j.crawler]

Dan Bell was in my state, an hour away! 🤯. Been watching you for ages! Let me know when you come back!

[@michellepierce6516]

What part?... You don't need to say your city. I'm just curious of the county bc I'm a little under an hr from there. I'm in Cumberland Co.

[@n.j.crawler]

@@michellepierce6516 I’m by Six Flags Great Adventure. Little over an hour to AC.

[@toasterboss9147]

"you pay 10 dollars to come in here" me: ... Yes you do! XD

[@dreambenderstudios1823]

I visit AC from time to time being about an hour away. Usually hit the casinos do alittle drinking. It always amazes me the urban decay that surrounds those high rise hotel buildings. Local shops on the way in are all gated/vacant. Anywhere outside of the casinos is pretty seedy. Even the boardwalk can be sketchy at night. Homeless everywhere, drugs, prostitution. The casinos are clearly the only ones thriving in that place.

[@myeyeswentdeaf6213]

Ya gotta love the seedy sides of towns. There’s just something so addictively intriguing about em.

[@scottdafoe2543]

Another great one Dan! thank you.

[@DanBellFilmIt]

My pleasure!

[@cseaholtz34]

The 4 woman that were killed there.. The main guy they were originally looking at, Terry Oleson, was my fiance' for 15 years.. He did an A&E interview where the Golden Key was at, 2 or 3 days before it was knocked down. I actually still have the pictures that I took during the interview..

[@DanBellFilmIt]

omg. is terry still around? i’d live to talk to him.

[@cseaholtz34]

@@DanBellFilmIt He is around but he won't talk about it. He's moved on from this. It brings him down mentally talking about it. The last time he spoke (interview) was the A&E story. He's refused interviews since. I can always ask him and Jimmy (his lawyer) but I'm pretty sure he will decline it.

[@loribenvenuto4679]

So why was he a suspect? I'm course I never saw the interview and didn't even know about it til this video.

[@cseaholtz34]

@@loribenvenuto4679 He was staying at the Golden Key when the girls were found. Terry's girlfriend at the time called the police and said "My husband said he did it" That was all the police needed to hear at the time and zeroed in on Terry. You can Google his name and read the stories. One reporter, Brain Hickey did a story on Terry called The Fifth Victim stating that because of what was said about him between the cops ,investigators news, they in turn took his life from him. That in turn his life will never go back to what it was before this all started. In the end, his DNA he provided didn't match the DNA they found at the scene, It took about 10 years before they started looking at other suspects and leaving Terry alone. That one statement by his ex, literally took Terry's life from him. They never found the Eastbound strangler as of today.

[@Audioobscure]

How can that pizza place stay in business? Drug front?

[@jameslyddall]

according to what I've read on google reviews and elsewhere yeah its your cliche biker bar hang out

[@noivern1380]

Rent there is probably so cheap it’s in the negatives haha

[@christiandpaul2022]

Delivery?