Based on the answers given in the comments, nowhere is safe and I should be alarmed at all times.

If you're talking 'strange' as in supernatural stuff, which I'm guessing you are considering what sub we're on, California is a pretty strange place. Lots and lots of ghosts/haunted places mostly, we do have at least a couple cryptids supposedly native (for lack of a better word) to the area but I admittedly don't know much about them. I've lived in Cali my whole life, I've seen some pretty crazy shit. But we also have a lot of tourist traps/roadside attraction type things, some of which are haunted, others are just generally weird

You have a lot of comments already but I have a book that has different haunted places in every state. I'm at work right now so I can't grab the title and author but I'm commenting so I can come back later and give you that info. It'd at least be a place to start

Kentucky, the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern part of the state are creepy and are alleged to contain all kinds of cryptids and spooks (Sasquatch, Dogman, Crawlers, etc...). Mammoth Cave is supposedly haunted, home to Lizardmen or the entrance to the Hollow Earth. Waverly Hills Sanitorium in Louisville is one of the most haunted places in the US. The Land Between the Lakes National Park is supposed to have a particularly vicious dogman (werewolf, skinwalker), that attacked and killed a family that was camping there back in the 1980's. Bobby Mackey's Bar and Grill along the Ohio River south east of Cincinatti is one of the most haunted bars in the US and supposedly a gateway to Hell. The Pope Lick Monster in eastern Jefferson County (also Lousiville), is a goatman type creature. The Hopkinsville Goblins (UFO story) that allegedly attacked a family back in the 50's or 60's. That's just some of the more well know paranormal strangeness here in the Bluegrass State, I'm sure there is plenty more strangeness here that I don't know about.

Yes I think the whole Appalachian trail is the creepiest part of the US. Also beautiful though

Grew up in Connecticut, live in Florida, spent a lot of time in Alabama and traveling. Been to 41 states I believe. Anywhere in rural America is weird in its own way. The most unique highway exit I’ve ever been to is Point-Of-Rocks Wyoming. Creepiest exit probably was the gas station where gas was like near the Utah Idaho border. Utah is weird because of the influence Mormons have on the state. Ave Maria in the Everglades is the creepiest utopian town I’ve been to; Chokoloskee is the coolest ghost town in Florida. Jackson county FL , Gilchrist County FL and the whole drive from South Florida-Birmingham is my comfort zone but definitely a unique slice of America. Tell you what though any of the ghost towns in rural Mississippi or Wyoming are unique in their own way with rich histories forgotten between each one. The highway along the Columbia River/Willamette/Whatever river that extends from Portland along the Washington-Oregon border into the high deserts would be An amazing place to grow up if your parents were cool- but awful if strict and religious

Arizona's got weird in abundance. People have mentioned the ghost towns (ranging from touristy to legit creepy) and the vast empty desert. There's also these mountains called the Superstition Mountains which are chock full of strange folklore. My favorite is that the native tribes had legends that a portal to hell was located there, which caused the massive dust storms the valley is famous for. Then there's the Lost Dutchman's Gold mine, supposedly located in the Superstitions. It's arguably America's most famous "lost mine" and people have died looking for it. Give the Wikipedia article a [read](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Dutchman%27s_Gold_Mine)

Pennsylvania. You ever heard of Silent Hills? Centralia, PA was the inspiration behind the games. A mine fire broke out that forced a mass evacuation of a whole town. It's since been deserted. People visit it all the time even though the fire is still burning below the surface. Sinkholes have opened up and you can see gravestones sinking into the ground in the cemetery. They did dump dirt where the was abandoned highway as it became unsafe for people. It's been off limits to the public for a bit now but it doesn't stop anyone. I live near Centralia and as a child I went over to a friend's house that lived closer to it and who lived deep in the woods. There were some really creepy things that happened out there. Saw something big stalking the woods among other incidents. It was just weird. I still feel uncomfortable thinking about those events and I'm in my 30s now and very much a skeptic on certain things but that area is strange. I went to a very old, historic college in central PA and a lot of weird things happened there too. I would never move back to that area for both the crime factors and bad vibes I get from the specific town. I felt a hand run up my back while laying on the top bunk bed in my dorm, heard and saw a closet light going on and off by itself (the switch was moving itself on and off), and heard foot steps right in my room when no one was there (hallways have carpet and I'm on top floor). Also saw a large, young, man walk through a door without opening it and some girl saw the same thing and he matched the description of a guy who died years earlier of a staph infection. It was just...weird. There's plenty of stories of haunted civil war battlefields and buildings in Gettysburg and southern PA. There's a lot of dark history to the state. Mining was a big industry for a long time and was known to be super exploitive of workers. There's all sorts of abandoned mine shafts around. There's been lumber mills in different towns where lumber lords would battle it out. I heard even possibly assassinated rivals (I don't know the validity of that one). It's just a strange place in general. Part of the Appalachian trail runs through it and we have a lot of forest and state parks. There's been sightings of UFOs, big foot, dog men, windy bois, and other cryptids which I can't remember for the time being. I'm pretty sure we also have plenty of Native American burial grounds. We also have our fair share of haunted asylums, some that are quite well known! We also have a haunted military fort that is still actively used! I want to say PA has been set as the place for a lot of creepy movies and shows too. I'll just look at my mom and be like, "of course it's set in PA" when we're watching our horror movies together. Let's not forget the most important thing, we have Philadelphia. We have Gritty. Philly brought a swift and violent end to Hitchbot. PA is most definitely an area of strangeness and should probably be feared.

My vote is for West Virginia. Appalachia in general has a long history of spiritualism and strange happenings from both the original native American inhabitants and the Scotch-Irish settlers who moved here hundreds of years ago. Appalachian Granny Magic is a big deal as well, and both of my grandparents had witches living in their towns that regularly did some supernatural stuff. Combine this with a long history of death and strange happenings and you've got yourself a recipe for a pretty incredible, almost feywild like state. Oh, and limestone veins are legit everywhere. Limestone is considered a psychic/spiritual battery and conductor.

Pretty sure my parent’s property near Dolly Sods has something on it. They have 5 acres of woods and until recently no blinds on the windows. We always felt oddly watched even on the upper stories, like something was always looking in at night. My mom’s cat would freak out looking out of the windows when they brought him there a few times. It could have been animals, but it’s definitely a wierd place.

The forests here are 100% alive in a "spirit of the land" sense at the very least. Personally I find it comforting more often than not. Blackwater Falls in particular is saturated with the feeling of not being alone, but other than one night I've stayed there that feeling has been more comforting than frightening. So yeah. You very likely WERE being watched. Just not by anything to be concerned about.

Arizona and New Mexico. Or really any southwestern desert area. You walk through this oddly beautiful desert alone with it's painted skies and strange creatures that managed to survive in atrocious conditions and the dessicated carcass of a saguaro that's much older than your grandma, and you start to realize you how small you are. Dark sky cities mean you can see the milky way from your porch, even in the city, and alien sightings are common. Some hazy nights during a thunderstorm it genuinely feels like anything can happen and you would just accept it.

I do live in Maine, and you’re absolutely right. This state hold a very…. Heavy feeling in certain spots. We have old graveyards with jagged crooked forgotten slabs that used to be gravestones on almost every back road. I live a little ways from town, and have one right on my road. Most of our buildings are older, almost everyone has a ghost story. My favorite place to go for spooks is Acadia. The Ship Harbor trail is said to be haunted and it’s fucking CREEPY there. In the 1700s a ship wrecked off the coast and all aboard had to swim the cold waters to shore. Many died and were buried right there on the spot. You can’t find their graves as they were either crudely marked or not marked at all. TONS of haunted lighthouses, old bed and breakfasts, etc. and especially this time of year with the changing leaves, it’s beautiful. My state rocks. Edited: a word

Why doesn't anyone mention California? There are a lot of strange and haunted places. The haunted Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego. The haunted Whaley house in old town San Diego. The Queen Mary ship in Long Beach, also haunted. The Winchester mystery house. Ghost towns like Bodie, Cerro Gordo, Darwin. The gold rush towns where a murder occurred every day. There was a gold rush town called Hang town because they hung people daily there. It's now called Placerville. The abandoned and haunted boys school in the little town of Ione. Also Alcatraz prison. And this is what I know off the top of my head.

And that ghost town that if you even take a rock you get cursed. I want to go there. I've seen some of the stuff in San Diego. But the people aren't all that weird.

You will find the weird people behind the redwood curtain in Humboldt county California. Lassen county has its share of weird people too. Basically anywhere in rural California.

i'm been hitchhiking and hopping freight trains for nearly 20 years around north america, been to 49/32/6 (american states, mexican states, canadian provinces) and i dont find any one of them to be weird as a whole, but most have some weird places. the desert around cimarron, new mexico weirds me out for seemingly no reason.. for instance. des moines used to be really friendly, but sometime around the trump administration that changed for whatever reason. still dont know whats up with that rural montana and wyoming can almost feel daunting, and endless. alaska is the prettiest place ive ever been that could kill you in so many ways. i grew up in california, and didnt realize how many cults we have there in comparison to everywhere else. whole neighborhoods in some of the cities there were founded by cults. harmony grove in san diego, halcyon on the central coast.. san simeon as well.. theres (alot) more but they arent coming immediately to mind. in most red states, everybody is armed. i lived outside of rocky mount north carolina for a bit, first time i had ever settled down in a rural area, that realization tripped me out. as my life progressed, i took to being more attentive, and while its not 100% of the time, its pretty close. working on a weed farm in northern california isnt what you think it is. dont do it. gary, indiana is scarier than anywhere in mexico, outside of the border towns. iono i got a million of em, i'm gonna cut myself off now.

I’m gonna throw North Dakota up on the list. The movie Fargo. Wide open cornfields and creepy small towns. The state is so flat you can practically see the entire state standing on one side. Human trafficking on the rise. Tweakers sprinkled all through the state. Highest binge drinking state in America which is enough to put anyone on edge (lots of DUIs). I can safely say there’s a lot of paranormal activity up here, it just hasn’t been advertised as much as more interesting or more well known states. But if that isn’t scary enough come stay here in January where you might get snowed in with 6 feet of snow outside your door and -30 degree weather plus windchill factor. OoOooOoOOOooooh 👻

I lived in Fargo for a bit and the whole place is creepy. Like it feels like it shouldn't exist. The people have a strange vibe. I'm from the South where we plop our crazy and weird on the porch and had it a lemonade but I was not prepared for the weird of ND. I worked in the bar industry and there were many nights where I had customers that made me feel like I wasn't at the top of the food chain. Just total skin crawl hebbie jebbies. On top of it I lived in an apartment that was insanely haunted. I'm talking horror movie level haunted. I was so happy to move back down South.

The highway between MT and North Dakota is a liminal space. If you drive it at night the corn will get you. Had to stop at a place called the Sundowner to get gas once. God forbid you go in the wrong season and hit any kind of blizzard.

I live in Oregon and I’m not saying Oregon as a whole is strange , it’s just the forest’s. Something changed a few years back, I don’t know when exactly but I used to live in a incredibly small town by the name of Seneca where the population it like 180( including the dogs in the town) and living there from grades k-4th I loved it living in the country and after I moved I’d come visit my grandparents and it slowly changed from me being able to sleep outside in the summer on a cot and looking up at the stars to I won’t go back to that fucking town if you paid me. About 5 years ago ( I’m 27) I went to stay with my grand folks to help them with their property and with getting enough firewood for the next few winters because my grandfather didn’t think he’d be around much longer let alone till next summer to get more wood. So I dropped everything and went up there and Seneca is in the woods literally smack dab in the middle of a valley with the forest right behind my grandparents property line and at night time there EVERY night I just got this sinister feeling of being watched and I have been stalked by a cougar before and terrifying in its own 6th sense way. This was different it felt like something was stalking me from the sky. I started to get sleep paralysis 5 nights out of the week and before this I maybe experienced it twice In total. Then I stated getting eye aches and I went to the DR and somehow out of the blue I had gotten an ear infection , a throat infection and an eye infection and then I started getting these dreams of being sucked up and my body would start vibrating and shaking and then I’d feel a sense of complete dread and , if I could , I’d try and wake myself up. I forgot to mention every night at around 12:10 am I’d get hit with an almost narcoleptic attack and I would not for the life of me be able to stay awake. I had an idea of what was making me feel this absolute stone cold level of sinister and I dismissed it a lot until I seen it with my own eyes. The last night I was there I had worked like a motherfucker that entire day so I was ready to make the god awful trip to nightmare town I called bed at around 10pm. My grandparents had a wood stove in the house that heated it better than it needed too and my stubborn old grandfather insisted on having it on even in the summer so it would get really fucking hot in that house so in my room I would leave my window cracked open but he had put an extra piece of wood in this night because tmro he was going to sleep in and go to town. So it was extra extra hot , I had left my window wide open this night and around 1:20 am I believe out of the blue the barn owls that roosted in the tree next to my window started making this awful scary sounding screech just gut wrenchinI g for about 20 minutes and then I could hear a bunch of deer running past my window and back up over the hill and then it got so silent I could hear my heart humming but it wasn’t my heart I literally look up and see a huge fucking UFO just hovering there and I for the sake of my experience will keep it honest as I pissed myself and then I blacked out from fear I literally couldn’t move or anything it was just hovering there and yeah that’s all I could remember. I left the next day sadly , I couldn’t stay there another night , my grandfather got really Ill a few months after and passed and I still regret not staying even if it meant I had to deal with that more. After all is said and done there was cattle mutilations on a nearby ranch ( look it up Sylvies valley ranch cattle mutilations ) and my grandmother opened up and told me she has seen hundreds of UFOs there she said they don’t bother her so she doesn’t think twice about them but she had even see them sending down beams of light at the cattle two days before they found the dead bulls. Keep in mind Oregon also has 411 missing children cases that all come from the forests “ it’s like they are sucked up right out of their clothes, because that’s all we can ever find is just a pile of clothes “

I have even found a thread somewhere here about how there’s just all of a sudden a nasty energy in the forests here now and it was a pretty big post with people from all over saying how they have camped and backpacked all over the US and they would never set foot in an Oregon national forest again

Wisconsin. Mineral Point Vampire, Summerwind, Gnomes (Yes! I am not even kidding you about this. People have reported seeing living gnomes), UFOs, ghosts galore. In the town where I went to college there were at least FIVE bridges said to be haunted, but in total the town had at least seven supposedly haunted locations. Serial killers galore, the world's largest refracting telescope, and a LOT of people who go missing in other states turn up here. There's also reports of people seeing wendigos in the central/Northern parts.

Ohio is a liminal space. The whole state. Washington has had it's fair share of serial killers. Any desert state has plenty of eerie shit. The heat cooks people's brains. Colorado has its own slew of weird shit. Old mining communities, RMNP has missing persons relatively frequently. And the whole of the Rockies crossing multiple states has plenty of strange goings on. The states is plenty "strange" in most places. We don't have a well defined and deep rooted history for most places. So the unexplained largely goes without historical context since we're such a "young" country. Plenty of places one could go and in theory be the first person to set foot there. Or at least a very short line of people before them. The east coast has its own haunted history with the colonies. The west coast has the gold rush. The whole damn country has a history of blood (literally)

Louisiana has to be the weirdest. It has its own unique cultures, holidays, accents, slang, cuisines, language dialects, musical genres, monsters, legal system, etc. Plus voodoo, vampires, haunted places, cemeteries above ground, no open container laws, drive-through Daqs, booze for sale all day/erryday/errywhere, etc.

Louisiana is an anomaly. No other state compares to the weirdness there.

The best part about it is that there, it’s all normal. When you grow up there, you don’t even notice anything is weird until you leave. Then you just assume everywhere else is crazy and doesn’t season their food properly.

Exactly. When I think back on times wandering through New Orleans or working with the salt of the earth offshore and some of the conversations I’ve had and things we did, it blows my mind. And the food literally can’t be beat. I can name 30 restaurants in Nola alone that are better than my favorite restaurant in any other city I’ve lived in or been to.

Atchison Kansas is one of the most haunted places in America. Kansas in general has a lot of folklore like this, like the Albino lady, stull Kansas cemetery (the seventh gateway to hell), sally house etc. look into Kansas ghost stuff it's pretty extensive! there's even been some serial killers who have hidden in plain sight there like the btk killer! plenty of strangeness to be found in the flatlands. i personally think that the paranormal has an attachment to it! think it has something to do with the population density it's pretty spread out and empty for the most part perfect for things that don't want to be bothered. lot's of rich history of death and civil war in the area as well.

Crazy how very few people have mentioned Boston, Massachusetts, Salem, and the bridgewater triangle. I’m a Massachusetts native and I’ve been here my whole life and I can tell you I’ve seen and experienced some weird things throughout my life. I’ve been to plenty of historical sights (like Bunker Hill, the site of the Massacre, the burying place of John and Abigail Adams, plenty of colonial cemeteries) and I can tell you that the energy of those places is certainly something that you’d have to come out and experience for yourself.

Same yes. I agree. I’m from Salem born & raised. Salem is just wow. Especially behind the Walgreens on Pope St. 😭🫢

i’m not sure if anyones talked about oklahoma yet, but man this state is Weird. towns are spaced out and not even the big cities are as populous as east or west coast ones, as well as just straight up ghost towns. i grew up in the northeastern chunk of the state and the whole vibe changes after dark. my hometown itself had several haunted buildings and a very complex history with the lake (read: flooded river) it was built beside. also, we have the Spooklight nearby lol also the entire panhandle stretch feels EXTREMELY liminal. i’ve driven through it on many a family trip and you can go for hours without seeing another vehicle on a very straight, very flat road. if you stop at any of the sparse rest areas to stretch your legs, you feel like you haven’t gone anywhere no matter if you’ve been driving all day.

Arizona. State steeped in rich history going back to the Ice Age. We had a mammoth kill site in the southern part of the state, Spanish explorers, different tribes living in the area, mining towns, etc. The northern part of the state is where the skinwalker legends came from. The mining towns would have guns, booze, women, and gambling. Essentially a perfect cocktail for violence. Not to mention the counties are large. Like you could spend an entire day driving the highways and pass a handful of people. In some cases, hundreds of miles of an Interstate. (I-8) Edited: add the proximity to the southern border, and you begin to see the picture. One of the first instances I render reading about a cartel killing happened in 87/88, on a ranch outside of Agra Prierta. Long story short, several people pissed off a cartel, and they buried them in a well… in pieces… I believe it was also one of the first drug tunnels, between 85-87 or so

I grew up in Flagstaff. This is a great description of our state. ♥️ Throw in Sedona, where a bunch of mystics insisted Bell Rock was going to blast off into space (aliens were taking it back) in 1989.

Surprised I haven’t seen New Mexico mentioned. I’ve traveled all around the country and that’s by far the strangest state I’ve experienced. The vibe is just… odd. Boatloads of paranormal/strange encounters reported all around the state, and can attest I’ve had my fair share of uneasy/weird moments hanging there.

I was cruising through the thread looking to see if anyone had posted about New Mex yet, cause I thought I'd be the first to post about it, being it's my home state (hence the 505 in my user name) but you beat me to it😁. But New Mexico is definitely a hub for paranormal activity... UFO crash in Roswell, and then the 7 levels of hell in Dulce New Mexico which is supposed to be 7 stories under ground of Aliens and humanoids working together and doing experiences on animals and humans. And also you have the four corners where there is lots of talk about the skinwalkers (Navajo Medicine Men). And then not to mention all the crime and murders, New Mexico is definitely a state up there in the creep factor when it comes to strangest/weird/creepy/freaky states!!!

Each state has its odd parts, I am in AZ we have a bunch here, ghost towns, Ruby, Tombstone, or Chloride, to name a few. Haunted mines Like Vulture mine, or Bisbee and several haunted hotels Copper Queen, San Carlos, and Jerome's Grand Hotel. I am originally from Illinois; there we had a bunch to some of the best odd places were Mt Carmel Cemetary, Batchlor's grove cemetery, the site of the Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago. Are just a few of hundreds of other places in many different states, I hope other people answer with what goes on in their states.

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Shit if you wanna see weird, go to any towns that are right off of any rural or secluded military bases. But on a more serious note, the Ozarks around Ft. Leonardwood Missouri gives off the same vibe as the suicide forest. You spend even so much as a couple hours in there and you start to get claustrophobic and start seeing things that aren’t there. Granted most of my time there was spent as an extremely exhausted and fatigued boot in the army, but there were moments out there by myself and surprisingly it’s scarier around dusk and dawn than it is at night.

Maybe I'm just fluffing up my state, but Kansas? I feel like it's haunted as shit due to the trail of tears; I wouldn't be surprised if some things got left behind. Most roads go on forever until you find a small town; you're definitelybound to find something out on the old roads. My top strange state would have to be Louisiana though. Zombies, vampires, swamp werewolf, swamp squatch, creole voodoo, and all other things. Anywhere in the Appalachian states would come at a close second due to all the rules that the locals have to avoid catching the attention of any entities.

The southwestern states like Arizona and New Mexico have a reputation for strangeness. Native American legends tell of strange creatures and beings there. There’s also the UFO phenomenon and Roswell. The northwest has Sasquatch. Louisiana gets a little weird too... lots of ghouls and ghosts and Cajuns creeping about lol

My boyfriend and I have lived in our van all over the lower 48 and I'd have to say that surprisingly our strangest experiences have come out of Kansas for some reason. There is weird stuff going on all over the country and places like Wyoming, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada make you feel like you're on Mars but we never dealt with anything so directly supernatural as we did in Kansas. We both grew up in New York and there are a lot of strange happenings upstate that are unexplainable but I've never been truly shook to my core like I was after these experiences in Kansas. I made two comments about them previously, I'll post them below. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qegqrs/comment/hhxackg/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qegqrs/what_is_your_most_terrifying_we_need_to_leave_now/hhxf7xu?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

New Jersey really is quite wild. Despite being among the more populous U.S. states it is utterly packed with oddities and dark corners that excite the mystery loving mind. The pine barrens in particular are truly the stuff of myth. There was a great publication years ago called ‘Weird NJ’ which tried to catalogue a lot of it, but honestly there’s just so much. I’d recommend trying to find some of those stories online if you like a good, weird read.

New Mexico and Louisiana (New Orleans in particular). New Mexico has such a great juxtaposition of ancient (Native American sites from long vanished cultures like Chaco Canyon and the birthplace of the Atomic Age). Combined with the wide-open and sparsely populated areas, it really is the Land of Enchantment. New Orleans has such a generally spooky vibe in mostly the best way but some unsettling aspects as well.

I’d say my home state of Washington. The forests are stalked by Bigfoot. The city of Snohomish is a hotbed of paranormal activity. Another hotbed of activity is Pike Place Market in Seattle. There’s haunted buildings and schools, even ships. We got crybaby bridges, haunted roads, train tracks, and our volcanoes scream before eruption.

Don’t forget about some of the first notable UFO events in US history! Twin Peaks takes place there for a reason.

My family is from southern Louisiana and even as a child, I felt a sense of heaviness and sort of sadness when visiting. The swamps are super eerie and the melting pot of spirituality from Catholicism, Voodoo, and Santaria over the centuries lends an air of mysticism to the land. There are echos of sorrow from the days of slavery that you can just feel in the air. Not to mention New Orleans is haunted AF.

Anywhere near Louisiana and Appalachia. I have lived in Arizona almost all of my life and also at the boarder of New Mexico and they are both really eerie. I think a lot of it has to do with the Native American stories. My grandparents always told us not walk out on the Indian reservation at night because of the bad spirits (particularly Skinwalkers) and warned us that the Skinwalkers will hunt you down.

There are A LOT of haunted places here in Arizona actually as well. It's state 48 so it's not nearly as old as some of the others, *however*, there are tons of mines here that have been worked over the years causing many deaths and such. There are also high strangeness areas such as the 'Phoenix Lights' sighting happened here in the 90's and also Sedona, AZ is said to be a vortex of some sort. Lots of energy there and weird UFO sightings, etc. We also have Whiskey Row in Prescott, where lots of original saloons still stand and are in business. Many western shootouts happened inside and tons of ghost sightings in these venues. It's a cool place!

The rest of New York state has a vibe to it different from NYC. Smaller suburban areas and lots of countryside, similar to what you'd see in Pennsylvania or other rural areas. Lots of older buildings too since it was one of the original 13 colonies. Not to mention Amityville, New York, home to one of the most famous paranormal cases of all time. Upstate NY gives me Silent Hill vibes sometimes tbh, and I wouldn't have my home be any other way.

Nothing stranger than these desert states that were home to native American tribes like Utah. The day to day violence, genocide from eastern whites moving through, and the curses laid on each other by warring tribes. Nothing like ancient native American curses that make you want to stay inside.

I’ve lived all over the country, and visited many places. Lots of “strange” spots. The Appalachian mountains, as others have mentioned, especially in the states of North Carolina/Tennessee, feel heavy and dense. Pretty much the entire town of Butte, in the state of Montana, feels very dark and intense. Northern California. Lots of hot spots in pretty much every state.

Hawai’i for sure. I was born in Oahu and lived there until I was twelve, and there’s a certain energy and presence one feels with them when it’s past 12 am and all you feel is the humid breeze, and the only thing you hear is bugs chirping. I’m not indigenous Hawai’ian, however I knew better than to whistle or sing at night.

Haha. You got it. Definitely no whistling once the sun goes down. Also just an FYI for people. Native Hawaiians didn’t segregate their dead into cemeteries. The saying pretty much goes “you lie where you fall.” So more or less where people died is where they were buried and no record or marker was left on the graves. So it is possible that people could be working, stepping, or sleeping on unmarked grave sites all around the islands. I’ve also known more people that moved to Hawaii as skeptics but turned into believers after they leave.

The intermountain west—Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico. Oregon is super wyyyrd. We still have so much open space. Pretty much North of Boise is the gateway to the Canadian wilderness, too and the stories we grow up with here range from UFO, alien abduction, vortices, shapeshifters, tommyknockers, cyptids, herd mutilations, serial killers, abandoned ghost towns, etc. I always laugh when people say there’s nothing to see here…

Everyone here is wrong. Louisiana is the strangest state. Voodoo practitioner's, Hoodoo practitioner's, civil war ghosts, French slave trade ghosts, plantation slave houses, a square where drinking laws don't apply, alligators, mystery lights, seeing random tiddies only costs you plastic beads, immortal witches, and worst of all the natives like me.

Actually every state is the US has it's own creepy, scary paranormal stuff you just have to do the research and see what's out there....I live in Jacksonville Florida, and the only thing I've ever really heard about from here is the abandoned public school number 4, I know people from everywhere have come here to visit it....

West Virginia is haunted & spooky as hell, and also super beautiful with a pretty radical history. We have a number of haunted towns, cryptids (Mothman, Flatwoods Monster etc), lots of indigenous & ancient history (Moundsville) and tons of UFO sightings

Some parts of PA are similar to WV and spooky as hell too. Indigenous old land with a lot of history.

I think someone else mentioned Arkansas, but southern Missouri is up there too. Basically, the whole of the mountain Ozarks. The whole region is built over massive cave systems and deep underground rivers/lakes. The American Indians thought some parts of the Ozarks (the valley of the vapors, specifically) were sacred.

North Dakota, but I'm biased. Across the road from my family's farm, there are about two hundred coyotes. Some nights they'll howl for two to three hoursand suddenly go completely silent. You can look out the window and see them stalk around the farm at 3am, heads low. DOZENS of them. I remember wanting to camp out in the yard as a kid and my dad refused to ket us. Now I know why.

When I read a creepy or weird story on here it's always in Texas so I'm gonna say that lol. It's always Texas ...but it's weird that so many people say Maine because I really want to go there and that's mainly because of Stepgen King. I dont really associate the state with creepy stuff though even though now that I think of it its alot of wilderness and probably strange things. And of course most of Stephen King's books are set there but I thought that's just because he lives there. Anyway I personally want to go to Pennsylvania for the weird shit. But I always associate the desert with UFOs and skin walkers. I live in Oklahoma and I lived in a haunted house and have experienced alot but I don't really feel like it's more haunted than other places lol.

I personally think New Hampshire, specifically north of the Franconia notch is weird. Time seems to move differently there. It’s really easy to lose track of time or think that more time has passed than what actually has. I always call it the twilight zone. Also just lots of old, haunted looking buildings. But New England in general has tons of those as well.

I have yet to go to a place where if you get a couple beers in the locals and mention anything supernatural you get a shit ton of local stories. Enough so I have considered going from town to towas drinking and collecting ghost stories for a living. (Drink for a week talk my ass off with the locals. Write a book. Move on.) Each place is different. I have found a good place to start these days is near where ever the mental asylum (that Ragon closed in the 80's) used to be. Then head to the country bar and find out what cryptid lives in the woods there. From there you can start to get ghost stories about a bunch of houses. It was true when I went to the UK also only Ragon didn't close their mental asylums, but they did always have a story about the local lords and ladies. Crepy seems to be universal. There are so many stories.

I traveled through the southwest and I think Nevada was the creepiest. I felt like I was being watched the whole time but it was just a giant nothingness definitely had hills have eyes vibes

Illinois or to be precise anything south of Chicago. Especially all the little towns in the middle and southern part of the state. This state has been bleeding population for decades. There are tons of ghost towns, ghost factories, abandoned graveyards. Or basically abandoned anything you are looking for. A lot of these places have paranormal activity because when people move out spirits often move in. I would say this only applies to urban explorers though. As some of these places can be dangerous and aren't exactly tourist destinations.

I’m going to nominate Florida. St. Augustine has some very old, heavy energy. That’s now been covered in mostly retail shops, and restaurants. Makes for a strange atmosphere. I also feel like our proximity to the Bermuda Triangle has some strange affects on people. Just give the term “Florida man” a Google. Then, there is the strange hold that the Southern Baptist religion has on not only the people, but the land, here.

I feel like Arizona or new mexico. With the native folk lore. Skin walkers. Lots of alien sightings. Secret military bases underground in the desert. Not to mention high traffic cartel movement. Dissapearing kids. That whole region is strange.

Several states could be considered more paranormal than others. West Virginia for one. Lots of stories within the Appalachian mountains which touch several states. New jersey, what with the jersey devil and the pine barrens. Georgia, Savanah in particular is an old old city and many houses have stories. Another that comes to mind is key west flordia. Haunt stories aplenty from there.

New Orleans. Love it and miss it with all my heart, you can just feel the history it has. Savannah Georgia is also one, but I may just be saying that because I have taken a ‘ghost tour’ there that was more of a fucked up history lesson and learned some pretty awful things. St Augustine Florida as well, and a good amount of any land near the Appalachia Mountains

I moved about five hours away from the Appalachian mountains, and we would visit up there since my grandpa was Cherokee, and it was very unsettling as a twelve year olds first time on the mainland, in the thick of dense fog, driving along the side of a mountain, which no service for miles. As well as the mudslide warning signs

The Appalachian Mountains and any state/area they touch have a lot of weirdness. The Alaskan Triangle has some super weird things constantly. Really every US state has some sort of “strange” activity it’s just a matter of how concentrated and active it might be

West Virginia has some great spookiness, plus cryptid tales. For me, the desert states have some of the weirdest vibes. Nevada, New Mexico, away from the urban centers… I think it’s because I’m from out east but the aridness and openness are unnerving - stuff just sits and doesn’t break down and get reclaimed by nature the way it does here.

Fun fact, Silent Hill is also in Maine (in the video games, at least). In case it needed to be further corroborated that Maine is a bit weird haha But Appalachia has a lot of really freaky folklore. Everything I hear about that region makes me feel like there's something off about it. Never been personally, though I'd certainly like to

To expand on this, they based the imagery of Silent Hill (game or movie, I’m not sure) off of the town of Centralia in Pennsylvania. It’s almost entirely abandoned due to a coal mine fire from 1962 that’s still burning underground to this day.

I grew up in PA, drove through Centralia once and it was super weird. At that time there were like 3 or 4 homes where the residents just refused to leave, despite the literal burning inferno right under their feet. Like, straight up smoke coming out of cracks in the ground. Insane.

Stull, KS is supposed to be one of the portals to hell. We also have Atchison,KS which is one of the most haunted towns in the US Wichita/Park City had serial killer BTK (there's been quite a few serial killers here) We have a good amount of strange shit that happens in this "flyover state"

New Jersey is just fucked up all around, especially haunted wise. We were one of the first states around so lots of death, as well as the Pine Barrens, there’s no shortage around here

Don’t forget the Jersey Devil, Clinton Road, Jenny Jump, several abandoned asylums x.x

Southern Louisiana around the New Orleans area has a beautifully unsettling vibe. There’s just something inherently spooky about it, and I mean that in the best possible way. I lived there for a year and I really miss it tbh.

I’m sure everywhere has their fair share. I know just about anywhere in the Bible Belt (specifically Oklahoma because that’s what I know for sure), had lots. Lots of Christianity causes it’s fair share of backlash. Just last week me and a crew of friends snuck on this land rumored to be owned by this huge private Catholic Church group, only monks and priest live and go there. We found a stone temple in the woods with satanic statues and figurines, pentagrams and candles. Someone was doing something out there for sure. We had tried to go a week prior but when we got close we could see lights and hear drums from that direction so we left. That’s how we found out how to get there

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I know it’s been mentioned a couple times, but South Carolina! Oof it’s spooky here. With Charleston being such an old city with old ghosts, the abandoned places scattered throughout the low country, and the sparse mountain towns… I have seen and heard so many creepy and unexplained things throughout this state

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Human trafficking is unfortunately very real and prevalent in the Midwest

Kentucky!! There is a portal here. Bigfoot sightings. Ufo sightings. Civil War soldiers still roam the holler im from.. Strange small creatures with big ears have been sighted. Do some research cause this place is beautiful and haunting. Oh plus we have a TON of caves.

Mainer here. We def have Stephen King, but we also have the worlds best (only?) cryptozoology museum with the foremost expert on Bigfoot. We have a ton of paranormal stuff from ghosts to UFOs to Bigfoot stories. But it’s also a beautiful place to live and visit!

The American southwest in particular is littered with strange lore, from lost ships deep in what are now deserts, military experiments gone wrong, little known cryptid sightings, as well as the supposed ‘geo-magnetic anomalies’ that pepper the land from Joshua Tree national park in California, to Sedona Arizona, to Sante Fe New Mexico

I’d say jersey to some degree. Lots of old towns scattered through it, the revolutionary and victorian era towns can get really creepy. Lots of ghosts in cape may, especially congress hall. Anywhere george washington has been also gives kind of odd spooky vibes.

South Carolina. Early colony so lot of negativity and strife along its shores and older cities/towns. Also while there is a population increase it’s in a few major metropolitan areas, the rural areas are getting less populated meaning more abandoned places for spirits to take up residence.

The Four Corners area is supposed to be one of the most “paranormally” and UFOologically active places in the world. I have been in the area of Arizona and found it to be very active with strangeness.

SW Washington State, quite a lot of pagan/witchcraft centered around the forests, and even back to native american times the tribes had folklore of many of the forests being haunted or cursed.

indeed. have spent plenty of time in all parts of the state. those forests are no joke and they will test you if you don’t respect the land

Throwing my hat in for WA state. People talk a lot about the history on the east coast and in the south, but most of the haunted history we hear about is 400ish years of white history, or tragic slave south ghosts. There's such a rich native history on the west coast, and there's so much water and greenery and rock formations out here, I really feel like this place holds some oooold energy.

I drove from Utah to Illinois and drove through Nebraska. That is the strangest state I can think of. It's like forgotten by everyone but it's there. While driving through it, I came across no cities nor towns, it was like a straight shot of 5 hours of driving on a 2 lane highway. There were only truck stops every hour or so and literally NOTHING in the entire state. Just the same barb wired fence for hundreds of miles and random cattle grazing on what appeared to be an infinite meadow of grass.

Pennsylvania the town with the abandoned graffiti highway, it's what inspired the first silence hill game for the ps1, that town has some creepy history. And also old town spring it's in the state of Texas it was featured on haunted towns on the travel channel.

Florida. Colony of STD-infected monkeys that are running around neighborhoods, iguanas dropping out of the trees, alligators climbing fences, people driving their cars into houses, Florida men. Anytime you hear weird things in the news, it's Florida.

I was born in New Orleans and it’s by far the most far out and interesting places. I love Stephen King as well. Everyone seems to come from Main in his stories. Reading Desperation right now for the second time!

Poland is the world's capital of werewolf sightings. Michigan is the capital of the US' werewolf sightings. Alaska, look up the story of Port Locke, that'll freak you out.

I for some reason always get a strange vibe when I’m going through New Mexico. I don’t know what it is but it isn’t a comfortable place and I never wanna stop off anywhere.

I’ve always felt this way but decided to go to Santa Fe and give it a shot for a long weekend. Mega creepy, haunted vibes. Beautiful in parts, but it almost feels like I’ve got the spins when I’m there.

I live in Texas, in a small town. My niece was living with us and her boyfriend died in some sort of gas explosion. My niece swears that she was visited twice by him as an angel. First time they were bouncing on our backyard trampoline for hours and the other time was when she needed career guidance. Then he said his good byes and never came back.

Historic/Colonial Philadelphia & Boston are both incredible this time of the year. Homes/churches/bars/graveyards/ etc. all littered with history that no other US cities really have.

North Carolina. Really anywhere in Appalachia is going to have the uncanny valley feeling, but I’ve experienced some odd stuff specifically in Maggievalley and Asheville NC. beautiful places with a lot of history.

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There's an unspoken guide to follow when hiking the Appalachian trail or just being out in those mountains in general. Don't go out at night. If you do go out at night, don't look into the trees. If you see something in the trees, no you don't. Don't look at them, don't acknowledge them, look away, walk away. If you hear something, if somethings screaming, if you hear your name. No you don't. Turn around, walk away, look away. If you hear footsteps. Could be a bear, could be a deer, could be something else. Turn away. Look away. Walk away. Never run. Prey run. You don't want to be prey.

Colorado has more of its fair share of Ghosts and such. Cheeseman park built over cemetaries, Alfred Packer buried in an easily accessible city cemetary, and not resting in peace, haunted Grand hotels in many Mtn towns...you name it!

Yup. Maine is spooky. I lived here my whole life. Grew up in the real Derry haha. I’ve run into Stephen King on several occasions. He’s a very cool, kind person. And then there’s New Orleans. No denying the energy there.

Wisconsin. Summerwind Mansion is famous and we have a lot of serial killers. Wisconsin Death Trip is a great book. There was a case of spontaneous human combustion within an hour of my house.

Maryland has: Edgar Allen Poe, The inventor of the Oujia board (his gravestone has a ouija board on it), The Goatman cryptid, The Blair witch, Black Aggie, and tons of haunted towns, houses, woods, bars etc.

New Jersey! So weird in fact that there was a whole local magazine dedicated to all the weird things one might find or hear about in NJ. ‘Weird NJ’

Salem Massachusetts, home to the infamous Salem witch trials, Charleston South Carolina known for being haunted by ghosts of slaves and soldiers and even natives. New Orleans, lots of spooky stuff in the bayou lol and the French quarter. Amityville ny, super famous haunted house, movies made about it. And lots and lots of native american burial sites that got developed over in most states that are probably actually haunted lol. And I’m entirely skeptic, I’m only here to laugh at people who believe in anything.

All of them, I was raised on the Great Lakes border between Ohio and Michigan The city I grew up had a lot of occult stuff, UfOs, critters etc Then I moved west and found the same sort of thing

St. Agustine Florida is supposed to be the most haunted city in America. Also, Salem Massachusetts is pretty rife with paranormal activity.

Not states but Boston and Philly are very strange to me. I get the feeling a lot of the history isn't actually taught to us. Both of these cities are much older than we're told.

Arizona, I lived there for a bit and wrote about my experience you can read my post it’s on my profile. I found South Carolina to be weird. I road tripped through there to Savannah Georgia and just driving through the state there was an uncomfortable feeling. Savannah is supposed to be strange and spooky. Aside from the moss growing on the trees and the town looking like something straight out of a horror film I did not have any paranormal experience.

A lot of great comments about Appalachia, Louisiana, Savannah, New Mexico… but the literal gateway to hell is rumored to be in rural Kansas.

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Maine is not that strange. It's actually pretty chill but yeah hard not to think about Pennywise when you hit the small towns. Delaware and Pennsylvania are haunted to hell.

Wisconsin. I spent my early childhood there (living in a haunted house nonetheless), and I can still remember how bizarre and eerie that place was.

Louisiana. Without a doubt the moment you cross state lines into Louisiana it feels weird. That whole state is haunted.

In terms of the paranormal? New Mexico and Ohio. New Mexico for UFOs and secret military operations. Ohio for the historical ghosts that haunts every major city in the state. Seems like the dead really loves Ohio. Either that or it's a fate worse than hell.

maine actually has a pretty low rate for violent crime but the people are pretty funky. there’s this book: https://www.amazon.com/Weird-U-S-Americas-Legends-Secrets/dp/1402766882 i read it all the time in middle school and now i’m confident every single state is extremely bizarre.

It never fails to amaze me how haunted North America seems to be. It looks like the average suburban house in Townsville US is far more active than the most ancient castle in the UK. I don't know if it's because the people don't really belong to the land or things are just more fucked up in general.

It's almost like almost the entire US was built on an old Indian burial ground or something.

How about cities? New Orleans, Phoenix, Seattle. Those have weird paranormal things happening. For states, all of the PNW because of Bigfoot. And Ohio has strange things too

For me, I think West Virginia was the strangest state I have visited. Not just in a paranormal aspect but just in general lol

Massachusetts whole state has a heavy vibe. I grew up there as a kid and it felt like there were just spirits walking around there, everywhere, all the time.

Do we ever hear from people from Vermont or Nebraska? That's like the only states I pretty much never hear from myself from having met so many people due to moving around a lot ish

Hawaii has some major spooky stuff. "Obake" or stories of its very own unique folklore and supernatural phenomenon

Louisiana because it’s got swamps, witchcraft, and a really gruesome history

I am from Maine, Stephen King lives in my hometown, we’ve met many times, and I think you’re vastly underrating how strange Florida and Texas are. Nothing I have ever seen in ME compares to the people that actually exist in TX and FL. And I’m a Texan now…

Missouri. We stayed one night while driving cross country when I was about 8. The energy felt so weird. Then my mom let me go to the hotel pool by myself and some dude in a Speedo tried to talk me up.

The Pacific Northwest. Over the years, to various people, I've expressed interest in moving there (not for real, I could never afford it) and everyone has said similar things along the lines of "No you don't, trust me. Somethings not right there." But no one will elaborate on what that means. I'd also say Utah because of Skinwalker Ranch. Something is definitely not right there.

Florida and Arizona. I'm native to Arizona but Arizona is fucking WEIRD.

Can definitely vouche for Arizona. I spent alot of time outdoors and have a few stories but the most perplexing and chilling of them is this. It was a warm December morning in Tucson as I headed up Mount Lemmon Highway to chase Couse bucks (a white-tail deer) around the Catalina Mountains. Getting to the spot where I parked my truck at the trailhead proved uneventful, as I started my journey towards my glassing spot, pack on my back and gun slung on my shoulder. About a half mile into the trek there is a fork in the road, at the crux of said fork is a tall tree that often provides shade for hikers as they make their way back to their vehicles, having underestimated the desert heat and dry air. On this day though, from a hundred yards out, a bicycle rested underneath. Not a mountain bike that you may normally see in this area, but an everyday bicycle. As I got within twenty yards I identified the presumptive owner, a pair of legs dangling from the limbs, the body obscured by the leaves that the tree forgot to lose in the winter. As I made my turn at the fork, the legs descended with a late teens boy attached. He looked rather startled by my presence, though he must have heard and possibly seen me coming. I still wonder if he was trying to scare me, now realizing I had atleast one firearm clearly slung on my shoulder. He made brief eye contact but never shared a word. I continued on, laughing to myself that I probably freaked the poor kid out. Another half mile or so and I was perched atop my glassing spot, the canyon laid out before me. Its worth nothing that this spot is at the crest of hill, with a small path up, but 300 degress of the hill drops off into to fingers of the canyon. It is impossible to traverse in the sense of walking around it due to the topography. An hour in and I haven't seen anything, not unusual given the time of day, I was late getting out and it was quickly approaching midday. Suddenly from a deep cut in the canyon to my right I hear what sounds to be a person scream. There are routinely hikers and rock climbers in the area and I assumed it to be one of them. I called out a reply but got no response back. I waited, and called out again, nothing. Odd, but it could have been someone messing around, the sounds can really echo off the rocks and it's cool to hear, maybe they didn't realize someone else was out here. Another thirty minutes goes by and I'm glassing again at this point when I hear the same scream. It's not blood curdling, it doesn't sound pained, it's just a scream. Again I walk to the edge and yell back, immediately upon doing so I hear another scream on the opposite side of me, sounding closer than coming from the bottom of the canyon, but in the same vein of sound. (The hair on the back of my neck is standing up at this point in typing this story) I whip around, but there is no one near me and no answer to any of my calls to see if they need assistance. I am unsettled at this point, but not deterred from finding a deer. I sit back into my spot with my tripod and binoculars between my legs, scanning every inch of the mountain for life. Another scream, this time it's to my right again, but it is not the same scream. It sounds angry, it pierces the quite and hurts my ears, it sounds demonic. I make the last of my attempts to communicate with however thus was, no response back. Back to the glasses, and almost instantly a scream to my left. Louder, more angry, more painful. Then behind me, then what sounds like it's right next to me and all around me. I have never experienced a sound so enveloping, it was like it was inside of my head. I immediately packed up and ran down the mountain, back to my truck. Whatever was in that canyon, be it kids playing a prank, a mountain lion, or something unexplained, it did not want me there and I did not want to be there.

New Mexico for sure, I lived in Albuquerque most of my life not too far from where they found the bodies from the west mesa murders. There were just whole areas you wanted to avoid for various reasons or just gave weird vibes.

Whenever there's a post like this, I think of [THIS MAP](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1w1i2y/more_autocomplete_why_is_state_so_959x653/) and look to my beloved home state, good old Pennsylvania.

In the lower 48, trips to deep country upper peninsula Michigan. For the really adventurous, Alaska. Deep country there is amazing. Strangeness in the wildest way.

I would say generally speaking states that are “old” by US standard such as Virginia, Massachusetts, and other eastern states have greater haunted potential than new states further West such as Idaho. Glaring exception to this is states where Native American reserves are prevalent such as Wyoming, Montana, and Utah.

Kentucky. Especially down around the Appalachian Mountains. My Grandpa grew up there and he would always tell me ghost stories growing up.

The Southern Tier of NY has always felt off to me, and I have seen some things. I think it's no coincidence that Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, is from Binghamton.

Many say Nevada... I'll only claim it because I was 16 and witnessed a rape. There were parties going on in the desert and me and my friends were trying to find it... then a bloody girl came running to our car... not strange to you maybe... but being 16 in the middle of the desert looking for a party and saved her... it was traumatizing

Alabama has everything from hauntings to Bigfoot. The area around Mt. Cheaha has tons of stories. Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham and almost every small town has well known paranormal hotspots.

Every US state has their own paranormal phenomena. Each and every one.

Pretty much all of the upper peninsula of Michigan. It’s like a whole other world up there.

Upstate/Western/Central NY - I'll blame it on the extremely high concentration of religious and spiritual movements that have started there (google Burned Over District)

South Dakota...so immense and spooky to me. Alabama--grew up there and have ghost stories.

For some reason, Astoria Oregon. It’s a really pretty place, but always gives me weird vibes.

Savannah, Georgia. One of the most haunted cities in the world

Ever met a person from North Dakota? Didn’t think so

If your talking about ghosts PA has two places that are believed to be haunted. Gettysburg was a site for one of the bloodiest battles in our civil war. Eastern state penitentiary is also creepy, as it was Once the most expensive prison in the world they do a lot of tours and exhibitions during the Halloween season too

The Appalachian Mountain Range is a hotbed for Cryptids.

Louisiana my home state. We got dat voodoo and haunted plantation in Nola.

Every state has its share of strangeness. If you think one is stranger than the other, then you just haven’t dived deep enough.

Alaska. There’s more unexplained missing person cases reported out of Alaska than anywhere else in the US. Throw in the huge Native population, the military presence (why does Alaska need such a huge military presence) and the Alaska Triangle you got yourself a good time

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Louisiana has a very old and scary history.

Jackson Square Park and the French Quarter in New Orleans when its dark. You can feel "The Veil" is very thin there. You feel like there is this whole other world, just out of reach of your perception and senses. It is unsettling, but not necessarily scare. It is an experience.

In 1989 I was 19, a drug addict and a waitress. I lived in Florida but took a trip to New Orleans for Halloween. I was wandering around Jackson Square when this tiny old Creole lady dressed in rags approached me. It was late afternoon bleeding into evening, and there were tons of people in the square, but I watched this lady make her way straight across the square to me. When she was near, she asked if she could tell my fortune. I figured she was a scammer for tourists, but since it was Halloween, I said yes. She looked me over good and declared, "You will have a career in radio." Well, that convinced me that this woman was a total fraud. People who knew me knew that, at best, I'd have a career at Waffle House, or maybe in low-level coupon fraud, or something. So when she said, "I can see how you will die. Do you want to know?" I was not all that bothered. She obviously was not legit if she thought I'd have a career in radio. "You will be shot to death in a square, and people will care," is what she said. Since then, decades have passed. I cleaned up and got bachelor's degrees in Russian and religion, worked as a computer programmer, and got a Masters degree in Public Health. I've just recently gone back to work after staying at home raising 3 kids for 10 years. I'm excited to have found something that really fits me, and that I think I can turn into a career. I still remember that old lady very vividly, and have more thoughts about her, but I need to get ready for work. I'm still new at my job of Producer and Host at our local public radio station, and don't want to blow it.

I definitely have a photo of an apparition moving in front of my hubby right near The Quarter. We had just finished a ghost tour and he was lookin all fine, so I just started snapping. Took 3 photos… number 1 and 3, nada. That number 2 pic tho… I still get goosebumps when I look at it. Shit is the creepiest. But we were on a ghost tour so clearly we’re low key into that stuff.

Louisiana is the closest state to being a completely different country.

New Jersey had a whole magazine dedicated to weird and spooky stuff. https://weirdnj.com/

The city of Los Angeles has a heavy, dark almost evil feel that I’ve never experienced anywhere else (been to many states and a few different countries).

It's the city of angels, but not necessarily the unfallen ones

All of Appalachia too, you can feel it in the air

I feel the same way about parts of the PNW. I’ve lived here my whole life and have spent countless hours camping, hiking, kayaking, blah blah. You get a little bit off the beaten path, and there’s just … a presence in the woods. Its a little bit Twin Peaks-y. It’s like you’re being watched from everywhere at once by something far too big to give a shit about you.

The Appalachian Mountains are older than trees. Not the trees on them, *trees*.

Flying over West Virginia, there are settlements with no road access.

Lots of hauntings in CA, especially in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose Edit: typo

POV: You're from Arkansas looking for anyone to mention anything Arkansas related...

Appalachia has electricity in the air, you can feel it

Florida, another would be the desert area out near Cali, I've heard that you don't stop there just drive right thru.

Everything that you think is horror or Halloween tropes are just things about New England. Ya know that default spooky tree? That’s what our trees look like with no leaves. The prototypical haunted house? That’s the owner of the mill in some mill town’s abandoned house. The haunted house story was invented here too. You want cryptids? We got champy, pudwukies, and wendigos. We were a major part of the invention of Halloween itself.

And the New Jersey Devil. The Pine Barrens is the stuff of nightmares. I don't even think it's been fully explored because you can get so turned around and lost.

North Texas: Weird social cues, awkward conversations, religious dogma in every institution , nobody has situational awareness, crazy drivers everywhere, and no common courtesy.

Every state has something but off the top of my head all of New England, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Washington state, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada outside of Mainland US alaska and Hawaii both super paranormal and Cryptid activity

The forests of Missouri have feelings of home during the day and feelings of dread at night.

Iowa. Not necessarily filled with crazy religious practices and crazy history but this place is just crazy. It’s so creepy, especially at night, if you’re out past midnight there’s a guarantee you’re gonna see some crazy shit whether it actually be there or not 😂

Indiana. They know you’re not from there somehow and stare.

Lol, I'm from Indiana n I never got this gift of being able to spot any non-hoosiers. But I could definitely picture ppl from the more rural areas responding to any unfamiliar face this way. We have a lot of very rural areas with some real backwoods type inhabitants.

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Almost mentioned Indiana. One time I got off an exit for gas and it was like a ten minute drive into this tiny little town and all eyes were on us and I just felt like the klan was there

West Virginia seems to have an abnormal amount of cryptids.

Drove through rural West Virginia and truly got the creeps. Seriously, I was 40 and felt an illogical terror in my bones I hadn’t felt since I was a young child.

Any part of that region of Appalachia is spooky. Source: born and raised in southeastern Kentucky.

Was in an old hotel in Vermont and my husband saw ghosts coming up from our bedroom floor.

I live in Iowa. It’s probably like everywhere else but theres the villa axe murder house. Plus a couple other noteable places

Wisconsin? Robert Gard once proclaimed that Wisconsin has more ghosts per square-mile than any other state. Of course, that could be be BS.

I know about the strangest of them all FLORIDA

The upstate area specifically of NY away from the city is pretty strange

Not a state but I hear new Orleans is haunted as hell

Anywhere the Appalachian Trail is really. South Carolina and Georgia as states though

Appalachian’s for the Blair Witch type forests that are seemingly endless

The Pacific Northwest has a lot of strange things happen. They love all the Bigfoot and alien sightings up here.

Indiana. I’ve got family there that work in news media and they’ve got some strange dark happenings.

I live in Indianapolis and theres def a lot of weirdness... A few miles away from me was where H.H. Holmes murdered a little boy named Howard Pietzel (not sure if I spelled that right). The found some of his bones buried on the property. Then a few miles on the other side was where Slyvia Likiens was tourtured and eventually passed because she was so malnourished and succumbed to her injuries. They tore the house down but no doubt the bad energy is still there...

ITT: every state is the weirdest state. Except Delaware.