There are usually reasons for the towns being left. When highways came into play it left a lot of small dotted towns no longer visited due to being too far from the major highways. Loss of tourism and jobs, which migrated closer to the highways. Or there are the towns that were abandoned for other reasons, such as flooding, contamination, or dams being build to divert water to larger cities. The answers are there but it becomes more obscure or harder to find with the passage of time.

This is hilarious. The title should instead actually be - “hacker, formerly known as 4chan, finally leaves his house, touches grass, takes a look around and is horrified by the condition of your average American town” 😂😂😂

Imagine being a fake employee and some civvy turns up completely braindead just like, durrr can I get chicken nuggets? All while knowing you'll have a phonebook size stack of paperwork to fill out later.

The moral of the story is the more weed you smoke the better your memory will be if you drive into one of these ghost towns!

Those training towns should really be prepared for such unintended encounters, if they're not going to wall the whole area. People do get lost.

Not surprised at all that a 4chan user could separate fast food chains just from their nuggets.

The United States is a big, big country. I think sometimes people underestimate just how big. So, when you get out away from major population centers, you start to find miles and miles of farmland with small towns that basically depend on a single major employer to exist - a factory, a mine, etc. That one employer is the foundation of the whole town economy. If that goes away, the town can't go on the way it has been because its too remote for the people to commute for work elsewhere. So most of the population leaves, and you get modern ghost towns for the same essential reason that there are old west ghost towns - the money is gone, so the people leave too. I have been to one that sticks in my mind - a small town in eastern Colorado (which is a lot like western Kansas). It was a creepy experience to be sure. There wasn't a single open business on the main street. There was at least one house with residents because I saw their dog in the yard, but I never saw a person while I was there.

I’ve been very attracted to this phenomena since I was a child. In the early-mid 1990s, there was a TON of real estate development along the north side of Fresno, California. We’re talking several high-end gated communities, complete with brand new nearby shopping centers. A relative moved into one of these new nice houses and it was surreal. There. Were streets, restaurants, retail stores that we would visit (this was on my summer break), so it would be on weekdays. If you know anything about Fresno in the summer, you know the heat. So my siblings and I would be out touring these brand new communities on a Tuesday morning and it’s already 100 degrees. When I say empty, there was NOBODY out. I realize it was a combination of the heat, and the fact that these entire communities were built fast and therefore it yet populated, but I have a great sense of nostalgia for these empty town/liminal space stories.

I once got lost in the sierras behind Fresno once and randomly discovered a beautiful little town that looked like it was squeezed out of some faerie tale with abnormally wide streets, suburban house surrounded by lush gardens, and a church. I drove around out of curiosity but slowly an eerie feeling started to sink into me as we noticed it was totally quiet and not a person was around. There were very few cars in the driveways and street. We left and got even more lost haha!

My takeaway from this video is that Timesix is probably a really cool dude to hang out with.

The stories keep pulling me back to Shirley Jackson, and her obsession with small towns. Specifically haunting of Hill House. In that story, she created the town around the house completely deserted and hostile.

Most unbelievable part of these stories is the average 4chan user taking road trips

There's a mock city up in the hills between terrace heights and selah washington on the military training base. I stumbled onto it while 4 wheeling back in 2008. You come over the hill and there's an entire town the army built to use as a training base. It looks like a housing development but when you get close all the houses are unfinished with no water or electricity. But it was still surreal to stumble upon. It's about 3.5 miles away from selah

I'm fascinated with this kind of stuff. I haven't experienced an empty town but I've experienced an empty stairwell. When I was 14 the carpark where we would always park had two stairwells - one down into the shopping area and another that led outside onto the parallel road. One day I was waiting in the car for my mum to return and I spotted a third door with the exit sign above it. Curious, I went to it and stepped inside. It was a stairwell. The other two stairwells were covered in urine and filth, but this one was spotlessly clean. There were no lights, but there was a warm orange glow bathing the lower levels, more like a sun or natural light. There was a strange almost melodious but artificial humming noise in there. The thing that really freaked me out was the absolute full body terror I felt. Never before had I felt anything so intense yelling at me to get the hell away from there. I took a few steps forward and froze. I really wanted to explore this strange stairwell but that gut feeling of literal danger and death was far too strong, so I turned around and left. The next time we visited that carpark I looked for the third stairwell, and there was only a brick wall where the door had been.

Hey so these stories are somewhat real, well in the fact that these towns are real, but the stories behind them are moreso just internet stories. I know of a few in my country and they aren't very secret, bc there's a military draft so chances are a lot of people have trained there. I personally trained on 2 when I was serving. So for the US government to have mock towns that are fully functioning, most likely very real, but is more about sweating and learning than any weirdness happening. Ps whoever are manning the stores are most likely a private service on contract, waiting for a unit to move in and start training. in my country they are even given government benifits lol

My mom and I went to La Grange, Texas to visit a yarn shop for a yarn crawl. We went on a Sunday but didnt think anything of it. This is a small town of only 4400, but it was a ghost town. We didnt see anyone walking on the sidewalk or inside any windows all the shops were closed etc. The only people we saw were the single Dairy Queen employee and an old man with a child who were eating at the Dairy Queen. When we went to the shop at opening time we found out that everyone was in church!

I'm from Oklahoma, and there are quite a few ghost towns, especially when you're driving through the panhandle of the state. It's dusty, a wasteland that's so flat, a canyon looks like an interruption, glitching you onto the surface of Mars. As a kid, my mom worked in furniture restoration. She'd find old shabby tables and chairs, reupholster them, refinish them, and sell them. It was pretty neat to see her take an ugly old table and turn it into something that shone in the light. When she'd go to deliver these pieces, I would go with her. One time, we had a delivery to a fairly remote town near the panhandle. I volunteered to go with her. So we loaded up the table for the seller, and drove out. It took about two hours to get to the place, and as we drove, I thought it was the most lonesome landscape I'd ever seen. Miles of barbed wire, flat grassland, only interrupted by the faded red of a tumbledown barn here and there. We passed farmhouses with the shutters drawn up tight, standing all by themselves in the middle of empty fields. When we reached the town, we realized it was very small. Just a single main street, at the end of which was one of those big storage unit facilities. We realized that the delivery was to this storage unit. It was an older man in bib overalls and cowboy boots, who didn't speak much, but paid in cash. Once the table was unloaded, we cut back through the town to try and find food. The street was lined with businesses that had empty windows, or windows that had broken. Inside, you could see plants growing up from the floor. The only businesses that were open was a teashop and a diner. We stepped into the teashop, since it had an interesting striped red awning. Inside, it was full of antiques, and smelled like the biggest attic of all time. The carpet was a faded burgundy, and covered everything, even the floor under the tables. Dolls with articulated gap teeth watched from the counter. An older woman owned the shop, and asked us what we'd like. "We're fine, thank you," said my mom, and we left before the bell on the door even stopped ringing. I think we ended up going back onto the road and eating somewhere else down the road.

My grandpa lives in hawthorne nevada, its such a relaxing place to visit. Its so isolated i love it. You can walk from one end of town to another in about 15 minutes so theres no real point in driving anywhere.

The one where jazz is playing throughout the empty streets reminds me of that one spree/serial killer (can't remember which type of killer he was) that sent a letter to the police (I think) demanding that everyone have jazz music playing within their homes on a certain evening, otherwise he'd kill again. I imagine the streets were rather empty during that evening, too.

Recently visited a lost place that's just 20 minutes away from me. It was quite a surreal experience. If humanity dies, this is how I'd imagine the remnants of society to look and feel like.

"heavy weed smoker since childbirth remembers every detail"

One of my favorite 4Chan subjects! Always would watch Chass' video on deserted towns in my downtime because of how fascinating it was. Amazing work, Maverick Files! 😎👍

Not necessarily related but there was an old tumblr text post that never fully left my mind even if I can’t properly remember it now (this was like. Literally a decade ago) about op and the strange town they grew up in that sounded like some Nightvale level government shit. To top that off I think there was an addition about how they went to a dentist outside of that town and they couldn’t make sense of op’s dental work. Several little anecdotes by op later had a connector ask “hey is your hometown x?” And they linked to a Wikipedia page or something about past tests they did on citizens and strange occupancies reported. Op said “yeah that’s where I grew up”. I think there was also a story about how they took something they thought was fluoride but wasn’t. I want say this was in some part of California or Arizona, leaning towards California. Small town American oddities are always so fascinating. I wish I could remember where op was from or could at least find the post. (Love your videos thanks for sharing your voice is super relaxing.

I passed by Hawthorne years ago. It looked empty enough to take notice of even though we were not stopping. I've wanted to return and check it out, but it's far from where I live and I don't have any reason to be in the area (it was cool you covered it right off the bat.) Such a FASCINATING topic!

4chan: "The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."

Fun stories! Admittedly though, speaking as a Virginia Beach native, that particular OP should've maybe chosen a different location in Virginia to place their ghost town, rather than the largest populace in the entire state. 😂

"Why have I never heard of this small town despite it being larger than my close by small town?" Because It's actually called Munising, Muncie is just a nickname. Everyone in Muncie was probably at a Wildcats hockey game. So funny seeing a ~spooky~ experience so near where I used to live. I knew people from Muncie! They (probably) weren't aliens at all!

When you hear a half dozen back-to-back, it really makes them sound more like creative writing assignments following a generic formula.

Its sad we currently live in a housing crisis, meanwhile theres entire towns abandoned that could be utilized but just arent.

Reminds me of the time I was with my mom and siblings driving from Northern Texas back to our home in Kansas and as we were passing through Oklahoma we came across a small town that was completely empty with the exception of some random old man walking down the side of the road. We stopped to ask him where we were and where we could go to get gas and food in town but he seemed to be deaf or damn near it because he’d keep shouting that he couldn’t hear us despite us pulling up right next to him and rolling down our windows completely in order to speak with him. Weird shit.

I know this isnt really the same, but theres a nearly empty town not far from where I live. It had been empty for like 8 years before people started using it and last time i was up there, all the houses were empty, almost all the buildings were still empty, there was a food truck area, a longs, a lawyer's office and a detists and that was IT!! Sooo weird!! Its a beautiful town! Very clean and pretty.. just empty for some reason!

Ah, this gave me creeps even though there should be perfectly normal explanations for all these. Empty places are just so eerie. And your outro music fits the vibe perfectly

This remined me of when you're playing GTA or something and you're far away and the NPCs dont load in

These stories are quite similar to a recent urban legend in Brazil called "Sete Além" (rough translation: Seven Beyond). There are rumours that Brazil is a gateway to this dimension where everything is almost equal to our world, except that everything is dark, grey and decaying. There are also tales of people from OUR dimension that lives in Sete Além and they help people to get out of that dimension. I belive most of these stories are, in reality, creepypastas, but some seems really true.

I've very much heard of Muncie, IN. Many have. It's small, but hardly unknown. Kinda puts a damper on the story.

I’m convinced the second guy came across a real life nuketown

Lived in Hawthorne since 2020. Bro probably heard one of the churches that plays music every hour. They are lucky they didn't hear our noon bell that is an old air raid siren. 😂

I encountered a town like this back in 2009. I was on the first leg of a roadtrip from Minnesota to California and it was my first time driving across North Dakota. As such I didn't know that from Dickinson west there's basically nothing until you get to the Montana border. Was running on the dummy light when I saw a sign for fuel at a town called Sentinel Butte, so I pulled off the interstate. The town was about a mile south down a dirt road and though I'd followed a truck into town, the place was completely empty. There was indeed a gas station but they were old mechanical pumps with no way to pay, so I noped out of there figuring that if I did run out of gas it would be better to be on the interstate. Made it to the last town at the Montana border, though I'll never forget Sentinel Butte.

Thank You Based TIMESIX

Finally! Been waiting a long time for a single topic video!

I had this happen to me twice in my life... Once up in Northern California near Chico and another time on the roads of England. England was the real trip; an entire town where not a soul was outside or seen, not on the road either... even went up to the local library (which appeared to be open) only see the entire inside empty as well. The atmosphere was unique to say the least..

4channers would probably freak out in southern spain, from noon until like 5 pm you literally dont see anyone not even pets 😂

Just found your channel by chance. This is for now the best videos i saw on yt. Amazing work. Thx a lot, small light in darkness. Creativity still exist.

this sort of thing sounds like they've bumped into a derelict tourist trap town. we saw one of these on a scout trip once when we started seeing billboards saying "only 50 miles until the fudge factory in uranus!" and it was mini tourist trap destination with a fudge factory, bar, and a few other buildings I forgot about. they had an antique fire engine out near front that said "uranus fire dpt". for putting out the fire in uranus. the shop in the fudge factory was a mix between typical tourist gift shop and a fudge shop. lots of puns about uranus on the items for sale in their too. got one shirt that was for uranus moratory "we bury 'em deep in uranus". you could imagine this was highlight of our scouting summer camp trip.

I was on vacation this summer and when I was in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania there was an outlet mall in walking distance from our hotel. We checked it out during an odd time. The shops were all closed, and almost no one else was in sight but lights were on in almost every store and music was playing all throughout the strip. It wasn’t anything weird or supernatural and the next day everything was normal when shops were open, but I couldn’t help but have that kind of feeling when I first walked through the area lol.

So much void * so much emptiness * history that speaks of the end of the story _ the sound of silence * the whistling wind _ thanks for the video 🥇

ALWAYS excites me to see when you upload a new video!!

Wow, I’ve been to Hawthorne, NV several times as well as the McDonald’s. The most recent drive through the town, wasn’t as weird but still strange. Large thunderstorms were passing over the town at the time, as I approached an intersection DOT was diverting traffic off the main road that leads to the exit of the town. We took the alternate route and approached another intersection where they also diverting traffic away from the center of town. I asked what’s going on and this kid, barely 18, said “I don’t know” and another work said “don’t talk to em” and I proceeded straight through the intersection. What didn’t make sense was I could easily cut through the residential area, make two rights back into the center of town where the McDonald’s and gas station, with EV chargers were. The road blocks didn’t really prevent you from getting anywhere with the approximate mile of road they blocked. I thought if there was a gas leak or something they would have evacuated the businesses in the area. Employees I asked didn’t even know about the road blocks, and were wondering where all the usual customers were. I can’t find anything online about this incident.

as a brazilian, yes, just being brazilian is a scary story

Cheeya! Just started the lawn mower and have even more T6 to keep me happy while I mow the lawn

About Muncie... there are events that let people deserted. probably a local game or something. My father worked late in the day the last episode of The Fugitive was aired here in Brazil, he said that the city was deserted. I live in a city with 12 million people but in days of Brazil playing in the World Cup the city is partially deserted. You can lay down at the middle of the moist famous avenue. Imagine now a city of 1100 people: a funeral service for someone loved, an opening near the town, etc.

Bro you really hit the drama sweet spot with the narrative! nice work!

I've been to military combat simulation towns before, there is no way one could be mistaken for a real town. There was no signage, all of the buildings were bare gray cement, you had to guess at what the function was supposed to be, no paved roads.

There are a lot of towns in the northern Canadian prairies / southern boreal forest that are kinda sketchy. I live in one that near perfectly fits the description of the one mentioned in the video. Gas station boarded up but still open, no one walking the streets of their own will and almost overly quiet. Towns not empty, 600 people live here. Just no one wants to deal with other people. When you encounter a town like this, hitting the gas station is fine. It’s usually preferable for you to leave these kinds of towns behind as soon as possible though.

I love your videos so much man, keep up the good work!

I used to do door - to - door sales selling magazines and at one point ended up in a town that the majority of the workforce used to work for the Saturn automobile factory, but since they had gone out of business and closed the factory, it was mostly uninhabited, with a lot of vacant houses, including the mansions. I wish I could remember what town it was, it was definitely the Midwest, maybe Missouri or South Dakota.

I live in oklahoma and a big thing for bored stoners is to take a trip out to pitcher, about 2 hours from my town. actually have made plans to go but had a dream the night before that all my friends died in an old school and the layout of the actual building matched my dream. freaked everyone out enough that we stayed home

In my experience, empty town doesn't always mean abandoned

Another amazing video, Timesix. My love and I love to watch your videos during our Scary Saturdays. Miss the nice "catJAM" intro though, hope it'd come back

love these creepy pasta compilations. Great content and narration. Thanks!

I love eerie stuff like this, thanks!

And my brother the void has just begun. Be safe vigilant and careful, for the careless are already dead. Gary Indiana is an abandoned city. Which is highly disturbing.

Check out parts of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada. Alongside Texas and Montana in the United States. A lot of abandoned towns. Especially British Columbia. That place has some nightmarish abandoned towns. There's a notable one with functioning water, power, and seems to have activity, but is hours away from other signs of civilization and completely abandoned for the last four decades.

ghost towns are my favorite thing to stumble upon on road trips when you decide not to take major highways. its fascinating how communities can go quiet once business moves elsewhere due to industry changes/highways being a thing now. lots of people either moving or working outside of their town, so it seems like nobody lives there if you are just driving through.

All these videos are so damn underrated

At 1:21, you have Kennicott listed as being in Arkansas, but it's in Alasaka. Got excited to explore a nearby abandoned place for a moment. Oh well

Maybe the empty towns are the friends we made a long the way.

My mom and aunt approached a town like this in New Mexico. They were driving from Arizona and decided to stop at a holiday inn around 11 pm. Before checking into the hotel they decided to stop and get gas at a well lit gas station, my mom said she went inside, used the bathroom, and when she left she realized there was absolutely no one there, not even a gas station attendant. They weren’t able to get gas because the pay at the pump card reader was turned off on all the pumps. So they left and drove towards the hotel. She said the parking lot was empty, but that didn’t detour them, they went inside to check in and the hotel lobby was completely dark, no lights were on except for a small table side lamp near the front desk. A lady came up to the front desk and said “what are you doing here?” Not “how may I help you” but a rude “what are you doing here”. My mom said the lady was so rude to them and she wasn’t wearing a uniform to indicate she worked there. My mom and aunt were given a room right off the front lobby. It was about 12 am now and my mom and aunt decide to take my moms dog outside to use the bathroom before they go to sleep, as they were in the parking lot they realized there was a tall fence surrounding the hotel area with barbed wire fence on the top of the fencing. They went inside, climbed into bed but neither of them could sleep. My mom said she must have dozed off because all of a sudden it was 2:30 and she said there was a loud thud outside her door. She looks through the peephole but she can’t see anything because the hotel is literally pitch black. My mom calls my dad at this point, she said she was almost in tears from being so scared, my dad told her to leave, to not worry about checking out, just leave. My mom and aunt booked it to the car and drove away in the middle of the night. As they were leaving the parking lot my mom said she noticed a black van was in the parking lot. My mom and dad have tried to find this place on the internet and google maps. My dad wanted to call the hotel to cancel the reservation and pay whatever he needed to pay because my mom and aunt left without checking out, but they couldn’t find anything about this holiday inn online. They even tried calling nearby holiday inns to find out information, but when my dad provided the highway and mile marker the holiday inn was closest to they had no record of it…the whole thing freaked my mom out so much. She said she didn’t feel safe driving away until the sun started coming up and she started noticing a lot of cars driving on the highway. They were almost out of gas and they stopped at a well populated town where people were clearly visible but my mom said she still felt freaked out and just wanted to get out of New Mexico Needless to say, my mom and aunt HATE NEW MEXICO! I should also add that they are not the types to make things up, especially a story like this, so I 100% believe my mom.

I literally drive up through Utah today on the 89. those towns you drive through and see from the highway are truly creepy af. like their own little worlds separate from what we know as modern civilization.

As much as I hate living in the US, I do absolutely love the vibes of liminal space / other worldly, middle of bumfuck nowhere America and stories like this. If anyone here loves fiction podcasts, Alice Isn't Dead is a very good little story podcast that executes these vibes perfectly.

"A heavy weed smoker since child birth?" OG

this reminds me of a lonesome place right near where I live. There's a four lane highway through the middle of nowhere, on the left of the road you will occassionally see a scrim of trees hiding some personality void, colorless, cookie cutter 2 story houses with no fences, all with those stilt patios and probably a manmade pond of no quality and no appeal to ducks, or a few suburban streets of similar or duplexes or a development of soulless condos, never anything in those yards backing onto big gullies, and a few of those gaudy estate style houses rich country people live in. No colors but off white. This goes on for miles. Eventually the left turned onto an industrial area but the right went on for hypnotizing eternity. On the right side of road abandoned or impoverished farmhouses. This goes on for miles and miles and on the right it gets more and more dilapidated to the point you see many gray farmhouses with the roof caved in, sometimes, yawning broken windows, yawning holes in barns, sometimes near the newer house that sometimes had evidence of inhabitation, but you didn't expect it. None of these farmhouses had intact paint. It was like a rural ghetto. Not many animals to be seen grazing, I think a few skinny horses, and I think only one of the farmhouses was of significant size at all. When I went up farther this road than usual to get to Lakeview, MI, a farming town centered around a lake view and a hospital, populated by boomers, basically 1 main street, a silo, for the use of their CT machine for severe stomach pain, I don't think I could tell you how many miles that went on for. The town was nice, there were benches on the path to the lake park which was very nice as I was so sick, the diner had pie specials made by our waitress, the hospital was very invitingly humble homey softly lit and the tech had a motherly aura. The wind whistled down that main street and chilled your bones as there weren't many trees or buildings. It was charming but eerie. I think the farming deforestation may be why not so much has reborn here when people like me are still drawn to slower rural living. The suburbs at least plant some trees. I thought, ruminated, the whole way there and back though how cheap paint was and how desperately poor you would have to be to not be able to afford to coat a small house against the elements for 20+ years, even if you were still living in it. It was like the places themselves told a story of human misery and I found myself turning to look at them, transfixed. Old folks tell me the whole area used to be farmland at some point and was developed around the time my family came to live here, roughly 40 years ago. I'm not sure what happened to the farms, although I'm sure it doesn't pay to farm anymore you would think some would stick it out. I don't know if farming is too efficient for a small farmer to make it anymore, or the land is no good anymore, or the next generation moved on from farming, or the bank foreclosed but never made any use of it or did any demo, I figure it was hard to sell the land without much close by but I did wonder what made the left and the right so different and why the cookie cutter people didn't mind living adjacent to a black and white John Mellencamp video, it was not an inviting place, no pretty scenery either. My nephew's granny lives to the south and people there still stubborbly cling to small farms. She keeps a horse and sells hay but they definitely do other things to pay the bills. I guess the other community was to remote to find side work to sustain them monetarily.

There is no way in hell guy #1 stumbled into a MOUT site. Those places are “usually” nestled deep into military bases next to the small arms and artillery ranges. You won’t find a road that goes straight into one of these places that doesn’t have plenty of guards and at least one manned gate. Yes MOUT sites use actors to portray civilians. It’s necessary to properly train soldiers and agents how to properly interact with locals and how to operate in a populated urban environment. These actors are also active military and the elderly people are retired military personnel that are contracted through the Department of Defense. The other major players in a MOUT site that guy #1 would have encountered if the story was legit is either the forces being trained (us military) or OP4 (opposing forces, or soldiers that are portraying the “bad guys” that the unit being trained must battle with who wear generic enemy uniforms etc.,) There is no way that the MOUT site wouldn’t have many soldiers of one faction or the other in those populated positions because these sites are only staffed with actors when they are being used for training and neither faction would leave a populated sector of the “town” unoccupied so that it could be captured as controlled by the other side.

I could listen to this man talk for hours

The shock at a gas station being closed after 11PM in a small town is hilarious. I have lived in towns that didn't have 24 hour gas stations. It's a thing.

broooo the first one being Hawthorne NV is so funny because some of my older family was born there and it used to have a higher population but it just dwindled after the years. they moved to bigger towns. time passes. Kids are born and don’t want to stay there, and no one moves there willingly. They are like 80% ghost town and a few scattered businesses. I dont remember there even being a paved road it was so old

You should talk about Appalachian goblins and witches

I've had a fascination with ghost towns for about a decade now. They're common in rural America. The majority of the time, it has to do with industry taking people elsewhere. Railways close, highways are rerouted, common industries (ie the steamboats in Cairo, IL) go obsolete. When there's no opportunities, people relocate. What little people remain are very tight-knit and usually don't take kindly to outsiders, often because historically, outsiders haven't had their best interest in mind.

I'm from PR. been to Ponce. it's not *fully* abandoned, but driving around it is a pretty sad sight. Lots of houses are straight up burned down or abandoned, and it's very saddening when you realize that mine, and many others' grandparents come from there back when it wasn't as abandoned.

Edit: Wrote this during the story. They cover this in the video. I've heard the second story before! It's likely OP accidentally stumbled upon a military base where folks are trained to stay in character on under cover missions. It's likely the people working there just tried to freak him out and make him leave so that they wouldn't have to report they'd fucked up and let a civilian in. I remember someone on Tumblr triangulated what base it likely was based on the location information OP gave, but I don't remember the name now.

Real spoopy shite, these stories remind me of a town call Woomera in South Australia. Same vibe of emptiness.

I drive through Hawthorne, NV, regularly for work. It's a mining town, so the people that stay there get up really early and come home really late (miners do really long shifts). The mines are all in the mountains nearby, so the town is usually pretty sparse during the day. It's nothing paranormal or strange, just a small town with a busy population.

Last OP swears like a sailor. Imagine how many breaths and keystrokes he'd save himself if he dropped the habit.

I had a weird experience passing through PA that’s stuck with me for well over a year now and still makes me shiver

The second story is about Muncie IL since Homer IL isn't that far away. It doesn't have a school so they probably went by a neighboring village. There are a lot of cities around there with small populations with not much more than houses.

Reminds me of the time I got off on the wrong train station by accident and had to take another, longer train journey that stopped at a bunch of random nowhere places. As we were going through, we stopped at this town that was covered in a thick fog, like silent hill. All of the buildings were made of stone and falling apart, there were adverts and pictures on the walls but they were flayed or peeling away. I remember being creeped out that some of the houses didn't even have windows, just holes. They weren't new houses, they looked pretty old, so it's not like they were still being built. Anyway there was no signal, so I could only google the place later, since I wanted to see what it looked like when it wasn't foggy. Except I'd misread the town's name on the sign, so I was super weirded out when I googled what I thought the town was called and got literally zero search results haha. Very spooky until I found the actual town name, just a regular kind of crappy place

Loved this

Not a lost town but a found town I lost my job at a place I worked at years ago so I decided to drive up north above the great lakes in Ontario Canada from Windsor Ontario My goal was to find a ghost town called Goudreau Ontario (look it up it's practically in outer space) but this story is actually about a town called Dubreuville When I was on my way to find Goundreau I found this town in Ontario that is so remote that you have to drive completely away from the high way for about an hour and a half there was not a single car for the whole ride there, out of nowhere I started to see signs in french but only in french no English you might think that that is not a big deal as a Canadian but the only place that does this is Quebec, Ontario used to have a lot of French Speakers but it's now taken over by English by a land slide however this town was so isolated that they managed to keep there language which is super fascinating

17:40 As a Virginia Beach resident, I can confirm that story is 100% true. You need to have the Virginia spirit to see normal Virginia Beach. If you don't then you only get to stay in an empty version of the town and can eat 7 -11 only.

Please more single topic stories!

DUDE YOUR CHANNELS ARE AWESOME!!!!!

These vids deserve millions of views timesix

Bro I live in Hawthorne Nevada and this is the biggest cap I've ever heard. It's a small town but something is always open. Especially gas station. And people are here everyday never empty lol

These stories remind me of that movie, 'House of Wax.' While everyone likes to rag on the remake with Paris Hilton, however, the actual plot itself has always been extremely unsettling to me.

I like your gentle voice. Very comforting

Dude who was in Utah was probably in Kingston, a small town a couple miles off of 89, with UT 62 running straight through it - may have been disoriented and drove through the opposite way he came, ending up on the other side of the mountain.

These towns are used as interchanges for... "travelers". Also as traps for certain ones.

Man do I wish you’d do these via podcast

The story with the lady drinking tea gave me a serious chill for some reason... good shit

One time when I was a wee Lil dude, I had to go with my mom to pick my dad up from work, the factory he had a job at was a couple towns over and he worked 2nd, so it was around 12am. On our way we took a wrong turn and ended up in a place called Sadieville. No streetlights, none of the homes had any lights and no cars, at this point we're lost and don't know where we are. My mom's panicking because we're low on gas and stuck in strange town which she deemed straight out of a horror movie. No stores or anything, pretty much just houses down a long road. We found a fire station so my mom figured we could get some directions but no ones there. She eventually decided wherever the main road went was better than being in that town. Always wondered what was going on there.