20 People Reveal Creepy Realities From Their Hometowns That’ll Send Chills Down Your Spine

When it comes to creepy stories, you don’t need to look far. Sometimes, your own hometown holds more horror than any haunted house or horror movie. In a viral Reddit thread, someone asked: “What’s the most horrifying thing that exists where you live?” And, as expected, the responses ranged from disturbing and dangerous to outright nightmarish.

#1

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Humans. Seriously. I grew up in Florida, which has plenty of it’s own horrifying, terrifying and pretty decent competition for apex predators. Moved to Colorado, learned about mooses and elk, mountain lions.. Although only the mooses and elks actually ever concerned me. Stayed in the Southwest for a bit. Camel Spider are pretty flipping scary! And definitely the humans in the remote parts. D***s, isolation and not a very deep breeding pool in those parts makes that movie The Hills have Eyes too close to reality.

But where we live now. In Mid-Missouri. Seeing, watching, experiencing over the last almost 10 years first hand of fascism taking root. Spreads. Turns people against each other in a feral sort of way. The hate. The in fighting.

The absolute need of a growing amount of people to blame, hate and destroy their neighbors, their communities, and even themselves and own children all in the name of leaders who only worship money, a god they have have truly forgotten and re-formed to excuse their own sins and grants permission to k**l the stewards, worship the elites.

These humans are  terrifying, dangerous creatures. A dangerous terrifying animal is dangerous and terrifying out of instinct and survival. These ones are dangerous and terrifying as a choice. Not for survival but for ego and to dodge personal accountability.

#2

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I live out in the country, on a quiet dirt road surrounded by woods. My nearest neighbor is a five-minute drive away, so I’ve always thought of this place as isolated and peaceful. But recently, I’ve had a couple of unsettling experiences. Twice now, I’ve caught two different people emerging from the woods and looking into my house.

It makes me wonder how many times this has happened without me knowing. My dog often goes into a barking frenzy at what I assume is nothing, but now I’m not so sure. I’m starting to realize I might not be as alone out here as I thought.

#3

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Wild hogs. They chased my neighbor up a tree and waited for 2 hours in hopes he’d come down.

#4

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Every summer, the mosquitoes here unionize, develop a taste for human ankles, and somehow bypass bug spray like it’s a polite suggestion.

Also, landlords.

#5

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I’m in Africa.

There are remote parts here that literally have nothing but radioactive waste from Europe.

In order for European companies to comply with EU regulations, they just dump their waste here.

There was a court case that the locals tried to stop it but everyone was bribed and it all just keeps happening.

We also have limited train systems. The steel railways are stolen, put on a ship and sold to companies in Asia. The government then buys the steel back from the Asian companies. Lots of corruption and bribery.

#6

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Tornadoes. Quite a few years ago, a town was nearly erased from existence, not terribly far from me.

Seeing the absolute destruction first hand is insane.

#7

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Idiot lawmakers that pit us against one another. F**k that s**t.

#8

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Summer. Phoenix, Az.

#9

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100+ years ago the slaughterhouses in chicago dumped so much of their waste into the chicago river, that there is a portion of the river that is still bubbling today because there’s piles of rotten meat remaining at the bottom.

Edit: Even more horrible, don’t look up what happened to the fat that floated to the top of the river back in the day.

#10

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Moose. Surprisingly dangerous.

#11

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Probably the Tarantula Hawk Wasp. Woke up to one of those guys in my bed. Wasn’t f*****g fun.

#12

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I’m in maine, so…pick your favorite stephen king story.

#13

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Sewer rats the size of cats just casually chilling at night.

#14

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The decline of insect populations.

#15

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Cascadia Subduction Zone

I bet it’s pretty well known around reddit but, in a nutshell, the Oregon coast(and Northern California, and Washington), at least as far inland as Portland, will be liquified by a massive earthquake/tsunami that’s due “any time now”

“Any time now”, in geological terms, could be decades or a couple of centuries. Or tomorrow. It is a perpetual nightmare through waking and sleeping hours, never too far from mind.

Actually, this article makes it sound less scary. Only a 15% chance of it happening in the next 50 years.

#16

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Me, I live in suburbia placed nicely in a heavily forested area. Every now and then, I go out into the woods at 1-2 am and blow my Aztec death whistle.

#17

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Bad drivers-this probably is a issue everywhere with road rage/parking lot rage, you name it.

#18

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Stray dogs that roam in packs at night.

#19

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Housing costs, both to rent and buy. Absolutely destroying our society, massively increasing economic inequality, and causing so much stress for so many while others profit massively.

#20

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Guy got shot at a grocery store because he dared to suggest some return a cart.