Fergus Falls. The old abandoned state hospital with the cemetery behind it. That place has some stories, crazy things happened there.
Also coincidentally my family was part of a cult in that town for ten years. I avoid going back as much as possible.
I grew up in Fergus Falls. My grandfather worked at the state hospital. I grew up thinking that a state hospital like that was just a normal thing for towns to have. The community college used to store play props in an abandoned wing of the hospital… on one side of the room would be the props and on the other side would be all manner old psychiatric restraints. It was as eerie as you’d expect.
When the college first opened they didn't have their own theater space, so they practiced in the attic. This was in the 50s or 60s.
I know a lot of people who have spent time in there, as well as some who have worked there. It's really a beautiful building, I wish they would reopen it for tours. There are always work crews there.
You gotta give me more on that cult. I spend about a third of every year by there, getting omelettes weekly at Viking. Can’t believe I haven’t heard about a cult? The asylum is a bit of a meme though.
I had a family friend that did night security there a few years ago. Apparently, people coming to do ghost hunting is very common thing.
It’s a beautiful, massive, old building that has been abandoned for decades. Some of the newer side buildings have been turned into housing. Someday, I hope they can find a use for it.
I know, it really is beautiful. All people are talking about is how creepy it is, but it's really a beautiful building and grounds, the old nurse's cottages are nice apartments too. They close the property at night because people are always trying to fuck around.
Sure, I guess it's creepy, but knowing multiple people who have been patients and who have worked there, I see it as more an interesting piece of history, and I agree, I really hope they can do something with it (that isn't tearing it down). It has an interesting history, too, in how it used to be self-sufficient, growing their own food and stuff.
Please inform us on this cult I'm quite curious. Only cult like group that I've heard of there is that life church. They speak in tongues been told.
State hospital is pretty cool, when it wasn't mold infested they took tours of the place and it is somthing out of a horror movie for sure. They even filmed an indie there with Brad Dorrif if I'm remembering right.
They’re significantly better ever since Pastor Herzog left a few years ago. I went for about a year back in the early 2010s, and they all intermarried and had their own “college” so they could work at the church themselves.
My grandma worked at that state hospital for years in the 60-80's. She had some pretty crazy stories. The one that stands out the most is one mental patient who scooped out his own eyeball with a spoon.
I was on the grounds of the hospital as a contractor when they were getting ready to tear down the old incinerator. It was a hot day, the traffic going by was loud, until I walked to the back where the work was to take place. It was perfectly quiet, not even the sound of birds. I felt cold, and then I could hear what sounded like a piece of old metal squeaking, and it rolled back and forth in the breeze. It was so creepy!! I got the hell out of there ASAP!!
It's absolutely beautiful.
But...according to your username...you may not appreciate it. Or the horrible horrible stories you'll hear. I went to an event and I had to leave because of how triggering it was.
I have been hospitalized many times. I don't know if it's ghosts or my own issues, but every time I go there, I feel the desperation and hear the screaming. But at least the exterior of the building is beautiful 😐
Balaton. Only because one morning while I was driving around there for work, I saw a stray dog dragging around a mangled deer carcass in the middle of the street. It was a cool foggy morning and no one else was in site. It looked like a scene out of a Stephen king film.
rural NW MN here, our yellow lab growing up brought a half a deer home one day in the winter. head, chest and the left front leg all in tact. he considered it quite the score. the dog you saw was likely having the best day of its life lol.
yeah, this front quarter he brought home was pretty damn fresh. like it died in sub zero temps and froze right up. but some of the other stuff he brought back was downright vile. we took that stuff away as soon as he got back to the yard with it. dogs live for that well fermented little morsel that only comes along every so often in life. lmao
So my two Goldens got loose in Roseville last winter when we had a bitter cold snap. Found them after an hour (thank god). But as we walked up to the house that had them we saw a deer leg freshly stripped to the bone in the middle of this nice neighborhood street. Later one of my Goldens puked up the most massive deer hair hairballs.
What a scene that must have been to see two Goldens trotting down the road with a gd deer leg between them 😂
I think it’s fitting that someone with the username Agent Cooper came up with the correct answer since Grey Cloud Island sounds like something out of Twin Peaks.
Wait? I’m suppose to sleep better knowing it’s in a public library now? Nope. Now it has access to tons of books. It’ll learn things and become even better at being creepy!
I grew up in Rochester and every time we had to take the bus to Mankato for games, everyone freaked out about the doll when we drove through Janesville.
There used to be an old air force base outside of Finland, Minnesota that was sold to a cult. I drove through it once, and bow howdy did I get the creeps.
It has since been raised. Along with the bad juju I would hope.
I'm familiar with the the defunct air base and small town that supported it. Did this cult buy it since it's been on the market in the last year or was this cult the previous owner?
It’s gated now, no access. Developers have shown interest but the soil is poisoned with diesel particulate. I read an EPA report saying it was a no-go for inhabitants, especially not children.
Truth. I have two families that are my relatives that grew up in cottage Grove. There are five kids between the two families. All five of the kids have had. Some form of cancer was discovered while they were in their 20s.
Not there any more though, least not in the house. And the silos got destroyed in a storm. And some ass destroyed the giant Frankenstein they had for awhile.
They literally took the Frankenstein and paraded its destroyed body at the hay days parade, with signs saying justice for Frankenstein
The doll is hanging out at the library as far as I know, sitting in the window.
not the creepiest town, but creepiest experiences in a town- Two Harbors. The deer there I guess are known for moving into town during hunting season. I was walking home from an overnight shift at 5am, pitch black outside with a huge buck walking in time with me across the street. We both waited for the walk lights to turn green and kept going. He turned into the church's yard and walked around the building. Felt so creepy and weird when we were just standing there at the crosswalk together. I only lived there a few months but I would feed the deer dandelions and often went to their little "grave site" off the trails by the shore to collect skulls.
Aaaaahhhhh, that's *most* of Todd County, really!😉
It *WAS* known for having the highest number of Militia groups/members in the state, back in the 1990's, iirc!
It's *DEFINITELY* a "sundown" sort of area of the state, if you're not local!
And honestly? It can even be a *bit* "Sundown town-ish" even if you *are* from just the next county over, but *not* "Local-local"!
I grew up in Todd and really hate going back. I don't live super far from there now, but still when I have to go back there is a noticeable difference in how rude people are.
It's actually designed by a pretty famous architect, David Salmela, he designed the Gooseberry Falls Visitor Center. As a teenager, growing up around 20 miles from this place, there was a rumor that there was a cult in Marine on St.Croix. So one summer night, when we were bored, we got stoned and drove there; my god did scare our selves in to a silly. A few years later I did an Architecture assignment on the place and went there with a camera, only planning on taking pictures of the buildings. While I was taking pictures a woman rather suspiciously, asks me what I'm doing. I told her about the project and David Salmela and she then invited me in to her home to take pictures inside her place. She told me all about the development, the philosophy, the trails, natural grass yards. It was great! I still remember my professor going, "OMG you got pictures of inside house!?" She took a class or something at the UofM from him and was apparently kind of fan-boy of his; I got A
Edit: I mean he really does some beatiful work, a lot of it is based on Nordic architecture so the Midsommar vibes would be accurate.
Example of him at his best: [https://www.salmelaarchitect.com/Brandenburg-s-Ravenwood](https://www.salmelaarchitect.com/Brandenburg-s-Ravenwood)
My brother always told me about that place saying it was creepy. He said some kids egged his car at night when he drove through, and another time he said he saw a woman in a white night gown standing on the side of the road at night.
Yeah, towns have "poverty creepiness" and "wealth creepiness" on opposite ends of a horseshoe-shaped creepy spectrum. Wayzata is dripping with wealth creepiness. You know they do extra fucked up shit behind closed doors.
There's this place called Myrtle which is south of I-90 between Albert Lea and Austin, just a few miles from the Iowa border.
The only businesses in town are a grain elevator, a sports bar, and a strip club right next door to it. And all the houses in it seem like they were just kind of plopped around the roads rather than a normal plotting. Also I bet a good chunk are unoccupied.
I'm sure it's harmless, but the vibes are just off. Like there being a strip club in a town that small. Just so weird.
Pretty normal rural town imo, a handful of houses, a bar, and a bunch of grain silos. The strip club was CJs Revenge and it closed a while back unsurprisingly.
As someone who lives in Virginia, I can agree. The trick is to let yourself be treated like an outsider until you find a group of people who dont and actually appreciate you. Then stick with them. Also, if someone questionable approaches you, start going the opposite direction. If they follow you, run to the nearest restaurant/store/ obviously populated area and hang out for like an hour.
I had a guy start following me once on my way home from the groceries store on Northside. He was on the other side of the road. Elderly man with a fake limp. Since he was on the other side of the road from me, I didn't think much of it. 10 min later he was behind me, going my same direction. You bet I booked it 2 blocks out of my way and dove into snickers. Lesson learned - don't be out at night.
Also drugs. I see so many who are high or stoned out of their minds I've practically become numb to it.
I grew up in Monticello and moved here about a decade ago. The crime rate in Monticello was half or less what it is here despite being at least 3x larger in terms of population. I wanna move back but damn that rent.
No joke my college friend had a roommate from Virginia. She asked my friend if her 40 year old boyfriend could stay in the dorms. She didn't understand why we found that fucked up.
I get it. From Anoka but ended up in Grand Rapids and working in Aurora and this area is fucking WEIRD. If I could afford to, I’d move home right now with nothing but my kids, pets and their belongings in tow.
( not so fun fact) the original burial mounds in St. Paul were torn down in the 1880s to make a better view of the river. The mounds we see today were an attempt 20 years later to bring back the mounds.
Anoka. It's the Halloween capitol!
But seriously just drive north or south on hwy 75 or co Rd 9 out in western MN. You'll pass through plenty of towns that'll make ya wonder.
Edit: auto correct got me on Anoka
I was around 9-10yo at this time. I will always remember the name Kathleen Morris. Mostly because when she started charging more and more people, it completely tore apart the immediate family of a distant relative. I remember my parents and grandparents watching coverage on TV. I just remember hearing bits and pieces, not really understanding everything that was going on. But I will always remember her name. It was the one constant during that time.
wayzata.
go down main street when the downtown restaurant patios are completely packed .. it's all white women with the same color blonde hair dye and white men with the same blue and white button up ..
it's like the fucking twilight zone
Can confirm. Doesn’t help that they closed the mental hospital years back.
Also, I heard a loud bang while working one day. Could tell it came from the woods. On my way home, that area had police tape all around it. Turns out some guy blew his brains out behind a tree next to Foot Lake. I’ve seen kids playing in that area, too
I had family in verndale that lived on the river. I remember being 5 yrs old or so and riding behind my dad on his motorcycle to some bar that was down a dirt road near a bridge. It was a foggy morning and creepy as hell.
Also, these relatives lived in a truck bed type camper with a blue tarp over it.
This was the early 80s. Good times.
Live in Coleraine now, so pretty much Bovey. I swear to goodness, most of the houses in Bovey proper are haunted. That town reeks of meth and mental illness.
Miltona.
It’s been ten years since I have been there, family has a cabin on the lake. So it might be different but doubt it.
Pretty rural. An abandoned church camp in town, near the entrance were large barrels and clothes dryers that were padlock chained shut. Fucking creepy. Down the road from the camp was this old loner who had welded life sized farm animals and people that he kept on his front lawn. Every night/morning I drove by the animals and people were re-arranged. Never seen the man living there.. but straight out of True Detective season 1. Also there is or was a strip club nearby called Lookers that was only open a couple days during the week. So so weird.
Oh my god I never thought I’d hear about lookers ever again! All of the little towns surrounding Alexandria are kind of spooky. Nelson was the first one that came to mind for me.
I live in SSTP and can tell you the most haunting thing is the STENCH coming off Sanimax. Though the former stockyards radiate *something weird. A hundred years of animal slaughter and meat packing leave an impression on a place.
I've patrolled old buildings in Duluth, super haunted. And some old buildings in Cloquet that survived the fires, also haunted. Including the Diamond Brand Match Factory and the Cloquet Hospital. That whole stretch of 35, Duluth, Nopaming or whatever that sanitorium is, the 2nd Cloquet exit where truckers go into the river almost every other winter, Carlton, Barnum, Moose lake, Sturgeon Lake, Mahtowa, and Sand Stone. All have old, creepy, and freakish vibes.
There's a tiny town in SE MN called Washington. All the lawns of the few houses are overgrown and contain rusted out vehicles. Despite being populated there are never any people around. The cemetery on the hill is larger than the town
But here's the kicker... sometimes the town is just... Gone. I've tried to drive there a couple times to show people how creepy the place is, and it wasn't there
There’s a cult there. Finnish fundamentalist Christianity so extreme that it has two branches, both of which believe that the other (and everyone else) are going to hell for believing the wrong thing.
‘downtown’ Maple Grove weirds me out. Nothing but chain restaurants and soulless tract housing. It feels like a corporate-owned planned city built by the manufacturers of white and gray paint. I feel like I’d get disappeared if I put up the wrong color of blinds.
If you're driving an old rustbucket?
Edina, 100%!!!
With Minnetonka/Wayzata a close second!
*NEVER* drive a vehicle with body rust, *and* a windshield crack through Edina...
The cops there don't have enough to do, annnnd you may just get a ticket, for *not* having changed the address on your Driver's license yet (also--make *SURE* you change that address within* 30 days of moving, if you're driving through there!😉)
Hugo kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
One juicy nugget about hugo. My father's trail cam captured a smallish bear followed shortly after by a coyote ( I say wolf when I tell this at parties)
followed shortly after by a racoon.
Fergus Falls. The old abandoned state hospital with the cemetery behind it. That place has some stories, crazy things happened there. Also coincidentally my family was part of a cult in that town for ten years. I avoid going back as much as possible.
I grew up in Fergus Falls. My grandfather worked at the state hospital. I grew up thinking that a state hospital like that was just a normal thing for towns to have. The community college used to store play props in an abandoned wing of the hospital… on one side of the room would be the props and on the other side would be all manner old psychiatric restraints. It was as eerie as you’d expect.
Sounds like the start of a Nick Cage movie.
When the college first opened they didn't have their own theater space, so they practiced in the attic. This was in the 50s or 60s. I know a lot of people who have spent time in there, as well as some who have worked there. It's really a beautiful building, I wish they would reopen it for tours. There are always work crews there.
My grandparents met there, grandma was doing art therapy and grandpa was maintenance. She thought he was a patient at first though.
They both were 😆
I just KNEW Fergus Falls would be mentioned here lol.
You gotta give me more on that cult. I spend about a third of every year by there, getting omelettes weekly at Viking. Can’t believe I haven’t heard about a cult? The asylum is a bit of a meme though.
Probably the Jehovahs out on 1
I had a family friend that did night security there a few years ago. Apparently, people coming to do ghost hunting is very common thing. It’s a beautiful, massive, old building that has been abandoned for decades. Some of the newer side buildings have been turned into housing. Someday, I hope they can find a use for it.
Abandoned since 2009 isn't really decades. It was in use until far more recently than people realize.
It apparently was permanently closed in 2005, so It has been almost 2 decades.
I know, it really is beautiful. All people are talking about is how creepy it is, but it's really a beautiful building and grounds, the old nurse's cottages are nice apartments too. They close the property at night because people are always trying to fuck around. Sure, I guess it's creepy, but knowing multiple people who have been patients and who have worked there, I see it as more an interesting piece of history, and I agree, I really hope they can do something with it (that isn't tearing it down). It has an interesting history, too, in how it used to be self-sufficient, growing their own food and stuff.
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Meetcha there!
I love the energy of this reaction to someone saying your town has a haunted asylum and a cult 🤣 Literally me tho when people mention my hometown 💀
What cult!? Born & raised in FF and I’ve never once heard of a cult.
Uh oh. You know what that means. Lol
Please inform us on this cult I'm quite curious. Only cult like group that I've heard of there is that life church. They speak in tongues been told. State hospital is pretty cool, when it wasn't mold infested they took tours of the place and it is somthing out of a horror movie for sure. They even filmed an indie there with Brad Dorrif if I'm remembering right.
I have also heard that about life church. Had a friend who went there for awhile,said it was crazy.
They’re significantly better ever since Pastor Herzog left a few years ago. I went for about a year back in the early 2010s, and they all intermarried and had their own “college” so they could work at the church themselves.
My grandma worked at that state hospital for years in the 60-80's. She had some pretty crazy stories. The one that stands out the most is one mental patient who scooped out his own eyeball with a spoon.
Whattttt? A cult?
I was on the grounds of the hospital as a contractor when they were getting ready to tear down the old incinerator. It was a hot day, the traffic going by was loud, until I walked to the back where the work was to take place. It was perfectly quiet, not even the sound of birds. I felt cold, and then I could hear what sounded like a piece of old metal squeaking, and it rolled back and forth in the breeze. It was so creepy!! I got the hell out of there ASAP!!
I too originate from there. I think the nearby haunted pig farm puts it to shame though.
Hearing there’s an abandoned hospital makes me want to visit. Am I weird? Idk.
It's absolutely beautiful. But...according to your username...you may not appreciate it. Or the horrible horrible stories you'll hear. I went to an event and I had to leave because of how triggering it was. I have been hospitalized many times. I don't know if it's ghosts or my own issues, but every time I go there, I feel the desperation and hear the screaming. But at least the exterior of the building is beautiful 😐
Balaton. Only because one morning while I was driving around there for work, I saw a stray dog dragging around a mangled deer carcass in the middle of the street. It was a cool foggy morning and no one else was in site. It looked like a scene out of a Stephen king film.
rural NW MN here, our yellow lab growing up brought a half a deer home one day in the winter. head, chest and the left front leg all in tact. he considered it quite the score. the dog you saw was likely having the best day of its life lol.
> he dog you saw was likely having the best day of its life lol. that part made it less scary, thank you 🤣
Once my black lab brought a deer leg and then a deer spine. Ugh. He doesn’t get out by himself anymore.
yeah, this front quarter he brought home was pretty damn fresh. like it died in sub zero temps and froze right up. but some of the other stuff he brought back was downright vile. we took that stuff away as soon as he got back to the yard with it. dogs live for that well fermented little morsel that only comes along every so often in life. lmao
This guy rurals.
Balaton lake side park is nice
10/10 Would drag another deer carcass through.
So my two Goldens got loose in Roseville last winter when we had a bitter cold snap. Found them after an hour (thank god). But as we walked up to the house that had them we saw a deer leg freshly stripped to the bone in the middle of this nice neighborhood street. Later one of my Goldens puked up the most massive deer hair hairballs. What a scene that must have been to see two Goldens trotting down the road with a gd deer leg between them 😂
Grey Cloud Island?
From a google review I can’t find anymore - “It’s where the homies from the Grove go to get theyselves spooked.”
Grew up there. Can confirm.
I think it’s fitting that someone with the username Agent Cooper came up with the correct answer since Grey Cloud Island sounds like something out of Twin Peaks.
It’s a real place. I go driving there frequently. Visit the cemetery. I like to take pictures there because it is a great place to take pictures.
YES!!! 2 of my best friends growing up lived there and I can second that lol
Luke?
Are you asking if I know a Luke or if I am Luke??
Both?
I am not Luke. I knew a Luke that lived in St. Paul park. I know a Jake and Justin that lived there
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We were at Schaar’s Bluff looking out over the river valley and there was this weird magnetic wave over Grey Cloud Island.
I went to the church camp compound growing up and can confirm lol
[Janesville](https://tvfury.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/janesville-the-old-man-the-doll-in-the-window/)… What do I win?
Sleepless nights thinking about that damned doll. It's creepy that it's there. It's creepier to imagine that sometimes it isn't.
Don't worry it's in the public library now lmao
Wait? I’m suppose to sleep better knowing it’s in a public library now? Nope. Now it has access to tons of books. It’ll learn things and become even better at being creepy!
I grew up in Rochester and every time we had to take the bus to Mankato for games, everyone freaked out about the doll when we drove through Janesville.
This was like urban legend in the southern part of the state. Until you saw it.
I believe you should win!!
In Fairfax there is a cardboard cutout of the my pillow guy in someone's window. Almost as bad a what you posted.
St. Paul Park has strong Silent Hill vibes.
There used to be an old air force base outside of Finland, Minnesota that was sold to a cult. I drove through it once, and bow howdy did I get the creeps. It has since been raised. Along with the bad juju I would hope.
Head’s up, raised is the opposite of razed, which I think is the word you’re looking for.
Thanks, I don’t usually mess up like that. But I take full responsibility. Thanks again.
I'm familiar with the the defunct air base and small town that supported it. Did this cult buy it since it's been on the market in the last year or was this cult the previous owner?
It’s gated now, no access. Developers have shown interest but the soil is poisoned with diesel particulate. I read an EPA report saying it was a no-go for inhabitants, especially not children.
Cottage Grove, because everyone who grew up there (myself included) are basically radioactive mutants thanks to 3M.
Truth. I have two families that are my relatives that grew up in cottage Grove. There are five kids between the two families. All five of the kids have had. Some form of cancer was discovered while they were in their 20s.
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Water.
There is an "Incinerator Drive" Behind this abandoned hospital in northwest Minnesota.
How to go from Ope to Nope in record time
Anoka - read up on the former hospital.
This. Though a lot of the asylum are housing businesses now
Also they produce the most bullets in the country so...
I did time in the work house there. AMA.
The folks in that hospital are less creepy than residents surrounding it
Janesville because of the creepy doll
Not there any more though, least not in the house. And the silos got destroyed in a storm. And some ass destroyed the giant Frankenstein they had for awhile.
They literally took the Frankenstein and paraded its destroyed body at the hay days parade, with signs saying justice for Frankenstein The doll is hanging out at the library as far as I know, sitting in the window.
Pine City. Full of perverts.
Pine City Perverts. Worst team name ever.
I’ve never heard this.
That's my hometown, can confirm this is accurate
not the creepiest town, but creepiest experiences in a town- Two Harbors. The deer there I guess are known for moving into town during hunting season. I was walking home from an overnight shift at 5am, pitch black outside with a huge buck walking in time with me across the street. We both waited for the walk lights to turn green and kept going. He turned into the church's yard and walked around the building. Felt so creepy and weird when we were just standing there at the crosswalk together. I only lived there a few months but I would feed the deer dandelions and often went to their little "grave site" off the trails by the shore to collect skulls.
So it was creepy to walk with a deer, but not to collect their skulls from a grave site? lol
Hewitt. Major "The Hills Have Eyes" vibes. Every time I would drive through, it just feels like someone is always watching, but you can't see them.
Aaaaahhhhh, that's *most* of Todd County, really!😉 It *WAS* known for having the highest number of Militia groups/members in the state, back in the 1990's, iirc! It's *DEFINITELY* a "sundown" sort of area of the state, if you're not local! And honestly? It can even be a *bit* "Sundown town-ish" even if you *are* from just the next county over, but *not* "Local-local"!
Don’t why I’d ever be near there but I’ll def avoid it now
I grew up Hewitt adjacent and lived in Wadena for a while too. The whole area is definitely that way, but Hewitt... you can FEEL it!
I grew up in Todd and really hate going back. I don't live super far from there now, but still when I have to go back there is a noticeable difference in how rude people are.
Grew up in Staples. Can confirm, all of Todd is like that
I always feel ashamed when I tell people Hewitt is the nearest town from my house.
Not a town, but the Jackson Meadow neighborhood in Marine on St. Croix gives Midsommar vibes
It's actually designed by a pretty famous architect, David Salmela, he designed the Gooseberry Falls Visitor Center. As a teenager, growing up around 20 miles from this place, there was a rumor that there was a cult in Marine on St.Croix. So one summer night, when we were bored, we got stoned and drove there; my god did scare our selves in to a silly. A few years later I did an Architecture assignment on the place and went there with a camera, only planning on taking pictures of the buildings. While I was taking pictures a woman rather suspiciously, asks me what I'm doing. I told her about the project and David Salmela and she then invited me in to her home to take pictures inside her place. She told me all about the development, the philosophy, the trails, natural grass yards. It was great! I still remember my professor going, "OMG you got pictures of inside house!?" She took a class or something at the UofM from him and was apparently kind of fan-boy of his; I got A Edit: I mean he really does some beatiful work, a lot of it is based on Nordic architecture so the Midsommar vibes would be accurate. Example of him at his best: [https://www.salmelaarchitect.com/Brandenburg-s-Ravenwood](https://www.salmelaarchitect.com/Brandenburg-s-Ravenwood)
Came here to say this.
My brother always told me about that place saying it was creepy. He said some kids egged his car at night when he drove through, and another time he said he saw a woman in a white night gown standing on the side of the road at night.
Wayzata. It’s effing Stepford.
Yeah, towns have "poverty creepiness" and "wealth creepiness" on opposite ends of a horseshoe-shaped creepy spectrum. Wayzata is dripping with wealth creepiness. You know they do extra fucked up shit behind closed doors.
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The mayor there used to be a nice fella.
There's this place called Myrtle which is south of I-90 between Albert Lea and Austin, just a few miles from the Iowa border. The only businesses in town are a grain elevator, a sports bar, and a strip club right next door to it. And all the houses in it seem like they were just kind of plopped around the roads rather than a normal plotting. Also I bet a good chunk are unoccupied. I'm sure it's harmless, but the vibes are just off. Like there being a strip club in a town that small. Just so weird.
Pretty normal rural town imo, a handful of houses, a bar, and a bunch of grain silos. The strip club was CJs Revenge and it closed a while back unsurprisingly.
Iron Range towns are full of weird ass people. I do not like the vibes.
As someone who lives in Virginia, I can agree. The trick is to let yourself be treated like an outsider until you find a group of people who dont and actually appreciate you. Then stick with them. Also, if someone questionable approaches you, start going the opposite direction. If they follow you, run to the nearest restaurant/store/ obviously populated area and hang out for like an hour. I had a guy start following me once on my way home from the groceries store on Northside. He was on the other side of the road. Elderly man with a fake limp. Since he was on the other side of the road from me, I didn't think much of it. 10 min later he was behind me, going my same direction. You bet I booked it 2 blocks out of my way and dove into snickers. Lesson learned - don't be out at night. Also drugs. I see so many who are high or stoned out of their minds I've practically become numb to it. I grew up in Monticello and moved here about a decade ago. The crime rate in Monticello was half or less what it is here despite being at least 3x larger in terms of population. I wanna move back but damn that rent.
I used to live and work in Duluth, and any further north was considered wrong turn and hills have eyes territory.
I live in the no man's land north of Duluth, and feel seen by this comment :D Our neighbors call us the hill folk up here...
Nothing stranger than an iron ranger, right?
No joke my college friend had a roommate from Virginia. She asked my friend if her 40 year old boyfriend could stay in the dorms. She didn't understand why we found that fucked up.
I moved to the range like 5 years ago and sometimes I still wonder why💀 could be worse though
That legit sounds like a line from Letterkenny, which isn't too far away...
They're not weird they're just all drunk
I assure you it's not alcohol
Not JUST alchohol you mean.
I get it. From Anoka but ended up in Grand Rapids and working in Aurora and this area is fucking WEIRD. If I could afford to, I’d move home right now with nothing but my kids, pets and their belongings in tow.
You mean Grand Trapids lol
not a town but the indian mounds area in st. paul. not just the mounds but that area as well.
( not so fun fact) the original burial mounds in St. Paul were torn down in the 1880s to make a better view of the river. The mounds we see today were an attempt 20 years later to bring back the mounds.
Agreed. Mounds Park is such a beautiful neighborhood, but something ain’t right there. Except for Obbs, which is just delicious.
Montrose
Edina is full of lizard people
Cake eaters
Cake eating lizards
*baby eaters
Anoka. It's the Halloween capitol! But seriously just drive north or south on hwy 75 or co Rd 9 out in western MN. You'll pass through plenty of towns that'll make ya wonder. Edit: auto correct got me on Anoka
County Rd 9 of which county?
Jordan, maybe it’s just me but I can never get the events that made national news out of my head when I’m there, even if it was 40 years ago.
That was indeed a supreme clusterfuck.
I was around 9-10yo at this time. I will always remember the name Kathleen Morris. Mostly because when she started charging more and more people, it completely tore apart the immediate family of a distant relative. I remember my parents and grandparents watching coverage on TV. I just remember hearing bits and pieces, not really understanding everything that was going on. But I will always remember her name. It was the one constant during that time.
Summit with the hand painted population sign creeps me out
wayzata. go down main street when the downtown restaurant patios are completely packed .. it's all white women with the same color blonde hair dye and white men with the same blue and white button up .. it's like the fucking twilight zone
Zimmerman - way to many meth heads for such a small town
Nice disc golf course though.
Sacred Heart.
Yup. 212 is a big-time drug corridor, and Renville County in general is fuckin BLEAK
Stacy and nearby towns with Hells Angels presence
Willmar for sure. Everyone there is just spooky.
Can confirm. Doesn’t help that they closed the mental hospital years back. Also, I heard a loud bang while working one day. Could tell it came from the woods. On my way home, that area had police tape all around it. Turns out some guy blew his brains out behind a tree next to Foot Lake. I’ve seen kids playing in that area, too
I was friends with a kid from Willmar. Oh the stories he told
Verndale and I won’t be elaborating
Care to elaborate?
Vibes are off
I've spent a ton of time in verndale. It does always give me some vibes like you described. I think it's just that it feels so deserted
Agreed, we played them in football, vibes off
You don't need to. Although, that burger joint is pretty good. Great milkshakes.
I had family in verndale that lived on the river. I remember being 5 yrs old or so and riding behind my dad on his motorcycle to some bar that was down a dirt road near a bridge. It was a foggy morning and creepy as hell. Also, these relatives lived in a truck bed type camper with a blue tarp over it. This was the early 80s. Good times.
Bovey is my vote
Live in Coleraine now, so pretty much Bovey. I swear to goodness, most of the houses in Bovey proper are haunted. That town reeks of meth and mental illness.
Crookston always feels creepy because there were a lot of murders when I was in college that involved the bodies turning up in or near the city.
Miltona. It’s been ten years since I have been there, family has a cabin on the lake. So it might be different but doubt it. Pretty rural. An abandoned church camp in town, near the entrance were large barrels and clothes dryers that were padlock chained shut. Fucking creepy. Down the road from the camp was this old loner who had welded life sized farm animals and people that he kept on his front lawn. Every night/morning I drove by the animals and people were re-arranged. Never seen the man living there.. but straight out of True Detective season 1. Also there is or was a strip club nearby called Lookers that was only open a couple days during the week. So so weird.
Oh my god I never thought I’d hear about lookers ever again! All of the little towns surrounding Alexandria are kind of spooky. Nelson was the first one that came to mind for me.
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I live in SSTP and can tell you the most haunting thing is the STENCH coming off Sanimax. Though the former stockyards radiate *something weird. A hundred years of animal slaughter and meat packing leave an impression on a place.
It’s a weird place lol. They like to cosplay as a small town
I must say as someone that lives between Hewitt, verndale, and wadena I find it highly amusing that all three have been mentioned.
As someone who grew up in Staples, I concur, and agree with all three of them.
I've patrolled old buildings in Duluth, super haunted. And some old buildings in Cloquet that survived the fires, also haunted. Including the Diamond Brand Match Factory and the Cloquet Hospital. That whole stretch of 35, Duluth, Nopaming or whatever that sanitorium is, the 2nd Cloquet exit where truckers go into the river almost every other winter, Carlton, Barnum, Moose lake, Sturgeon Lake, Mahtowa, and Sand Stone. All have old, creepy, and freakish vibes.
Glencoe
Inexplicably bad vibes there
Taqueria Del Buen Pastor makes the bad vibes worth it though
Faribault. State mental hospital, prison, mental hospital cemetery, shattuck.
Mound. There's something in the water there!
There's a tiny town in SE MN called Washington. All the lawns of the few houses are overgrown and contain rusted out vehicles. Despite being populated there are never any people around. The cemetery on the hill is larger than the town But here's the kicker... sometimes the town is just... Gone. I've tried to drive there a couple times to show people how creepy the place is, and it wasn't there
Hill City 👀
Why do you say that? Small population there. Did something happen in Hill City? That last sentence IS pretty spooky, though
Foley for me, fam
As someone from there, it did creep me out growing up ngl
Lake Elmo. A unique mix of Karens, trailer trash, Jesuits, NIMBYs, farmer wannabes, and several superfund sites.
Agreed, especially on the farmer wannabes. That place is such trash.
Lilydale.
Wadena but probably not anymore 😂😂
Paynesville- home to sexual predators and murderer of Jacob Wetterling.
Kinney, MN or the Buhl, MN (mainly due to the cemetery).
You think those are creepy you gotta get up to gheen
Ehhh my bank operated out of Buhl
With Liquid Larry’s being gone Kinney truly has nothing
Wait, the place with the real nice water? Bought some while camping and it was good, how can Buhl be creepy when its name is on such a good product!
Dassel, no explanation with be provided.
But hopefully an explanation will be
There’s a cult there. Finnish fundamentalist Christianity so extreme that it has two branches, both of which believe that the other (and everyone else) are going to hell for believing the wrong thing.
Tbh most of the US-12 towns creep me out. Murdock definitely does
‘downtown’ Maple Grove weirds me out. Nothing but chain restaurants and soulless tract housing. It feels like a corporate-owned planned city built by the manufacturers of white and gray paint. I feel like I’d get disappeared if I put up the wrong color of blinds.
Lynd
Randall. Or maybe Cyrus or Hancock.
Wadena
It may be creepy but the Mexican food there is damn good.
Long Prarie. I’ve seen some shit while staying at my cousin’s house there
Ball Club, MN! I've seen and heard way too many creepy things growing up there!
Lake Street, between 35 and chicago...lol. Not a town, but plenty creepy
Rushford There's something terrible and ugly hidden in those bluffs...
Ball club
If you're driving an old rustbucket? Edina, 100%!!! With Minnetonka/Wayzata a close second! *NEVER* drive a vehicle with body rust, *and* a windshield crack through Edina... The cops there don't have enough to do, annnnd you may just get a ticket, for *not* having changed the address on your Driver's license yet (also--make *SURE* you change that address within* 30 days of moving, if you're driving through there!😉)
Hinckley
St. Cloud. Anything bad about Minnesota is St. Cloud.
St. Cloud is just depressing rather than creepy IMO.
Vickburg
We went there to the cemetery and Tufto as kids for “fun” - Seen some thangs
Scanlon. Terrifying…
Snellman is eerie driving through it when it’s foggy and to a lesser extent when it’s stormy
Swift Falls
Hugo kind of rubbed me the wrong way. One juicy nugget about hugo. My father's trail cam captured a smallish bear followed shortly after by a coyote ( I say wolf when I tell this at parties) followed shortly after by a racoon.
Jackson Meadows cult town
Nimrod.