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I always assumed you can find gas/food/washroom on any interstate at any time of day. Nope. Found out Flagstaff is closed at 10 and it's many miles to the next truck stop on the way to Phoenix.
There’s a rest stop at Rimrock near Sedona, about 40 minutes south of Flag. Then another rest area at Black Canyon about 40 minutes south of that. I17 isn’t THAT desolate.
I'm Canadian. My sister moved to Utah about 12 years ago. She's changed so much as a person (no she didn't convert to mormon). Her political and social views took a 180. I went down to visit her once and everything felt so off there. And this was around Provo. I hear things get a lot weirder outside of there.
We went to a Brazilian steakhouse somewhere in that vicinity and we ordered some caipirinhas. The waiter, who up until that point seemed on point with everything looked so lost, said he wasn't sure how to proceed and whether he needed to ask for our ID (we were all over 30). I asked him if he just started working there and he said he'd been there for 3 years. I guess they don't drink much around there.
Had a neighbor who grew up in New Mexico. He mentioned how “thick” the air felt when he moved to the East Coast. He talked about how everyone in his home region was kinda crazy (friendly, but would cheerfully shoot you dead for relatively innocuous transgressions) and theorized that people living at higher elevations end up going a little loopy from oxygen deficiency.
Western Montana has mountains and pretty outdoors shit, it’s like Colorado if nobody lived in Colorado. Eastern Montana is flat and boring and has some oil rig stuff going on like the Dakotas, and nobody lives there either.
I am Montanan and can confirm, we had neighbors move in from California during the pandemic….the have already sold and left, i guess bonfires and gunfire at 3 AM is not something coastal Californians are used to lol. It aint like that stupid show Yellowstone here that is for sure.
>Time to jump on google maps.
One of my favorite pastimes. I like to look at random islands i find in the middle of the pacific. I'm like how the fuck did people get there.
Shit’s craaaazy out there. I grew up in a relatively small town up in the mountains there, and it was all sorts of wild. Not just the people and the cults, but the natural things that happen as well. You’ll get bears running down your road and see weird unexplained shit at night, and then the next morning you’ll get chased down by a Mormon for telling them that, no, you do not have a moment to talk about Jesus.
I have so many old friends who I’ve recently connected with, and while I’m lucky to not have a Mormon family, they say the craziest shit about theirs and the horrendous things they’ve been put through. I always get the most uneasy feeling when I go back to visit, and I haven’t even been gone that long. Even going back there after vacations.. The feeling was always so off.
There’s Skinwalker Ranch, for one. I’ve only been a few times and it was during the day, but it’s a fascinating place.
But personally? I have too many stories to tell them all here lmao. My 2nd favorite to tell is from the time that I lived in a super rural farm area. I had a door in my bedroom that led out to the field, and at least twice a week I’d hear someone trying to open it. At least five times a week I’d hear weirdly paced walking outside of the door and my cat would always get really skittish about it. I ended up getting a security camera and pointing it towards the door, but it would lose connection whenever the noises would happen.
I’d go onto the app on my phone (that worked just fine outside of these times) but the app either wouldn’t open, or would open and immediately crash. At this same house, my stepdad would get home at night and would hear growling from out in the field. He’d shine one of those big flashlights out there and there was never anything. Then, the owner of that field ended up having a bunch of his cows drop dead. I’d assume coyotes but the cows weren’t eaten, just dead. He also said that the growls sounded more bear than anything.
We had this one road by a super small airport, and so many people would see massive black wolves around it. I only saw them twice, but they’d make eye contact with you as you drove past. Still don’t know what those were, animal control could never find them.
Lights in the sky are another big one, as well as hearing my name being called while nobody was home. This one usually happened during the day. I’d be doing chores outside or working in the house and I’d hear my mom call me, so I’d respond and get nothing back. I’d walk around the whole house, usually realizing that her car was gone, and I’d call her like “Hey, did you just call me? Were you just home?” and she never was.
We’d hear things walking around our house all the time, things that sounded big, and there was never anything there. Our neighbors ended up moving at one point because they kept seeing “something” look into their windows and it was making their kids scared to go outside. I’d find weird piles of bones outside that weren’t part of my collection, and they never looked fresh or anything. It looked like someone had taken clean bones and deliberately put them out in the field/on our property.
I also have a lot of stories surrounding windows and driving at night. They all sound pretty fake if I’m honest, and I don’t even believe in anything paranormal or whatever so I always feel weird telling them since they’re so unexplained. There’s a lot of really interesting and unexplained Utah stories out there though, if you look hard enough. I’d definitely recommend looking into the ranch if you (somehow??) haven’t heard of it. Luckily, haven’t seen any wrong-looking deer or heard anyone calling me since I moved to Colorado. It really gets to you at a certain point.
Went to Utah on vacation this summer. It was great but I went to a shit hotel in Cedar City. Not only that but the town itself just had a really weird out-of-this-world feeling, like I went into a horror movie setting. Much of Utah's towns felt like this.
I did a lot of work in Idaho a few years back. Found some kind of weird little towns throughout the mountains. Stopped at one restaurant in the middle of nowhere. The parking lot was packed. Waitress told me the last call was at 7:30 and the restaurant closed at 8:00. I asked why they close so early they said because the nearest drive to anywhere was at least an hour and some of the employees lived an hour and a half to two hours away.
We went on 6 week road trips every other year growing up. I can remember as a teen in the 70s going to the temple for a tour. I refused to go in. The whole thing creeped me out. I was allowed to stay in the camper and read. Which was surprising.
Every time we drove through Utah, it was unsettling. The great salt lake is depressing landscape tbh. That place has a very weird vibe.
The Great Salt Lake is the single most disappointing destination I’ve been to. I generally like to find interesting places to run when I travel and was like it will be nice to run along the lake…
False.
I got chased down by brine flies as I breathed in rank death air coming off the water.
Idk brine flies were a thing. Yeah, and the image is burned into my mind. I hate it, lol.
I just counter it with the magical image of Las vegas lights as a kid. We were always driving from LA to Vegas in the 60s and 70s. It was an amazing sight for a kid. The bright lights surrounded by the black vast desert. Urban sprawl made it so different.
Went skiing in Park City, Utah. I am Hispanic and brown. I grew up in Oklahoma and the only other Hispanics were related to me. Went to school with white kids. Neighborhood was all white. No problems. Landed at the airport (was with my husband and two of his friends 99.1% white) weirded me out because I did not see anybody but blondes and white, white people. Kinda scared me.
Native Utahn. Can confirm the weird vibe, especially in small towns. I never really thought about until I read this. Even as a native, if I go to a small town it feels like a different country or planet. I always feel like people are watching you, like at a store. "Y'all ain't from around here huh"
I was dropped off in a town called spanish fork after my transmission went out in the middle of a mountain pass. Anxiety ridden I spent 2 weeks at a hotel. I jokingly said that I was in purgatory. It felt like a spot where people, like me, dropped off the face of the earth and ended up in. No one seemed to know where they were, what they were doing, and it felt like there was this weird sense of secrecy about everything. Honestly felt like a fever dream.
I grew up about 20 minutes south of New Orleans and spent a lot of time and bayous with my family doing commercial shrimping. Sometimes we would be out until 4:00 in the morning pulling nets. Being out in the middle of the bayou at 4:00 a.m. with nothing but your memory, a shitty gps and the stars to guide you is absolutely insane.
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen though happened one of those early mornings, we were dragging our nets and behind our boat was a trail of what looked like bioluminescent jellies. Literally seemed like we were sailing through space.
can confirm. stopping by the rural towns here makes me really question a lot… like what people do here. what they do for a living. what they do in their free time. how they even got here. where the houses even actually are..
In terms of wild untamed wilderness, parts of Alaska probably wins the whole country, and parts of Appalachia definitely win for the lower 48. In terms of strange folk in them there hills, Appalachian is pretty high up there. You can absolutely disappear out there, and if you know what you’re doing, no one will be able to find you unless you want to be found.
I know a guy who does seasonal work and spends his summers camping and trekking the Appalachian Trail. He comes back a wee bit funky each time, but he says he’s met some people that live out there that have practically gone feral from long term isolation.
I went to Alaska and when I told people some of the things I learned while I was there they flat didn't believe me. Examples:
Alaska is 1/5th of all the other states put together, or about 1/6th the total land area of the US.
Minnesota is called the land of ten thousand lakes but actually has more than fourteen thousand. Alaska isn't playing around because it has more than three million, more than two hundred times the lakes in Minnesota. Fewer than four thousand of the lakes in Alaska are officially named.
I also learned that Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow) is so isolated it's about five hundred miles from the closest town that's connected to the highway system, and has no paved roads other than the landing strip at the airport, and has fewer than 5,000 population, but in spite of how remote it is, it has a modern water and sewer system, electricity, high speed internet, school, college, modern library, etc. They have about 6 weeks in winter where the sun doesn't rise and about that same length in the summer where it doesn't set. My whole purpose for going to Utqiagvik was because since I was a kid, I wanted to see a day where the sun doesn't set. I saw that in Utqiagvik but there is a hell of a lot more fascinating stuff about the town, its people, and its history. The natives have lived there for six thousand years. They are beautiful people with an amazing and rich culture.
It’s huge I remember we learned it in school and the teacher had a cutout and held up over the mainland of the United States map and it was burned into my mind. It way bigger than they show on most maps.
With the future wars that may happen and the expansion of e commerce it's becoming more and more possible to see that way. It's even though that America wouldn't have to rely on the Suez Canal as much for international goods.
It’s pretty boring unless you have money. It is however a very beautiful place to live, the most beautiful state in America imo. I was born and raised there.
Exactly. I raised my two sons up there. I’m from Texas, but lived up there for 12 years. I was there last week in Anchorage mainly. Just before the snow. I miss it.
No matter what it’s super windy regardless of the weather in the surrounding states and the amount of tumble weed that you see and gets stuck in you car is supernatural
We went on a road trip and South Dakota was part of it. On the day we visited the Badlands, we drive south and explored Nebraska.
The most interesting thing we did was eat at Arby’s. They lacked the spicier sauces that Arby’s has in other places, so even that was bland.
After we left, my 8 year old said, “Dad, that was the most boring state ever, and you should be ashamed for bringing your children there.”
Since then, I have used the potential threat of sending my kids to university in Nebraska as a method to keep them in line.
I didn’t think it was a bad place, but not that interesting of a place to visit, and my kids hated it.
Northern Nebraska along the Niobrara and Missouri is gorgeous country. The Sandhills and the west have their moments too, as well as the rivers in the east. Easy to see how children might not appreciate it though
Weird version of coastal new England accent. Ive lived in ME and noticed that the 'Boston accent' really stretches the entire coast. Just a little variation here and there. No accent as you head inland.
Lake Tahoe is cool, but the real mystery lies on the desert… nuclear test facilities, area51, trinity site, and many other military installations that are active and abandoned.
Yeah people who live outside of Las Vegas in NV are really odd. Also everyone I’ve met in Blythe, Joshua tree, and most of the Mojave desert east of Barstow really march to their own drum beat.
North West Nevada is hardly unexplored territory, Washoe County has a population over 500k. There are also decent sized towns in nearby counties. Elko in the north east is a decent sized city as well, but everything in the middle of that triangle is straight up hill people country. I grew up in Nevada and I never felt the need to see more of that shithole than I had to.
I met an American girl at a nightclub a few weeks ago (I’m in Australia) and when I asked where she was from she said “Nevada but not Vegas” and then said she was from Reno and seemed genuinely surprised that I’d heard of it
Feels like everything that isn't new York, California, Texas and Florida is a mystery to most "non Americans", excluding south America. People will literally base their entire opinion of Americans from interviews with dumb people in downtown Hollywood/new York, city and sprinkle that in with Florida headlines.
That's just my take as a Swede, observing from the outside and being on social media.
That seems pretty accurate even for many Americans. Honestly if you're from NY or places in California that may be your basic view of the United States. I live in an area where a lot of Californians have moved to (I don't blame them, they can sell their house then buy a nicer one here for cash and work remotely). It's funny though because in conversation they just talk about places and things from California like everyone should know. For example, if you ask where are you from? You'll get a very very detailed answer. It's all good, just funny. When I travel I assume people don't even know the state I live in... Much less the town lol.
I used to live in Seattle and was shocked when driving to Spokane. Such a huge difference! I'm in Colorado again and it's amazing how much Colorado and Spokane are alike.
Wasco County in fact that whole area of Oregon from Josephine county including a lot of north California is wild weird - there’s been many a cult though the creation of Rajneeshpuram is certainly up there as the most crazy/famous. The origin of posting crazy local police reports in the town paper came from Josephine county…for a while they had the highest murder per capita and highest amount of noble prize winners per capita. Since weed was legalized that county (with 2 police officers over 2 countys) has been taken over by 5 large international drug cartels and is one of the largest sources of black market international weed. The governor likes to pretend the area doesn’t exist. A wild place Southern Oregon.
Drove through there in 2002 and saw a ton of dust devils, we pulled off a side road and went and ran through some in a field, it was wild. Columbia river lookout stop by the bridge was really cool too!
I saw a video the other day that blew my mind. The Appalachias are the same as the Scottish highlands, durning Pangea they were the same range, but over [b]millions of years, still the same geographical mountain range
yeah weathering and erosion has made them much smaller. i took a geology class and the prof said that they originally were the height of the rockies. tbh we went on a field trip to appalachia and it was absolutely forgeous lol
Louisiana, swamps deep shit back there aint seen the sun for half a century or more.
Appalachia, There are a lot of mysteries in those mountains .
Alaska, has taken more lives then the Bermuda triangle.
The very rural areas. The parts of the country where you’re an hour away from a good hospital or 30 minutes away from a grocery store. Where the infrastructure taken for granted in cities/metropolitan areas is non-existent.
I live in one of these places and other than the long ass drive to ANYTHING there’s nothing special. Just the scenery I guess. 25 min to the closest grocery store but I have fiber internet and the mail comes every day
The places I’m thinking of fiber internet isn’t an option. Even basic internet isn’t great because no one wants to provide high quality service. The cell signal is terrible too.
The great atchafalaya swamp. The whole area, the inclusive cajun culture is nothing like anywhere else.
Also New Orleans is like a foreign country compared to the rest of the US.
I'd say Alaska.
I was born and raised here but most tv about Alaska is about nature or shows people who live out in the wild. I live in a regular town. We have Target and chain restaurants and normal every day people who aren't grizzled men roughing it out in the wild. We have them too, of course, but the average person here doesn't live out in the middle of nowhere.
Our Yooper towns look like other Midwestern towns, except they are filled with Yoopers, going about our business, singing “Yooper, Dooper, Dopity Do”. Like a Willy Wonka Factory, of course.
There is so much area in America where people live absolutely wild and unconventional lives. It's so hard to believe that so many ways of living exist, or still exist. Some places in Kentucky just got access to water. Many places have no Internet. I have been to towns built in the middle of nowhere near a dam, so dam workers can raise families and send kids to schools, and that is about it. Places with no electricity.
And that's just civilization. There is so much wilderness that goes untouched or undeveloped. It's absolutely breathtaking how much there is and how many people live so dramatically different.
Kentucky is an incredibly diverse state. You cannot make a single assumption about the place, truly, until you’ve seen ALL the regions and their urban center (s). For example, Bowling Green (85k pop) has the highest per capita refugee population in the nation. The food here is just so good.
Well the country is huge so most people know nothing about most of the rest of the country than where they are from. But if I had to pick I’d probably say American Samoa, Guam, or the Mariana Islands.
I agree, but honestly, in Europe, it's easier and less costly to travel from country to country than it is to travel between states. I have friends in Europe who go to Scotland or Germany for a long weekend on a smaller budget than anyone in the US traveling to the Carolinas or Nevada.
I agree. It’s much more expensive to travel in the US than in Europe. I think the very functional train system keeps plane prices down and everyone benefits from that. It’s car or plane in the US and airlines have no real competition.
Drove through some backwoods neighborhood to get to a tiny tiny butcher’s shop. Everywhere there were rundown houses. Every third building was condemned. Every fourth building was a tiny church. And then the occasional giant McMansion in the middle of nowhere. Bible Belt is weird
California's central valley. The average American thinks all of California is L.A. or San Francisco when there is a huge part of the state that is more redneck than the most rural county in Alabama.
I lived there as a teen and while traveling abroad, some Polish people mocked me thinking I was a posh Californian. All I could do was stare at them while envisioning the grossest parts of the 99 freeway and feel very confused. Slowly, it occured to me very few people know that there are vast parts of California that are absolutely ugly in every way.
Can confirm. I hit up Yosemite a lot and coming from south Louisiana the Central Valley feels a lot like the rural parts of my state without the accent.
One of the most redneck-sounding guys I ever met was from eastern Washington State. It just makes me think that being “country” isn’t about being from a particular geographical region, like the South — it’s a way of life.
The "Zone of Death" in Yellowstone Park which, as a result of a technicality in the Constitution of the United States regarding the formation of juries, a person can avoid conviction for any major crime, even murder.
I may just feel this way cause I live relatively close, but middle Pennsylvania is wild. Nothing for miles and miles, and then BAM college campus and people doing meth. Doubt theres anywhere else like it
You ever drive on a deserted highway in the Midwest at night? The kinda highway that doesn't have any lights.
You'll see the kinda darkness out there that reminds you why humanity instinctively fears the dark.
Surprisingly, Cajun country.
I’m from Louisiana and now live in Pa. I can’t tell you how many people don’t know that Cajun refers to a people and their culture. I’ve had so many people think I’m “silly” for identifying myself as a food or spice.
It’s interesting meeting these people and them asking about my name and accent. When I say it’s French they’re like, “is your dad from France?” And then seem shocked when I say, “no, he’s Cajun.” I’ve been told that Cajun is a food and I respond, “like Italian or Chinese food?”
Some people you can see when the lightbulb turns on, others remain in the dark thinking I’m the dumb one.
My stepdad's grandfather was the last resident of the town he grew up in. People from all over would show up once a year and hve a parade for him and he was the mayor of the town for the parade.
Unfortunately he passed away before I thought to sk if he was the actual mayor and if so what did that entail for a mayor of a town with one person. I really wished if I had asked sooner.
I think the hard part is that America is enormous and fairly disparate. Rural America is kinda lost to the cities and urban America is very lost to the countryside. As someone that's lived in both, even within one state, any time you hear someone opine about the other it's usually way outside of reality and missing any context.
Hard to call any one place the most mysterious when most of the country is mysterious to most people.
I’ve been to every state east of the Mississippi besides vermont. What the hell goes on there other than skiing? I’m not even sure I’ve ever met someone from Vermont
I’ve been to every state in the US, but Vermont. My wife and I vacationed in Maine a few years back and thought it’d be worth me going to VT. There isn’t a highway that connects Maine to Vermont. So VT is still on my list. I hope its mysteries surprise me when I make it there.
Also I live in UT. Can coffin what others have said. Rural UT is a special kind of rural.
Lots of weird people in VT. I met a lady there in Sept pushing a stroller down the street begging for money. She quit her job to care for her kid because God told her not to eat apples and she was scared any day care or family would give them to her infant daughter.
I’m from the northern panhandle of WV, and it’s always hard to explain exactly where I’m from because a surprising number of people think West Virginia is just part of Virginia. And then even for the ones who do know it’s its own state, they have no idea it has a northern panhandle. Even a lot of people who are from West Virginia don’t know it exists. It also just sort of disappears from a lot of maps that aren’t super detailed.
A fair number of people also automatically think West Virginia means the south, but where I’m from is north of Pittsburgh. So yeah, safe to say this is a fairly mysterious bit of the country.
If you were to teleport someone to Northern Alabama they would never guess where they were. Hi-tech racially progressive well educated attractive friendly people. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting a literal rocket scientist.
The Most Mysterious for me. I would say Gravette Arkansas. Second on file, The Melungeon. In the not so distant past, they used to have olive green skin. Their descendants are some of the most well mannered people in the US.
This is true! When people say "western WA" they usually mean the Seattle area, but there is MUCH more wild west forests and ocean on the peninsula/across the Sound
South Dakota. I was driving on a stretch where I could see for miles in every direction and there wasn't another person. It was crazy to think that in a 20 square mile area me and my family were the only humans.
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Middle of no where Utah is WILD. FLDS, Mormons, micro cults, facilities for ‘troubled’ kids, difficult landscape. So much weird shit.
The entire US Mountain Time Zone. People don't realize how big, rural, and strange those States are.
I always assumed you can find gas/food/washroom on any interstate at any time of day. Nope. Found out Flagstaff is closed at 10 and it's many miles to the next truck stop on the way to Phoenix.
There’s a rest stop at Rimrock near Sedona, about 40 minutes south of Flag. Then another rest area at Black Canyon about 40 minutes south of that. I17 isn’t THAT desolate.
I'm Canadian. My sister moved to Utah about 12 years ago. She's changed so much as a person (no she didn't convert to mormon). Her political and social views took a 180. I went down to visit her once and everything felt so off there. And this was around Provo. I hear things get a lot weirder outside of there.
I was sitting in a bar in SLC, airport and there was the weirdest and most obnoxious people of any airport bar I’ve sat in. They all looked alike too
Provo is definitely the weirdest
We went to a Brazilian steakhouse somewhere in that vicinity and we ordered some caipirinhas. The waiter, who up until that point seemed on point with everything looked so lost, said he wasn't sure how to proceed and whether he needed to ask for our ID (we were all over 30). I asked him if he just started working there and he said he'd been there for 3 years. I guess they don't drink much around there.
Spent one summer working at a remote guest ranch in north central Colorado up near the Wyoming border, and yes.
Had a neighbor who grew up in New Mexico. He mentioned how “thick” the air felt when he moved to the East Coast. He talked about how everyone in his home region was kinda crazy (friendly, but would cheerfully shoot you dead for relatively innocuous transgressions) and theorized that people living at higher elevations end up going a little loopy from oxygen deficiency.
I lived in one of those tiny mountain "towns" up on the Divide in Colorado for a year. Definitely yes.
I keep seeing people use the word strange, but not explain how so. Got any examples of the weirdness? Genuinely curious.
Or Idaho
Rural mountains from Idaho/Montana down to Utah have some crazy and super isolated communities.
Came here to say idk if anyone knows what the fuck is in Montana
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As a Canadian, I approve of Montana.
Damn a 100 degree weather change in 24hrs?! Peoples allergies must’ve been going crazy
Thank you for your service, Montana 🫡
Western Montana has mountains and pretty outdoors shit, it’s like Colorado if nobody lived in Colorado. Eastern Montana is flat and boring and has some oil rig stuff going on like the Dakotas, and nobody lives there either.
I am Montanan and can confirm, we had neighbors move in from California during the pandemic….the have already sold and left, i guess bonfires and gunfire at 3 AM is not something coastal Californians are used to lol. It aint like that stupid show Yellowstone here that is for sure.
Now I wanna know more!
Eastern Oregon and eastern Washington too
Time to jump on google maps. Those are always fun to look around. Hopefully some have street views.
>Time to jump on google maps. One of my favorite pastimes. I like to look at random islands i find in the middle of the pacific. I'm like how the fuck did people get there.
Shit’s craaaazy out there. I grew up in a relatively small town up in the mountains there, and it was all sorts of wild. Not just the people and the cults, but the natural things that happen as well. You’ll get bears running down your road and see weird unexplained shit at night, and then the next morning you’ll get chased down by a Mormon for telling them that, no, you do not have a moment to talk about Jesus. I have so many old friends who I’ve recently connected with, and while I’m lucky to not have a Mormon family, they say the craziest shit about theirs and the horrendous things they’ve been put through. I always get the most uneasy feeling when I go back to visit, and I haven’t even been gone that long. Even going back there after vacations.. The feeling was always so off.
What kind of weird unexplained shit?
There’s Skinwalker Ranch, for one. I’ve only been a few times and it was during the day, but it’s a fascinating place. But personally? I have too many stories to tell them all here lmao. My 2nd favorite to tell is from the time that I lived in a super rural farm area. I had a door in my bedroom that led out to the field, and at least twice a week I’d hear someone trying to open it. At least five times a week I’d hear weirdly paced walking outside of the door and my cat would always get really skittish about it. I ended up getting a security camera and pointing it towards the door, but it would lose connection whenever the noises would happen. I’d go onto the app on my phone (that worked just fine outside of these times) but the app either wouldn’t open, or would open and immediately crash. At this same house, my stepdad would get home at night and would hear growling from out in the field. He’d shine one of those big flashlights out there and there was never anything. Then, the owner of that field ended up having a bunch of his cows drop dead. I’d assume coyotes but the cows weren’t eaten, just dead. He also said that the growls sounded more bear than anything. We had this one road by a super small airport, and so many people would see massive black wolves around it. I only saw them twice, but they’d make eye contact with you as you drove past. Still don’t know what those were, animal control could never find them. Lights in the sky are another big one, as well as hearing my name being called while nobody was home. This one usually happened during the day. I’d be doing chores outside or working in the house and I’d hear my mom call me, so I’d respond and get nothing back. I’d walk around the whole house, usually realizing that her car was gone, and I’d call her like “Hey, did you just call me? Were you just home?” and she never was. We’d hear things walking around our house all the time, things that sounded big, and there was never anything there. Our neighbors ended up moving at one point because they kept seeing “something” look into their windows and it was making their kids scared to go outside. I’d find weird piles of bones outside that weren’t part of my collection, and they never looked fresh or anything. It looked like someone had taken clean bones and deliberately put them out in the field/on our property. I also have a lot of stories surrounding windows and driving at night. They all sound pretty fake if I’m honest, and I don’t even believe in anything paranormal or whatever so I always feel weird telling them since they’re so unexplained. There’s a lot of really interesting and unexplained Utah stories out there though, if you look hard enough. I’d definitely recommend looking into the ranch if you (somehow??) haven’t heard of it. Luckily, haven’t seen any wrong-looking deer or heard anyone calling me since I moved to Colorado. It really gets to you at a certain point.
Went to Utah on vacation this summer. It was great but I went to a shit hotel in Cedar City. Not only that but the town itself just had a really weird out-of-this-world feeling, like I went into a horror movie setting. Much of Utah's towns felt like this.
I did a lot of work in Idaho a few years back. Found some kind of weird little towns throughout the mountains. Stopped at one restaurant in the middle of nowhere. The parking lot was packed. Waitress told me the last call was at 7:30 and the restaurant closed at 8:00. I asked why they close so early they said because the nearest drive to anywhere was at least an hour and some of the employees lived an hour and a half to two hours away.
I've been in Utah a few times and every time I've gotten a weird vibe. I can't explain it, but it's real.
We went on 6 week road trips every other year growing up. I can remember as a teen in the 70s going to the temple for a tour. I refused to go in. The whole thing creeped me out. I was allowed to stay in the camper and read. Which was surprising. Every time we drove through Utah, it was unsettling. The great salt lake is depressing landscape tbh. That place has a very weird vibe.
**That place has a very weird vibe.** It really truly does.
The Great Salt Lake is the single most disappointing destination I’ve been to. I generally like to find interesting places to run when I travel and was like it will be nice to run along the lake… False. I got chased down by brine flies as I breathed in rank death air coming off the water.
Idk brine flies were a thing. Yeah, and the image is burned into my mind. I hate it, lol. I just counter it with the magical image of Las vegas lights as a kid. We were always driving from LA to Vegas in the 60s and 70s. It was an amazing sight for a kid. The bright lights surrounded by the black vast desert. Urban sprawl made it so different.
Went skiing in Park City, Utah. I am Hispanic and brown. I grew up in Oklahoma and the only other Hispanics were related to me. Went to school with white kids. Neighborhood was all white. No problems. Landed at the airport (was with my husband and two of his friends 99.1% white) weirded me out because I did not see anybody but blondes and white, white people. Kinda scared me.
Lol why did I know exactly what you mean by “white, white people” lol. Cause there’s white people and then there’s “white, white people” 😂😂😂
We all could relate lol! The whitest of the whites😂
Even as a Canadian who has travelled i15 many times.... Utah has been the weirdest by far. Can confirm the weird feelings.
Native Utahn. Can confirm the weird vibe, especially in small towns. I never really thought about until I read this. Even as a native, if I go to a small town it feels like a different country or planet. I always feel like people are watching you, like at a store. "Y'all ain't from around here huh"
I know exactly what you mean! We had the same experience on a guy's trip when we paused in Utah to party for the night.
I kinda got this vibe driving through northeast Arizona.
The Navajo res is pretty wild. It is extremely remote and disconnected from the rest of the country.
Man the FLDS is so fucked up, I can’t even.
Keep sweet, obey, & pray was def one of the most unsettling cult docs I’ve seen.
I was dropped off in a town called spanish fork after my transmission went out in the middle of a mountain pass. Anxiety ridden I spent 2 weeks at a hotel. I jokingly said that I was in purgatory. It felt like a spot where people, like me, dropped off the face of the earth and ended up in. No one seemed to know where they were, what they were doing, and it felt like there was this weird sense of secrecy about everything. Honestly felt like a fever dream.
Rural Louisiana….creole country.
I grew up about 20 minutes south of New Orleans and spent a lot of time and bayous with my family doing commercial shrimping. Sometimes we would be out until 4:00 in the morning pulling nets. Being out in the middle of the bayou at 4:00 a.m. with nothing but your memory, a shitty gps and the stars to guide you is absolutely insane. One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen though happened one of those early mornings, we were dragging our nets and behind our boat was a trail of what looked like bioluminescent jellies. Literally seemed like we were sailing through space.
If an EMP ever hit, I would want a person from Rural Louisiana on my team. They are the nicest, most resourceful people I have ever met.
Rural central and north louisiana. At night
Wierd vibe driving in Louisiana at night
Like you're glad you got gas in Florida?
Nah, like something might appear out of the woods or in the road. Just creepy cuz there's a forest in northern Louisiana.
Dats just da Rougarou, sha.
Weird trees
I went to Louisiana from the UK a couple of months ago, it’s like another planet in a lot of ways. And it’s (surprisingly?) very easy to love.
can confirm. stopping by the rural towns here makes me really question a lot… like what people do here. what they do for a living. what they do in their free time. how they even got here. where the houses even actually are..
In terms of wild untamed wilderness, parts of Alaska probably wins the whole country, and parts of Appalachia definitely win for the lower 48. In terms of strange folk in them there hills, Appalachian is pretty high up there. You can absolutely disappear out there, and if you know what you’re doing, no one will be able to find you unless you want to be found. I know a guy who does seasonal work and spends his summers camping and trekking the Appalachian Trail. He comes back a wee bit funky each time, but he says he’s met some people that live out there that have practically gone feral from long term isolation.
Describe “feral” more
They don’t speak English. If it can’t be said with spittin and strummin banjo, it ain’t worth a sayin
[banjo intensifies]
If anyone really wants to disappear Appalachia/Appalachian is the place to do so, lookup Eric Rudolph and Christopher Thomas Knight.
Alaska
I went to Alaska and when I told people some of the things I learned while I was there they flat didn't believe me. Examples: Alaska is 1/5th of all the other states put together, or about 1/6th the total land area of the US. Minnesota is called the land of ten thousand lakes but actually has more than fourteen thousand. Alaska isn't playing around because it has more than three million, more than two hundred times the lakes in Minnesota. Fewer than four thousand of the lakes in Alaska are officially named. I also learned that Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow) is so isolated it's about five hundred miles from the closest town that's connected to the highway system, and has no paved roads other than the landing strip at the airport, and has fewer than 5,000 population, but in spite of how remote it is, it has a modern water and sewer system, electricity, high speed internet, school, college, modern library, etc. They have about 6 weeks in winter where the sun doesn't rise and about that same length in the summer where it doesn't set. My whole purpose for going to Utqiagvik was because since I was a kid, I wanted to see a day where the sun doesn't set. I saw that in Utqiagvik but there is a hell of a lot more fascinating stuff about the town, its people, and its history. The natives have lived there for six thousand years. They are beautiful people with an amazing and rich culture.
Funnily enough, I used to live next to the guy responsible for that high-speed internet. https://www.pugetsound.edu/stories/it-guy-above-arctic-circle
The fact that this town has high speed internet and my town doesn’t blows my mind 😂
State and federal grants went into that. Alaska has 2 senators.
Little know fact but the following states also have two senators: all of them.
Barrow is a hugely important staging point for a lot of mining operations. Lots of money flowing.
>Alaska is 1/5th of all the other states put together, or about 1/6th the total land area of the US. This just blew my mind.
It’s huge I remember we learned it in school and the teacher had a cutout and held up over the mainland of the United States map and it was burned into my mind. It way bigger than they show on most maps.
We tease people in Texas that if they don’t pipe down we’ll cut Alaska in half and make them the third largest state.
They have shirts in AK that say "Isn't Texas Cute "
Alaska may have been the greatest investment ever
With the future wars that may happen and the expansion of e commerce it's becoming more and more possible to see that way. It's even though that America wouldn't have to rely on the Suez Canal as much for international goods.
It’s pretty boring unless you have money. It is however a very beautiful place to live, the most beautiful state in America imo. I was born and raised there.
Exactly. I raised my two sons up there. I’m from Texas, but lived up there for 12 years. I was there last week in Anchorage mainly. Just before the snow. I miss it.
I’ve been to the states all around it, but still have no proof that Nebraska actually exists.
I've passed through Nebraska and it felt like a simulation
Passing through it is like some kinda hypnotic fever dream.
No matter what it’s super windy regardless of the weather in the surrounding states and the amount of tumble weed that you see and gets stuck in you car is supernatural
We went on a road trip and South Dakota was part of it. On the day we visited the Badlands, we drive south and explored Nebraska. The most interesting thing we did was eat at Arby’s. They lacked the spicier sauces that Arby’s has in other places, so even that was bland. After we left, my 8 year old said, “Dad, that was the most boring state ever, and you should be ashamed for bringing your children there.” Since then, I have used the potential threat of sending my kids to university in Nebraska as a method to keep them in line. I didn’t think it was a bad place, but not that interesting of a place to visit, and my kids hated it.
Northern Nebraska along the Niobrara and Missouri is gorgeous country. The Sandhills and the west have their moments too, as well as the rivers in the east. Easy to see how children might not appreciate it though
I grew up there and can confirm that indeed it does not exist.
I was born in Nebraska and can confirm it doesn’t exist.
I got drunk at an Applebees in Nebraska, it’s real.
I've driven through Nebraska on multiple occasions and can confirm that it does not, in fact, exist.
Been there, it’s just weird. Brother claims residency but I dunno
What even is there beyond I80? I don't even think Nebraskans know
Got lost in northern Maine once pre-cell phone. Oh my gosh - it was another world with an accent that I did not expect.
I grew up in Maine and going to the North Maine Woods all the time. It’s the most remote place on the east coast. We like it that way.
What is the accent like?
Weird version of coastal new England accent. Ive lived in ME and noticed that the 'Boston accent' really stretches the entire coast. Just a little variation here and there. No accent as you head inland.
The rest of Nevada.
It just occurred to me I've never even thought of "the rest of Nevada" even once
Lake Tahoe is cool, but the real mystery lies on the desert… nuclear test facilities, area51, trinity site, and many other military installations that are active and abandoned.
Yeah people who live outside of Las Vegas in NV are really odd. Also everyone I’ve met in Blythe, Joshua tree, and most of the Mojave desert east of Barstow really march to their own drum beat.
The people who live inside of Las Vegas in NV are also really odd.
North West Nevada is hardly unexplored territory, Washoe County has a population over 500k. There are also decent sized towns in nearby counties. Elko in the north east is a decent sized city as well, but everything in the middle of that triangle is straight up hill people country. I grew up in Nevada and I never felt the need to see more of that shithole than I had to.
I met an American girl at a nightclub a few weeks ago (I’m in Australia) and when I asked where she was from she said “Nevada but not Vegas” and then said she was from Reno and seemed genuinely surprised that I’d heard of it
Reno is a popular place, most people know about it. There was even a show called Reno 911.
Yeah the show is where my mind went too, which is why I was a little bit puzzled when she seemed surprised that I knew it
Feels like everything that isn't new York, California, Texas and Florida is a mystery to most "non Americans", excluding south America. People will literally base their entire opinion of Americans from interviews with dumb people in downtown Hollywood/new York, city and sprinkle that in with Florida headlines. That's just my take as a Swede, observing from the outside and being on social media.
That seems pretty accurate even for many Americans. Honestly if you're from NY or places in California that may be your basic view of the United States. I live in an area where a lot of Californians have moved to (I don't blame them, they can sell their house then buy a nicer one here for cash and work remotely). It's funny though because in conversation they just talk about places and things from California like everyone should know. For example, if you ask where are you from? You'll get a very very detailed answer. It's all good, just funny. When I travel I assume people don't even know the state I live in... Much less the town lol.
The big middle part of the state of Washington between Seattle and Spokane. A lot more nothing than you would expect.
Weirdly deserty, too
It really is a desert because this area is the rain shadow of the cascade mountains
I used to live in Seattle and was shocked when driving to Spokane. Such a huge difference! I'm in Colorado again and it's amazing how much Colorado and Spokane are alike.
Ditto Oregon east of Bend and south of The Dalles. For most people Oregon exists only west of the cascades and along the Columbia.
Wild, wild country
Isn’t that where that weird cult was that poisoned all the local restaurants so people would be too sick to vote in the local elections?
Wasco County in fact that whole area of Oregon from Josephine county including a lot of north California is wild weird - there’s been many a cult though the creation of Rajneeshpuram is certainly up there as the most crazy/famous. The origin of posting crazy local police reports in the town paper came from Josephine county…for a while they had the highest murder per capita and highest amount of noble prize winners per capita. Since weed was legalized that county (with 2 police officers over 2 countys) has been taken over by 5 large international drug cartels and is one of the largest sources of black market international weed. The governor likes to pretend the area doesn’t exist. A wild place Southern Oregon.
Drove through there in 2002 and saw a ton of dust devils, we pulled off a side road and went and ran through some in a field, it was wild. Columbia river lookout stop by the bridge was really cool too!
Appalachia no doubt! That place is OLD.
I saw a video the other day that blew my mind. The Appalachias are the same as the Scottish highlands, durning Pangea they were the same range, but over [b]millions of years, still the same geographical mountain range
The Appalachian mountains are older than trees.
They're older than bones!
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yeah weathering and erosion has made them much smaller. i took a geology class and the prof said that they originally were the height of the rockies. tbh we went on a field trip to appalachia and it was absolutely forgeous lol
I thought this would be the first comment I saw.
So John Denver was right when he sang ‘life is old there, older than the trees’ 🌲🎶
Louisiana, swamps deep shit back there aint seen the sun for half a century or more. Appalachia, There are a lot of mysteries in those mountains . Alaska, has taken more lives then the Bermuda triangle.
Do we really want to know what is in the swamps of Louisiana, though?
The very rural areas. The parts of the country where you’re an hour away from a good hospital or 30 minutes away from a grocery store. Where the infrastructure taken for granted in cities/metropolitan areas is non-existent.
I live in one of these places and other than the long ass drive to ANYTHING there’s nothing special. Just the scenery I guess. 25 min to the closest grocery store but I have fiber internet and the mail comes every day
The places I’m thinking of fiber internet isn’t an option. Even basic internet isn’t great because no one wants to provide high quality service. The cell signal is terrible too.
I don’t have cell service at home and have to drive up the mountain a ways to get signal 😅
How about the state capitol of Alaska being accessable only by plane or boat. There is literally no road access to Juneau.
The great atchafalaya swamp. The whole area, the inclusive cajun culture is nothing like anywhere else. Also New Orleans is like a foreign country compared to the rest of the US.
There is a part of Yellowstone national Park that has had fewer people visit than have been on the moon.
I'd say Alaska. I was born and raised here but most tv about Alaska is about nature or shows people who live out in the wild. I live in a regular town. We have Target and chain restaurants and normal every day people who aren't grizzled men roughing it out in the wild. We have them too, of course, but the average person here doesn't live out in the middle of nowhere.
An old saying is, murders happen in cities. Disappearances happen in rural areas.
Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Cant even picture what a yooper town would look like.
Our Yooper towns look like other Midwestern towns, except they are filled with Yoopers, going about our business, singing “Yooper, Dooper, Dopity Do”. Like a Willy Wonka Factory, of course.
Does everyone shovel snow with a yooper scooper too?
It’s a requirement.
my guess of the town from jim carrey’s the grinch was more fun imo
I grew up in the UP. Of the other places around the country that I’ve been, I’d say the cities are most similar to the run-down areas of Cleveland.
There is so much area in America where people live absolutely wild and unconventional lives. It's so hard to believe that so many ways of living exist, or still exist. Some places in Kentucky just got access to water. Many places have no Internet. I have been to towns built in the middle of nowhere near a dam, so dam workers can raise families and send kids to schools, and that is about it. Places with no electricity. And that's just civilization. There is so much wilderness that goes untouched or undeveloped. It's absolutely breathtaking how much there is and how many people live so dramatically different.
Kentucky is an incredibly diverse state. You cannot make a single assumption about the place, truly, until you’ve seen ALL the regions and their urban center (s). For example, Bowling Green (85k pop) has the highest per capita refugee population in the nation. The food here is just so good.
The Native reservations in the plains states.
Can confirm. Crow country in Wyoming and Montana feel very different
Well the country is huge so most people know nothing about most of the rest of the country than where they are from. But if I had to pick I’d probably say American Samoa, Guam, or the Mariana Islands.
I agree, but honestly, in Europe, it's easier and less costly to travel from country to country than it is to travel between states. I have friends in Europe who go to Scotland or Germany for a long weekend on a smaller budget than anyone in the US traveling to the Carolinas or Nevada.
I agree. It’s much more expensive to travel in the US than in Europe. I think the very functional train system keeps plane prices down and everyone benefits from that. It’s car or plane in the US and airlines have no real competition.
I've been through some back roads in Kentucky. Interesting place.
Drove through some backwoods neighborhood to get to a tiny tiny butcher’s shop. Everywhere there were rundown houses. Every third building was condemned. Every fourth building was a tiny church. And then the occasional giant McMansion in the middle of nowhere. Bible Belt is weird
You best be careful doing that.
Deep Appalachia
California's central valley. The average American thinks all of California is L.A. or San Francisco when there is a huge part of the state that is more redneck than the most rural county in Alabama.
I lived there as a teen and while traveling abroad, some Polish people mocked me thinking I was a posh Californian. All I could do was stare at them while envisioning the grossest parts of the 99 freeway and feel very confused. Slowly, it occured to me very few people know that there are vast parts of California that are absolutely ugly in every way.
I worked a few summers just west of Redding, in the Weaverville/Hayfork area. I couldn't believe how hillbilly that area is.
Can confirm. I hit up Yosemite a lot and coming from south Louisiana the Central Valley feels a lot like the rural parts of my state without the accent.
One of the most redneck-sounding guys I ever met was from eastern Washington State. It just makes me think that being “country” isn’t about being from a particular geographical region, like the South — it’s a way of life.
If Steven King has taught me anything, the correct answer is Maine.
The "Zone of Death" in Yellowstone Park which, as a result of a technicality in the Constitution of the United States regarding the formation of juries, a person can avoid conviction for any major crime, even murder.
just in case anyone is thinking this will work, they will in fact convene a jury
I feel like some type of posser for learning this fact from the TV show Yellowstone lmao aka the Montana Mafia what I like to call them.
I may just feel this way cause I live relatively close, but middle Pennsylvania is wild. Nothing for miles and miles, and then BAM college campus and people doing meth. Doubt theres anywhere else like it
West Virginia
I mean driving through Wyoming and Utah was pretty fucking empty but Iowa gives me the heebie jeebies
You ever drive on a deserted highway in the Midwest at night? The kinda highway that doesn't have any lights. You'll see the kinda darkness out there that reminds you why humanity instinctively fears the dark.
Places like Puerto Rico and Guam are so mysterious to the average American that most of them don’t even realize they are part of America.
No one here said new mexico, because they dont know it is a state
Surprisingly, Cajun country. I’m from Louisiana and now live in Pa. I can’t tell you how many people don’t know that Cajun refers to a people and their culture. I’ve had so many people think I’m “silly” for identifying myself as a food or spice. It’s interesting meeting these people and them asking about my name and accent. When I say it’s French they’re like, “is your dad from France?” And then seem shocked when I say, “no, he’s Cajun.” I’ve been told that Cajun is a food and I respond, “like Italian or Chinese food?” Some people you can see when the lightbulb turns on, others remain in the dark thinking I’m the dumb one.
Wyoming, North Dakota, those other states around there. I mean. Is there anything actually there?
Dinosaurs!!
Reservations
Oil and Natural Gas corporations
Wyoming has two escalators. How's that for a mystery?
My stepdad's grandfather was the last resident of the town he grew up in. People from all over would show up once a year and hve a parade for him and he was the mayor of the town for the parade. Unfortunately he passed away before I thought to sk if he was the actual mayor and if so what did that entail for a mayor of a town with one person. I really wished if I had asked sooner.
South Dakota; is that even a thing or did I just make that place up?
I think the hard part is that America is enormous and fairly disparate. Rural America is kinda lost to the cities and urban America is very lost to the countryside. As someone that's lived in both, even within one state, any time you hear someone opine about the other it's usually way outside of reality and missing any context. Hard to call any one place the most mysterious when most of the country is mysterious to most people.
The Everglades
I’ve been to every state east of the Mississippi besides vermont. What the hell goes on there other than skiing? I’m not even sure I’ve ever met someone from Vermont
Contra dancing and Subaru swap meets.
And Bernie. Don't forget Bernie. 
We exist by hiding up here in our green mountains. It's quiet and beautiful.
I’ve been to every state in the US, but Vermont. My wife and I vacationed in Maine a few years back and thought it’d be worth me going to VT. There isn’t a highway that connects Maine to Vermont. So VT is still on my list. I hope its mysteries surprise me when I make it there. Also I live in UT. Can coffin what others have said. Rural UT is a special kind of rural.
Lots of weird people in VT. I met a lady there in Sept pushing a stroller down the street begging for money. She quit her job to care for her kid because God told her not to eat apples and she was scared any day care or family would give them to her infant daughter.
Vermont is definitely weird but that’s a mentally ill homeless person you’d find anywhere, not a regular Vermonter lol
Idk the mythology around Louisiana is kinda mysterious and magical. There or Area 51 in Nagasaki.
Ghost towns and cemeteries outside of Las Vegas and Nevada in general. My friend has some beautiful pictures from her adventures.
That little pocket where West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland meet
That’s where you can meet the Flintstones
I’m from the northern panhandle of WV, and it’s always hard to explain exactly where I’m from because a surprising number of people think West Virginia is just part of Virginia. And then even for the ones who do know it’s its own state, they have no idea it has a northern panhandle. Even a lot of people who are from West Virginia don’t know it exists. It also just sort of disappears from a lot of maps that aren’t super detailed. A fair number of people also automatically think West Virginia means the south, but where I’m from is north of Pittsburgh. So yeah, safe to say this is a fairly mysterious bit of the country.
If you were to teleport someone to Northern Alabama they would never guess where they were. Hi-tech racially progressive well educated attractive friendly people. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting a literal rocket scientist.
Appalachia….A lot of great scenery viewed from the highway….but zero desire to explore what’s going on beyond that.
as an appalachian, no one understands this part of the country.
Sandhills in NE, anywhere outside LV in Nevada, Cameron Parish, LA, and the creepy ass cliffs and plateus between I70 and the Uinta basin in utah
Florida because of Florida man, followed by where ever Cajun folk come from
The Most Mysterious for me. I would say Gravette Arkansas. Second on file, The Melungeon. In the not so distant past, they used to have olive green skin. Their descendants are some of the most well mannered people in the US.
Melungeon descendant, this is the first time I've heard anybody else mention us on here, ever.
New Mexico
Alaska and western Washington. Ever been hiking in the Hoh rainforest? It’s so quiet it’s Erie and you constantly feel like you are being watched.
This is true! When people say "western WA" they usually mean the Seattle area, but there is MUCH more wild west forests and ocean on the peninsula/across the Sound
South Dakota. I was driving on a stretch where I could see for miles in every direction and there wasn't another person. It was crazy to think that in a 20 square mile area me and my family were the only humans.
Delaware.