Random Towns To Stay Far Away From, According To People Who’ve Been There (15 items)

• (#4) Centralia, Pennsylvania

  From Redditor u/Honey_81:

  Centralia, PA, is eerie as hell because you expect to find people walking around the town streets, yet the town is completely abandoned due to the fire that's been burning under the town for 70-ish years (I haven't been to the area since 2006, btw).
• (#13) Wilcannia, New South Wales

  From Redditor u/scruffynerf:

  Wilcannia, New South Wales.

  The end of nowhere. If you're ever on that road, stop overnight in Broken Hill instead. Much safer.
• (#1) Paisley, Ontario, Canada

  From Redditor u/ZookeepergameSea3890:

  Paisley, Ontario, Canada.

  I was heading out there with friends for a camping-style music festival... and this is before any of our group had GPS/google maps on our cell phones. We ended up getting lost on some of the country roads as everything looked the same (just fields and dirt roads), and the names/#s of the roads weren't well marked.

  We finally decided to stop at a farm to ask for directions. It was a very old-looking place. And as soon as we pulled into the drive, a whack load of Amish-style dressed men, women, and children came out and surrounded the car. Legit, one guy even had a scythe.

  I rolled my window down and politely said we were lost and asked how to get to such-and-such address.

  One of the men got down low and leaned right into my window and goes, "There's no place like that around here. How bout y'all stay here with us? You should stay here." And then he grinned this big greasy grin that gave me chills.

  People were really gawking and closing in around the car at this point and my friends started freaking out.

  I said something like, "Thanks, but we gotta go!" then put my stereo system on blast, which got the guy out of my window and made the folks around the car back it up.

  I immediately rolled up my window, revved my engine, and peeled out of there as fast as I could. We found the address about 5 minutes later, just down the road.

  Total Children of the Corn vibes for sure.
• (#14) Anna, Illinois

  From Redditor u/vinylscratch27:

  Anna, IL, would count for me. It has a reputation of being a sundown town even now. Most people forget about Southern IL, and it shows. Hell, most of SIL is like that. Nothing to do.

  The colleges are dying, and with their places like Carbondale (the closest thing to civilization outside of the St. Louis burbs). There are no jobs worth much, so anyone who wants to go somewhere in life would move elsewhere quickly.
• (#15) Jeffery City, Wyoming

  From Redditor u/Brancher:

  Jeffery City, WY. Stopped in at the only establishment in the ghost town. Old timer is sitting at the bar and turns around, and before even saying anything to me tosses me something, and I catch it. It was a .50 Cal round from an M2 or something. 

  He was like, “Don't drop it, it will probably detonate!” I was like, “Thanks for the heads up, dude.”

  Drank a beer with him, though - he was nice enough cowboy.
• (#7) Tyrone, Pennsylvania

  From Redditor u/leatherrecliner:

  Tyrone, PA. It's a backwoods place with junkies, Mennonites, and one Hispanic guy called Raymundo. And it stinks of paper mill smell. They just look at you like they're waiting for your car to be unattended.

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