30 Unexplainable Stories About Weird Places

‘I can only describe it as a complete auditory void’
30 Unexplainable Stories About Weird Places

Unsettling situations become more bearable when you can use common sense to dispel the fear they inspire. Logically speaking, old floorboards will creak, abandoned homes will be dusty and faulty electrical wiring will make a light flicker. But when strange things happen that you can’t quite explain, it gets too scary to handle. 

One Redditor shared a bizarre experience that their family has yet to find an explanation for. They were in the middle of a cross-country move and stopped to fuel up about halfway through. While dad stretched his legs, mom went inside to pay for gas. Once inside, she noticed the gas station was full of people despite there being no cars outside. Assuming there was some explanation, she approached the counter to pay. 

But as she walked up, everyone turned their heads toward her and the whole place went pitch black. She was so disturbed that she grabbed her family, and they hightailed it out of there without even getting gas.

Other Redditors have shared their equally perplexing stories, including quite a few who say entire buildings literally vanished into thin air.

NamesJeffrey 7y ago Not creepy, just weird to me. A music store seemed to just show up in my town. I'd lived here three years and never saw it. Went in, and the guy had one bass guitar in the store. Me, being a bassist, played it and fell in love. Bought it, and then the next week when I was in town, the store was totally empty, and looked like it hasn't been open in a long time. Got a new bass out of it though, so I'm cool with it being a spooky ghost store. - 1.3K ...
urgehal666 7y ago There's this old abandoned hotel a couple hours away from me. It's not like a modern hotel, but like an old Victorian house that was turned into a B&B. It's totally boarded up, big fence around it with barbed wire. Apparently it's pretty damn haunted. In high school me and some friends went to go check it out. It's in the middle of this a circular road, not a roundabout but you can go around several times before feeding back onto the main road. It takes about ninety seconds to go around this circle. Anyway, the first
oceanceaser 7y ago e Edited 7y ago In the interior of BC I spent a lot of time exploring in the truck. Found loads of abandoned buildings and cabins but the coolest place that a friend showed me was an abandoned hippie commune deep in the forest. There were some crazy house designs, one looked like an ark, one was a ~40ft teepee clad with aluminum. The place was clearly built by people who had very little building experience, but lots of creativity and motivation. There was a lot of weird stuff I found on the property, and I even
SalemScout 5y ago When I was in college, the freshman dorms were these massive ten story, apartment like structures. Every other floor (even numbered floors) had a little lounge on the east side of the building with a TV and couches and stuff. It was meant to be a community space. We noticed that on the subsequent floors (Odd numbers) this space still physically existed, but was walled up behind a brick wall for some reason. We managed to pry up some ceiling tiles, climb through rafters and drop down in. They were literally the exact same lounges as the
doomladen 7y ago I'm late to this, but perhaps someone will see this. I got engaged to my (now) wife some 20 years ago, and I decided to wear a traditional Chinese silk jacket for my wedding. Problem is, at the time I was living in rural Yorkshire, England and these were not easy to find, nor was it yet possible to buy them over the Internet and have them shipped to me. I spent a few months trying to find places that sold them in big cities nearby but without much success. Then, whilst on a shopping trip into
absynthe7 7y ago My friends and I were wandering through the woods alongside a massive college campus, and came to a clearing - with a massive abandoned and unlit industrial complex sitting inside with an overgrown old road leading somewhere-or-other. There were abandoned, rusted out school busses, and all sorts of... just... walls, with printing and signage and warnings, scattered about as if they were leftover legos. Not permanent structures, but parts of something. With signs on them about radiation, because apparently they were for some sort of bomb shelter project during the Cold War that was never completed. Apparently, decades ago,
Defender_96 7y ago Once, as a kid, we were driving back from a family vacation down in Georgia; pretty mundane, as we had gone there often to visit family. We had been driving for a while and it was about time to pull over for a food and bathroom break. The next exit had plenty of stores on the interstate sign so we got off to check it out. When we pulled off the exit we got a look at the area and it was surreal: everything was just in ruins. The Taco Bell, the gas stations, all of them
sweetrhymepurereason 7y ago Edited 7y ago When I was about 12, my mom and I were traveling cross country to move. We were staying the night in Missouri, at a typical roadside hotel next to an Applebee's, so we went in for dinner. It was packed, despite us being one of only a couple guests at the hotel, so we sat up at the bar. We noticed something weird after a few seconds - every single person had a glass of milk in front of them. Even the dudes around the bar. Nothing else, just a tall glass of milk. Someone opened
literal9 7y ago My grandparents had a big farm when I was growing up and all of the grandkids would help work it over the summer when we were out of school. Anytime we saw a rabbit we were supposed to get it with the hoe or grab the shotgun. I was around 12 or so when I saw a little rabbit in the beans and I didn't want my grandfather to see it so I tried to chase it off. Followed it into the brush on the land and for whatever reason | just kept following it because usually
Baelgul 7y ago Ooooh I finally have one! I hope I'm not too late! I was staying at a friends place in the financial district in NYC. They were out of town so was babysitting their cat. At some point in the late evening I realized I hadn't eaten dinner so went out to find something fast. Hurricane sandy had recently come through so many shops and restaurants were still closed and in recovery mode so my search turned up nothing of interest. On my way back to the apartment to order delivery I walked by a place with a
ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR 7y ago One time I was driving with a friend from St. Louis to Nashville, and both our phones died and we got a little lost. Wound up driving through Cairo, Illinois. That whole town should not exist. It was surreal. Like driving through a Scooby Doo ghost town. The buildings obviously were pretty great at the time, but now they are are faded and falling a part. People were just haplessly milling about the streets like zombies. Freaky. 299 ...
 7y ago My summer camp as a kid was in a state park area in Maryland . Lots of old buildings from the 1800s and such and a lot trails. Now the first year was fine but the second year we learned that this is forest where they filmed the Blair Witch project. I camped a lot and liked the woods so it never really bothered me till one day. We were coming back from our afternoon hike and I was a the back of the line of maybe 50 kids. While walking up the the hill I looked the
quinnthequeer 7y ago My husband and I were driving on a rural lowa highways late at night a few years back. We had to stop to find a place to pee and get gas, but since it was rural Midwest we weren't exactly spoiled for choices. We took the first turn towards a town we could, but after driving for 15 minutes we still hadn't reached a town. Just as we were about to give up and turn around, we rounded the corner into the town. Graves covered hills on both sides of the road and it stretched on for
 7y ago grew up in the middle of nowhere Texas. It's a small town named Hawley, a little ways outside of Abilene. From what I remember it wasn't even a one stoplight town, it was a no- stop light town. There was one school- pre k through 12th, two diners, and two gas stations. Nothing else but sand/dust and mesquite trees. Some of my earliest memories are of me and my two older brothers exploring the dry woods around our house. One of my most VIVID memories of my life there is of us coming across a massive lake one
Procyonid 7y ago was wandering around New Mexico doing the solo tourist thing, and stopped at a town on US380 running along the northern edge of White Sands Missle Range. Town might be a bit of an exaggeration- there were all of maybe five buildings and not a soul in sight. Still, this was the closest settlement to the Trinity Site, where they set off the first atomic bomb test back in '45, so stopped and went into a building with a sign marking it as the general store to look for souvenirs for friends back home. The building looked
dgmilo8085 7y ago While driving cross country West to East, we kept seeing billboards for a truck stop called The Thing. Every 10-20 miles there would be a billboard that said stuff like The Model T was 'The Thing' in 1908... Naturally after seeing all these billboards we decided to stop to stretch our legs and get a bite. The Museum started out kinda fun and neat, bla bla bla was the thing in 1850, whatever was the thing in 1920, each in their own respective rooms of the museum, until finally things take a dark turn and you start
darthbiscuit80 7y ago When I was 14 I was riding driving home with my family one night through the Blue Ridge Parkway. Nothing but a lot of trees and rock faces lining the road. We came around a curve and face to face with a large tunnel/ archway. It was daylight on the other side and there were visible buildings. Big ones. We weren't going fast and all had time to get a good look at it as we drove by, so I know it wasn't a hallucination. Also, my father has no imagination and he saw it too. Mind
 7y ago Edited 7y ago Went to Singapore with my mom. Went to a mall (forgot what it is, sorry), and went for lunch. The food court food floor was cylindrical in shape, with a glass area in the middle or something. We settled down on a pretty nice restaurant, not too crowded but not too deserted, good meal. Two days later we went back there and wanted to eat there again. It was nowhere to be found. We walked the perimeter of the circular room several laps but didn't find it. Checked the mall map and it's not there
 7y ago One day I was flying back from Boston and our flight was rerouted to someplace insanely south like Georgia or wherever by a storm. We had to stay overnight. there was a couple on the flight with my friend and I that were foreign (middle eastern of some sort) and the woman at the counter simply could not understand them at all. My friend and I understood them just fine through their accents, so we helped the woman at ht counter sort out their tickets and got them set up with a comp room down the hall
thisbridgeisbroken 7y ago We were out shooting a friends new rifle. I thought my friend knew how to shoot. Не did not. After getting his new crescent shaped scar, we thought we would take him to the nearest hospital for some stitches. We find the hospital, go inside and all the lights are off and the hospital appears to be empty. This is late afternoon on a weekday. We walked around the place a couple times looking for someone, because it seemed odd to shout. Finally, the sole person working comes out of the bathroom and explains that no one
 7y ago Not the most interesting story, but I grew up in the middle of nowhere and some of my relatives lived a few minutes walk from my house up a hill and they had woods behind their houses. I used to explore the woods all the time. I knew the paths and places well. You couldn't go too far because there was a cliff and an incredibly deep lake beyond the cliff. Anyway one day while walking see an old log cabbin. It was a sitting in the middle of a field I had been to many times
wyckoffh1 7y ago Okay, so I have one. I was going for a drive around my hometown, and I decided to turn into a road | didn't recognize. This stood out to me, because | live in a small town, and I know its layout by heart. As I followed this winding road, the New England forest thinned, leading to a hilly area. The hills stretched as far as I could see. On top of each hill was a small house, which were all identical. There were no lights in the windows, no cars in the driveways. No trees. Only
 7y ago There was this ramen place that I got recommended by a local in the old east side of Tokyo. We ate there together. Didn't drink or anything. The place's location was straightforward from the gas station. Went back there for another ramen the next night and it just wasn't there. | circled the neighborhood and it....just wasn't there. Best ramen I have ever had to date. 57 ...
toe_gaze 7y ago A few years ago my partner and I decided to take a one-night haunted sites road trip through Ohio. A couple stops in I was feeling super ill so we decided to nix the rest - however we were so close to The Ridges that we figured at very least we could swing by there and then head toward home. My GPS on my phone was getting horrible service on this dark side roads but it was telling me I was about to arrive at The Ridges location. It was a narrow and nondescript road so I was super
TherewOlf17 7y ago Me and my wife like to go for late night drives... like 2 am drives as we are both insomniacs. One night we were about 50 miles south of Chicago (we lived in the suburbs) and we came across what looked like a 1 room bar with nothing else around, that had no parking lot, but in the grass for about 300 feet in both directions down the road was 100s of identical white pickup trucks. It was so weird we booked it out of there... we have tryed to re find this place many times both
 7y ago When I was a kid I went exploring in these pine woods behind my house. We live on a farm so there's paddocks in front of our house and pine woods behind us. I wandered off for a bit before realising I was lost. Started to get worried as couldn't get my bearings. I explored those woods all the time and knew them well and | hadn't been walking that long so | knew I wasn't too far in. Yet I was surrounded by trees that weren't even pine. Which was impossible because it's a pine forest.
Bre2286 7y ago Back in 2002 when I was in 2nd grade we took a walking field trip to a pizza parlor. We had to walk through a small canyon/woods in order to get to town. Along the way through the woods, we all notice a little cabin off in the distance in the middle of nowhere. It felt so out of place since there were no other cabins. We were all creeped out, and our teacher told us a witch lived there so we walked past as fast as we could. Nothing crazy happened, but all these years later
malfreakingreynolds 7y ago When I was a kid, my family used to drive from our sleepy little town to the country's capital for vacation, which takes about 16 hours each way. One time, we were driving down a lonely stretch of the national highway. Pitch black outside. My sister decided this was the best time for a pee break, so my dad stopped at first place he saw, which turned out to be a store for antique furniture. I was a kid so I didn't notice much, but my dad told us that (1) he's done this drive multiple times
BECKYISHERE 7y ago i lived in manhattan in the mid-80s and on 34th street, way up by 7th or 8th or maybe even higher, i used to like to go this place you got into by escalator from the street. it led up to this really dark sales floor, never any staff around, very dark and dusty, with rails of clothing very sparse and everything looking like it came out of the 1930s.Smelled of smoke. I always felt like i went someplace not of this reality when i went there. tried finding it on googlemaps, nothing there. 26 ...
InfamousCrown 7y ago Many years ago, my family and I moved from California to Nebraska. I was still a young kid, probably 5-6 years old. We were driving through Nevada and shortly after Las Vegas and we needed to stop and fuel up. We stopped at your typical old school gas station that rings when you pull up to the pump. I don't remember it that well but my dad told me it looked normal. Не got out to stretch while my mom went inside to pay for gas. My mom said that when she walked in, the gas station

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