weird locations near you

statcat · 11-21-09, 05:49 PM

Here in NJ there's a magazine called Weird NJ which covers folklore of the state. It started off well enough with interesting local legends, ghost stories, abandoned places, odd roads, etc. but over time I think they ran out of things to cover. Of course a lot of the places they cover are hyped up and are huge disappointments when you actually see them. What are some of your local legends, strange roads etc. where you live?

Here's a few by me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_Of_Death_Road

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_road

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_Rock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Habitat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Tree

foxdvd · 11-21-09, 05:55 PM

I just got over the flu...and let me tell you...my bathroom is a place you don't want to go..

Mrs. Danger · 11-21-09, 05:59 PM

I'm in Albuquerque. What else do you need to know?

Rockmjd23 · 11-21-09, 06:13 PM

Salem, MA is about an hour away. I hear some weird stuff happened there.

Fall River is 45 mins to the south. Lizzie Borden house, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle - half hour away.

Oh and lets not forget the Gollum sighting of 1977:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_demon

statcat · 11-21-09, 06:38 PM

Never heard of the Bridgewater Triangle before, just watched a short documentary on it, pretty interesting. Thanks

crazyronin · 11-21-09, 06:42 PM

The river I live by (Passagassawaukeag) supposedly translates to "The place of lights and ghosts."

Brian Shannon · 11-21-09, 06:52 PM

I live in Northern Virginia, I don't go north across the river

Nick Danger · 11-21-09, 07:25 PM

Everything is weird in New Mexico. I've been to the Trinity Site, where they set off the first atomic bomb; Inscription Rock, which still has Juan de Onate's signature from 1605; Carlsbad Caverns, where the big room is bigger than a football field; and Roswell, where the flying saucer crash landed.

Rockmjd23 · 11-21-09, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Danger

and Roswell, where the weather balloon crash landed.

fixed

dan30oly · 11-21-09, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Danger

and Roswell, where the flying saucer crash landed and the government covered it up.

fixed correctly

bd...? · 11-21-09, 08:51 PM

Mexico? (az here)

Kittydreamer · 11-21-09, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mrs. Danger

I'm in Albuquerque. What else do you need to know?

4KRG · 11-21-09, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian Shannon

I live in Northern Virginia, I don't go north across the river

Good idea, I went once and saw the weirdest sight in the world today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House

Hiro11 · 11-21-09, 10:10 PM

The highest point in my county is a 300+ foot tall capped SuperFund trash heap in a 1,400 acre forest preserve (welcome to the Midwest). The heap leached toxins into the town's water supply for decades until they "fixed" the situation in the eighties. They basically dumped chemical waste from Chicago factories and household trash into the place for fifty years in the early part of the 20th century before the EPA existed...

Now, I do hill intervals on the heap on the weekends. It has a really nice snow tubing facility for kids in the winter. The preserve's one of the prettiest parts of my area with fifty mile views from the top of the "hill", a nice (man made?) 300 acre lake with boat rentals and 15 miles of groomed limestone trails through the surrounding woods and marshes. It's one of the best bird-watching spots in the Midwest (apparently) and the site of one of the first comprehensive wetland restorations in the US. I ran there today, it was great. The heap even has a name (Mt. Hoy) which kind of cracks me up. Standing on the top of the hill, if you didn't know the place's history, you'd have no idea. It's weird to think that the only reason it's relatively untouched now is that it's unbelievably toxic just below the surface...

Canadian Bacon · 11-22-09, 09:43 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdon_Light I haven't seen it but they say it's spooky

twikoff · 11-22-09, 11:49 AM

Unclaimed Baggage Store

printerati · 11-22-09, 12:13 PM

mcfly · 11-22-09, 12:46 PM

I thought that was a guitar at Jesus' waist.

Mrs. Danger · 11-22-09, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by printerati

"I'm melting! I'm melting!"

(I know, I know, I'm going to Hell. It's okay, all my friends will be there.)

Mrs. Danger · 11-22-09, 01:29 PM

We've got the Chevy on a Stick.

Two spaceship houses

The Rattlesnake museum

The Atomic museum (you can take pictures of the Norden bombsight!)

The Center of the Universe

The shoe tree

Tinkertown

The Kimo Theater, which is not only a fabulous example of Pueblo Deco decor, featuring pre-WWII "swastikas", it's haunted.

Nearby, we have Madrid, New Mexico
(pronounced mad-rid, not ma-drid)

Living Dead · 11-22-09, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Danger

Inscription Rock, which still has Juan de Onate's signature from 1605

I'd never heard of this but just researched it. There's over 1000 signatures on the rocks spanning 250 years. That's really cool and kind of creepy.

I love history and want to see this place now.

mndtrp · 11-22-09, 05:00 PM

DIA supposedly has weird stuff going on.

wendersfan · 11-22-09, 08:29 PM

There's nothing weird (or particularly interesting) about central Ohio.

DeadLamb · 11-22-09, 08:38 PM

Sacramento is pretty weak on the whole local legends/strange roads stuff..

We have the whole Dorothea Puente serial killer in her boarding house murders but I've never bothered to hunt the place down. I know it's just going to look like every other place downtown.
Dorothea Puente
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Puente

Also have good old Rancho Seco, the only functioning nuclear power plant ever shut down by popular vote.. As a kid I never really thought anything was strange about driving out near the plant and seeing the cooling towers. Ya know, being every city has one!
Rancho Seco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco

it's now a park..
http://www.smud.org/en/about/Pages/r...on-rancho.aspx

Ky-Fi · 11-22-09, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockmjd23

Salem, MA is about an hour away. I hear some weird stuff happened there.

Fall River is 45 mins to the south. Lizzie Borden house, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle - half hour away.

Oh and lets not forget the Gollum sighting of 1977:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_demon

I've been trying to talk some friends into a monster bird/giant snake/sasquatch/UFO-hunting expedition to the Bridgewater Triangle for several years now, but I've never really gotten around to organizing it. It's on my "to do" list, though.

In the 1880s there was a rash of sea-serpent sightings (by hundreds of witnesses) right off the coast of Gloucester and of my town:

SURELY A SEA SERPENT.; SEEN OFF ROCKPORT, MASS., BY SCHOOLMASTERS AND OTHERS.

New York Times
August 14, 1886, Wednesday

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstrac...6E9C94679FD7CF

Page 1, 397 words

BOSTON, Aug. 13.--If a well known master of a Boston public school, backed by equally credible witnesses, is to be believed, a bona fide sea serpent was seen off Rockport yesterday afternoon. Under that date M.G.B. Putnam, Master of the Franklin school, writes:

“.....It has been my belief for some years that there is some
fitful, gigantic wanderer inhabiting the ocean; ...no one who
saw what I did would ever entertain the suggestion that it was
a school of porpoises, a grampus, or a horse-mackerel.
Because some have been deceived by these, or a floating spar
or a mass of seaweed, it does not follow that others have not
seen a genuine monster."
"...there remains a residuum of evidence which cannot justly
be ignored. My own firm belief is based both upon what my
eyes have seen and upon unimpeachable testimony of many
men, whose word upon any other subject would be taken
without question.”

Granville Putnam
Witness - Rockport, Massachusetts 1886

http://www.tgness.com/index.html

11-21-09, 05:49 PM	#1
statcat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 574	weird locations near you Here in NJ there's a magazine called Weird NJ which covers folklore of the state. It started off well enough with interesting local legends, ghost stories, abandoned places, odd roads, etc. but over time I think they ran out of things to cover. Of course a lot of the places they cover are hyped up and are huge disappointments when you actually see them. What are some of your local legends, strange roads etc. where you live? Here's a few by me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_Of_Death_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_Rock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Habitat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Tree Last edited by statcat; 11-21-09 at 05:55 PM.

11-21-09, 05:55 PM	#2
foxdvd DVD Talk Platinum Edition Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: Muskogee, Oklahoma Posts: 3,755	Re: weird locations near you I just got over the flu...and let me tell you...my bathroom is a place you don't want to go..

11-21-09, 05:59 PM	#3
Mrs. Danger DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: May 2005 Location: With Nick Danger Posts: 9,866	Re: weird locations near you I'm in Albuquerque. What else do you need to know? __________________ "Sorry" won't bring back Johnny's testicle. www.kinkyspot.com or is that too adult?

11-21-09, 06:13 PM	#4
Rockmjd23 DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: MA Posts: 14,497	Re: weird locations near you Salem, MA is about an hour away. I hear some weird stuff happened there. Fall River is 45 mins to the south. Lizzie Borden house, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle - half hour away. Oh and lets not forget the Gollum sighting of 1977: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_demon

11-21-09, 06:38 PM	#5
statcat Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 574	Re: weird locations near you Never heard of the Bridgewater Triangle before, just watched a short documentary on it, pretty interesting. Thanks

11-21-09, 06:42 PM	#6
crazyronin DVD Talk Limited Edition Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Working for Gizmonic Institute Posts: 7,009	Re: weird locations near you The river I live by (Passagassawaukeag) supposedly translates to "The place of lights and ghosts." __________________ What the common man longs for in this world, before and above all his other longings, is the simplest and most ignominious sort of peace: the peace of a trusty in a well-managed penitentiary. He is willing to sacrifice everything else to it. He puts it above his dignity and he puts it above his pride. Above all, he puts it above his liberty. -H.L. Mencken

11-21-09, 06:52 PM	#7
Brian Shannon DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jun 1999 Location: USA Posts: 10,683	Re: weird locations near you I live in Northern Virginia, I don't go north across the river __________________ My home theater: http://gallery.avsforum.com/showgall...=500&password=

11-21-09, 07:25 PM	#8
Nick Danger DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 10,641	Re: weird locations near you Everything is weird in New Mexico. I've been to the Trinity Site, where they set off the first atomic bomb; Inscription Rock, which still has Juan de Onate's signature from 1605; Carlsbad Caverns, where the big room is bigger than a football field; and Roswell, where the flying saucer crash landed. __________________ Not-shopping is not a moral act at this time. --Sally Singer, Vogue Magazine (2/19/09)

11-21-09, 08:51 PM	#11
bd...? Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 194	Re: weird locations near you Mexico? (az here)

11-21-09, 10:10 PM	#14
Hiro11 DVD Talk Limited Edition Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 5,316	Re: weird locations near you The highest point in my county is a 300+ foot tall capped SuperFund trash heap in a 1,400 acre forest preserve (welcome to the Midwest). The heap leached toxins into the town's water supply for decades until they "fixed" the situation in the eighties. They basically dumped chemical waste from Chicago factories and household trash into the place for fifty years in the early part of the 20th century before the EPA existed... Now, I do hill intervals on the heap on the weekends. It has a really nice snow tubing facility for kids in the winter. The preserve's one of the prettiest parts of my area with fifty mile views from the top of the "hill", a nice (man made?) 300 acre lake with boat rentals and 15 miles of groomed limestone trails through the surrounding woods and marshes. It's one of the best bird-watching spots in the Midwest (apparently) and the site of one of the first comprehensive wetland restorations in the US. I ran there today, it was great. The heap even has a name (Mt. Hoy) which kind of cracks me up. Standing on the top of the hill, if you didn't know the place's history, you'd have no idea. It's weird to think that the only reason it's relatively untouched now is that it's unbelievably toxic just below the surface... __________________ BBC interviewer: "How would you like to be remembered?" Lemmy: "As an honest man. As an honorable man. ... But that's out of the question." Last edited by Hiro11; 11-21-09 at 10:14 PM.

11-22-09, 09:43 AM	#15
Canadian Bacon DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: on the couch Posts: 15,655	Re: weird locations near you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdon_Light I haven't seen it but they say it's spooky

11-22-09, 11:49 AM	#16
twikoff DVD Talk God Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Right Behind You!!! Posts: 76,610	Re: weird locations near you Unclaimed Baggage Store __________________ "if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." - Homer Simpson

11-22-09, 12:13 PM	#17
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11-22-09, 12:46 PM	#18
mcfly DVD Talk Limited Edition Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: California Posts: 5,976	Re: weird locations near you I thought that was a guitar at Jesus' waist. __________________ "I think, Lisa, that you've been taken in by an obvious forgery. Unfortunately, historical research is plagued by this sort of hoax -- the so-called confession. It's just as fake as the Howard Hughes will, the Hitler Diaries, or the Emancipation Retraction." *"You won't be seeing any prison movies where you're going - prison!"*

11-22-09, 01:29 PM	#20
Mrs. Danger DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: May 2005 Location: With Nick Danger Posts: 9,866	Re: weird locations near you We've got the Chevy on a Stick. Two spaceship houses The Rattlesnake museum The Atomic museum (you can take pictures of the Norden bombsight!) The Center of the Universe The shoe tree Tinkertown The Kimo Theater, which is not only a fabulous example of Pueblo Deco decor, featuring pre-WWII "swastikas", it's haunted. Nearby, we have Madrid, New Mexico (pronounced mad-rid, not ma-drid) __________________ "Sorry" won't bring back Johnny's testicle. www.kinkyspot.com or is that too adult? Last edited by Mrs. Danger; 11-22-09 at 01:32 PM.

11-22-09, 05:00 PM	#22
mndtrp DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: May 2004 Location: a mile high, give or take a few feet Posts: 8,641	Re: weird locations near you DIA supposedly has weird stuff going on.

11-22-09, 08:29 PM	#23
wendersfan Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: University District Posts: 24,265	Re: weird locations near you There's nothing weird (or particularly interesting) about central Ohio. __________________ "Fifth Element may be as dumb and artless as Johnny Mnemonic, but since a frenchman made it it must be ART!" -Pants "...I think it's a low blow to draw attention to wendersfan's drunken state. " - dork "Just because their victims are still alive doesn't mean they didn't commit murder." - grundle "You concentrate on the sad wanna be hooliganism and let us worry about the actual soccer." - rocketsauce (final score: Columbus 2-Chicago 1)

11-22-09, 08:38 PM	#24
DeadLamb Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 625	Re: weird locations near you Sacramento is pretty weak on the whole local legends/strange roads stuff.. We have the whole Dorothea Puente serial killer in her boarding house murders but I've never bothered to hunt the place down. I know it's just going to look like every other place downtown. Dorothea Puente http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Puente Also have good old Rancho Seco, the only functioning nuclear power plant ever shut down by popular vote.. As a kid I never really thought anything was strange about driving out near the plant and seeing the cooling towers. Ya know, being every city has one! Rancho Seco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco it's now a park.. http://www.smud.org/en/about/Pages/r...on-rancho.aspx