Regions of the US by horror archetype

Aye, they can be right bastard pests

I personally would have New England and the American South as the 2 main regions. There’s a great deal of horror stories that came out of Appalachia for instance. There’s a ton of urban legends that exist in the American South too that come from the plantation era in the deeper south.

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The flyover states are incredibly lacking in horror personality.

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Children of the Corn?


Swamps, like south Louisiana, have a horror of their own. That slow, still water, hiding who knows what under the hanging moss. The smell of decay, the sounds in the dark. Danger hidden under every log.

It's a slow, creeping horror, being lost in the swamp. A sinking, sucking terror.

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The flyover states are incredibly lacking in horror personality.

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Ride through Selma, Alabama late at night.

"If you ever go back into Wooley Swamp son you better not go at night
There's things out there in the middle of them woods
That'd make a strong man die from fright
There's things that crawl and things that fly
And things that creep around on the ground
And they say the ghost of Lucius Clay gets up and it walks around"

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One area I tend to be disappointed in is the Pacific Northwest

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They have the whole Sasquatch thing locked down tho.

Read the OP and this 1st page of replies. Got angrier by the second at the amount of faggotry in the modern American male. Scrolled back up to see who is driving this fig wagon and saw it was a UGA guy. Was disgusted.

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the southeast has some reputations for “haunted cities” of Savannah, New Orleans, Charleston, and St Augustine. But those tend to just be rather generic ghost stories that don’t originate a ton of originality as much as one would want. You do sometimes get some evil fairy tale stuff but not much.

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The Ms Delta has a lot of haunted stuff, and I can personally verify some of it is legit.

The most commonly known is the Witch of Yazoo LINK

Of course many have heard of the Crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. The location isn’t the tourist spot at the intersection of 61&49 though. The supposed real location is in middle of nowhere south of Rosedale. It’s said that his grave is guarded by hellhounds. There are 3 graves for Robert Johnson, but he is actually buried at the one near Money, Ms

Others that are more local lore

Gates of Hell, Satartia this one I’ve personally witnessed and swore I’ll never go back to. It’s horrifying. It’s a spot on the Yazoo river near Satartia, you go to Satartia and cross the old drawbridge (which is also haunted if you sit on it late at night you’ll hear sounds like it’s drawing up but it hasn’t worked in years) and take a right onto gravel road. You’ll see a farm shop and behind the shop on the river are two large very old oak trees where it was said many black men were hung from. The location supposedly was a location of a local tribe of Indians during Civil War who drowned themselves in the river because the soldiers were going to relocate them and they wanted to die on their land. You go to this spot around 3 am and you’ll see red and blue flickers of light in the trees, smell sulfur and hear faint screams. The water on the river will turn yellow and appear to boil. Outside temperature will rise drastically and winds will howl. I’ve seen all occurrences except the water boiling. The sense of downright dread and evil you feel at that place is very unsettling and I’ll never go back.

Well Witch of Belzoni - in a clearing over the levee on Wasp Lake off Woodward rd was the location of a house decades ago where a couple boys raped a widow and threw her down a well to her death. There’s also an old abandoned cemetery in the woods, long forgotten with graves from the 1800s. Went here once and my truck died in the clearing. But next morning went to tow it out and it fired right up

Mount Holly - haunted mansion on Lake Washington. Pre civil war home. Unfortunately it burned down few years ago. Author Shelby Foote lived here at one time

Susie B Law home - another haunted abandoned mansion on Lake Washington



Mont Helena - mansion in rolling fork built on Indian Burial mound



Oakhurst mansion, Inverness

Took our wedding photos here. Right around the corner from my house. You’ll hear music and people dancing in the ballroom late at night



Democrat Lake - a lake east of Swifttown on the humphreys/leflore county line. Got its name because farmers disposed of “democrat bodies” in this lake back in the day. Everything is dead around that lake. Soil is bad, nothing will grow. Eerie place

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PNW

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That’s serial killer country.