17 Hometown Creepy Stories From Our Readers

Turns out a ton of you are neighbors with serial killers.
17 Hometown Creepy Stories From Our Readers
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We tend to think of big cities as being creep-filled, and suburbs and small towns as being safer and less dangerous. But was Halloween filmed in Chicago? Was Amityville Horror filmed in New York City? Did Texas Chainsaw Massage take place in Austin? No! Those shock fests took place in the suburbs of those cities! Also Texas Chainsaw at SXSW is a great idea for a movie, dibs on the script.

 

As it turns out, literally every locale has its share of wild, creepy stories in its past. If you thought there was anywhere you could go that was was safe, you thought very, tragically wrong. We asked our fans on Facebook to tell us about the most bizarre, shudder-worthy stuff from their own hometowns, and they gave us an earful.

So now we're wondering about the statistical correlation between serial killers and Cracked readers.

Warning: Some of these are pretty disturbing.

The World’s Most Haunted House

TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Bridgeport, Connecticut Jesse L. lives near The World's Most Haunted House. THE WORLD'S MOST HAUINTED HOUSE Tu BKIURPOR THK LINTa It's the Lindley Street Poltergeist, where even the cops report witnessing some bizarre, unexplainable shenanigans. Flying refrigerators, talking cats cursing out priests, it was wild, says
Jesse L.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Mattoon, lllinois Alek M.'s town had to endure the Mad Gasser of Mattoon. He explains, supposed gas attacks that paralyzed people at night in their homes. Sightings and a sickly sweet odor of the gas, but no physical evidence. The attacks both caused and are blamed
Alek M.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Red Bluff, California A woman was kidnapped and kept locked in a box. Cameron and Janice Hooker kept Colleen Stan as a sex slave for seven years without anyone's knowledge in Thomas C.'s hometown. She was imprisoned in a box for 23 hours a day, as
Thomas C.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Conway, Arkansas Conway, Arkansas had a serial toe sucker. Josh M. explains: He approached women in department stores and put his mouth on their toes, then ran away. He terrorized the Target and Kohl's for months. CRACKED.COM
Josh M.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Saskatchewan, Canada A man stabbed, killed, and dismembered his seatmate on a Greyhound Bus ride. He decapitated the corpse and ate parts of it, allegedly. He even walked up to the windows and taunted the evacuated passengers with the head. -Ryan L. CRACKED.COM
Ryan L.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Sutter County, California Randy C. went to high school with a serial killer's nephews. Juan Corona killed 25 migrant farm workers with a machete and buried the bodies in shallow graves in an orchard less than 5 miles from my family's home. CRACKED.COM
Randy C.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Greenfield, MA A man in Raichelle D.'s town dressed as Jason Voorhees and killed a female college student. Just short of a month after the murder his body was found hanging from a tree near an abandoned slaughterhouse. The coroner listed his death as suicide but
Raichelle D.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati had its own Angel of Death killer, in the '70s & '8Os. Donald Harvey is credited with at least 100 deaths, and claims to have mercy killed terminally ill patients at first. But soon he came to realize he just liked killing people,
Phillip B.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Pennsylvania A car with the mummfied remains of its driver was found in Melanie E.'s hometown. It was hidden in the undergrowth off the exit ramp into town. He had apparently had a medical emergency and went off the road. CRACKED.COM
Melanie E.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Spokane, Washington Robert Lee Yates is a serial killer of sex workers. RI Lasha V. says, My first roommate is sure that's the guy who offered her a ride home from work. His neighbor worked in special ed at my school. She said he seemed like
Lasha V.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: East Tennessee A man killed and dismembered two people. Howard Hawk Willis cut up the bodies and hid them in fifty-gallon storage containers in a rented storage locker. Mary R. says, The storage locker was in the middle of town and it started smelling really bad.
Mary R.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Nazareth, Pennsylvania Kelli F.'s dad has a theory about some unsolved murders. A brother and sister were bludgeoned to death and the murderer(s?) were never found. There were railroad tracks that were nearby back then, SO my dad always thought it was a railroad bum. CRACKED.COM
Kelli F.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Colonial Parkway, Virginia At least 8 unsolved murders have happened along the Colonial Parkway. River Colonial 199 Green Parkway Spring ntation Gloucester 5 Williamsburg 238 estown Yorktown erry Jam 143 Jamestown Three couples were confirmed murdered, an additional couple had disappeared and is presumed dead (fairly
Anthony R.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Barranquilla, Colombia University security guards lured in homeless people to harvest their organs. 12A Policiay Judiciales IdA Asesinatos de indigentes si se cometieron en la Unilibre Andres R. says the guards lured homeless people to the university at night to help' them move stuff, they killed
Andres R.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Jacksonville, Florida The body of Maddie Clifton was found inside the waterbed of her teenage neighbor. Benny S. says Josh Phillips killed Maddie over a game of catch where Maddie got hurt. He was worried he'd get in trouble, So he strangled her with a telephone
Benny S.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Columbus, Ohio Brian Shaffer walked into a bar... and disappeared. According to Alex R., The creepy thing is all the exits and surrounding streets have CCTV of some sort and he's on camera entering the bar but never seen leaving. His friends say he went to
Alex R.
TELL US NOW. LOCATION: Denver, Colorado Cheesman Park is straight-up Poltergeist. The site was originally a cemetery, and after botched efforts to relocate the bodies, Instead of transporting the remaining 3,000 bodies, removed any bove-ground traces of the burial sites, built the park, collectively whistled, and walked away.
Richard U.
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