People Share Their True Experiences With Places That Shouldn’t Exist
Ever been in a place where something just seems a little...off?
Somewhere where without knowing exactly why, something about it just seems...wrong?
If this sounds like something straight out of the Twilight Zone, think again—this feeling has been experienced by real people who, for one reason or another, have found themselves in mysterious, spooky, and at times even unexplainable locations that they would not be forgetting any time soon.
Here are 42 examples of real-life encounters with places that, by all logic and normal standards, should not exist.
42. Not So Hill-arious
When my brother and I were 10 and 12 respectively our family went on a hike through the cemetery and into the woods not far from our house.
My brothers and I would explore these woods every day. Even camped in them before. We knew it like the backs of our hands.
Anyway, as the family hits our usual spot by the creek, halfway through my brother and I said we’d be back in a few, we wanted to wander off further up the creek. So we did.
We came across a very large hill we had never seen before. It was littered with what looked like someone's worldly possessions. As if they turned a house upside down, shook out the contents, took the house and left.
There were tons of painted X's on the trees showing someone intended to cut them down at some point. We poked around for a few when we thought we heard our mom hollering at us.
So we turned tail and walked maybe 20 feet back down the hill to where our parents were. The entire encounter was maybe 45 minutes long…on our end.
As soon as our mom saw us we got the beating of a lifetime. We had actually been gone almost four hours.
She never saw us walk up any hill and remembered seeing us meandering down the strait path by the creek, not turning up a hill that was 20 feet away.
She and her husband and our other brother combed the woods for over four hours screaming our names and couldn't find hide nor tail of us.
We pleaded our case and even tried showing her the hill. Surely she was messing with us. So we stomped up to the turnoff for the hill and...it was gone. Nowhere to be seen. For YEARS we explored the woods determined to find that freaking hill.
We covered miles and miles of off-path woods. As we got older we mapped it out. To this day that hill does not exist. We never found it again.
Never found the weird furniture, toys, clothes, and other household items that were scattered across the hill. And never met anyone in the area that had a clue about the hill.
We probably just wandered way further than we meant to but I always found it weird that we never found the hill again.
41. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
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, I just kept following it because usually, I'd lose sight of them pretty quickly once they hit the brush. Kept following it until I found what was clearly an old barn ruin.
These are pretty normal to happen upon where I'm from and they're fun to look around inside, so I went in.
It was weirdly kept up really well with antique tools in great shape and fresh hay. I worried I had crossed into our neighbors’ property so I high-tailed it out of there.
I asked my grandfather about it and he said our land went way far past what I had described, and I couldn’t have left our land in the short amount of time I was gone, so he followed me out there and we couldn’t find it.
I checked every summer I worked there and never found it again. Not creepy but it always drove me crazy where that stupid barn went.
40. Walking Dead?
One time I was driving with a friend from St. Louis to Nashville when 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 faded and falling a part. People were just haplessly milling about the streets like zombies. Freaky.
39. Other Side of the World
Cyberjaya, Malaysia. I was opening a call center so was working nights to match US hours. Our typical lunch spot was closed for a few days. One guy says he knows a place close by, so we pile in his car and off we go into the jungle.
This was 10 or 15 years ago. At that time, if you headed towards Kuala Lumpur it stayed pretty urban or suburban, but if you head any other direction it got dark fast.
We are out on these roads and the street lights go from regular intervals to what seemed like one every 5 KM. It quickly becomes obvious the driver is lost.
He's stopped looking for a place to eat and is outright just looking for the way back to the office. Then we saw this house, with a counter where the car park should be just lighting up the jungle around it. We pulled in mostly for directions.
Turns out this was a random little Mamak stall built onto these people’s house. They operated for the farms in the area that were the process of shutting down but stayed open to feed us.
Out in the middle of the jungle, I had some of the freshest ever Indo-Chinese food. They were even able to give us directions to get back to the office area.
We tried to find that spot again like a week later, thought we reversed the directions—nothing but trees.
